Architecture and Landscape: Design Studio

The studio focusses on the garden (domain) scale of landscape architecture, as the most condensed form of (the ontological complex) landscape. The design project takes an in-depth look at physical landscape space, notions of context and human experience, landscapes dynamics and change, and planting design. The site has delineated boundaries, a specific scope of transformation and clearly defined ownership and operation. Integrating site and context (geographical, historical, cultural etc.) into the design forms a central motif for the assignment. Knowledge, skills and stances are developed in interpretations of a given landscape, working with landscape processes, conceptual design thinking, elaborating a landscape architectural (domain) composition, articulating the relationship between concept, composition and design details, planting design and ethical dimensions of landscape architecture.

2D drawings and supporting visuals

Physical/digital 3D-model

Oral presentations

Written reflection

The design project is awarded a grade that is a whole or half number between 1.0 and 10.0. Students pass the course with a 6.0 or higher. With a grade below 6.0: students who presented assessable work during the course are allowed to do a repair to change the grade into a ‘pass’. The repair is unsupervised and needs to be completed within two weeks after the end of the course. For students with a grade below 5.0 a repair is not advised, because the chance of success is low.

When the repair is unsuccessful, the student needs to follow the entire course again. In this case we offer students the opportunity to retake the course during the summer period to avoid substantial delay in the study, since the Landscape Architecture track offers all courses of MSc1 and MSc2 only once per year. The student needs to contact the course coordinator in June to start planning for tutoring during the summer break.