ENVD2130, Landscape Architecture Studio, 2nd Year Undergraduate
Project: Multi-Phase Ecological Programming, Walden Ponds, Boulder, Colorado USA
Students: Delaney Rockwell
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To ground this investigation, the studio proposes three assumptions about the nature of Landscape that stake out its particular zone within the field of design. The first is that Landscape has a unique relationship with the concept of Site. Landscape Architecture must engage in the particular qualities, characteristics, and potentialities of a given site. To do this, any operation that may count itself as engaged with Landscape must engage the particular seasonal, topographical, hydrological, and habitual agencies of a site.
The second is Landscape’s unique relationship to Program. Unlike Architecture, where program is controlled and specified, and urban planning, where specific programs are seldom expressed, Landscape allows for a unique emergence of program. In fact, it may be this particular fluidity and openness of program that defines Landscape as such.
A third assumption is its location in a middle range where Architectural thinking and working makes varying degrees of sense. At the smallest scales of landscape, that of the individual plot, ideas of proportion, symmetry, alignment, and program give way to the organic and fluid logic of micro-climate, growth, and decay. Conversely, at the other end of the scale range, that of the large park or parcel, Architectural thinking and organization cannot account for the multiple and variable conditions at play.
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