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.

Landscape & Garden

The Landscape and Gardens solution for ConceptDraw DIAGRAM is the ideal drawing tool when creating landscape plans. Any gardener wondering how to design a garden can find the most effective way with Landscape and Gardens solution.

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.

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.

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.

Landscape Plan

Design elements - Trees and plants

The design elements library Trees and plants contains 29 symbols of trees, hedges, groundcovers, greenery, and shrubbery.
"Landscape design is an independent profession and a design and art tradition, practised by landscape designers, combining nature and culture. In contemporary practice landscape design bridges between landscape architecture and garden design.
Landscape design focuses on both the integrated master landscape planning of a property and the specific garden design of landscape elements and plants within it." [Landscape design. Wikipedia]
Use the vector stencils library Trees and plants to draw the plans of landscape architecture, lawns, gardens, yards, parks planning, groundskeeping, landscape design, and arboretums using the ConceptDraw PRO diagramming and vector drawing software.
The shapes library Trees and plants is contained in the Site Plans solution from the Building Plans area of ConceptDraw PRO Solution Park.

, succulent, potted plant, perennial border, palm tree, ornamental grass, groundcover, deciduous tree, deciduous shrub, conifer tree, conifer shrub, conifer hedge, cactus, broadleaf hedge, broadleaf evergreen tree, broadleaf evergreen shrub,

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.