I found it intuitive, however I couldn’t quite replicate the same outcome in hardline drawings and detail I’m used to in a documentation set. SketchUp layout – I am very familiar with the look of AutoCAD and have dabbled in Sketchup Layout. I use SketchUp during the initial design process as this helps the clients see what I’m thinking, and through a render (using the Podium plugin), or video (via Enscape), they can also see what the finished product will look like at completion.Īnything in SketchUp you would like help with using or finding? I would be lost without it, and I don’t know what I would be using instead. There’s lots of plugins if you ever encounter issues, you can typically search and there is normally somebody who’s created a plugin that solves that problem to help you out. It’s easy, intuitive, and if you don’t know how to do something you can usually find it on Google or YouTube. I’ve always had a lot of ideas in my head and although I’m OK at hand sketching, when SketchUp came out, it was so intuitive and such a great way to deliver ideas in my head to client, it was a no-brainer so I got on board and started to learn it. I can also see it through to construction, ensuring the design agreed upon is delivered. I stay in touch throughout the process with the relationship being very collaborative – or as collaborative as clients want it to be. These drawings are given to the contractors, with the right amount of detail so they can price the job correctly. The second part of my process is where I revert to 2D drawings to cover minor changes. When complete, I visit with my 3D flythrough to show the clients my interpretation of their vision and refine it after their input. The first part is to model my design in 3D with SketchUp. Once the client and I are on the same page, I launch into a two-stage process. I start with meeting both parties to gather as much information as I can to develop a project brief. It’s all about listening to what they want and me applying my experience to deliver a product. We go through a process where they tell me how they ideally want to live in a space and then I help them out with my professional skill set to deliver their vision. I think clients kind of know how they want to use the spaces before they meet with me, but it’s my job to help them get the most out of the spaces they have. When meeting with a client for the first time, do they generally know what they want, or do they rely on your input? Perhaps in hindsight I was always thinking of doing it on my own but didn’t know it. In the early days I didn’t give much thought to running my own busines, but as the years flew by I felt I’d perhaps become a bit stale so had to seriously think about where I wanted to be in 10 years’ time. In the first 12 months out on my own, I did do a bit of commercial work, but my main goal was to deal primarily with single residential projects, and today I complete between 35 – 40 projects a year, which is amazing. After 11 years Tristan decided to make the jump to go solo and he’s not looked back. Tristan’s first job with Blackwell & Associates Landscape Architects was as a commercial landscape architect and later moved to a design and construction company with Tim Davies Landscaping where he managed the design team as Principle Landscape Architect. TPLA, a boutique residential landscape architecture firm has been operating for just over 2 years now, but Tristan’s journey started in school, studying art, and later completed his Bachelor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Western Australia in 2002. Tristan Peirce Landscape Architecture, with sole operator Tristan Peirce is quite possibly a name you have heard of if you live in the Western Suburbs of Perth.
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