LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

HASAAN BYHAQI
14BAR037
14bar037@smvdu.ac.in

“Balancing the art of man with nature, and it is the beginning of landscape
architecture.”

A hut near a river bank with stone pavers and beautiful flower beds and tress with the
back drop of gigantic snow mountains is the basic image of landscape architecture. It
is not the limit of landscape architecture.

It is itself a style of architecture in which one has to deal with very sensitively towards
nature, which directly dialogues with the user and by the inhabitants of its
environment. It also describes the function of a space when used in a proper
technique. Example a deciduous tree has a bigger foliage which acts as a buffer from
the main road to act as a noise barrier which comes from the roads and also provides
shade for the vehicles. Fragrance trees, shrubs are used to in public or sitting spaces
to create a romantic and soothing sensation. It is also important these days to create
vertical landscape on roof gardens, terrace gardens to create a sensitive relationship
of nature and a user, because as much as we used land or the building foot print we
should pay back to nature, i.e a sustainable building. This sought of architecture is
mostly seen in apartment buildings, hotel buildings, kindergarten and some hospitals
like aryvedic centre.

At street scale, landscape architecture come in picture where you design pathways
for pedestrian, cyclists and seating, city scale is another picture of landscape
architecture where a designer creates public plaza, parks, for the social interaction
and for relaxation is a different way of presenting landscape architecture at next
level. On an urban scale a landscape designer has to peacefully, faithfully and finely
understand the movement of nature in response to the user so as to unify nature with
the user.

I would like to end this article on this note “Landscape architecture is rooted in an
understanding of how the environment works and what makes each place unique. It
is a blend of science and art, vision and thought.”

References
1. http://e360.yale.edu/features/martha_schwartz_urban_landscape_designs_to_meet_21st_cent
ury_challenges
2. http://www.bealandscapearchitect.com/what/
3. https://www.asla.org/yourpath/docs/WhatISLA.pdf
4. https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Climate_and_Plant_Distribution.html?id=0Ld1h0MT3oI
C&redir_esc=y
5. http://www.bealandscapearchitect.com/what/