Shaping the Landscape

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2013:

146 hours total

Enrolment into the 200- or 300-point Master of Landscape Architecture.

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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This subject explores landscape as three-dimensional design. Through a series of related design exercises it investigates and tests conceptual, metaphoric, structural and technical characteristics of landform manipulation and material application.

Aspects of site grading, earthwork manipulation and innovative use of materials will be explored, including their experiential, functional and ecological implications.

The importance of landform modelling to the design vocabulary of landscape architecture will be introduced, alongside fundamental principles of drainage, levels, surveying and representation techniques.

• Understand site grading and materials from functional, aesthetic and ecological perspectives
• Demonstrate an understanding of the technical aspects of landform manipulation and innovative use of material
• Understand and apply the representational techniques associated with designing multidimensional landforms
• Demonstrate critical thinking through design experimentation and making

Project work equivalent to 5000 words in total.

• An assignment equivalent to 500 words (10%) due in week 4.
• An design research assignment equivalent to 1500 words (30%) due in week 6.
• A final design project equivalent to 3000 words (60%) due at the end of semester.

Petschek, Peter (2008), Grading for Landscape Architects and Architects, Birkhauser.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• Correct use of technical terminology;
• Three dimensional conceptualisation and representation;
• Creative response to complex problems;
• Application of fundamental science and mathematics to problem solving.