Portland Community College | Portland, Oregon

Students will, through a combination of field and drafting labs, complete a site plan, site analysis, and landscape plan for a real client. Students will also see one plan chosen and then installed.

1. Understand the steps involved in developing a landscape plan from initial client visit through completion of the landscape installation.
2. Draft a site plan.
3. Draw a site analysis.
4. Draw a concept plan.
5. Draft a landscape master plan.

The Instructor prepares hands-on labs before class (e.g. finding a project site and client, preparing design and drafting exercises). During the lab period, the Instructor teaches landscape design and drafting skills through active demonstrations in real time. Students then work on and complete design projects (e.g. bubble diagrams, form compositions, concept plans, planting plans) with the Instructor's guidance and receive verbal feedback and critique as they work. The designs are submitted and the Instructor evaluates the work outside of class time - providing a score and written feedback on technical accuracy, design skill and professionalism.

1. Written mid-term and final exams.
2. Completion of the following drawinmg projects: site plan, site analysis, concept plan, master plan.

1. Landscape Style
2. Principles of Landscape Design
3. Basic Landscape Drafting
4. Landscape Planning Process
5. Landscape Construction and Installation Process
6. Basics of Cost Estimation
7. Computers in Landscape Design
8. Landscape Design and the Environment: Xeriscaping, Sustainable Landscaping, Edible Landscaping, Native Landscaping