Subj : Method Of Investigation
Lect : Miss Nadira Bashir
Task 2 : Alternative to Research

I have search about 5 different website about landscape design.

For the first website is www.dynascape.com

This side tells and teach us how to use the software in google to build a modeling landscape. It will teach every single step to make a nice and beautiful landscape in correct and easy way. This side explain the use every single thing in the software. There are 9 steps to follow:

Step 1: download the plugins, components and material structure.

Step 2: bring the CAD drawing into sketch up

Step 3: clean up the imported CAD drawing

Step 4: model the house [or building] and roof

Step 5: model the terrain

Step 6: apply texture

Step 7: replace 2D symbols with 3D models

Step 8: create scenes

Step 9: render the model for presentation

If you follow the entire step you will get a nice and beautiful 3D landscape.

Second website is www.irrigationtutorials.com

For this side it tells us about how to make landscape sprinkler. The landscape sprinkler is one of the important things for the landscape to look fresher and maintain the condition.

The other of this website is Jess Stryker. He gives a several step for us to go through if we want to make a sprinkler at our landscape. The step is:

Step 1: collect all the information such as the measure of your yard.

Step 2: select your equipment. Different equipment has a different function.

Step 3: Place the sprinkler head.

Step 4: create valve zones and draw in pipes

Step 5: the last step is lateral pipe sizes.

Third website is www.the-landscape-design-site.com

From this site it tells us the rule of landscape design. There are several rules for us to know if we want to make a landscape in our house. The rule is:

• Unity
• Simplicity
• Balance
  
• Colour
• Natural transition
• Line
• Proportion
• Repetition

Forth website is www.garden-landscape-design.com

This site tell us the tips that the landscape designer need if their want to begin design. There are several example of the landscape that the landscape designer can take a look and take the tips from this site.

Fifth website is bumilandscape.com

This site encourages us to use the flora as the majority of our landscape. This is because we want to reduce the global warming in our world. By using the green tree or the grass can reduce this entire problem.

Furthermore we need the green plant in our future to still alive. The colour green can make we feel clam and escape from our problem and stress.