Residential Landscaping (HS 400)
6 credits (0-9-0) Fall, Spring
Preq: HS 211, 212, 342, LAR 430
Coreq: LAR 457
Course Description
The overall goal for HS 400, Residential
Landscape Design Studio, is for students to develop the
design skills
and sensibility to pragmatically solve spatial problems
in ways that add ‘magic’ to the lives of
users of the spaces. Students will learn the art of creating
meaningful and functional spaces that are based on client
needs and site requirements using the principles of sustainability
in a variety of landscape settings. The format of this
course is primarily concerned with giving students the
opportunity to evolved and strengthen their personal
design processes. To this end, the course will consist
of a series of design projects that will expose students
to the range of problems typically encountered in a small-scale
landscape design practice. While the emphasis in evaluating
these projects is concerned with students’ processes
and ideas, students’ drawings must look professional,
finished, and presentable to clients.
Course Objectives
Throughout the semester, students will:
- Further refine
site inventory and analysis skills—understanding
a site in terms of ecology, sociology, hydrology,
etc.;
- Learn how to create meaningful spaces using landform, structures,
plants;
- Develop skills for designing at a range of scales, from
small properties to estates;
- Develop skills for creative design for a range of budgets
by understanding how to calculate take-offs and estimating/phasing;
- Learn the art of interviewing clients and methods of obtaining
client information;
- Learn to create client-based and site-based designs;
- Refine their presentation skills, both verbal and graphic,
and know how to tailor them to specific clients; and
- Develop a way of communicating graphically that enhances
their design process and presentation.
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