Low maintenance design for your city garden: intensive

City Lit

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In London

£ 199 VAT inc.

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

The course will cover the fundamental principals of garden design, demonstrating the main stages of the process and how to create simple contemporary designs. Discover imaginative and practical solutions for small spaces such as creating privacy, low maintenance planting for year-round interest and suitable hard landscaping materials for city gardens. Learn how to get the most from your garden and translate your ideas onto paper with a simple scaled plan.

** Please bring a printed selection of design ideas from magazines or the internet to your first class**.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- Identify three key principles of urban garden design
- Measure a simple space to scale with a long tape measure in metres
- Have created a mood board for your urban garden design
- Have drawn a completed design in 1:50 scale
- List different materials and plants that you will use
- Suggest two methods of reducing noise for your design.

Basic drawing equipment including scale rulers will be provided. In addition students should bring an A4 pad of layout paper, scrapbook, pencil, eraser, and a couple of fine point black fibre tip pens. Please also bring a printed selection of ideas from magazines or the internet to your first class.
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If you would like to buy art materials for your personal use outside of the course, City Lit students receive 10% discount off everything* from Cass Art, the UK's leading art supplies retailer. Your tutor will advise you on what you should buy

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Subjects

  • Garden Design
  • Design
  • Landscaping

Course programme

- The principles of urban garden design
- Basic survey and site analysis
- Inspiration, Concept Ideas & Mood boards
- Drawing a Scale Plan
- Hard landscaping and planting for small urban spaces
- Creative solutions to urban challenges: Privacy, noise, light etc.

The course will be a combination of practical workshops, lectures, informal group discussions and demonstrations taught in the classroom.

Additional information

This course is designed to give you the confidence to use the skills you will learn as a springboard to more advanced study in Garden Design. You may wish to further develop your skills and interest in Design through a range of courses at the City Lit in garden design and other disciplines that would compliment or enhance your existing skills. You can enhance your digital drawing skills through courses in Sketchup Pro and Vectorworks. You can explore your interest in Art and Design through our Art and Design Portfolio course and prepare for a career in Art and Design on the Foundation course in Art and Design. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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Low maintenance design for your city garden: intensive

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