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    LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE A Manual of Site Planning and Design THIRD EDITION Completely revised with emphasis on the shaping of a better environment for living and the care of planet Earth JOHN ORMSBEE SIMONDS Th Propucr of the site-planning process is a conceptual plan. This is, in effect, a diagram of fitting relationships—of areas to struc lure, of area to area, and all to the lay of the land. The land uses and their relationship have grown out of the program and site analysis. They have been explored in a number of quick schemat ics until the best ft is achieved. The plan has been tested and adjusted to minimize its negative impacts and to provide the most of those features desired The conceplual pian isa prelintinary drawing—the concept, as yet without deteils or fixed dimensions, and intentiorally so, for in its detailed development, perhaps in phases, it is subject to cha refinement, and improvement. Upon its approval by the client or other decision makers, it becomes the reference guideline in the preparation of detailed (working) site development plans and specifications. Site-Structure Expression If to design a project or a structure in harmony with its total site is a valid objective, it follows that the design expression would vary from site to site in accordance with the variation in londseape character To illustrate, let us consider @ summer weekend vacation lodge. If built on a sheltered, rock-rimmed inland lake in north em Maine, its abstract design form would vary’ greatly form it would have if located anywhere along the wind-whipped coast of Monterey, California, in the smoky Ozark Mountains, on Florida's shell-strewn Captiva Island, or along the lazily winding Mississinewa River in central Indians. Forgetting for the moment the implicatiors of a specific property, we can see that each of the varying locations suggests its own intrinsic design response. It might therefore be a helpful procedure to classify a site according to type and determine the design characteristics stig gested. Let us consider four typical building sites and the design Features that they elicit, A city lot dress ata pronieen, The plan will be compact, of necessity To ulize the area fully, a maximum of the property may be included, by plan ingenuity in tre visual scene Spaces inte Plan forms will probably be contrived to expand the apparent space by the mulUple use ofateas and the interplay of volumes, Through ingenious plan arrongemnent even the smallest structures are made (feel spacious The dy nrirw impose ase of confinement end oppression, Peshags tere embattled city dwellers will wish to entrench, dig their caves, or build the forts and feel secure: But more likly they il seck cele! and release from pressure Ifs0in their dwellings and gartens fe hard, the rigid, the confining forrea will gre ‘vay to the lig, the nebulous, the transparent and the fee Arete spac ar nitetein sate. Scale, bth induced and inductive is en impariaat design consideration. Ar objet well suited tothe open field could be overwhelming ia the cityscape. A gant tree, for example. might diva an urban comple while diarf tree could give it increased and more desirable visual cimension, Gty sires ed pdesean wes are dominant nes of apron observa tion ut aces. They are elements most stronaly relating the

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