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1. ARCH 216 LANDSCAPE PLANNING STUDIO
Landscape architecture:
Basics & Examples
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Ms. Shayama Setara Khan

2. Definition
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LANDSCAPE is a section or expansion of rural scenery, usually
extensive, that can be seen from a single view point.

3. Definition
LANDSCAPPING is a development of
outdoor space to provide various
amenities, privacy, comfort, beauty
and ease of maintenance.
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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE is the
design of outdoor public areas,
landmarks, and structures to achieve
environmental, social behavioral, or
aesthetic outcomes.

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Aims & Objectives
Aims
Objectives
•To make one site visually aesthetic.
•To design the site with more natural
aspects.
•To make the site more comfortable.
•Restore environmental aspects via
designing.
•Maintaining own characteristics of the site.
•To keep natural elements & decorate them.
•To make good spaces.
•To achieve environmental, social behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes.
•to provide various amenities, privacy, comfort, beauty and ease of
maintenance.

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Elements
The elements of landscaping -
Living elements:
Flora & fauna
Natural elements:
Landforms, terrain shape,
water bodies etc.
Man made elements:
Structure, buildings, fence
etc.
Abstract elements:
Weather & lighting condition

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Scale
ABSOLUTE SCALE relates the comparative value of landscape
elements to a fixed structure.
RELATIVE SCALE relates to comparative relative sizes or “values”
of objects in landscape.
Small scale Large scale

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SCOPE
The scope of the landscaping architectural profession
includes –
Storm water
management
Site planning
Urban design Environmental restoration Master planning and design
Private estate and residence
landscape

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Case study:
1. Dhanmondi Lake

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Plan

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2001 2016
Transformation

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Landscape features of Dhanmondi Lake
 Trees:
 Represents borderline.
 Protect lakeside from decay.
 Provide shadow for passers by.
 Water surface:
 Reflection enhances beauty
 Jahaj bari:
 Enhances beauty
 Lighting:
 Enhance site beauty
 Water surface:
 Reflects the lights

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 Fountain:
 Increase attraction
 Decrease monotony
 Enhance beauty
 Shrubs:
 Indicate direction of the footpath
 Increase beauty
 Footpath:
 Use of hard pave
 Provide comfort for passers by

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 Restaurant:
 Green roofing & Use of glass walls
attracts attention.
 Balcony:
 Decrease monotonousness
 Gorge & footpaths:
 The gorge and footpath express
more beauty than a empty lakeside.
 Protects from land decay.
 Gorge & Sitting place:
 The gorge and sitting place express
more beauty than a empty lakeside.
 Protects from land decay.

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 Exercising equipments:
 In a shady place, the exercising
equipments used a empty space and
enriched landscape.
 Gathering Places:
 Uses empty lakeside
 Decrease monotonousness
 Enhance beauty of the site
 Provides recreation

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2. Royal Botanic Garden, Cranbourne, Australia

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Plan

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2004 2009
2016
Transformation

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Landscape features of Royal Botanic Garden, Cranbourne.
 Footpaths:
 Different types of pavement
 Unnecessary road at the middle inside of the circular place with ground cover
used for decrease monotonousness and attract attention and enhancing site
beauty.
 Shrubs:
 For direction

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 Bridge:
 Use of dot compositions
 Increase attraction
 Retaining wall:
 Made of wood
 Visually attractive
 Shrubs:
 Shadows in different time period of
day create different textures
 Indicates direction of footpath clearly
 Structure:
 Shadow creates various texture in
different time of day
 Increase attraction
 In the shadow chair and table are
given.
 Shrubs:
 Above of a structure
 Visually attractive
 Decrease monotonousness

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 Retaining wall:
 Used red blocks instead of simple wall
 More attractive
 Water body and designed fringe
enhance beauty
 Plants remove monotony.
 Trees:
 Represents geographical character
 Creates variation
 Creates pattern
 Sticks used for creating pattern
 Shrubs creates boundary & enhance
beauty

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 Plants:
 Different types of patterns- linear,
circular
 Enhance beauty
 Soil:
 Different types of soils
 Creates diversity also makes a normal
place interesting
 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 by

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3. Duchess Residence, Singapore

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Plan

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2003
2016
Transformation

25. Landscape features of Duchess residence
 Various types of trees gives 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 sitting place and they are in a line.

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 Flowering plants make the site
visually more attractive
 Fountain Enhances beauty
 Sitting spaces provides comfort
 Various types of trees in different
positions such in middle of hard pave,
roadside
 Stair type structures makes the
landscape visually more interesting

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 Stair type structures increase
attraction
 Plants enhances beauty
 Plants provides shadow
 Plants at footpath side enhances
beauty and indicates direction
 Ground covers make the site more
beautiful than empty soil
 Stair type structures creates
difference
 Have lighting elements and metallic
fence

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