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Teaching‎ > ‎2009‎ > ‎

Studio 2: Site Planning and Design

Melbourne School of Design

Master of Landscape Architecture (300 pt), Semester II
Coordinator/Lecturer: Dr Scott Heyes
Tutor: Gary Lantzsch

Lines: Traces, Threads and Surfaces

The studio explored planning and design options for a linear site of some 3 kilometres at Doncaster Hill, Victoria. With support from the City of Manningham, and based on planning strategies for the region, the students generated a suite of sustainable and innovative concept designs for the site. The students gained a rich appreciation of the site by carrying out several site visits and by preparing a site inventory and analysis report for the site as a class. The concept designs that students generated were also based on a series of studio discussions and debates that surrounded two critical readings on ways of seeing the landscape. These were “Lines” by Tim Ingold (2005) and “The Elegant Universe” by Brian Greene (2003). The readings encouraged students to challenge the conventions of traces, threads and surfaces and how these ways of seeing, knowing and representing the land might be interpreted in the context of landscape architecture.

The work presented here is a selection of projects that the students generated for their final assignment, as well as maquettes that they produced as part of an investigation of the various traces, threads and surfaces of the site that resonated with the students during site visits. The concept designs that the students generated included: rain gardens, wetlands, water features, plazas, meeting areas, underpasses, land art installations, traffic control measures, street realignments, and lighting arrangements. Some of these projects are profiled on the City of Manningham website.

The Site Analysis and Inventory Report can be accessed here (PDF 9 Mb).

Above: Maquettes produced by the students for Assignment 1