Silk plants and trees are instrumental in helping a commercial architect or interior landscaper shape views in a variety of commercial settings. In this article we explore how silk trees competently and artfully frame and terminate views.
Framing Views
Commercial spaces are often large expanses with plazas and other open areas. From many points of view, these open areas can lack a visual center. Using silk trees as strategic framing devices can help focus the eye on an appealing area of a building, retail store, fountain, or other feature.
In order to determine a view to frame, find the areas in a commercial space that seem unfocused. Next, employ a framing aid. Use your hands like a movie director to conceptualize the view, or place your hands to the sides of your face to block your peripheral vision. Better yet, use a piece of paper with a rectangular center cut out and hold it at arm's length. If during this exercise you find interesting, perhaps abstract, architectural features that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise, you've got a winner.
With your framed view identified, choose from a variety of silk tree products in order to find a solution that works with the features of your commercial space. Trees come in a variety of textures, sizes, and forms that can compliment and enhance the view they frame - consider designing a theme with silk Palm trees. An Oriental Bamboo Palm tree, for example, very closely resembles a picture frame with its narrow foliage, height and perpendicularity.
Terminate Views
While walking through a hallway or corridor, the view is often framed by the termination point. What lies at the end of the tunnel, so to speak, can have a substantial visual effect on the people walking through it; a coarse or dull view can provoke in-kind feelings. While this may pass in some facilities, most commercial spaces prefer that their guests derive positive or stimulating feelings from their surroundings, which ultimately lead to favorable impressions and experiences.
As a commercial interior designer or manager of a commercial space, terminating views with silk trees is a simple, precise method for hiding unsightly viewpoints or enhancing those viewpoints. When you choose to take your terminated views up a notch, remember that tree species have different personalities and evoke a variety of feelings and emotions. Palm trees, for example, elicit a sense of calm and relaxation, while a Ficus tree, with it's bulbous foliage and slender trunk legs, can add a contemporary element to a more traditional building.