Seeing the Landscape You Can Feel

Ever looked over the plans and drawings for your home? It’s a plan alright. But can you see a house in there? That’s how many customers feel when they first see the landscape plan designed by a professional. Prepared in the “bird’s eye” view, looking down on interlocking geometrical shapes shaded to distinguish hardscape from plantings, you have to convert each feature into an imagined visualization of how it would look if you were seeing it as-built and walking through it.

The design professional, using digital tools, can render your landscape plan in 3D perspective and full color. The images can rotate, you can zoom in or out along a path in the design. Working back and forth from plan to rendering, you see in the abstract an approximation of the design as built.

The next step will be especially exciting— a walk-through using virtual reality goggles, a much more realistic rendering of the plan, populated by guests in the world created by the design. At first, this is a dramatic immersion into a separate world. But here you have the opportunity to rearrange the plan features and find the best fit and harmony for you, personally.

This technology is rapidly changing but each step gives you a backward benefit. You can now easily visualize the features of a design plan document and guide the designer or choose options you prefer, secure in the understanding of how it will look to you and feel to walk it, all before it’s built.

Ask your design professional for a test drive. No helmet or seat belt is required! Our Reno/Sparks/Nevada Nevada area landscaping experts are here to help.  Get in touch or request a quote today.