Garden Design (Part Time)
OUTLINE
The Inchbald Garden Design (Part Time) course is aimed at those students who wish to investigate garden design to a professional standard. The course is structured to suit both those intending to pursue professional careers as garden designers and those who wish to develop their expertise as passionate garden enthusiasts.
Through a series of lectures, visits, workshops and assignments students will develop a thorough grounding which will enable them to realise their own projects. The final design project can be of student choice which enables you to start practising whilst still under the guidance of the school.
OBJECTIVES
• To equip the student with the necessary principles of garden design to enable them to plan and realise their own schemes with skill and confidence.
• To develop a sense of spatial awareness and the understanding of how to organise a space using hard and soft landscape techniques in three dimensions.
• To inspire an awareness of hard landscaping materials and planting within garden design and to demonstrate skills in combining them aesthetically and functionally.
COURSE CONTENT
Drawing Skills
Students will be given a full introduction to drawing equipment and its use. They will gain the necessary skills, knowledge and understanding to produce appropriately presented master plans, sectional elevations, axonometric and one and two point perspective drawings.
Design
Students will gain the necessary skills required to produce a final design from the initial client meeting, brief, site survey and analysis, through the design process including sketch and concept design, to the final detailed design.
Projects will include gardens of various sizes and locations from town to country sites. Real clients and sites will be used whenever possible.
Garden history will be addressed both in lectures and during visits; students will be expected to review historically important gardens and designs throughout the course.
Planting Design
Students will be given a broad knowledge of plant nomenclature together with a wide palette of plant knowledge. Types, style and colour will all be addressed within planting design and wherever possible be integrated into the design assignments in the form of planting plans.
Hard Landscaping
From simple paving to advanced step design, students will study the various skills needed to confidently design walls, fencing, structures and water features together with lighting and irrigation. Students will also acquire the knowledge necessary to produce construction drawings.
VENUE
32 Eccleston Square, London, SW1V 1PB. The Garden Design Faculty overlooks one of the finest garden squares in London with its plant collection assembled by the renowned plant expert, Roger Phillips.
Eccleston Square is close to Victoria Station and its excellent public transport facilities which include the Victoria, Circle, and District Underground lines, national rail links to Southern England, numerous buses and a steady supply of London Taxis.
FEES
£5900.00. Students should note that this price includes a drawing equipment package and that they are advised not to purchase any additional equipment prior to the course start. Students will be advised during their induction day.
This fee also includes student membership to the Society of Garden Designers.
INSTANCES
The Inchbald Garden Design (Part Time) course will run on consecutive Tuesdays from
8 September 2008 until 10 July 2009.
The day starts at 10am and ends at 4pm. The studios are available for independent study from 9.30am until 5.30pm.
Students who have enrolled on the course will be eligible for discounted entry to the Inchbald Lecture Series, both evening and Saturday lectures and other relevant short courses.
COURSE ADMINISTRATOR
Diana Austin: 020 7630 9011 diana.austin@inchbald.co.uk
