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A Commercial Landscape Service That Maintains Foot Traffic

Posted by Elizabeth Mendoza on Jul 17, 2017 9:20:00 AM

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When navigating through a property, trying to travel from a visitor parking lot to a building entrance, do you ever wonder if the landscaping was designed in a user friendly way?

How to Maintain Traffic Flow With Your Commercial Landscape Service

The fact is, a commercial landscape service usually has the customers best intentions in mind. Most landscapes are designed and installed in a way that incorporates the basis and principles that insure a user friendly and exterior pleasing landscape for visitors, pedestrians and employees.

In review, a well-planned corporate landscape service can enhance the outdoor spaces of people, visitors and employees helping to improve the quality and value of its property. Here are some ways landscaping can improve traffic flow on your San Jose commercial landscaping.

A Commercial Landscape Architect includes Flowing Lines

Most landscaping flows in a natural sequence, even from the perspective of HOA Landscape Maintenance. The landscape flows from entrance planters and directs you to to the next area, providing visual landscaping interest and moving pedestrians with the right flow.

It starts with lines.  Landscape Development and Planning uses lines that create a certain feeling on a commercial property. In some instances, flowing curved lines can create a natural relaxed feeling, and linear straight lines create subtle and directional cues directing the pedestrians or visitors to their final destination.

Landscape Design Textures Direct Traffic Flow

 Mall landscape management for instance, use combinations of design textures that create a comfortable environment for shoppers. Our landscape management services use various types of plant foliage and landscape textures that come into play creating an inviting feeling. Various architectural elements can flow together in a commercial landscape design, from colored paving stones, pathways to natural boulders all directing the visual interest and flow of traffic.

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Landscape Design Elements Add Interest

Additionally, the size and scale of landscaping in relation to the buildings architecture helps to solidify a landscaping design theme. Home Owners Association Landscaping, trees and types of plants are carefully chosen for the community, taking in consideration the space and size. You should also pay particular attention to the various shapes of trees and plants, for example some being more upright and columnar accentuating a tall narrow wall and other lower growing plants combined with low flowing ground covers along a short wall or structure.

Balance and Transition for Guiding Pedestrians

Considering some of these basic design elements, a commercial landscape designer - architect will use design techniques, some of which include a proportional symmetry in relation to the design elements. For example, shorter and bolder anchoring plant material repeated by earth tone colors can enhance a pleasing entry way. Plant material and color come into play helping guide pedestrians to their destination, reminding them to stop and review a special focal point in the landscape helping make there walk more visually and interesting on a path toward their direction.

Call A-Corporate Landscaping Company 408.275.1200

When FloraTerra designs commercial property landscaping, apartment complex or a hotel, we review the entire property, taking into consideration architectural style, dimensions, plant focal points, etc. Additionally we provide a design along the lines of our client’s desires and property goals.

Interested in a bay area landscaping company to help makeover and improve your traffic flow? Please call us at 408.275.1200 or click here to schedule a free consultation.

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FloraTerra  is a Commercial Landscaping Company , providing corporate and commercial landscaping services, including sustainable landscape improvements for  for Shopping Centers, Strip Mall Landscaping, R & D Developments, Luxury Apartment Landscaping, Residential Estate Landscaping, Home Owners Association Landscaping, Condominium Developments and Commercial Office Landscaping.

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