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Landscape construction defines outdoor space in the same way that planting beautifies outdoor space. Successful construction design and implementation has the ability to delineate space in a way that brings continuity and flow between the house and property. It compliments the functionality of the garden, pulling the user out as a participant rather than a mere observer.
Abshear Landscape Development uses many specialty components of construction to bring life and diversity to a property. There are many expressions of water features, water lighting, circulation provisions, and exterior enclosures that constitute well-planned and fully integrated construction themes.
Water features can include swimming pools, fountains, waterfalls, bog gardens, and ponds, just to name a few. Features here are differentiated from water channeling methods. Channeling expresses engineering strategies for irrigation, drainage, stream bed stabilization, or dry stream-bed formations for storm water run-off.
Properly selected and directed lighting inspires the outdoor space at night. Lighting has the duplicity of being theatrical and aesthetic, as well as being used for safety conventions - illuminating areas of transition, elevation changes, and/or barrier.
Varying complexities of enclosure are used to create outdoor rooms which cause the landscape to rhythmically and harmoniously flow from one node to the next. Abshear Landscape Development will bring definition to its projects by combining fencing with decorative privacy screening. This will allow spatial definition, barrier, and privacy. Other enclosure details can take advantage of the ceiling element of spatial delineation. Arbors, pergolas, gazebos, or roofed pavilions are great design tools to provide this ceiling.
Decks can form a two-dimensional enclosure by the contrasting plane of an elevated wooden floor to the abutting planted environment. It becomes a three dimensional enclosure by the subtle use of handrails and seating features.
There are other miscellaneous items that don't fall into any specific category of construction yet become an integrated part of the whole. They can also sometimes stand alone. These items are grading, demolition, clearing, leveling, and waterproofing. Each carries its own weighted function and is very integral in how the finished production charts its course.
Abshear Landscape Developers can help you expand your horizons and perceptions! There is much more to the landscape process than most would imagine. |
