How to Draw a Landscape Design Plan

What is landscape design? It's a floor plan but for an outdoor area. Same as a floor plan, a landscape design represents visually any site using scaled dimensions. The main purpose of landscape design is to plan the layout for an outdoor area no matter is it a personal site plan for your home or a commercial plan for business. It may also be handful when a new installation, repair or even an outdoor event is planning. It helps to calculate time and decide which materials should be used in your project. Landscape designs perfectly gives the property owner and landscape contractor better vision for cost estimation, helping to ensure the project time and budget.

How To use Landscape Design Software

Creation great-looking or even impressive landscape designs is a great labour and real art. There are required the fundamental knowledge in design field, architecture and construction, and also in other special fields, such as plant growing, history, culture, philosophy, etc. Moreover, you need to have good artistic abilities for achievement success in landscape design. All these nuances create the impression that it is incredibly complex process, but ConceptDraw DIAGRAM aims to radically change your opinion and make you closer to the realization of your dream. Now thanks to the Landscape & Garden solution included to the Building Plans area of ConceptDraw Solution Park, you can fully concentrate on the creation the masterpieces in landscape design, without worrying about drawing process. Powerful drawing tools and included numerous collection of samples, templates and pre-designed vector objects are helpful for creation Landscape designs and Landscape plans of any complexity and style, they help you unlock your creativity and design easily the lively garden.

Landscape Architecture with ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

The landscape architecture includes landscape design, planning, and realization, as well as management of resources and buildings. The smaller scale landscape projects are well known as landscape design and garden design. The landscape design documentation is created independently from the project's scale and includes sketches, general plan and working documentation. On this stage the ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software extended with Landscape & Garden solution is irreplaceable assistant for you. The landscape designs created using ConceptDraw DIAGRAM are effectively used by landscape architects and engineers, also by landscape managers who maintain parks, gardens, natural landscapes like woodlands or nature reserves, and artificial landscapes. The Landscape and Garden solution contains 14 libraries with a lot of vector graphics objects of trees, flowers, bushes, fountains, ponds, furniture, roofs, patios, fences, garden accessories, entertainment, roads, junctions, etc., that are suitable for any gardener to simply design a wonderful garden.

Bubble diagrams in Landscape Design with ConceptDraw DIAGRAM

Bubble Diagrams are the charts with a bubble presentation of data with obligatory consideration of bubble's sizes. They are analogs of Mind Maps and find their application at many fields, and even in landscape design. At this case the bubbles are applied to illustrate the arrangement of different areas of future landscape design, such as lawns, flowerbeds, playgrounds, pools, recreation areas, etc. Bubble Diagram helps to see instantly the whole project, it is easy for design and quite informative, in most cases it reflects all needed information. Often Bubble Diagram is used as a draft for the future landscape project, on the first stage of its design, and in case of approval of chosen design concept is created advanced detailed landscape plan with specification of plants and used materials. Creation of Bubble Diagrams for landscape in ConceptDraw DIAGRAM software is an easy task thanks to the Bubble Diagrams solution from "Diagrams" area. You can use the ready scanned location plan as the base or create it easy using the special ConceptDraw libraries and templates.

Building Drawing Software for Design Site Plan

Site plan is a detailed architectural plan or document, landscape architecture project for considered object. It is a part of technical design documentation that illustrates the arrangement of buildings, trails, roads, parking, lighting, water lines, sanitary sewer lines, drainage facilities, landscape and garden elements. Site plans are constructed by architects, landscape designers or licensed design engineers, and used by the builders, contractors and installers when constructing or making improvements to some property. They reflect the main design ideas and give an instantly vision of future result after the plan's implementation. They have special value for the large projects of single or multi-floor buildings, and for accomplishment the whole districts. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM extended with Site Plans solution offers the powerful building drawing software tools and vector design elements for development and drawing Site plans and Landscape design drawings, Residential and Commercial landscape designs, Parks and Landscaping territories plans, Yard layouts, etc.

Landscape Plan

A landscape plan depicts all the features of a future garden including buildings, plants, lawns or a patio. Such plan is a very important part of site adjustment because it gives a complete picture of future project.

How To use House Design Software

The house construction requires from its architect the creation of serie of different building plans, such as general plan for the whole building, plans for each floor with all dimensions, plans of plumbing, heating, electricians. But when the home will be built, you will need also detailed plans of its design, finishing and decoration. House design plans are not less important than house building plans, and moreover they both must to be well coordinated and harmonized with each other. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming software extended with Floor Plans solution from Building Plans area of ConceptDraw Solution Park is powerful house design software which greatly saves your time. Now you don't need to learn difficult architectural software, ConceptDraw DIAGRAM offers all needed drawing tools for easy creation professional-looking plans and layouts for houses and other buildings and premises, and then on their base great-looking design plans, plans of lighting, of furniture arrangement, etc. Included built-in templates and examples will be also perfect base for your own plans.

Interior Design. Site Plan — Design Elements

Site plans are large scale drawings that illustrate a lot of useful information, such as location of buildings on the surrounding territories, topography of the site, roads, footpaths, paved and hardstandings areas, ramps, parking areas, fencing, walls and gates, landscape elements, trees and plants, layout of external lighting and service runs, adjoining and adjacent structures, surrounding streets, and many other details. On each Site plan are also designated the scale, dimensions, site boundaries, key materials, and other additional notes. ConceptDraw DIAGRAM diagramming and interior design software extended with Site Plans solution from Building Plans area contains Parking and Roads, Site Accessories, Trees and Plants libraries with numerous collection of ready-to-use vector design elements for drawing detailed Site plans, Site design plans, Structural site plans, Landscape drawings for any locality and of any complexity without efforts. This software will be also useful for planning the parks, creation yard layouts, development residential and commercial landscape designs.