A good shortcut to imagining how the design plan will translate to the real world is to imagine yourself inhabiting the drawn spaces. If something looks too narrow or too wide in the plan, use the graphic scale on the drawing or the scaled ruler to measure the actual dimensions and evaluate if it’s truly too narrow or wide. It’s the landscape architect’s job to walk the client through the design and be able to measure off the plan to answer questions. During client review sessions, sometimes it takes time for the client to get used to reviewing a scaled drawing. With a site plan drawn to scale and using an architectural or engineer’s scale (the multisided blue ruler in the photo here), you and the landscape architect can physically measure design elements in the plan. Use the Drawing to Evaluate Spatial Dimensions
The site plan also includes the house footprint, a north arrow, a graphic scale and a legend for the plant symbols and line types. The landscape architect draws existing and proposed vegetation using basic symbols, with the canopy spread of trees drawn to scale and sometimes with approximate shadow casts. Existing condition information is taken directly from the surveyor’s drawing of the property. The site plan includes the property line, typically drawn in a dash-dot-dot-dash format lines for setbacks and rights-of-way and relevant utilities information. This is a great example of a site plan that shows an overall layout with defined spaces in relation to the home floor plan. Lawn areas are distinguished from other ground covers. In the example here, the landscape architect’s site plan shows the placement of major trees and shrubs, circulation and access. It shows the overall layout and placement of the major design elements.ĭepending on the size of your property, the site plan may be detailed enough to show paving patterns, or it may show only layout lines for paved surfaces. The site plan shows the proposed landscape design and includes relevant existing conditions. Let’s walk through the site plan to help you learn to review and evaluate the plan as part of the design process.
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Learn to read the site plan like a pro by understanding the common drawing conventions, learning how to connect what’s drawn on paper to what the design will look like when it’s built, and knowing the key questions to ask when reviewing the plan. The overall plan lays the foundation for the design concept and circulation and placement of the major site components. There are many styles for drawing site plans - they can be in color or black and white, produced by hand or digitally. The site plan is critical because it’s how landscape designers communicate their overall vision for a home landscape design. As a homeowner, knowing how to read the site plan is helpful when working with a landscape architect, because it will help you evaluate the design early in the process and avoid major revisions later. Often the site plan is also the first drawing presented to the client. Landscape architects are trained to create the design in plan view as one of the first phases in the design process.
The site plan represents the overall design for a landscape and is the primary tool used by the landscape design pros to lay out the space.
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