Course overview
This studio provides opportunities for exploration of themes in contemporary landscape architecture including interrelationships with planning, ecology and infrastructure. The themes and sites will be ambitious in scale, including urban parks, post-industrial or urban renewal projects, consistent with effective consideration of the scale of ecological systems and the influence of planning policy. Models and digital modelling are typically emphasized in this studio. Students will also be introduced to extracting data using GIS software. Students will develop advanced integrated design strategies through site investigations, case studies and theoretical speculation. Advanced design resolution is required demonstrating critical application of strategic understandings to a specifically contextualised site.
Course learning outcomes
- Analyse landscapes as complex, dynamic and evolving phenomena using systems-thinking approaches.
- To demonstrate an understanding through design of topological, regenerative, and performative landscape architectural design processes.
- To apply knowledge and skills of digital technologies, advanced digital tools and techniques for the formulation of innovative design solutions.
- To demonstrate through design an understanding of the importance of applying an evidence-based approach to problem-solving and the value of multidisciplinary collaboration and environmental management.