Standard

Updated: 02/2005

EHO 106 - Landscape Design

Course Description

Introduces design principles, drawing skills, and plant selection techniques required to produce landscape plans for residential/commercial clients. Topics include: landscape design principles, sketching and drawing skills, site analysis, plant and material selection, and landscape design process.

 

Competency Areas

Hours

Landscape Design Principles

Class

2

Sketching and Drawing Principles

D. Lab

2

Site Analysis

P. Lab/O.B.I.

6

Plant and Material Selection

Credit

5

Landscape Design Process

 

 

 

 

 

Prerequisite:

Provisional admission

Corequisite:

 

 

Course Guide

 

Competency

After completing this section, the student will:

Hours

Class

D.Lab

P.Lab/

O.B.I.

LANDSCAPE DESIGN PRINCIPLES

8

0 

Elements

Identify elements of landscape design.

 

 

 

 

Develop a landscape improvement plan.

 

 

 

Outdoor room concept

Describe the "outdoor room" concept.

 

 

 

 

Develop a landscape plan that utilizes the "outdoor room" concept.

 

 

 

SKETCHING AND DRAWING SKILLS

4

20

Symbols and lettering

Identify appropriate lettering, line weight, value contrast, and format.

 

 

 

 

Identify symbols used in landscape drawings.

 

 

 

Drawing

Demonstrate competency in drawing skills and equipment use.

 

 

 

 

Draw landscape renderings using accepted symbols.

 

 

 

 

Draw and letter a landscape plan using appropriate line weight, value contrast, and format.

 

 

 

SITE ANALYSIS

8

5 

Measurement

Use a tape measure to obtain site dimensions.

 

 

 

Positive and negative design features

Identify positive and negative landscape design features.

 

 

 

 

Analyze a landscape site in terms of its positive and negative design features.

 

 

 

Needs analysis

Recommend improvements on a landscape site based upon a needs analysis.

 

 

 

PLANT AND MATERIAL SELECTION

0

 5

Plants

Select appropriate plant materials for a specific landscape site.

 

 

 

Hard materials

Select appropriate non-plant materials for a specific landscape site.

 

 

 

LANDSCAPE DESIGN PROCESS

0

10 

 30

Pre-design process

Prepare a site analysis.

 

 

 

Design process

Prepare a bubble diagram.

 

 

 

Feedback

Prepare a final landscape plan.

 

 

 

Presentation

Present a landscape design.

 

 

 

 

Suggested Resources

 

Books

 

Hannebaum, L. (2002). Landscape Design, A Practical Approach. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Booth, N. (2002). Residential Landscape Architecture. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Bertauski, T. (2003). Plan Graphics for the Landscape Designer. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Ingels, J. (2004). Landscaping Principles and Practices. Clifton Park, NY: Delmar Publishing.