Landscape Architecture Design 1 (11883.1)

Please note these are the 2024 details for this unit
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Landscape Architecture Design 1
Available teaching periods Delivery mode Location
View teaching periods On-campus
 Bruce, Canberra
EFTSL Credit points Faculty
0.25 6 Faculty Of Arts And Design
Discipline Study level HECS Bands
School Of Design And The Built Environment Level 2 - Undergraduate Intermediate Unit Band 2 2021 (Commenced After 1 Jan 2021)
Band 3 2021 (Commenced Before 1 Jan 2021)
This unit introduces Landscape Architectural Design. Landscape planning & design brings together the diverse range of knowledge and skills of landscape architects to address social & ecological problems on sites that range from the urban to the regional, the natural & the artificial, and at the different scales that suit them. In design studio students develop these skills and synthesise their learning from all their subjects, by applying them to real-world briefs, simulating professional practice. As students progress through the sequence of landscape design studios, their degree of difficulty & scope of projects increases and greater professional quality is expected of design project outcomes.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
1. Read a site and understand concepts of site specificity;
2. Undertake basic site analysis and generate a design suited to a site;
3. Schematically manipulate topography to suit landscape design; and
4. Draw conventional landscape drawings such as site & analysis plans to appropriate scales.


Graduate attributes

1. UC graduates are professional - use creativity, critical thinking, analysis and research skills to solve theoretical and real-world problems
1. UC graduates are professional - communicate effectively
1. UC graduates are professional - work collaboratively as part of a team, negotiate, and resolve conflict
1. UC graduates are professional - employ up-to-date and relevant knowledge and skills
1. UC graduates are professional - take pride in their professional and personal integrity
2. UC graduates are global citizens - communicate effectively in diverse cultural and social settings


Skills development

In this studio the skills students gained in first year B.E. Studios (or equivalent) will be used  interrogating the design problem, to annalyse the landscape and aadress how to manipulate the form and character of a site to appropriately develop a landsacpe scheme. At the completion of this studio students will demonstrate an understanding of how layout, scale, form and materiality are used to address the function, establish the landscape character and human experience. 



Prerequisites

Students must have completed 24 credit points of ABB201 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours) OR ABB001 Bachelor of the Built Environment (Architecture) OR ABB002 Bachelor of the Built Environment (Interior Architecture).

Corequisites

None.

Incompatible units

None.

Equivalent units

None.

Assumed knowledge

None.
Year Location Teaching period Teaching start date Delivery mode Unit convener
2025 Bruce, Canberra Semester 1 03 February 2025 On-campus Ms Gay Williamson
Not available

Required texts

Recommended reading and texts are provided on the Canvas site. These are regularly updated and added to.

Submission of assessment items

Extensions & Late submissions

Students will be required to print material and  pesent their interim and final submissions to a deisgn jury.

Artificial intelligence

Students are not permitted to use generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in assessments for this unit.

GenAI may only be used in authorised ways when completing assessments at UC. This means that GenAI can only be used for an assessment when:

  1. the Unit Convener has authorised GenAI use for that assessment
  2. the student uses GenAI in the way that the assessment instructions allow
  3. the student fully acknowledges their use of GenAI, with proper citations, references and a GenAI Acknowledgement Statement in line with the assessmentinstructions.

Where the assessment instructions do not specifically state that GenAI may be used and how, then its use is not permitted for that assessment. Students must still provide the required GenAI Acknowledgement Statement to indicate whether GenAI has or has not been used in the preparation of the assessment. If unsure, students should seek advice from the Unit Convener.

The GenAI for StudentsLinks to an external site. Library Guide provides further information, including how to reference GenAI.

Students must apply academic integrity in their learning and research activities at UC. This includes submitting authentic and original work for assessments and properly acknowledging any sources used.

Academic integrity involves the ethical, honest and responsible use, creation and sharing of information. It is critical to the quality of higher education. Our academic integrity values are honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility and courage.

UC students have to complete the Academic Integrity Module annually to learn about academic integrity and to understand the consequences of academic integrity breaches (or academic misconduct).

UC uses various strategies and systems, including detection software, to identify potential breaches of academic integrity. Suspected breaches may be investigated, and action can be taken when misconduct is found to have occurred.

Information is provided in the Academic Integrity Policy, Academic Integrity Procedure, and University of Canberra (Student Conduct) Rules 2023. For further advice, visit Study Skills.

Participation requirements

Students will be assessed on their participattion and engagement in the studio.  This participation will be evidenced in the exercises and tasks set for studio.

Required IT skills

Students will have basci wordprocessing and the computer aided drawing/representational skills (or equivalent) developed in first year  studios and visual communication units.

Work placement, internships or practicums

Not  Applicable