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-3- PRINCIPLE 4: Establish a Substantial Experience • Each man—made unit is capable of evoking an emotional image whose influence could cause one immediately to label it "peaceful" or "exciting" or "awesome" or whatever else might appear to fit. MATTERS OF CONCERN 4A. Effects of Lines, Forms, Textures, and Colors. Every material object, whether it be fence, shrub, trash can, piece of playground equipment, or body of water, exhibits line, form, texture, and color. That is, through these elements, all ordinary things have aethetic potential. It remains for the landscape architect to harness that potential in order to produce an emotional effect. 48. Effects of Dominance. To exploit their potential, the designer acts from an understanding that the aesthetic elements are never experienced alone, but in relation to one another. It is seldom that the pink bloom of a tree is disturbingly garish by its mere presence, but it may be if it clashes with nearby blues and yellows. Accordingly, the designer must contend with the qualities of all objects from every viewpoint as one might move about. There must be measures taken to see that the eye focuses on only material objects which have the dominant qualities and does not stray to things which radiate other expressions. 4C. Effects of Enclosure. The effects of enclosure are hardly ever • consciously appraised, but it remains that you are affected by being enclosed even though you may be absorbed in other pursuits. Appraise the impact of the sensations. Sit under the low hanging branches of a crab apple tree in an enclosed courtyard. Is it comfortable for retreat, meditation, subdued conversation? Then place your chair in the middle of a football field or, even better, the Bonneville Salt Flats if it is handy. Feel any difference? Now walk down a road flanked by Lombary poplars. Are you compelled to move forward? Afterwards, stroll into a flattened wheat field. Have you now lost the urgency to strike out in a definite direction? Finally, survey a panorama of rolling valleys laced with undulating brows of mature trees. Does a refreshing and uplifting feeling come upon you as your eye meanders through the animated volumes? Move down into the nearest glen. Are the intitial sensations retained?. PRINCIPLE 5: Establish an Appropriate Experience In site development, surmising that what exists is already understood and therefore accepted, the landscape architect strives to transfer the aesthetic qualities of that which is already present to that which he proposes for new construction. MATTERS OF CONCERN 5A. Suited to Personality of Place. Locations have personalities or pervasive moods which can be described as awesome, exhilerating, virile, • peaceful, etc. 5B. Suited to Personality of User. In the transition from old to new, creativity can provide certain twists which will ensure that, at. the same time, effects which reflect the personality of the user are interjected.