Phase 05 — Concept design — print

Zoning diagram

Setting Out · Phase 05 — Concept design

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Upload your zoning diagrams

Photograph or scan every sheet — each blob named with its target area, the movement arrows, and the scale and date legible.

The diagrams you drew

Three minimum, each a genuinely different strategy — not three versions of one idea. Add a row for every extra sheet.

Diagram	The strategy in one line	Where the sheet or file lives

Scale you drew at

1:100 on A3 suits most blocks. Date every sheet — you will be drawing over these again in the next lesson.

Every function, and the space you gave it

Straight off your brief, plus the service list — bins, clothesline, storage, side access, plant and services. Nothing on the block is left white.

Function	Target area (m²)	Where it sits on the chosen diagram

The diagram you chose

Name it exactly as you named it above.

Why it beat the others

Two or three sentences. What each of the others did worse, and on what grounds — the bin walk, sun and shade, services, machine access, adjacency.

Material palette

Setting Out · Phase 05 — Concept design

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Upload your mood board

One image or PDF showing the whole board at once, so the repeating materials, colours and finishes are visible together.

Where does your mood board live?

A Pinterest board URL, a photo folder, a pinned-up sheet of prints. Somewhere you can go back to, not a memory.

What does the mood board actually show, once you look across it?

Name the materials, colours and finishes that keep repeating — and anything you thought you liked that only appears once.

Your written material palette, one row per element

Paving, walling, decking, edging, mulch, screening, furniture. Rates from a published list or a supply quote — say which.

Element	Material	Approx Perth rate	How it weathers here	Why it belongs with the others

Hydrozone plan

Setting Out · Phase 05 — Concept design

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Upload the hydrozone plan

The whole block coloured in, one zone per area with no gaps, boundaries following something physical, and each zone's area in square metres.

Your hydrozones, and the area of each

One row per zone. Areas in square metres, measured off the plan, not guessed from a photo — they are the input to the irrigation design.

Zone	What is in it	Area (m²)

Where the boundaries run, and what each one follows

A path, a mow strip, a wall, an edge, a change of level, a change of mulch. A boundary you cannot see is a boundary you cannot irrigate to.

The zone drawing — scale, date and where it lives

For example: 1:100 at A3, drawn 12 March, marked-up copy in the project folder.

Concept plan

Setting Out · Phase 05 — Concept design

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Upload the concept plan

The PDF, or a straight-on photograph of the tracing paper — whole sheet in frame, with the title block, north point and scale bar readable.

Where the drawing lives, and what you drew it with

File name and folder, or "A3 tracing paper over the printed base plan". Name the route — tracing paper, graph paper, Inkscape, QCAD, QGIS.

Scale and sheet size

As it appears on the sheet — "1:100 at A3". Work out that your block fits before you print, and print at 100 per cent.

What the title block says

Address, drawing title, north point (true north, not up the page), date, revision letter, and CONCEPT ONLY — NOT FOR CONSTRUCTION.

Every zone, resolved into a real shape

One row per zone from your zoning diagram. "Dining" becomes a 4.2 × 3.6 m paved rectangle, or it does not exist.

Zone	Shape and size (m)	Surface, structure or planting mass

Level changes shown, with top and bottom levels

Every step, wall, ramp and mounded bed, marked against your datum. A 900 mm drop drawn as one thin line is how it gets built without a barrier.

Circulation routes and their widths

In millimetres. About 1200 for a main path two abreast, 900 for a comfortable single path, 600 for service access only.

How the plan answers the brief

Take the brief point by point and say where each one landed on the sheet — and name anything you have quietly dropped.

How it respects the constraints plan

Soakwell lids, inspection openings, easements, Water Corporation clearances, KEEP trees, R-Codes minimums. Nothing drawn over any of them.