“THE

PHILOSOPHY
BEHIND
LANDSCAPING
IS
RECIPROCATIN
G MOTHER
NATURE.”
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TYPES OF METHODS
Landscape architects design attractive and functional public parks, gardens, playgrounds, residential areas, college
USED BY LANDSCAPE
campuses, and public spaces. They also plan the locations of buildings, roads, walkways, flowers, shrubs, and trees within these
ARCHITECTS DURING
environments.
A DESIGN PROCESS
1) System Modeling
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS ROLE 2) Environmental Relation
• Landscape architects study, manage, control, construct and interact with complex systems. Very rarely do landscape architects 3) Anthropometric
deal with systems that are not complex by nature. 4) Analogies
5) Literal Analogies
• Therefore, landscape architects need a method to deal with complex systems. That method is complex system modeling or
6) Learning Probes
system modeling. System modeling can be defined as “concerned with basic and applied research on simulations and analysis of
7) Subconscious Suggestion
complex systems, as well as development of applications to understand and control such systems.
8) Brainstorming
• Unlike architecture, landscape architecture evolves (and almost always improves) through time. Its parks and gardens are never
complete. Or rather the finished landscape of today is not the finished landscape of many years from now. Landscape architects 9) Evaluation Criteria
must more deliberately include in their work predictions of how it will change. Yet few landscape professionals continue being 10) Well Spaced Alternatives
involved in their built works beyond a year or two after opening day. What happens? The site is taken over by natural processes 11) Focus on the Means
and unplanned human impacts or by its caretakers, who, at least partially, become its new designers, typically with little
12) Incremental Improvement
direction from the original designer. Yet if the landscape architect’s design matters on day one, it matters equally in year five and
beyond.
14) Incremental Adaption
• New methods of designing, modelling, building and interacting have increased through the advancement of digital technologies 15) Behavior Settings
across the built environment. 16) Structure of the Problem
17) Optimizing the Essential Function
18) Disaggregation.
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OF
THE ROLE OF LANDSCAPE IN ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE
• Plants increase tourism revenues. Guests willingly pay an extra $30 per night for rooms overlooking the jungle-like display, netting IN
$7 million a year in additional room revenues Landscaping increases property market value. A 1991 study estimates that an attractive
landscape increase the value of a home
LIFESTYLE
 CAMERON HIGHLANDS
 FRASER HILL
 BUKIT TINGGI Gardening is excellent physical
 GENTING HIGHLANDS exercise. Routine gardening tasks such
 PAHANG NATIONAL PARK as shoveling, rototilling, and even
 CHINI LAKE mowing grass with a push-type, reel
 TIOMAN ISLAND lawn mower can measure up to the
• Landscapes increase the value of a home. Horticulture and landscaping industry offer job opportunities. Nature increases worker exertion rates of jogging, bicycling, or
productivity. Psychologists have found that plants and green spaces provide a sense of rest that allows workers with access to plants aerobics
and nature to be more productive. Offer job opportunities Nature increases worker productivity. Landscaping reduces crime. In a
California study, landscaped areas were relatively graffiti-free, while open, non-landscaped areas were graffiti targets. Views of Gardens produce healthy food. Fresh
plants increase job satisfaction. Employees with an outside view of plants experience less job pressure and greater job satisfaction food from the garden can have up to
than workers viewing man-made objects or having no outside view. They also report fewer headaches and other ailments than three times as many vitamins and
workers without the view. The sight of plants experience less job pressure Non-landscaped areas where graffiti targets minerals as canned or frozen food.

THE ROLE OF LANDSCAPE IN ENVIRONMENT Horticultural therapy is a treatment for

a variety of diagnoses. Working with
• Plants protect water quality. Proper landscaping reduces nitrate leaching from the soil into the water supply. Proper landscaping
and around plants improves quality of
reduces soil erosion. A dense cover of plants and mulch holds soil in place, keeping sediment out of lakes, streams, storm drains, and
life through psychological and
roads; and reducing flooding, mudslides, and dust storms Soil Erosion Protect water quality. Plants improve air quality. Landscape
plants, including shrubs and turf, remove smoke, dust, and other pollutants from the air.
physical changes
• Landscape for nation identity. Cultural heritage including historic buildings, sites, cultures and other invaluable assets are the Gardens offer an environment for
distinguished elements that encapsulate a nation’s soul and spirit. Landscape for nation identity Plants improve air quality. people who are sick, and under stress
to recover and regain confidence in
themselves.
CASE STUDIES IN PAST 10 YEARS • Gorge & footpaths:
1
CASE STUDY 1: DHANMONDI LAKE • The gorge and footpath express more
Landscape features of Dhanmondi Lake
•Trees: beauty than an empty lakeside.

•Represents borderline. Protect lakeside from decay. Provide Protects from land decay.
• Gorge & Sitting place:
•shadow for passersby. Water surface
Reflection enhances beauty Jahaj bari
•Enhances beauty • The gorge and sitting place express
•Lighting:
more beauty than an empty lakeside.
•Enhance site beauty Water surface: Reflects the lights Fountain:
Protects from land decay.
•Increase attraction
• Exercising equipment:
•Decrease monotony Enhance beauty
•Shrubs: • In a shady place, the exercising
•Indicate direction of the footpath
equipment used an empty space and
•Use of hard pave
enriched landscape. Gathering
•Provide comfort for passers by Restaurant:
•Green roofing & Use of glass walls attracts attention. Balcony:
•Decrease monotonous • Places Uses empty lakeside
• Decrease monotonousness Enhance

beauty of the site Provides recreation

Landscape features of Duchess residence
2
Various types of trees give the green texture in the urban
landscape Different types of pools enhance beauty
Use of hard pave road, ramp and higher platform enriched the
landscape
Chair and table provide a sitting place and they are in a line.
Flowering plants make the site visually more attractive Fountain
Enhances beauty
Sitting spaces provides comfort

structures makes the landscape visually more interesting Stair

type structures increase attraction
Plants enhances beauty Plants provides shadow
Plants at footpath side enhances beauty and indicates direction
Groundcovers make the site more beautiful than empty soil Stair
type structures creates difference
Have lighting elements and metallic fence
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CRANBOURNE, AUSTRALIA
Landscape features of Royal Botanic Garden

Cranbourne. Footpaths:
3
Different types of pavement Unnecessary road at the middle inside of the
circular place with ground cover used for decreasing monotonousness and
attracting attention and enhancing site be
For direction
Bridge:
Trees:
Use of dot compositions Increase attraction Retaining
Represents geographical character Creates variation
wall:
Creates pattern:
Made of wood Visually attractive
Shrubs: Sticks used for creating pattern
Shadows in different time period of day create different textures Indicates Shrubs creates boundary & enhance beauty Plants:
direction of footpath clearly Different types of patterns- linear, circular Enhance beauty
Structure:
Soil:
Shadow creates various texture in different time of day Increase attraction
Different types of soils
In the shadow chair and table are given.
Shrubs: Creates diversity also makes a normal place interesting

Above of a structure Visually attractive Decrease monotonousness
Retaining wall:
Used red blocks instead of simple wall More attractive
Water bodies and designed fringe enhance beauty
Plants remove monotony.
Some structures made of cements increase attraction Staircase
Enriched landscape give access to the water Plant:
Make the site visually comfortable Fill the blank spaces
Sitting place
Sitting place near footpath provides comfort for passers
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