Land Planning for Resid

“During the Land Use for Residential development studio, our class was tasked with learning how to develop sites in ways that we have not before. Taking Bioclimactic, ecosystemic, hydrologic, soil sciences, and other considerations into our designs to contribute to the overall outcome of the projects. These new challenges and ways to look at site and land planning helped us learn and grow to become more complete as Landscape Architects, and be able to not just create beautiful landscape designs but also develop neighborhoods and communities efficiently and effectively.”

-Zach Sannar

This year, the Land Planning for Residential Development studio was co-taught by our visiting professor Daniel Jost, who helped enrich the scope and insights of the course. The students were busy applying solar charts, and temperature tables, mapping their childhood explorations, making models, sketching on paper and their little electronic pads, and building their design and planning skills.

The Junior class had three projects: applying bioclimate design considerations in a small housing project, a short exercise in childhood neighborhood mind-mapping, and a design project of housing proposals for the southern part of the Cache Valley.