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RMIT Landscape Architecture / Semester 2 2011 / ARCH1347 LA Environments 2 / ARCH1160 LA Site Engineering Lecture Room
Wednesdays 9.30am-10.30pm 12.7.02
Tutorials Room
Wednesdays 10.30am-12.30pm 8.12.36, 38, 39, 41, 42, 43 and on site 567 Collins Street
Course Leader Marieluise Jonas Tutors
Judy Rogers / Nick Beer / Sophie Gustafson / Nano Langenheim / Adrian Marshall / Clare Hoy
note: this is a course outline, you can find your course guide on MYrmit/studies
Course Outline What? This is the major exercise which runs through Environments 2 and frames all assessment tasks. This assignment asks you to develop and produce planting project which you will design and run during the semester. Transform the city through your design - in real life. Why? Landscape architects work with a complex ever changing matter of space, time and the things that inhabit both. Landscape architecture is seen as a discipline bridging science and art, mediating between nature and culture - as an “expanded field”. Landscape architecture is neither art nor science, but art and science; it fuses environmental design with biological and cultural ecology. Landscape architecture aims to do more than to produce places for safe, healthy and pleasant use; it has become a forum for the articulation and enactment of individual and societal attitudes towards nature. Landscape architecture lies at the intersection of personal and collective experiences with (urban) nature; it addresses the material and historical aspects of landscape even as it explores nature’s more poetic, even mythological, associations. Landscape architecture design is subject to the actions of dynamic and unpredictable natural and cultural forces—the continual transformations produced by growth and decay, for example, or by changing patterns of social use and habitation.
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Everything is situated within a process - everything is in motion. Olafur Eliasson
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Understanding is key to working with these complex systems. It is necessary to have a strong perspective of both foundation and the parts, which contribute to and make up the complex system – the urban landscape. How? Through reflection and recursive practice, your documentation will reveal how your [planting] experiment affects the ‘environment’ and will help you to articulate your own position and attitude to ‘environment’. Design exercises, seminars, lectures, tutorials and workshops will assist you in formalizing your project through the semester but this project will be largely self-directed. In weekly tasks you will engage with your site that will help you to develop a strategy for your project. The project will give you the possibility to develop your own brief, work with your ideas for urban landscapes and test and implement them 1:1 in the city. Where? 567 Collins Street, Melbourne CBD.
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x. Course Objectives ppro a - To equip you with fundamental knowledge of landscape systems through the exploration of hydrological, vegetative and human systems. - To provide you with a core understanding of the elements of these systems, specifically water, plants and cities through applied design. - To enable you to apply the gained knowledge through lateral and critical thought in experiment, making and design.
Physics has found no straight lines – has found only waves – physics has found no solids – only high frequency event fields. The universe is not conforming to a three dimensional perpendicular- parallel frame of reference. The universe of physical energy is always divergently expanding (radiantly) or convergently contracting (gravitationally). Richard Buckminster Fuller Learning Outcomes CLUSTER 03 - To have a core knowledge of systems concepts and to understand the relationship and interdependencies between various systems. - To understand how these concepts vary by position in presenting multiple perspecCLUSTER 02 tives on the environment. - To possess a framework of systematic plant knowledge that can be applied laterally. CLUSTER 01 - To have the ability to use systematic methods needed to gain multiple perspectives, to have the ability to collect and analyse data, including observation, mapping, sampling e.g. - To develop critical thinking about embedded values and the consequences for design and people. Capability Development The course will equip students with the following design research skills: - Understanding and application of plant identification principles, systems of Latin nomenclature - Applied knowledge of planting design - Refined application and understanding of various mapping techniques in design context - Applied principles of water and plant systems in design context - Basic understanding of built water environments and their technical specifications - Time management and group work strategies - Academic reading, referencing and writing 3
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<< Site entrance Experiments / Intervention Don’t forget that you have to physically experiment and intervene on site. Your project can be a series of process-focused experiments or one project that you develop over the course of the semester. In both cases a rigorous documentation of your work is necessary. Be as creative as possible but consider the feasibility and ephemeral nature of your built intervention.
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Your design experiment / intervention might be: designing with plants, plants and systems, plants as ephemeral phenomena, plants as machines, urban micro scapes, productive urban landscapes, landscapes for encounter and contemplation, ... Plan ahead- where will you get plants and other material from- grow them? Source them? [Tree day, seed packages, sponsorship…]
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Course Assessment 01 site defining experiments/ mappings/ due in week 3/ worth 30% The aim for the first assessment is to produce a detailed, informed and innovative series of mappings which will inform a concise assessment of your site. In addition this design task will redefine your understanding of ephemeral qualities, emptiness and process of defining site through interaction. Task: Design and conduct a series of 3 experiments involving: Your experience of the site, the site, the things on site, the spatial capacity of things on siteâ&#x20AC;Ś Consider: What are you testing? How? What materials are you using to achieve results? Capture all outcomes, success and failure. Outcome: a series of maps/ models as specified in weekly tasks in designed pack.
02 the plant book/ due in week 9/ worth 40% This task asks you to examine plants on site in detail, though various aspects and to identify them. This is a challenging but rewarding task that will enable you to view the environment in much greater detail. Task: identify, describe, draw and document 30 plants on and off site. Outcome: your first landscape architecture design plant book as specified.
03 the design intervention/ due in week 12/ worth 30% This task asks you to produce a designed and process based site intervention that changes your understanding of what environment constitutes and demonstrates your ability to design with concepts of the ephemeral, site specifc, plants and process. Task: throughout the semester design, test and experiment on site - to transform it. Outcome: your first landscape architecture built design work. note: all tasks will be supported by weekly assignments! 5
SOAK / Anuradha Mathur + Dilip da Cunha
GROSS MAX / Garden for a plant collector
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Course Rules Conduct The course frames itself within a professional, dedicated, open and respectful learning environment. All students are required to contribute to the course through active teamwork, participation in discourse and to engage in a dedicated, respectful manner worthy of higher education standards. All relevant RMIT University policies will be applied to ensure a productive and dedicated learning and teaching environment for all students and staff. Any form of aggression or disruptive behaviour will not be tolerated under any circumstance. The policies can be found on the RMIT web site. CLUSTER http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=1db54sd7vspz [Student Conduct] 06
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Ephemeral Landscape Dr. Charles Andersson
Design with Plants: Systematic Jock Gilbert
Design with Plants: Native / Density Nano Langenheim / Nick Beer
Design with Plants: Complex Systems Dr. Marieluise Jonas
Mid Semester Break 29th August-2nd September
Wednesday 3rd August
Wednesday 10th August
Wednesday 17th August
Wednesday 24th August
Wednesday 31st August No class
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Design with Plants: Principles & Aesthetics Dr. Heike Rahmann, Melbourne University
Site Interventions as Research Sophie Gustafson / Marieluise Jonas
Designing with Resilience Judy Rogers
Wednesday 14th September
Wednesday 21st September
Wednesday 28th September
Wednesday 5th October
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Desiging with plants Experiment 05
Designing with plants Experiment 04
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Submit Assignment 02 on Friday 16th September
Field Trip Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne Field Trip Botanic Gardens
Wednesday 7th September Design Studio Mid Semester Presentations No class
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Working with the plant book task Nomenclature
Working with the plant book task Representing plants Photography and drawing
Working with the plant book task Identifying a strategy Modelling systematics
Submit Assignment 01 on Friday 5th August
Mapping Micro Site Conditions Water/ Wind/ Light/ Vegetation Experiment 03
Mapping Dynamic Sytems Circulation /Wildlife/ Water systems Experiment 02
Melbourne Water/ System and Catchments Phil Edwards Melbourne [TBC]
Wednesday 27th July
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Mapping Site Conditions Vegetation / Context Experiment 01
Tutorial/ Workshop 10.30-12.30
Course Overview Schedule + course outline Dr. Marieluise Jonas
Wednesday 20th July
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Lecture 9.30-10.30
ARCH 1160 LA Site Engineering / ARCH 1347 LA Environments 2
Schedule Semester 2 2011 Week Date
Workshop on site
Planting design 1:20 Plant list
Plan and section of design 1:50
Transsect Mappings Royal Botanic Gardens
Latin and English Names of the identified plants Draft version of the complete plant book
Draft Plan in 1:50 of plants Prints of photos of ALL plants
Research strategy for Plant Book
Detailed Site Plan in 1:10 individual or team plot Mapping the ephemeral
Systems Model Series (3) 1:50 Site and Individual plot Mapping Flow
Overall Site Plan in 1:100 with individual plot location in plan and section Documentation of your site
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Course Schedule