LAR-12803 Design Studio 1: Fundamentals

Course

Credits 3.00

Language of instruction:

Dutch

Assumed knowledge on:

GRS-10806

Continuation courses:

LAR-22806

Contents:

This course introduces the basic principles of spatial design. In a series of lectures and design assignments students will relate to various design problems that occur in landscape design. The design problems vary from relatively simple aesthetic improvements of existing situations to rather complex design problems. Besides creative design assignments that trigger originality, some reflective and analytical design problems will stimulate a critical attitude towards design.
During the lectures a selection of essential design principles and methods will be taught and subsequently applied in short design assignments on various scale levels. Discussed design principles that relate to form, space, scale and time in landscape architecture are: repetition, sequence, balance, middle term, patterns, hierarchy and proportion. Design methods include different problem solving strategies, using design instruments such as scale models, drawings, schemes and pictures.

Learning outcomes:

After this course students are expected to: - have developed basic skills to approach various design problems;
- apply the discussed basic spatial design principles;
- have developed understanding of the nature and objective of intermediate design products such as spatial models and design sketches;
- be able to present their work clearly, convincingly and by argument with the use of spatial, graphic and verbal techniques;
- be able to critically reflect upon design results.

Activities:

- lectures;
- design exercises;
- reference studies;
- presentations and discussions.

Examination:

A3 portfolio holding the intermediate and final products of the design assignments.

Literature:

Loidl, H. and S. Bernard (2003), Opening Spaces: Design in landscape Architecture. Birkhäuser, Basel. Exercise book 'fundamentals of garden and landscape design'.