When navigating through a commercial property or retail shopping center, 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 in Your Landscape
The fact is, most landscaping for shopping centers are designed with the 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 commercial landscape 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.
Landscaping Architecture Lines Must Flow
Most landscaping flows in a natural sequence on apartment and hoa landscaping. 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. The way landscape designers use lines can 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
In retail shopping center landscaping for instance, combinations of design textures creates a comfortable environment for shoppers. Our landscape management services use various types of plant foliage and hardscape textures that come into play creating an inviting feeling. Various architectural elements can flow together in a commercial landscaping design, from colored paving stones, pathways to natural boulders all directing the visual interest and flow of traffic.
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. HOA 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 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.
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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.
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