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1. Topic :
Group name :
Group member :
Tutor name :
Landscape Architect
Yellow Rangers
Caleb Soh Er Wen
Aaron Chong Yu Ho
Chin Vin Yan
Miaw Yen Chie
Chia Zhi Wen (Shawn)
Chia Ly Vier
Ms. Sufina

2. Landscape Architecture

3. What & Who?
Landscape Architecture
Is the design profession which combines art, science and
technology to propose meaningful and thoughtful change to a
built environment.
&
Landscape Architects
are the professionals task with combining art, science and
technology to propose meaningful and thoughtful change to a
built environment.

4. Design Process
1. Consultation
Discussion Between Client and Landscape Architect
2. Preliminary Ideas
Take Account of Existing Features & Design Accordingly
3. Design
Refinement of Design for Presentation & Review
4.Construction
Submission for Approval

5. Roles & Responsibilities

6. Consultation Stage
2. Landscape Architects
➜ Learns..
● Important Information about the Client
➜ Describes..
● Services Offered
● Design Process
● General Cost
➜ Prepares & Submit
● Proposal for Design Service
(Legal Contract)
1. Clients
➜ Conveys..
● Needs
● Desires
● Problems
● Budget

7. Preliminary Ideas
1. Client
➜ Should supply..
● House Plan
● Property Survey
● Topographic Survey
2. Landscape Architect
➜ Conducts..
● Site Inventory & Analysis (Site Study)
➜ Catalogues & Evaluates..
● Existing Site Conditions
* Site Location, Character of surrounding neighbourhood, Zoning
Ordinances, Building Codes, Topography, Drainage, Soil, Etc.
➜ Understand the Site’s..
Character Problems Potentials

8. HOUSE
PLAN

9. TOPO-GRAPHY
SURVEY

10. PROPERTY
SURVEY

11. Site
Analysis

12. Site
Analysis

13. `Preliminary Ideas
3. Landscape Architect
➜ Develops..
➼ Functional Diagram (Concept Plan)
➜ Organizes..
➼ Overall arrangement of Design
* Relative Size, Proportions and
Configurations
➜ Explore..
➼Alternative Basic Functional Layout

14. FUNCTIONAL
DIAGRAM
Functional Diagram consist of..
➜ Freehand diagram
➜ Bubbles

15. FUNCTIONAL
DIAGRAM

16. Freehand
Diagrams

17. DESIGN

18. Design
1. Landscape Architect
➜ Develops..
➼ Preliminary Design
➜ Convert..
➼ Loose Freehand Diagrams into Outdoor
Rooms with general shapes & characters
➜ Present..
➼Preliminary Design to Client for Review
➔ Consider
◆ Design principles
(Aesthetic)
◆ Spatial Composition (3-D)
◆ Form Composition (Shapes)

19. Preliminary
Design

22. Form
Composition

23. Design
2. Landscape Architect
➜ Prepares..
➼ Master Plan
➜ Refine & Modify..
➼ Preliminary Design
➜ Present..
➼ Master Plan to the Client
3. Client
➜ Approves..
➼ Master Plan for Construction
Documentation

24. Master
Plan

26. Construction
1. Landscape Architect
➜ Prepares..
➼ Layout Plan, Grading Plan, Planting Plan
Construction Details
➜ Supervise..
➼ Implementation of the design

27. Symbols

28. Layout
plan

29. Grading
plan

30. spot -elevation
contour lines
grading plan

31. Planting
Plan

32. CONSTRUCTION
DETAIL

34. CAoftnesrt rCuocntisotnruction
1. Landscape Architect
➜ Ensure..
➼ Contractors maintain the
design
➼ Contractors adhere to maintenance
method specified by Landscape
Architect.
2. Contractor
➜ Adhere
➼ to the method specified by the
Landscape Architect.
Defect Liability Period
➜ Normally 1-2 years
➜ Included in the contract

35. References
● http://www.asla-sandiego.org/Download/privateguide.pdf
● Booth, Norman K., and Hiss James E. Residential Landscape
Architecture: Design Process for the Private Residence. Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002. Print. Save to EasyBib
● Reid, Grant W. From Concept to Form in Landscape Design.
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2007. Print. Save to EasyBib