Landscape Design is a multifaceted skill. It allows you to take a vision or “feeling” and transform it into a workable plan. It isn’t just making a place look nice, nor mass planting, but is also about suiting the landscape to the climate, land and setting that you have to work with. An understanding of plants, soils, timbers, climate, and other landscape materials are pivotal to the success of a good landscape design.
E-Learning Structure
The duration of this online course is 100 hours. This consists of 10 in-depth lessons:
- Basic Design Procedure A. – collecting pre-planning information, landscape elements, principles, etc.
- History of Gardening – garden styles and themes, famous designers, garden influences.
- Draughting & Contracting – drawing techniques, specifications, details.
- Basic Landscape Construction – timber, steps, retainer walls, pathways, playstructures, etc.
- Surfacings – concrete, asphalt, gravels, mulches, grasses, gradients, etc.
- Furnishings & Features – chairs, statues, figurines, birdbaths, skateboards, safety, etc.
- Park Design A – good/bad park design characteristics, recreational landscaping.
- Home Garden design – good/bad garden design characteristics.
- Design Procedure B – development of concept plans and detailed planting plans.
- Park Design B – development of park design, fun & fitness trails.
Course Aims
- Explain the complete range of principles, elements and concepts used in landscape design.
- Visit and analyse a broad range of landscape styles, themes and components.
- Perform methods utilised to develop concepts and to create affects.
- Identify, record and utilise pre-planning information for the purpose of design development, and to use a checklist as a guide for surveying a site for a proposed design.
- Perform site survey and client interview with the site owner/manager.
- Explain the significance of effective client liaison, in a specific landscape job.
- Identify historical influences on landscaping in your locality.
- Explain the influence on modern garden design, of work by three garden designers whohave been prominent in world garden history.
- Develop and compare the appropriateness of three design options for one specific landscape project.
- Draw an extensive range of different landscape symbols on paper, covering soft and hard landscape features.
- Transpose two different landscape drawings, reducing the scale by a specified amount.
- Draw a plan for a landscape, using legible graphic techniques.
- Determine site preparations required for a specified landscape site
- Explain the legal requirements for cleaning up after a job in your locality.
- Determine suitable timbers for construction of four different types of garden structures.
- Compare the suitability of different materials for surfacing paths
- Collect, catalogue and determine appropriate use for different items of garden furniture.
- Design a paved area for a garden surveyed, including: scale drawings and construction instructions.
- Prepare a plant collection of at least eighty different plants
- Evaluate established landscapes
- Develop detailed planting designs, including plant lists, for three landscape plans,to satisfy given job specifications.
- Analyse and compare the landscape designs of numerous selected homes and public parks.
- Develop and prepare concept plans for landscape areas
- Draft a series of four conceptual plans, showing stages in the design of a home garden surveyed.
- Prepare a professional standard landscape design for a client in the learner’s locality
How Does A Warnborough Online Course Work?
You can start the course whenever is convenient for you. You will be studying from home and have access to support from our qualified tutors. Practical exercises and research tasks will be set at the end of each lesson – including an assignment. You will submit this assignment to your course tutor, who will mark your work and give you constructive feedback and suggestions.
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