Four-Day Landscape Design Programme

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Course Title: Four-Day Landscape Design Programme

This course equips you with a clear mandate as to what design is all about and provide you with the basic principles of design so that you have an understanding of garden layout and structures together with how to combine plants together.

Course Objectives:

To teach the basis of good garden design, including surveying, working to scale and drawing.

o encourage participants to determine the style they really want and which will suit their lifestyles, or those of your clients.

To teach garden design principles and the use of architectural and informal shapes plus the importance of hard landscape structures;

To impart invaluable, time-saving tricks of the trade;

To explain how to prepare an outline scheme to formulate one’s ideas; i.e. information gathering.

To showcase South African design trends;

To impart all this in an interactive manner accompanied by numerous colourful slides and a comprehensive plant list with live examples.

To provide practical information on how to relate design style to client, architecture and site.

Preparing an effective design based on an accurate survey and scale drawing.

Reinforcement of planting design principles and planting plan.

Presentational skills.

Course Outline:

Day 1

Day 2

Course Introduction
The basic tools of good garden design
Application of design principles – you and your space
The importance of doing it right – scale / measuring / spatial analysis / surveying procedures
South African slide show
The process and elements of design i.e. making it work for the space
The Design Process
Where to start
Ideas & creative ability
Research procedures / tools and aids
Zoning the space
Bubble diagrams
The technique of drawing & the interpretation of space
Group drawing- basic elements & fundamentals
Group discussion and evaluation of drawing beginnings

Building of the basic outline plan
Occupation of space – hard elements to consider
Landscaping
Water
Other hard surfaces
Garden additions and elements
Additional skills
Suitability for client / discussions / problems to consider.
Uniqueness of philosophy of design layout
Consideration given to:
- Linkage with architectural features
- Application of design shapes. Consideration given to balanced layout.
- How to draw curves, rectangular dissection of space
Start the Design – Design drawing and hand out of plans

Lunch

The building blocks of design
Principles and elements of design
Understanding space and division
Sequential experiences to the technique of drawing i.e. space manipulation
Incorporation of colour / texture / form
Garden styles! Relationship with client
Garden layouts
Working on outline scheme using 3 dimensional line and shape techniques
Outline plans to be completed for homework

Hands on design direction i.e. direction on plan building
1.1 Design ethos & concept agreed (client)
1.2. Measurement techniques & application to drawing. Triangulation techniques
1.3. Conceptual drawings
1.4. Decision on style & plan direction
1.5. Working with scale
1.6. Assisting all students by design build up and practical sharing as design layouts begin to take form
Homework:- Start to research planting combinations and choices

End of Day 1

End of Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

A broad overview of the principles of planting
How to prepare – design styles
Line drawing and drawing techniques
Practicals and tips for planting
South African Designs
Planting and combination grouping
Presentation of detailed plant list and student practicals

Continue with sketch scale drawing designs for presentation purposes.
Reinforcement of presentation skills
Presentation procedures
Selling the concept
Graphics presentation
Client acceptance of scheme & booklets
Comment on all of the above by both lecturers as plans are progressing.
Start plan presentation

Lunch

Continue with design layouts
How does your style chosen start to relate to a specific design situations.
- Analyzing client needs, personalizing & preferences
- The design plan must relate to buildings & chosen design for space
- Measuring for banks and differing levels
Homework

Presentations of designs for immediate marking by lecturers on the programme

End of Day 3

End of Day 4