11188 Landscape Architecture Studio 5
12cp; 8hpw (Autumn session): 2hpw (lecture), 6hpw (studio)Requisite(s): 11178 Landscape Architecture Studio 4 OR 11198 Landscape Architecture Studio 4
These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses.
There are course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.
Description
The studio is part of a year long focus on urban landscapes, complementing 11199 Studio 6 running in the spring session. In the context of these two studios, urban landscapes are understood as highly modified conditions in which the systems and processes particular to a given landscape have and continue to be compromised, to the detriment of all forms of life. In response, both studios creatively pursue innovative approaches to constructed ecologies in urban contexts, at a range of connected scales.
Studio 5 centres on the study of urban landscape form and human experience for a location in Sydney. This encompasses a concern for:
- urban grain and morphology (form, massing, development over time)
- typologies of open space and built form
- density of open space and built form
- permeability and connectivity (movement)
- street and block section
- interface and threshold conditions
- public/private designations/distinctions
- fabric: materiality, vernacular expression
- micro-climate
Through a process of immersion, students utilise desk and field based methods of observation, representation, and interaction to arrive at a detailed understanding of the studio's urban landscape and its human constituencies. This places an emphasis on the social relations connecting different stakeholders and the built environment in which they reside. Against this context, physical and programmatic proposals are developed that address the needs of a given stakeholder or group of stakeholders, improving the collective experience of their urban landscape.
Detailed subject description.