Landscape design: styles, structure, planning, and seasonal beauty.
Landscape design.
Landscape design is often used to give a garden a special warmth and comfort, and it is a special art form.
How does design differ from landscape architecture? Unlike landscape architecture, which addresses general issues of shaping the environment, landscape design deals with fine detailing. Creating a vivid image of a garden that distinguishes it from many others is a considerable part of the work of landscape design.
Landscape design is based on five principles, the main one being fitness for purpose. When starting to create a garden, we must clearly understand which tasks need to be solved and what exactly the garden’s owners require.
The design brief is drawn up during a conversation between the landscape designer and the client, during which the family’s habits and wishes are identified.
Without the second principle, the garden will lose comfort for its visitors; this principle is convenience. When moving through the garden, a person should not experience strain; therefore, all rest areas must be planned in accordance with ergonomics.
Naturally, the garden should not be aesthetically off-putting. To achieve this, one must ensure the expressiveness of its elements, both in stillness and in motion. The dynamic change of scenes as a person moves through the garden is considered the pinnacle of landscape art. It is very important in creating a landscape composition to ensure the reliability and durability of all elements: engineering and structural solutions, the lasting ornamental effect of plants, the choice of planting locations, etc.
The last principle characteristic of landscape design is novelty. A distinctive, striking element or design technique must set a particular garden apart from many others.
For many centuries, landscape design has existed on the basis of these principles and, most importantly, it has not lost its relevance today.
The main rule for creating the perfect garden is that flower beds and bodies of water, cozy gazebos, children’s playgrounds, their character and locations, and the overall compositional and color scheme — all of this must be thought out and considered from the point of view of the five principles of landscape design.