Landscape architecture

Gitishree Panda

What is Landscape
Architecture?
Land refers to both place and people dwelling there
Scape refers to shape and represents an
association combining both to form a culture.

Importance of Landscape Architecture

Creates an healthy and Vital environment by encouraging

physical outdoor activity and pleasing visual effect
destresses our mind.

Offers aesthetic enjoyment, escapism, tranquility and a

sense of belonging to an area with distinct natural and
cultural identity

By applying creative and technical skills with planned

arrangement of natural and constructed elements on the
land we can create a ecologically sensitive landscape
resulting in a useful, aesthetically appealing and safe
landscape

Intent

Landscape architecture is not just beautification, but its about

creating a space andthe ambiance of a development, initiating
lifestyle and create a new public realmand also a quality built
environment focused on the ecological footprint and
theenvironmental framework.

Developing a landscape plan in conjunction with the

architectural drawingsassures that clients will enjoy a better
building experience, a superior end resultand a significant cost
savings. Planning the design of the property along with
thedesign of the house brings better organization to a project.

Role of a Landscape Architect

Urban design and site planning

Storm water management

Park and recreation planning

Green infrastructure planning and provision

Master planning

Elements of Landscape Architecture

COLOR: easy to identify and relate, but challenging to use

correctly. Bright colors give the garden a cheerful and
pleasing look.

Texture
TEXTURE: is a subtle but important element of good design. The more
we understand texture the more professional is the landscape.
Defined in terms of Fine or course, heavy or light, thin or dense, light
or shade
Can also be defined in relationship between foliage and twig size.

Line: connects and defines space

Defines room and connects people
Defines horizontal and vertical lines in landscape and creates a
distinction between proposed and exiting landscapes.

Form: defines physical presence of plant and the

space it takes up in the yard.
Horizontal, are the spreading forms emphasize the
lateral extent and breadth of space
Rounded allow for easy eye movement and create
pleasant undulation
Vase-shaped trees define a comfortable people space
Weeping form leads the eye back to ground
Pyramidal leads the eye up

Balance

Formal balance: repeats the same left

and right giving an essence of dignity and
stability in the landscape
Informal balance: differs from left to
right giving an essence of curiosity,
movement and feels alive

Principles of design
Unity
Simplicity
Scale

and variety

Unity is the glue that holds the landscape together

and repetition is the means to it.
Attracts and holds attention
Starts with the storyline and family
analysis

Simplicity and Variety

Is a degree of repetition rather than contrast by creating unity
Diversity and contrast in form, texture and color preventing monotony

Scale
A design is in proper proportion and
scale when pleasing relationship
exists among the components of the
landscape and the design as a whole
Absolute scale: comparative
value of landscape elements to
fixed structure
Low scale: is relaxing and
calming
High scale: promotes action

Research and Analysis

Site inventory; soil drainage, climate conditions, and

existing vegetation.

Critical for both plants selection and placements

Important because the same climate conditions is that

affects the plants-temperature and humidity , rain and
wind sunlight- also affect the user.

A design is in proper proportion and scale when pleasing

relationship exists among and between each component
and the design as a whole

Determine your needs

Checklist of your/your clients needs and desires(how landscape can be used0

Establish theme or style into your design

Common themes

Geometric

Circles

Squares

Rectangles

Organic edges

Curvilinear

Could be historical in nature

Spanish, oriental, Zen, English

Tropical, desert, meadows, woodland, marshy, coastal

Andre Le Notre

Vaux-le-Vicomte

Versailles Garden

Frederick Law Olmsted

Olmsted believed that the rural, picturesque
landscape contrasted with and counteracted the
confining and unhealthful conditions of the
crowded urban environment and served to
strengthen society by providing a place where all
classes could mingle in contemplation and
enjoyment of the pastoral experience. He sought
to screen his "pleasure grounds" completely from
the intrusions of daily life by screening them with
thick plantings along their borders, separating and
excluding commercial traffic, and discouraging all
usage of the grounds which were not in harmony
with this goal. He also strove to bring the
landscape as close to as much of the urban
population as possible, so that all could benefit
from it.

Central Park, New york

Stanley Hart White

Vertical Gardens

Interest in the modernism of Stanley Hart White has been renewed by the
discovery of his 1938 patent for the firstknown vertical garden. He called them
Botanical Bricks. White's patent for theVegetation-Bearing Architectonic
Structure and Systemdescribes a new method "for producing an architectonic
structure of any buildable size, shape or height, whose visible or exposed surfaces
may present a permanently growing covering of vegetation.

Even with the prominence of vegetated architecture in contemporary discourse,

White's invention remains unrealized and entirely unknown more than eighty years
after its initial conceptualization. White outlines the art of creating vertical
gardens of steel, substrate, vegetation, light, and sculpture to act as backdrops to
modern ways of thinking and the new invention of modern living.

Peter Walker, projects

Levinson Plaza, Boston

Andrea Corchran