Landscape Design 3: Advanced Site Design
Landscape Design 3: Advanced Site Design
ARCH X 471.2
An introduction to the design process utilizing mid- to large- scale public projects with an emphasis on computer-aided (3D) visualization.
Typically Available
Spring
Summer
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What you can learn.
What you can learn.
Apply formal organizational techniques covered in Design 1 and 2
Develop design processes using diagrams through drawings, photographs, and models
Review and critique of existing conditions leading to site specific responses
Develop an understanding of how program statements can build in complexity
Using context analysis, program analysis, and each individual's intuition, show how the development of a basic idea, organizing principals and diagrams guides your project
Explore the vertical dimension by encouraging designing in section and using three dimensional drawings
About This Course
This course introduces the landscape architecture design process, focusing on site analysis, programming and concept generation. It utilizes mid- to large-scale public projects. The course includes an in-person visit to a real, award-winning landscape architecture project that incorporates features similar to the class project requirements. Students develop proficiency in both traditional and digital presentation methods.
Assignments integrate digitally drawn hand graphics and computer-aided three-dimensional (3D) visualization, along with the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) assistance.
Digital tools covered include:
Morpholio Trace (iPad only, highly recommended)
Google Gemini (required)
Sketchup and Layout (required)
Twin Motion (recommended)
InDesign (required if Layout is not used)
Alternative programs like AutoCAD and Photoshop are acceptable, but a 3D modeling program is highly encouraged in the workflow. Final portfolios must showcase sophisticated, professional-quality presentations of plans and spatial renderings using an entirely digital workflow.
Assignments integrate digitally drawn hand graphics and computer-aided three-dimensional (3D) visualization, along with the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) assistance.
Digital tools covered include:
Morpholio Trace (iPad only, highly recommended)
Google Gemini (required)
Sketchup and Layout (required)
Twin Motion (recommended)
InDesign (required if Layout is not used)
Alternative programs like AutoCAD and Photoshop are acceptable, but a 3D modeling program is highly encouraged in the workflow. Final portfolios must showcase sophisticated, professional-quality presentations of plans and spatial renderings using an entirely digital workflow.
Prerequisites
ARCH X 471.1A Landscape Design 1: Site Design Basics; ARCH X 471.1B Landscape Design 2: Site Design; ARCH X 472.4F Design Graphics 3: Digital Rendering and Presentation Drawings. Working knowledge of a 3-D modeling or design software program. Certificate student in the Landscape Architecture certificate program.
This course applies toward the following programs
Landscape Architecture
certificate
certificate
Whether you want to design a national park, or a modest, water-efficient backyard, landscape architecture can give you the skills and abilities to change the places you live, work, and play for the better. The profession of landscape architecture is a multidisciplinary field that weaves together design, environmental systems, sustainability, construction knowledge—as well as land and water conservation—to influence place making, and to create designed outdoor living spaces.
Whether you want to design a national park, or a modest, water-efficient backyard, landscape architecture can give you the skills and abilities to change the places you live, work, and play for the better. The profession of landscape architecture is a multidisciplinary field that weaves together design, environmental systems, sustainability, construction knowledge—as well as land and water conservation—to influence place making, and to create designed outdoor living spaces.