In this unit students will exhibit mastery of core skills 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. Synthesise a range of ideas from landscape architecture to develop a sophisticated design concept;
2. Produce an innovative and comprehensive design project of formal & material quality;
3. Demonstrate an ability to detail landscape elements in an interesting and professionally capable manner; and
4. Use a range of graphic tools to comprehensively represent an exemplary design project.

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. 

For this studio you will be responding to these relationships and proposing a deisgn brief and site response that explores the environmentatl and cultural relationships. 

 

Prerequisites

11884 Landscape Architecture Design 3 AND 11885 Landscape Architecture Design 4 OR
9978 Design Studio 5 AND 9982 Graduation Studio (Landscape)

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.