residential landscape design

Creative Assignment 1 – Evaluate a  residential landscape design

We all have different ideas of the perfect landscape design for a residential home. In this assignment, you will be applying the principles of landscape design to a home landscape that you enjoy to create a blog entry post in our courses blog section for creative assignment 3.

1. The first step is to pick a residential landscape design that you like and to document it as an image. This design can be a) a digital image that you captured using a digital camera of a home landscape in your area, b) a scanned image from a magazine or book, or c) a high resolution image from the Internet. The image/design MUST show the placement of landscape plants and other landscape elements in relationship to the home or residence. Images of natural landscapes such as “my favorite bit of scenery in Yellowstone National Park” do not quality for this blog assignment.

2. Once you have obtained your image, create a blog post entry within the assignment blog created by the instructor, which contains your image along with your written analysis of the home landscape with respect to the principles of landscape design which you learned about in the Landscape Design topic. In this document, you must answer the following questions about the residential landscape design image that you chose. To receive full credit, these questions must be answered in a blog format of 3 to 4 paragraphs of prose and NOT as a ‘list of answers’ to a ‘list of questions’.
 Why do you like the design of this particular residential landscape?  Does the design have a theme, and if so, what is the theme? (for example southwestern desert, tropical, Mediterranean English garden, western ranch, oriental garden, edible garden, butterfly and hummingbird garden, etc.)  What is the focal point of your residential landscape design?  What landscape elements are used as accents?  What landscape elements are repeated in the landscape to bring unity to the design?  Is the design balanced symmetrically or asymmetrically?  Is texture or color used to provide a sense of rhythm in the landscape?

Note: Digital images from the Internet may be used for this creative assignment BUT they must be of very high quality, show the details of the landscape needed to evaluate it with the questions below, and MUST be accompanied by an Internet citation of the
URL address from where the image was obtained. If the image inserted into the blog is a scan, then a literature reference of the source from which the scanned imaged was derived must provided in the blog entry at the end of the written text.