I would like to put together an argument that indicates more could be done from preliminary study documents when it comes to winning contracts and design schemes for sale to customers.
Where is first taught to allocate space, landscape student is guided through several different processes before reaching a final draft of the decision.
Everything starts with the topographical area exactly. In scale to the boundary walls, existing buildings, trees, services and existing levels be plot plan of the site.
By collecting this information at the local level, the student must then expand their area of study to the surrounding landscape. Topographical, historical, cultural and architectural information may be collected from maps and the Internet, which helps you in the site context and can suggest a topic on which to hang his eventual design.
Plans for hidden then calculated to assess the impact of the spring and summer shadow details and plan for the analysis of gaze, developed to noted factors of the site, such as existing characteristics, the wind direction a good and bad seeing, etc.
Once all this information is compiled, the student can begin to tinker with the allocation of memory in the form of a bubble or functional charts.
This work is a prerequisite for the creation of the presentation or plan.
But what happens to all these studies after completion of plans for the presentation?
What many student cannot be assessed, it is difficult, many customers are in the understanding of the 2D plan drawings.
While we take it for granted that "House" is a large black rectangle in the middle of the scheme, it is surprising how few customers will understand this. You can be spreadable Lyrical about how great your new garden will be showing the plan and they simply cannot make head nor tail of it!
There are 4 preliminary design stages and they may be submitted on separate sheets, or combined in one or 2 presentation drawings. They allow the author to begin his presentation, by examining the site and point the House and the important features of the garden. This allows the client time to digest the plan and to become acquainted with the graphical nature of the drawings.
Then you can begin to explain how they began to develop ideas through implementation of the plan for the analysis of website and bubble/functional charts.
An explanation of the thought process of your customers helps justify why to go to a specific design decision, but also help the customer to find out how much work goes into the preparation of the plan for the landscape.
When loading several $ 1000 for the draft, arriving with only one sheet of paper, can give the customer the impression that they are not responsible for the money.
Do not forget! receive only one crack of the whip of the presentation of your ideas, so you should do this "sale" in no more than about 60 minutes, otherwise you won't get the rest of your design fee and more importantly the garden will never be built.
Suddenly arriving with 2-3 sheets of drawings, plus garden research plan, plus any colored perspective and mood Board, began to look like a lot of work and thought into the design.
So if you want to improve your sales and get more from your gardens build a little time "prettying-up ' your drawings of the research and use them as part of your presentation.
Heather Duncan is one of the most garden designers of Europe, to-date winning five gold, one silver and one bronze medal and the three best of Show Awards for his work on the design. He lives in Oxfordshire, where both lectures and works. Born in Britain, he traveled much and undertakes a very wide range of projects in the world of the small courtyard gardens in large country estates.
Heather Duncan is Director of the Oxford College of garden design and MygardenSchool.
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