Happiness through landscape

How you define “happiness”? How you define “space”?

By: Alyce Alvi

Happiness Happiness mean the well being of mind & emotion. Happiness is associated with different human emotions. These emotions could be defined as: pleasure,

contentment, cheerfulness, joy, joviality, jollity, glee, delight, well-being, enjoyment.

Factors Happiness is dependent of

some factors which are:A. Good healthB. Good personal and

intimate relationships like marriage, family and friendships.

C. The faculty for perceiving beauty in art and nature.

D. Reasonable standards of living and satisfactory work.

E. Attitude toward life.

Colors & Flowers

RED Red is the warmest and most

dynamic of the colors. It can increase a person’s

heart rate and make them excite. It is associated with “love & life”.

YELLOW Yellow is perhaps the most

energetic of the warm colors. It is associated with

“laughter, hope and sunshine”.

Colors add beauty to our lives while flowers make spaces more welcoming .

BLUE Blue evokes feelings of

calmness and spirituality as well as security and trust.

Seeing the color blue causes the body to create chemicals that are calming.

GREEN Green symbolizes

health, new beginnings and wealth.

Green is the easiest on the eyes.

Space & Senses Space

Space has a very real impact on how we feel. Neuroscientists and psychologists says that

aesthetics affect our decisions, emotional responses and the way we feel about ourselves and anything else.

Senses According to Professor Charles Spence, “what

you see can change what you hear, what you hear can change what you taste, what you taste can change what you feel”.

Five recognized senses of human plays a great role in relating a space to different emotions.

Landscape It refers to the visible features of an area of

land, the landforms and how they integrate with natural or man-made features.

Landscaping & Design Principles

Landscaping refers to any activity that modifies the visible features of an area of land, including: living elements, natural elements, water bodies and abstract elements.

Design Principles are: 1. Balance2. Focal Point3. Proportion4. Rhythm 5. Unity6. Variety

Types Of LandscapeHardscape

Hardscape refers to hard landscape materials in the built environment structures that are incorporated into a landscape.

 This can include paved areas, driveways, retaining walls, sleeper walls, stairs 

Softscape It’s opposite to hardscape. Mean

use of horticulture. The range of soft

landscape materials includes aquatic plants, semi-aquatic plants, grasses and herbaceous plants, shrubs and trees.

Xeriscape The landscape which is design to conserve water or

water efficient landscape. The word "xeriscape" is derived from the Greek

"xeros," meaning dry, and "scape," a kind of view or scene..

Elements of Landscape

Pedestrian Circulation

Pathways are at least 4 feet wide.

The width could also be measured by “pedestrian per minute or hour”.

Pools & Fountains Pools act as a focal point

in landscape. It has physiological

effect as sometimes use metaphorically.

It acts as climate modifier.

Plantation Some functions of plants are: Enclosure Privacy Shade Pollution Control

Plantation There are several

types of plants.I. Least Dense: Palo

Verde II. Less Dense: LarchIII. Moderately Dense:

Camphor Tree IV. Most Dense:

Norway Maple

Thank YouBe Happy!! Keep Smiling!!