Basics Designing with Water moves beyond water as a decorative gesture, addressing the technical and design logic that must be resolved before a single fountain or reflecting pool appears on any drawing.
About This Book
Water is among the most demanding elements in open space planning — responsive to gravity, climate, and infrastructure in ways that purely visual decisions cannot resolve. This volume in the Basics series confronts that complexity head-on, tracing the design process from the earliest concept stage through the practical questions of water supply, drainage, and treatment. For landscape architects and urban designers, it reframes water not as ornament but as a system requiring rigorous spatial and technical integration. Compact and direct, it is structured to support both students learning the discipline and practitioners who need a reliable reference for water-feature design.
Key Features
- 72 pages addressing the technical and spatial dimensions of water in open space design
- Published by Birkhäuser Verlag
What You'll Discover
- Why water must be considered a complete system — supply, drainage, and cleaning — from the earliest design stage, not added as a finish
- How the source and disposal of water shape spatial decisions in open space and landscape planning
- The relationship between technical infrastructure and the experiential qualities of water as a design element
- A structured framework for integrating water into architectural and landscape drawings with technical rigour
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 72
- Dimensions: 220 x 150 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783764386627
- Publisher: Birkhäuser Verlag
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Landscape architecture and urban design students, open space planners, and practitioners working with water features who need a technically grounded design reference.