WALLS Elements of Garden and Landscape Architecture

Description

A systematic set of guidelines and an inspiring store of models for designers, builders, horticulturists, and landscape architects.
Walls are fundamental elements of garden and landscape architecture, defining borders, creating spaces, and providing protection. This book, organized by construction method, construction materials, and type of finish, introduces the rich design potential of this structural element, from traditional dry walls to works of land art.

CONTENTS

The Cultural history of wall construction

• Town walls
• Waterside walls
• Garden walls
• Walls in the cultural landscape
• Terraced walls
• Field walls
• Fortified national borders
• The Great Wall of China
• The walls of the Roman Empire
• The Berlin Wall
• The wall between Israel and Palestine

Design fundamentals

• Structural fundamentals
• The foundation
• The base
• Masonry
• Coping
• Expansion joints
• Planning basics
• Height
• Thickness
• Walls on a slope
• Legal concerns

Stone masonry walls

• Dry-placed walls
• Dry-placed walls of split blocks
• Dry-placed walls of boulders and river stones
• Rubble stone masonry walls
• Coursed masonry
• Mixed masonry
• Walls in the Edwardian style
• The Stuttgart School
• The stone masonry walls of Ian Hamilton Finlay and Andy Goldsworthy
• Walls of stone masonry palisades
• Walls of crust slabs
• Walls with stone masonry cladding
• Cemetery walls in Chur and Munich-Riem
• The Stuttgart IGA walls
• Kunsthalle Wurth in Schwabisch Hall

Concrete walls

• Surface design
• Three-dimensional design
• Structural advantages
• The crown
• L-shaped precast concrete walls

Clinker brick walls

• Clinker dimensions and wall size
• Jointing
• Wall base and coping
• Clinker walls in landscape planning
• Exposed masonry of sand-lime brick

Plastered walls

• Base and finishing coat
• Base
• Crown
• Causes of cracking

Walls with facings

• Steel
• Glass
• Wood
• Plants
• Hedges

Gabions

• Filling
• Advantages and disadvantages
• Design of exposed surfaces
• Applications
• Planted gabions

Rammed earth walls

• Earth as a building material
• Garden walls of rammed earth
• Construction details

Walls of recycled and similar materials

• Brickworks Park
• Walls of firewood and other materials

Standards for walls
Further reading

136 pages / 25 x 28 cm