LARC 2230 Lecture 4: Design Principles - Jan.29.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Landscape Architecture
• Course: LARC 2230
• Professor: Stasia Stempski

Document Summary

Design principles: design principles are practices that give substance and meaning to the design qualities of line, form texture and colour, your job as a designer or composer of a space is to combine various units so that the observer focuses on the whole composition rather than the individual object or units, your eye and mind can only comprehend so much. 4 types of unity: visual unity tries to comprehend by making visual connections or groupings, unity of interest where there is a main stage item and the rest support the main focal feature, functional unity where all units serve the common purpose of function do all units support the function, aesthetic unity deals with the arrangement and balance of plant qualities, design principles that govern the achievement of aesthetic unity are, repetition, variety, balance, emphasis, sequence and scale r. v.