You have named your transformation in Project 1. The name of your transformation is the metaphor that helps you “conceptualize” a design idea. In this project, you have to use the metaphor as the starting point to create a new piece of landscapes.
You can create any type of landscapes that transforms your metaphor. For, example, your new landscape can be a public plaza, a secret garden, a neighborhood park, a courtyard garden, or a natural landscape. However, people who visit your new landscape should be able to experience the feelings that are expressed by your metaphor. You can use any type of landscape vocabularies in your design, i.e., plants, topography, water features, texture, light and shadow, etc. Your objective is to create your new landscape project in a way that transforms your newly named metaphor from Project 1. In the process of your design work, your metaphor, as a form of concepts, will become a useful way for you to make design decisions, and to make the bridge between your ordinary way of talking about landscape and the professional language way of talking about the landscape.
It is important that you work on study model as the steps of shaping your new landscape. Be sure that you make the final model first, and then, based on your model, work on the graphic representation. There will be one graphic workshop (9/24 and 9/25) to help you with the drawing skills that you learned from LARC 140, but it is your responsibility to practice and polish. The dimensions of the landscape that you will construct will be one cubic foot, or larger. It is better to use architecture scale in this project. However, if you have to choose engineering scale, because the nature of your landscape, the scale of your project should be no larger than 1”=20’ in engineering scale.
Dates:
9/17, 18 (hand out assignment – decide the type of landscape you want to create)
9/22, 23 (in class exercise/scale, desk crit of study model)
9/24, 25 (graphic workshop)
9/29 – 10/7 (reading discussions, desk crits),
Presentation Requirements:
1) a diary of your concept emerging process
2) model of your landscape design
3) drawings of your landscape design (color rendering of 1 plan, 1 section/elevation, 1 one-point perspective, 1 axon)
Presentation process: pin up drawing, display design model and present the story of your concepts and design.
Grading criteria:
Creativity – 30%
Depth of analysis – 30%
Craftsmanship – 30%
Progress – 10%