- Device
- Internet
- Notebook or digital portfolio for writing your guiding statement and for inspiration collection
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Investigating Potential Sites
You Need
Think About
- What you want to design and the user and environmental considerations you need to make (guiding further research)
- An inspiration for your work that will help structure your ideas into a specific style, determining how you use the elements and principles of landscape design
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Write a Guiding Statement
This includes:
- What you want to design in your landscape
- Who/what you are designing it for (who are the people and/or animals)
- What are the user and environmental considerations you need to make (needs and wants)
- Determine what the most important goal of your design is overall (is it solely benefiting the people by providing a relaxing outdoor space, or is it reinforcing the strength of the ecosystem, catching and filtering runoff water while attracting native birds and insects, or is it a balance between the two?)
Chris’s example of a written guiding statement
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Research into an Inspiration
Now, you need to collect images of a specific inspiration (make sure to include the links to the images for citation purposes). This could be an object, concept, or plant/animal (for biomimicry design), which will help focus on a design style.
This design style will help you use the elements and principles of landscape design in specific ways, producing work unique to your interests, while being aesthetically and functionally designed through further research determined by your guiding statement and site conditions.
Chris’s example of an inspiration page
