Interior Landscaping

 Course objective:
 To give the basic concept and principles of landscape design mainly related with the interior
landscape design.

 Course content:
 1. Introduction ( 8hrs)
 Purpose of landscape design
 Landscape practice & profession of landscape architecture
 Elements of landscape design & their effects in relation to the built environment
 Ecological & environment aspects.
 2. Historical Review ( 14 hrs)
 Comparative history of garden design like indian, chinese, japanese, english, & Nepalese (
more relted to interior garden)
 Characteristecs & uses of Plant materials ( 10 hrs)
 3.Plant Characteristics
 Planting condition, climate of soil, feritlizer, Manure, propagation, types of tress, shrubs,
annuals, cacti, ferns, bushes, hedges, creepers, different indoor plants.
 4. Landscape design ( 10 hrs)
 Different types of garden, roof garden, atrium, street furniture, garden furniture, water
festures, sculptures, fences, gates, roadside plantations, avenues, paths & pavements, etc.
 5. Flower arrangements and Accessories ( 6hrs)
 Chapter 1
1. What is Landscape Architecture?

1. The noun landscape evolved from the Dutch landschap and the German
landschaft, meaning a place that is both human-altered or inhabited and surrounded
by forest or WILDERNESS. It did not mean natural per se, but a parcel of land
with its distinguishing characteristics and features as modified or shaped by
processes and agents of human beings.
2. A view or PROSPECT of natural inland scenery such as can be taken in at a glance
from one point of view; a piece of country scenery. The use of the work natural
in the previous definition is, unfortunately misleading since it implies that such a
view must be natural, when in fact, "natural looking" or "Naturalesque,"; an
imitation of nature, might be more Accurate.

3. Landscape also means the type of picture or painting that depicts a rural or
countryside view as distinguished from a seascape or portrait. When, in eighteenth-
century England, it became fashionable to collect and display seventeenth-century
romantic paintings of Italian rural scenery, the English called these landscapes or the
older work land skips, just as a portrayal of person is called a portrait. The
meaning the words landscapes and GARDEN into a characterization of ht design
style used to treat the grounds around a country house came about during the mid-
eighteenth century. It is assumed to have been the invention of the poet and
garden critic William Shenstone. It was meant that the appearance of the
residential site, both at a distance and near the house, had the pictorial qualities of the
paintings. Thus it looked like a landscape picture. Since all grounds around English
houses are called gardens, whether or not they consist of plan BEDS, the expression
meant a site treated in the manner of the romantic paintings,
predominantly NATURALISTIC in character.

4. The use of landscape as a very, meaning "to embellish the grounds around a
structure by making it part of a continuous and harmonies landscape," is primarily
and Americanism, barely used by other English-speaking societies.

LANDSHAFT

The antithesis of wilderness is landscape, the land shaped by men. Originally

the work was German-landshaft. A landshaft was not a town exactly, or a manor
or a village but a collection of dwelling and other structures crowded together
within a circle of pasture, meadow, and planting fields and surrounded by
unimproved forest or marsh.
Landscape Architecture is a planning process, which introduces forms and features
of natural and manmade elements.
Landscape Architecture is a planning process from selection of site to
completed project. Landscape Architecture also deals with:

i. Planning of well-related use areas

ii Creation of meaningful spaces in terms of use, from, materials,colours
iii. Planning of optimum site structures and intra relationship
iv. Design of structures and spaces in relation to pedestrian and auto traffic
Landscape Design

• The site itself expresses some opportunities and constraints.

• The owner of developer has specific needs and limitations.

• 'The potential user demand ease and beauty.

• Landscape architecture embodies a skillful integration of these forces so that

the changes on the land respond to human needs yet remain sensitive to the
environment.
• Landscape Design should capture Natural Attributes.

• Landscape design is basically design of outdoor space using three basic elements.

• Landform

• Water

• Vegetation

Landscaping
Landscape design is the process of creating attractive outdoor environments. It is
conscious process of managing, planning and physically changing the landscape.
Landscape is not an areas but our vision of that area. It i nvolves the physical
management of the landscape and the design of the places. Places are the· mental
constructs that occur in the viewer's mind, through the synergism of specify
setting, previous experience, and the individual's mental state.

Landscape Type

Generally the landscape can be categorized into three fundamental ways. They are:

• Landscape derived more or less directly from the natural habitat of the region-
forest, desert and so on.
• Landscape produced by man's alteration of the natural habitat for this own uses.
The obvious example is farming, with very different scenery of fields and crops.
• Landscape, which has been deliberately designed generally for pleasure.
Likes parks and gardens along with the various new types of amenity landscape.

Difference between Gardening and landscape:

• Garden is an ancient art.

• Landscape Architecture is a modern profession.

• Both garden and landscape architecture are mainly concerned with the design
of outdoor space.
Definition of Landscape
Very briefly, natural landscape can be defined as the shape of the Earth
(topography) with other natural attributes.
It is an antithesis of wilderness
Landscape could be defined as external architecture.

Landscape is not a cosmetic application but rather thoughtful

design process. Landscape doesn't happen by chance, but by
contrivance.
Landscape is not a museum piece, rather is a concept compatible with a
particular site hence it is site specific.
The academic study of landscape was started in Harvard University in the
year 1900 as a pioneer of landscape design.
Fredrick Law Olmsted could be called the pioneer of landscape in USA.

Germans have defined it as landshaft.

Interdisciplinary aspects
Landscape has an intrinsic relationship with architecture, urban design,
urban planning, and civil engineering.
Hence while doing landscape design one has to consider the other disciplines also.
It is not a compartmentalized study.
Landscape could be taken as the basis of other disciplines because it deals
with the land resource.

Interior or Indoor Landscaping

When you think of landscaping, you probably think of the outdoors - taking
existing land and making changes by adding flowers, plants or various structures to
enhance the appearance of an outdoor space. Indoor landscaping, also known as
"plantscaping" or "interiorscaping," does the same thing - but inside. Similar to the
great outdoors, indoor environments have plains, angles and horizons that can be
altered or enhanced to become a true work of art.
It's no secret that people find nature to be serene and visually pleasing, so it only
makes sense to bring that tranquility inside. Using artistic designs and arrangements
of living plants, you can use interior landscaping to create a natural, feel-good
environment that appeals to the senses while adding aesthetic value to your space.

When you walk into an atrium, mall, hotel lobby or office building, look around
and notice the decor and greenery displayed. The possibilities are truly endless.
Interior landscapes enhance a business' brand and personality. You can add color
and texture to a corporate space with office plants and decorative containers.

If you've considered sprucing up your large atrium or lobby, indoor plantings and
living walls are great for this type of space. Most people are surprised at how
greenery can reimage a professional space - whether residential, hotel, retail, hospital
or office..