AR 5033

Site Planning and Landscape Architecture

Unit: 1.0

Module 1: Site Planning Process: Need, Definition, scope and relationship in between site
planning & landscape Arch.
Module 2: Site Analysis, Analysis of all natural and man-made factors of site, Tutorials
on site analysis.
Module 3: Evolution of Garden Design: A brief study of different garden types: Mughal
gardens, Indian Vedic Gardens, Japanese gardens, Chinese Gardens, English Gardens,
French Gardens, Renaissance Gardens and Contemporary thoughts of landscape.
Module 4: Major and minor elements of Landscape: Land, water, plants, climate and their
role in landscape design.
Module 5: Application of design fundamentals in out door space organization:
Relationship of site, landscape and people, Areas, Nodes, Circulation, Passive and Active
recreation spaces, Aesthetics, Landscape situations etc.
Module 6: Man made Elements of Landscape:
Hard and soft landscaping, garden
furniture, lighting fixtures, signage and sign boards, fences, garden hardware and surface
treatment, paving materials, surface drainage, artworks, planters, garden shelters,
artificial rocks, plants and water falls.
Module 7: Modern gardens: Rock garden, terrace garden, Indoor garden etc.

Recommended books:
1.

Kevin Lynch ;Site planning ;MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1967

2.

J. O. Simonds; Landscape Architecture; McGraw Hill.

3.

J. E. Ingels; Landscaping Principles and Practice.