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Article Title: How To Design A Difficult Landscaping Spaces
Author: Jeff Halper
Category: Landscaping
Word Count: 441
Keywords: Difficult Landscaping Space Design
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Landscape design comes with big challenges. Perhaps your property is next to a
30 foot high wall of a neighbor's townhouse or office building. Maybe the space
is narrow with straight lines and right angles. Or you've remodeled your
residence, changed the elevation, added a new room and reduced the size of your
backyard, all of which affect the relationship to the existing landscape.
You must break through the dissatisfaction of your existing landscape design
and just decide what you want. Your program elements are an outline or list of
desired wants/needs and functions for the site. For example, you might want a
swimming pool, outdoor kitchen or an outdoor room with an outdoor fireplace to
entertainment from. Or you might want your landscape design to reflect the
beauty of the Italian villa.
Once the landscape contractors or landscape designers meet on site with the
client, they get the landscape program and challenges of the site. The
designers will study the relationship of the architecture to the site and begin
to work out a skeleton or backbone of the landscape design. A professional
landscape designer or landscape architect will have intuitive, imaginative and
analytical abilities to resolve the difficult landscaping space.
How to turn negatives into positives:
The purpose is to create spaces that relate to the home and elements that also
have a connection with the yard and surrounding area. First, look at the big
factors that will literally decide whether or not you can have all the things
on your wish list or not. "We really need to screen the neighbor's windows, or
we will have to conceal the generator or swimming pool equipment." In looking
at positives and negatives we first test the big picture against the
viability/capacity of the site.
Define you Spaces and Transitions
Once the larger positives and negatives are resolved you can move on to the
particulars.
Now is the time to address the more difficult spaces such as transitions
between the home, were maybe the foundation is unsightly and needs to be
hidden. This is were you put consideration on how to hide 18" of concrete
foundation or moving a 3 foot path away from the foundation to accommodate for
greater landscape layering.
The landscape design is a hierarchy of problem/solution/problem/solution down
to each detail and back out in relation to the whole. The overall objective of
any great landscape design is a space that breathes with the home and has a
connection to its surroundings-reflecting the client's visual desires and
functionally working together in every aspect.
Jeff Halper has a passion for landscaping and landscape design, for more
information about landscaping and gardening visit http://www.exteriorworlds.com
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