A while ago, I showed how to create lines of force from your house to help integrate your house into your landscape. In the following post, we created a formal rectangular style design from those lines of force. This time, I will show how the same lines of force can generate a more informal design, a curvilinear landscape design.
It is also fun to consider design some goals. For this big house, we are going to add the following:
- A large lawn area for the children.
- A large sunny patio for parties with a pool.
- Privacy from the neighbors.
- Benches away from the main areas.
Lines of Force can generate a rectangular design
Here is the grid pattern that was generated from the building last time.
And here is the design pattern that we generated.
They can also generate a curvilinear landscape design
Instead of using the lines from the grid, we will instead use points of intersections of the grid lines. These points will be used as points in the geometry we create for our informal design pattern.
The geometry that we will be using in our curvilinear design theme will be circles or more accurately portions of circles.
The points will be either be the center of the circle or a portion of the circle. For example, here are some of the possible ways we could use the grid system from our house.
![curvilinear landscape design - Laying out the first area](http://www.yourgardensanctuary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Landscape-with-1st-set-of-circles-plan-e1391050470472.jpg)
![curvilinear landscape design - Laying out the first area from bird's eye view](http://www.yourgardensanctuary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Landscape-with-1st-set-of-circles-perspective-e1391050575584.jpg)
![curvilinear landscape design - Laying out the patio and pool areas](http://www.yourgardensanctuary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Landscape-with-1st-set-of-curves-plan-e1391051046362.jpg)
![curvilinear landscape design - Laying out the patio and pool areas. Bird's eye view.](http://www.yourgardensanctuary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Landscape-with-1st-set-of-curves-perspective-e1391051150910.jpg)
![curvilinear landscape design - Laying out the turf area](http://www.yourgardensanctuary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Landscape-with-2nd-set-of-circles-plan-e1391051713697.jpg)
![curvilinear landscape design - Laying out the turf area by simplifying the circles](http://www.yourgardensanctuary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Landscape-with-2nd-set-of-curves-plan-e1391051691534.jpg)
![curvilinear landscape design - Laying out the turf area by simplifying the circles, Bird's eye view.](http://www.yourgardensanctuary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Landscape-with-2nd-set-of-curves-perspective-e1391051636333.jpg)
Our curvilinear landscape design areas defined
We can add some lines that represent a fence along the property line and we have our areas defined.
- The shape next to house with the pool in it is the hardscape patio area.
- The blue colored area represents the grass area.
- The area outside of the grass but within the fenced area are planting beds.
![Curvilinear landscape design view from above.](http://www.yourgardensanctuary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Curvilinear-landscape-design-with-areas-defined1.jpg)
How this Curvilinear landscape design could look
Now lets looks at how this could look after it is built. Click on any of these images for a larger version.
![Curvilinear landscape design could look from above](http://www.yourgardensanctuary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Finished-landscape-from-above-without-furniture-e1391130459868.jpg)
![Curvilinear landscape design could look from a birds eye view](http://www.yourgardensanctuary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Finished-landscape-from-birdseye-with-furniture-e1391130303233.jpg)
![Curvilinear landscape design view 1](http://www.yourgardensanctuary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Curvilinear-landscape-design-view-toward-benches.jpg)
![Curvilinear landscape design view 2](http://www.yourgardensanctuary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Curvilinear-landscape-design-view-toward-pool.jpg)
![Curvilinear landscape design view 3](http://www.yourgardensanctuary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Curvilinear-landscape-design-view-back-toward-house-and-bench.jpg)
![Curvilinear landscape design view 4](http://www.yourgardensanctuary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Curvilinear-landscape-design-view-of-patio-area.jpg)
![Curvilinear landscape design view 5](http://www.yourgardensanctuary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Curvilinear-landscape-design-view-toward-woman.jpg)
And no if you are asking like my wife did, I am NOT a teenage boy. Well maybe a little bit.
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