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One cause is that the front door of houses on some corner lots faces one street while the driveway connects to the other street. The house placement increases public surveillance of the site and simultaneously reduces privacy. Furthermore, the reduced backyard area easily allows views, sounds, and smells to extend back and forth to the […]

Designing a master plan for a single-family residential site is a com­plex undertaking that also requires the best effort from a talented individual or firm. Though prototypical, the Duncan residence does not represent all potential site con­ditions that one encounters as a residential landscape designer. The relatively flat, open qualities of the Duncan resi­dence provided […]

The master plan is drawn in a more exact and controlled graphic manner in compar­ison with the preliminary design. Existing vegetation that is to remain D. Existing site elements or features that are to remain part of the design solu­tion (should be on the base sheet) 1. Materials and patterns of pavement, walls, fences, overhead […]

The time required for this extended thought about the preliminary design may vary from several days to a week. These will have to be reworked. In this example, the shape of the pavement, design of the steps, and organization of the plant materials have been refined in relation to the preliminary design. Fences One of […]

This can be accomplished by repeating materials such as stone, brick, or paint color on the fa£ade of the house in nearby walls, fences, arbors, and so on. Such a cap visually ter­minates the wall and fence surface and reduces the chances of the eye wandering off into the background or sky. Figure 12-74 Alternative […]

Figure 12-71 A metal mesh screen can provide a semitransparent plane and support for vines to grow on. • provide a semitransparent screen that can be partially seen through. Panels of metal screen are often used in the vertical plane and must be attached to another element such as a wood post or ma­sonry wall […]

Although it is more expen­sive, cedar is also a good choice of wood because of its natural preservatives that de­crease decay. The exact size of concrete masonry units fluctuates widely among manufactures, although most concrete masonry units are be­tween 4" to 12" wide, 4" to 8" high, and 4" to 8" deep. units in comparison […]

• furnish a warm color in the landscape that contrasts with the green of most plant materials. Slabs Slabs are large dimensional stones that are quarried and cut, but often retain a rough, irregular character. The exact quality of cut stone varies widely depending on the geological source and the de­gree of precision in cutting. […]

• align with prominent corners, doors, and windows of the house so that the pavement and house appear as a unified composition (Figure 12-55). Furthermore, extended lines need to be perfectly aligned because any imper­fections will be easily seen from the house. Figure 12-54 Different techniques for establishing pattern edges within a curvilinear-shaped pavement area. […]

• use a border to frame an independent internal pattern within a circular or semicircular pavement area (Figure 12-53). This approach creates the most possibilities for elaborate patterns (Figure 12-52). In addition, this orientation minimizes cutting of individual paving units at the edges. There are two basic techniques for creating a pattern within a curvilin­ear […]