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PWS 103 Exam 1 Questions And Answers
Landscape - Answer -Serves as aesthetic and psychological functions for the residents
- Setting to view the Architecture- An exterior extension of the house
- Reflects personality- Refuge from the Hard life
Front Yard Functions - Answer - The Setting or foreground for viewing the house
- The public area for arrival and entrance Back Yard Functions - Answer - Outdoor eating and entertaining
- Entertaining- Utilitarian Activities
Side Yard Functions - Answer Access from the back to the front Vertical Plane - Answer - Establishes closure by separating space
- Influences the degree of privacy
- Inhibits view to unwanted areas- Direct and enflames view to desirable areas
Overhead Plane - Answer - Influences the amount and quality of sky light that entersspace
- Influences the percieved scale of a space
- Creates shadow patterns on other planes
Outdoor Spaces - Answer - Arrival and Entry Space
- Entertaining or living space
- Eating/Dining Space- Recreation Space
- Work/Storage Space- Garden Space
Why use a Design Process - Answer - Helps to organize information and thoughts
- provides an orderly approach to solving problems- Helps the designer to explain the resulting design solution to the clients
Problem Solving - Answer - Analysis of the current situation- Defining the problem
- Developing ideas for solving the problem- Selecting the best alternative
- Implementing the idea Phases of the Design Process - Answer - Research and Preparation- Preliminary Design
- Construction Documentation
- Implementation (Building)- Maintenance
- Evaluation Research and Preparation - Answer - Meet the Clients-Sign the Contract
- Outdoor needs a tilt to drain Implementation - Answer - Biding and Estimating
- Let out Bid- Construction and Installation
Construction - Answer Hardscape Installation - Answer Softscape Maintenance - Answer - Irrigation
- Fertilizing -Weeding- Lawn Mowing
- Painting and Staining- Replacing old plants or parts of structures
Evaluation - Answer - How does the design appear
- How does the design function- Evaluate maintenance (easy vs. hard)
- Evaluate the hardscape (durability) Positive Space - Answer - Things you use to create the garden Negative Space - Answer -The empty space you leave Gardens - Answer Organized
NeatThemed Boundaries PeacefulUtility Function FocusWork Serenity Chinese Gardens - Answer Circular Entry ways, Pines and Bamboo, Display of rocks,representation of the seasons, purpose and imagination
Spain Garden - Answer - Formal/Clean Lines- Simple/Open
- Multiple sensory experience.- Reflective Water
- Symmetry- Oasis
Italy Garden - Answer - Water- intense
- Vertical-Height
- Understated Entrance- Cultural
Japanese Gardens - Answer - Zen Gardens, Simplistic, Represents Natural Landscapesexplained in small spaces. Big Rocks, Observed from a farther view, not inside
France - Answer - Geometric
local material, streams and clusters, Horizontal Lines in Prarie landscapes, StartedLandscape Association.
Frederick Law Olmsted - Answer Centeral Park in New York; advocate for green spaces incities, and preservation of natural wonders
Lancelot Brown - Answer Royal Gardener; early advocate of natural landscaping, windingbodies of water, planting trees in cirlces (rings of wood) Vast lawns,
Gertrude Jekyll - Answer Gardener with the Arts & Crafts movement. Color similar toimpressionist paintings. Flower Planting, gardening gates, color combo's, cottage gardens. Herbaceous. Beatrix Jones Farrand - Answer Excelled in combining horticulture and art; intenselyexciting landscape, First recognized Female Architecht.
Humphrey Repton - Answer Promoted practicle Landscapes, connected landscape spacewith indoor living. Used contrasting colors in flowerbeds
Andrew Jackson Downing - Answer Regional Landscapes. Not everything applieseverywhere
Thomas Church - Answer Famous for bringing indoor living outside First 20th Century Landscape Architecht. Residence can be an outdoor room.- Focused on residential gardens that were hard to recognize because they reflected the customers wants so well James Van Sweedens Retreat/ Chessepeak Bay - Answer "Not Beautiful" Garden Manticello Garden - Answer Thomas Jeffersons Garden, Plant one of everything and seewhich one grows best
California Huntington Garden - Answer 15,000 Species on hundreds of aches of land.Brings you away from LA
Alpine Garden - Answer - Imitates mountain Landscape
- Layered evergreen.- Low Maintenance
Contemporary Garden - Answer Bold Asymmetrical angular lines. English Cottage Garden: - Answer Style consists of larege percentage of flowerin treeseand shrubs. Antiique romantic flavor. "Think England"
Formal Garden - Answer Symmetrical fashion. Neatly Pruned. Pamperred rose bushesand boxwood headges. Super High Maintenance.
Water- Conserving Landscape - Answer Boulders, dry stream beds, and drought-tolerantplants. Low-Maintenance
Information used to make a Design Solution (Home Visit) - Answer - Family Facts
- Clients needs and wants
- Client likes and dislikes, specifically regarding the landscape- Clients lifestyles and interests
- Clients site and architectural observations- Determine budget
Methods for Gathering information. - Answer - Verbal Discussion -Written Questionnaire- Review of Pictures
- Temperature- Nutrients
- Water
- Air Principle 3 - Answer Plants grow best under certain conditions Principle 4 - Answer There are limits of tolerance to conditions under which a plant cangrow.
Principle 5 - Answer Interaction among growth factors Principle 6 - Answer Principle 7 - Answer One Shot treatments:- Generally, change for only a short period of time and have a tendency for a situation to return to the original condition. Principle 8 - Answer Effective Strategy:- Which growth factor or condition is furthest from the optimum
Principle 9 - Answer If things are working well, don't fix it Functional and Aesthetic of Plants - Answer - Accent or specimen- Focal Points
- Foundation Plants- Naturalization
- Formal Plantings
-Contracts and Texture- Massing or Grouping
- Screening
- Ground Cover- Plants
Decidous Trees - Answer Woody Evergreen Trees - Answer Woody Annuals - Answer Have to plant every year
- Herbaceous Perennial - Answer Will Produce itself every year.
- Herbaceous Vine - Answer Can be Woody or Herbaceous, Diciduous or Evergreen, vertical Plane Ground Cover - Answer Vines on the ground Ornamental Grasses - Answer Perennial or Annual, always Herbaceous Microclimate - Answer the climate of a very small or restricted area, especially when thisdiffers from the climate of the surrounding area.
USDA Hardiness Zone - Answer Map is the standard by which gardeners and growers candetermine which plants are most likely to thrive at a location. The map is based on the average annual minimum winter temperature, divided into 10-degree F zones.
