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Why Are Plants Used in the Landscape?

Why Are Plants Used in the Landscape?. Today’s Objectives. Describe the functional roles of plants in the landscape. Discuss the functional uses of plants in the landscape. Correctly identify and discuss the roles of each plant in the landscape located outside of the building.

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Why Are Plants Used in the Landscape?

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  1. Why Are Plants Used in the Landscape?

  2. Today’s Objectives • Describe the functional roles of plants in the landscape. • Discuss the functional uses of plants in the landscape. • Correctly identify and discuss the roles of each plant in the landscape located outside of the building. • Individually observe your yard at home and make notes of the plants located there and the role that they play. You will present your findings to the class tomorrow!

  3. Functional Roles of Plants Structural Framework Screening Enclosing Framing Integration

  4. What is Structural Framework? • The way the yard is laid out. • Dividing larger spaces into smaller spaces. • Will direct viewer through the design.

  5. How Do Plants Screen? • Block unattractive views. • Consider line of sight to be screened. • Screens observed from a distance-taller & longer. • Denser in areas where people walk by at slower speeds.

  6. Implied: -Create using small hedges. -Do not interfere with view. -Subdivide the landscape. Complete: -Use plants that will grow taller than eye level. -Limit view to only the enclosed area. Divide larger areas into smaller subspaces. Either implied or complete. How Do Plants Enclose?

  7. How Do Plants Frame? • Plant groupings attract viewer’s eyes. • Frame off-site views & incorporate them into the landscape.

  8. How Do Plants Integrate the Landscape? • Unify the landscape and “tie it together”. • Blend the house and other structures into the landscape.

  9. Functional Uses of Plants Architectural Aesthetical Engineering Climate Control

  10. Architectural Uses • Form walls, ceilings, and floors • Privacy • Progressive Realization

  11. 2 and 3 dimensional plants Complimentors Attractors Unifiers Emphasizers Evocators Aesthetic Uses

  12. Engineering Uses • Erosion Control • Acoustical Control • Atmospheric Purification • Glare and Reflection Control

  13. Modify solar radiation Modify wind velocity Modify wind direction Modify levels of participation Modifies temperature Climate Control Uses

  14. Quiz Time

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