Designing the broad relationship between the size and location of each area in the garden involves the following concepts:

Scale,

Style,

Hard/Soft Landscaping Proportion,

Mystery,

Area Shape, and

Focal Points.

Scale

To create a design with the scale in relation to the house, you should create a square grid on another layer of your drawing, with the sides being the width of a prominent feature of the house located during the site survey, for example the width of french windows. On another layer, create a grid of the diagonals of those squares. Each layer can be drawn separately, or kept on individual overlays.

 

I suspect that a component of this golfcourse designed for beginners may be slightly out of scale!!

 

 

 

 

Style

Using a multiple of the units you have worked out, you can assign areas of the garden to each of the required purposes (from the Designing for a Purpose questionnaire), using only one garden style to provide unity within the garden.

 

I suspect that these Irish Paramedics may be trying to save the life of the patient, but as with garden style, it just might be neccessary for the patient to be only 1 unit also!!