Landscape Design Studio 1A
Bachelor Year 1 Semester 2
Full portfolio available at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z4arrxVqjpanXX92oyOjyYUfCBSYipxp/view?usp=sharing
Course Introduction
This is an introductory design studio course, aiming to engage students in exploring creative process, spatial hierarchy, materiality, and conceptual development through a series of design exercises. The projects are closely related to the relationship between object and body, and seek to develop student’s knowledge of key landscape theories and concepts such as form, scale and proportions. This studio focuses on the use of hand drawn graphics and physical models as the basis of design communication.
Project 1 - Pre-position
Each student is given an everyday object that they can find in the space of Hong Kong. They are asked
to interact physically with it, and to record their interaction through photography according to a list of prepositions.
Intermediate project - Origami
Students are to first create a 3D object by using paper to fold, cut, and slot. Then they will acquire technical skills to make plan, section, and elevation drawings of their object by transforming the paper to a digital form using Rhinoceros.
Project 2 - Sitting Object
This exercise aims to engage students to learn about their own body and scale, and to design an
object that can serve an ergonomic function. The Rhino-modelled origami object from previous project will be modified to become a sitting object for one person.
Project 3.1 - Site
The goal of the exercise is to locate the sitting object to my assigned site plot, and to use the given site elements to help further modify and articulate the design of sitting object. Experiences of how someone may have while sitting on my object at this site is considered.
Project 3.2 - Walking
To engage in learning about landscape experience, students are to expand their study from their
own site plot (5x5m) to the overall project site (25x25m). Working with another classmate, a 20-40m section cutline that goes through my own sitting object and my partnering classmate’s is drawn. Experiential vignettes and collage are then produced to describe the walking journey and its quality of space.