Designing Green Spaces for Your Home
An Example Always Helps
A course by Kathrin Grimm , Landscape Architect
About the video: An Example Always Helps
Overview
“I will present you a garden that we made a few years ago and that exemplifies our design process in a quick and simple way. Pay close attention to its evolution. ”
In this video lesson Kathrin Grimm addresses the topic: An Example Always Helps, which is part of the Domestika online course: Designing Green Spaces for Your Home. Create your dream garden, whether on a terrace, on a balcony, or even indoors, taking into consideration the needs of your space.
Partial transcription of the video
“An Example Always Helps Now I’ll explain step by step the design process in this garden that we will show. This is a terrace in Mexico City. We found the terrace in this state when we first went to the site. As you can see there are trees in the background and these glass elements that the client wanted to mitigate or cover. For the first procedure, the client asked us to put flower pots in the space because they wanted to use this terrace to sit in the evenings. We put some palm trees here and different types of plants with different textures to soften this glass wall a bit. In this image ...”
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Course summary for: Designing Green Spaces for Your Home
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Category
Architecture & Spaces, Craft -
Areas
Floral & Plant Design, Landscape Architecture, Spatial Design

Kathrin Grimm
A course by Kathrin Grimm
Kathrin Grimm is a landscape architect who's passionate about and committed to nature and design. After earning a degree in landscape architecture at the University of California, she returned to Mexico and began working as a freelancer until she founded Aplenosol with two friends.
With more than 25 years of experience, she's designed private, public, and corporate gardens all across Mexico, displaying a genuine commitment to clients in all projects and, above all, to the nature she works with. As president of the landscape architects' association of Mexico, she's had the opportunity to lead two national congresses and two Latin American biennials on landscape architecture.
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