ABSTRACT
As sentences collect across a page or computer screen they make paragraphs. Major units of thought. As a line moves through space it inscribes a plane. Combined with vertical and overhead planes, ground planes become activity settings. Chapter 5 explores the three-dimensional attributes of planes as units of design and how they work together to direct movement and views and to provide settings in which people find the activities they anticipated. As definers of space, landscapes’ overhead planes are tree canopies and the sky. Both the sky and tree canopies bring with them tremendous variety. Brought together the planes introduce a three-dimensional quality that gives us landscape rooms or what can be called volumetric spaces. Chapter 5 brings readers to that point where they begin to consider not just volumetric spaces but sequences of volumetric spaces. This is a major step to realizing landscapes as narratives.
