Landscape Design
Subject Code
HORT90034
Credit Points
12.5 points
Description
This subject covers:
- What is Landscape Design and Landscape architecture?
- An overview of the Landscape industry (designers, contractors, gardeners and their relationships).
- Landscape design principles and a sense of place.
- Melbourne?s garden history (including period house identification).
- An overview of garden designers, both contemporary and traditional.
- Briefs and client relationships to projects.
- The residential landscape design process (site analysis, schematic design and design documentation).
- Planting and materials design - use of form colour and texture.
Objectives
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Describe the design process from client brief through site analysis to finished design and design documentation.
- Communicate appropriate design solutions for different sites, resolving problems through this process.
- Outline professional responsibilities of designers and clarify the roles and needs of professional support.
- Discuss historical and contemporary gardens and their influence in design inspiration, including Melbourne?s garden history.
- Describe the design functions and aesthetics of different planting and materials used in landscape design.
Generic Skills Students will Develop
- Sourcing, interpreting and applying information from written and electronic sources to individual tasks.
- Use scientific and technical literature to answer specific questions.
- Time management and the meeting of deadlines
- Report on an experimental procedure using scientific conventions.
- Retrieval, from a range of paper-based and electronic sources, of information required to develop understanding of a topic, and the use of this information, with appropriate recognition, in report writing.
Mode of Delivery
On campus.
Contact Time
42 hours of lectures/seminars/workshops. In addition to face-to-face teaching time of 42 hours, students should expect to undertake a minimum of 120 hours research, reading, writing and general study to complete this subject successfully.
Assessment
An garden design portfolio proposal, equivalent to 1000 words 20% (due early semester), a garden design portfolio equivalent to 3000 words 60% (due end of semester) and a presentation of 15 minutes duration 20% (during semester).
Prescribed Texts
Nil
Subject Academic
Andrew Laidlaw
Landscape Architect
Melbourne Gardens Division
Royal Botanic Gardens
Dates
Commences: 29 February 2012
Week Nights: Wednesdays
Time: 6.00pm - 9.00pm
Saturday Site Visit: TBC
Term Break: 6 - 15 April 2012