In this unit students will demonstrate their knowledge of Landscape Architectural Design. Landscape planning & design brings together the diverse range of knowledge and skills of landscape architects to address social & ecological problems on sites that range from the urban to the regional, the natural & the artificial, and at the different scales that suit them. In design studio students develop these skills and synthesise their learning from all their subjects, by applying them to real-world briefs, simulating professional practice. As students progress through the sequence of landscape design studios, their degree of difficulty & scope of projects increases and greater professional quality is expected of design project outcomes.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Engage with master planning and ecological theory to organise a large site;
2. Propose design solutions that operate at large and small scales;
3. Logically organise paths and roads in relation to landscape systems present on a site; and
4. Produce landscape masterplans and component detail plans that fit into them.

Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings

Skills development

All landscapes are the consequence of a myriad of relationships between the geology, water, vegetation, animals, weather, social norms and cultural values. The nature and balance – or lack of balance – in these relationships are important to understand if we are going to manipulate or rehabilitate the landscape.

In this studio students will use what they  learn about landscape systems to develop design and management strategies.  Through the studio project students  will demonstrate their  understanding for the value of the strategic approach and how it this is applied at various scales frrom the regional to the site specific. 

Students will build on knowledge of the tdesign process,  technology and plant material to develop an appropraite scheme.

Prerequisites

11883 Landscape Architecture Design 1 AND 11033 Landscape Architecture Design 2

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

9978 Design Studio 5

Assumed knowledge

None.