Landscape Architecture Lower Pool s2 2012 All

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Lower Pool Studios – Semester 2, 2012

15/50/500 – Matt York

New Frontiers – Anke Schmidt

Campus City Hanoi – Thierry Kandjee & Petra Pferdmenges

Compound – Briget Keane

Emotional Place – Miki Mitsuta

In the Shadows – Rhys Williams

Plexus – Ed Silveira & Niki Schwabe

How the West Won – Leanne O’Shea & Astrid Huwald

Close Encounters (third) – Scott Mitchell and Saskia Schut

Araucaria Cottage Garden Design – Jane Shepherd

Swell – Rob Roggema

We have a 1 hectare parcel of land zoned public open space. This parcel abuts a proposed medium density site that will contain either lots per hectare, lots per hectare or lots per hectare. This will bring somewhere between 60-2000 residence, all relying on our 1 hectare parcel for different reasons.

15/50/500 will investigate the range of forces presented to our site from each housing density, and how Landscape Architecture could respond. What is the role our your 1hectare parcel, how does it cope, what is prioritized and what is denied, what is the value of this landscape?

We will investigate through site inspection, model making, hand drawing over CAD base, use of section and plan. We will review cost as a design parameter.

You will be asked to consider the role of our 1 hectare space given the different housing (population) densities presented, you will be required to formulate a design proposition for the site, and present a design (for each density) that responds to your proposition.

You will employ landscape as the medium of responding to your proposition (a piece of string is how long?).

This is an intensive studio delivered between weeks 1 and 4. Final presentation will be held in week 7.

15 50 500

15/50/500

CLASS TIMES:

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE. LOWER POOL INTENSIVE STUDIOSEMESTER 2 2012. TUTOR. MATT YORK

WEEK 1: TUESDAY 17 JULY-FRIDAY 20 JULYWEEK 2: TUESDAY 24 JULY-WEDNESDAY 25 JULYWEEK 4: TUESDAY 7 AUGUST-WEDNESDAY 8 AUGUSTWEEK 7: PRESENTATION

Storylines for future metropolitan Melbourne

// Background Cities all over the world change as Melbourne and its growing metropolitan areas do. This studio aims to address the case of peri-urban areas within the metropolitan region of Greater Melbourne and the ongoing processes of trans-formation and change. New land use and settlement patterns, growing transportation infrastructure as well as new large-scale industrial areas have transformed former agricultural land and natural landscapes. Peri-urban areas are the result of dynamic spatial processes with a multitude of stakeholders, institutions and actors involved. Hence, designing future (sustainable) landscapes re-quires comprehensive understanding of the human use and processes that have formed our urban environment nowadays. These processes take place against the background of climate change and the need for more sustainable adaptation approaches.

Who is involved in the the new frontier? What are the specific potentials of the peri-urban within metropolitan areas? What are design visions for future peri-urban patterns?

// Approach Designing new ways of interaction between different stakeholders and the landscape will lead to productive scenarios for the fringe. Starting point of the design process will be creative site-explorations with interviews, mapping time-space relationships, portraits of stakeholders and daily networks to unfold vernacula knowledge, hidden spatial potentials and talents. Individual / group research and design periods alternate with group discussions and inputs. Areas / routes of investigation will be collectively selected at the beginning of the studio. Three phases structure the continuous design research process and focus on different aspects. // Outcome Atlas of protagonists and spatial potentials The studio will introduce methods for a design practice that uses the perspectives and knowledge of different protagonists / stakeholders to inform the design process. Results of the research expeditions will be portraits of spatial patterns of urban lifestyles and mappings of spatial characteristics. The results will be the starting point to develop design proposals for the future of the peri-urban fringe.

Metropolitan storylines Design proposals show ideas for future lifestyles and concepts for new peri-urban patterns and interac-tions within the metropolitan area. They will be developed and described through visual-narrative methods based on storytelling approaches.

// lecturer Anke Schmidt is an architect with her own office landinsicht based in Hannover, Germany. Within office project and research as part of the STUDIO URBANE LANDSCHAFTEN, a transdisciplinary research, teaching and pactical network she works on strategic designs for riverslandscapes, infrastructural improvements, large-scale regional developements. Visual methods such as drawings, mappings and more, play a key role in finding ideas, concepts and strategies.

// Classes workdays from 1rst October - 26th October from 9:30 - 16.00

„..In some ways, the Zwischenstadt (cities without cities)

is a „new frontier“ – the last stretch of wilderness bet-

ween the culture of the city and the cultivated coun-

tryside, a space for new and unadapted lifestyles and

patterns of work, a place where people can still tinker

and try out new ideas without promptly being subjected

to tight bureaucratic controls.“

Thomas Sieverts

Lower Pool Design StudioAnke Schmidt, landinsicht // STUDIO URBANE LANDSCHAFTEN, Germany

... bewirts

chaftet eigene, aber auch zu

gepachtete Flächen in

integriertem Anbau. D

en Hauptteil se

iner Ernte verkauft e

r über

die Genossensch

aft Elbe Obst u

nd einen Teil a

m Straßenverkauf.

Eigentlich ein Einmannbetrie

b engagiert er fü

r die Ernte zu

sätzlich

Erntehelfer, die vo

n Juli b

is Oktober auf se

inem Hof wohnen. D

er

Betrieb ve

rfügt ü

ber ein eigenes CA-La

ger und eine Sortie

rma-

schiene, die auch andere Bauern mitnutze

n. Er investie

rt ständig

in neue Technologien, w

ie Hagelnetze fü

r die Kirsc

hen zwecks

ständiger O

ptimierung des O

bstproduktionsprozesse

s.

Er ist als D

eichgesch

worener im Deich

verband aktiv und M

itglied

im Obstversu

chsring, w

ie auch der Vertri

ebsgenossensch

aft Elbe

Obst.

... er m

öchte gute Produktionsbedingungen (Boden- und W

asser-

verhältnisse) fü

r den Apfelanbau und in Altlä

nder Traditio

n seinen

Hof erhalten und bewirtschafte

n.

Der ApfelProduzent

... arbeitet seit einigen Jahren in der Stadt bei ElbeSediment, dem

öffentllichen Betrieb der Region zum Sedimentmanagement und

-vertrieb. Zweimal in der Woche kontrolliert er vor Ort die Strom-

bauwerke, misst die Wasserdurchlaufgeschwindigkeiten und

Sedimentmengen, die dann mit der betriebseigenen Flotte in das

neu errichtete Sedimentwerk im Hafen transportiert werden. Er

besucht dann auch immer den Verbandvorsitzenden der Muschel-

züchter, die wichtiger Teil des Sedimentmanagementsystems sind.

Auf dem Rückweg gönnt er sich gerne eine Portion gekochter

Elbe-Muscheln, die in einer der vielen kleinen Restaurants auf den

Pontonanlagen angeboten werden. Beim Essen beobachtet er die

sich ständig verändernde Wasserlandschaft. Dann denkt er an die

Erzählungen seines Großvaters zurück, der vor 50 Jahren hinter

dem Deich noch den Obsthof von seiner Familie übernommen hat

und dann zu einem der Pioniere der Tidebewirtschaftung wurde.

>> der SedimentManager

... arbeitet für die Umweltbehörde Stade und den Unterhaltungs-

verband 2.Meile. Er kümmert sich um die Gewässer 2. Ordnung im

Alten Land, ihre Bewirtschaftung und Pflege - die Wasserstände,

Pumpleistungen und Verschlickung der Flüsse. Gleichzeitig ist er

ökologisch interessiert und engagiert sich für die naturnahe Gestal-

tung der Bewässerungsteiche. ... er möchte den Unterhalt und die Pflege des Wassersystems

möglichst effizient und kostensparend gestalten und ist an Neue-

rungen und Optimierung interessiert.

Der PegelstandsBetreuer

... hat eine Wohnung in einer der seit den 2050ern entstandenen

Storchensiedlungen im Alten Land gekauft. Als Freiberufler arbeitet

er zwei Tage in der Woche von dort, die anderen Tage pendelt er

mit dem Regionalbus und der Fähre nach Hamburg. Abends isst er

mit seiner Familie im Gemeinschaftsgarten mit alten Apfelbäumen,

der vom Obstbauern betreut wird.

Oft geht er noch mit seinen Kindern entlang eines der Entwässe-

rungsgräben mit breiten Blühstreifen bis zum Windrad, das die

Energie für die Pumpen liefert.

>> LandLiebhaber

Nachdem das Alte Land 2030 zum temporären Flutentlastungs-

raum für Hamburg erklärt worden war, hat der Teichinnovator

auf überflutungs- und salzresistente Bewirtschaftungsformen in

Kreislaufwirtschaft umgestellt. Er züchtet nun Algen in großen Be-

cken, die einen Teil der Apfelanbauflächen ersetzen und hat einige

Fischteiche. Mit dem Aushub der Teiche wurden Warften für den

Apfelanbau und neue Häuser aufgeschüttet. Die Bewirtschaftung

erfolgt in effizienten Kreisläufen: mit Fischgülle werden die Pflan-

zen gedüngt, die Energie zum Betrieb der Fischteiche wird über

Windanlagen gewonnen.

Fische und Äpfel gehen an den Großmarkt in Hamburg, die Algen

an die genossenschaftlich geführte Kosmetikfabrik in Finkenwer-

der, die wiederum mit Wellnessbauernhöfen zusammenarbeiten,

die ihre Kunden mit regionalen Algenprodukten und -Anwendun-

gen locken.

>> der TeichInnovator

Nachdem das Alte Land 2030 zum temporären Flutentlastungs-

raum für Hamburg erklärt worden war, hat der Teichinnovator

auf überflutungs- und salzresistente Bewirtschaftungsformen in

Kreislaufwirtschaft umgestellt. Er züchtet nun Algen in großen Be-

cken, die einen Teil der Apfelanbauflächen ersetzen und hat einige

Fischteiche. Mit dem Aushub der Teiche wurden Warften für den

Apfelanbau und neue Häuser aufgeschüttet. Die Bewirtschaftung

erfolgt in effizienten Kreisläufen: mit Fischgülle werden die Pflan-

zen gedüngt, die Energie zum Betrieb der Fischteiche wird über

Windanlagen gewonnen. Fische und Äpfel gehen an den Großmarkt in Hamburg, die Algen

an die genossenschaftlich geführte Kosmetikfabrik in Finkenwer-

der, die wiederum mit Wellnessbauernhöfen zusammenarbeiten,

die ihre Kunden mit regionalen Algenprodukten und -Anwendun-

gen locken.

>> der TeichInnovator

CAMPUS.CITY HANOIexploring experimental design methods on how knowledge society can inform the city

Tutors:

Thierry Kandjee is a landscape architect co director of Taktyk, lecturer in ENSP Versailles, editor and state ad-viser, based in Brussels. His research investigates the notion of landscape skeletons as the construction of socio spatial and geopolitical frameworks.Taktyk is a transnational multidisciplinary practice that engages in city making through practice, research, design studio, editing and art installation. Our field of operation is the metropolitan condition, from diffuse to compact urbanity. Responding to heterogeneous and com-plex challenges in the intersection of landscape, infrastructure and the city, the practice acts as a conduc-tor, curator, and mediator of complex transformation processes. Projects range from the design of public space, city campus strategic plan, urban renewal, post- industrial/agricultural scenarios to prospective studies

Petra Pferdmenges is an architect running the research-based practice Alive Architecture (www.alivearchi-tecture.eu). The multidisciplinary platform reclaims the public role of designers by making social challeng-es explicit through unsolicited projects. Since 2010 the approach is developed further through a PhD (de-sign research @ Sint-Lucas Architectuur & RMIT Melbourne). Petra Pferdmenges teaches design & theory at Sint-Lucas Architectuur & at the ULG. Previously, Petra worked for five years in renowned architecture offices throughout Europe (Edouard Francois in Paris, Josep Llinas in Barcelona, Architecten Cie in Amsterdam and ARJM in Brussels) after having completed the International Master in Architecture at the TU Delft, Netherlands.

.

27.08. - 07.09.2012 Intensive workshop in Hanoi, Vietnam17.09. - 12.10.2012 Communication of outcome through Campus magazine

Costs: +/- 1.300$ (flight 800$ + accommodation/food 500$)

for inscription please send an email to [email protected]

CAMPUS.CITY HANOI seeks for 16 ambitious studio participants (Under-graudates of Landscape Architecture & Architecture 1/2 ) to investigate how knowledge society can inform the city through experimental design methods. Over an intensive workshop in Hanoi we will investigate differ-ent infrastructures to design scenarios for the city’s future RMIT Campus. In week one each of the infrastructures will be explored through two teams of two students: One team applies a tactical method by designing and re-alizing educative actions in / along the given infrastructure. The other team applies a strategic method by designing processes in / along the given in-frastructure. In week two the two teams will join their findings to inform a future scenario for the campus city. Back in Melbourne we will make and publish a campus newspaper in order to communicate the outcomes of your projects. Besides the mappings, images of actions, collages and final scenarios developed in the workshop each student will write a reflective ar-ticle on the applied method and / or outcome to nourish the publication.

for information contact [email protected]

COMPOUND

+ Theoretical positionThis studio takes as its starting point that ‘environment’ is a fl uid condition - one that fl uctuates materially, qualitatively and quantitatively. The site is seen as the laboratory within which we will question and reconfi gure the material relationships through ground over time.

+ Techniquesthe notion of compound requires an understanding of the behaviour of the existing conditions and the development of a strategy for compounding. There are two key techniques that will be used to do this;1. observation of material performance2. reording device

+ ToolsThe studio will focus on model making and drawing, where the act of making is seen as a means to producing knowledge.

Two defi nitions of ‘model’ will form a framework to oscillate between the abstract and physical:a. As a means to question, hypothesise and abstract,b. The physical act of making, with physical limitations, failures and material performances that are non-abstract.

+ OutcomesFrom your understanding of the formation of the landscape over time, you will generate a set of formal structures that reorder the existing landscape. This will be demonstrate through a complete drawing set + associated models.

+ Structure:Workshops: Fridays 9.30-3.30pmTutor: Bridget Keane

compound1. To combine so as to form a whole; mix.2. To produce or create by combining two or more ingredients or parts.

Emotional PlacePhysical places reinforce and amplify certain emotions and intertwine our mind with memory and desire. Through our visceral connection to the outer world, minds make sense of our own existence. The studio explores a concept of form, meaning and metaphors as well as the infl uence of physical experience on our minds and memory. In studio tasks, students are asked to design with steps, slopes or both to work on visitors mental landscape and leave a strong impression and memory.

Broader issue: Form making, topographic exploration, landscape pattern & perception

Theoretical position: spacious quality & emotion, Form, meaning & metaphors, design through programming, pattern recognition, projection of bodies and minds onto landscape, landscape imagination & visualization, use of digital media in landscape

Techniques:Quick tasks for design exploration, hybridized and composite diagram, graphic design

Tools:Physical models (compulsory) and 3D software (optional), site visit

Readings: Recovering landscape / James Corner, editor (Princeton Architectural Press 1999), Spatial Recall � Memory in architecture and landscape � / Marc Treib, editor (Routledge 2009), The Meaning of the Body / Mark Johnson (The University of Chicago Press 2007), Theory in Landscape Architecture / Simon Swaffi eld, editor (University of Pennsylvania Press 2002),Taking Measures Across the American Landscape / James Corner, Alex S. MacLean (Yale University Press 1996)

Key precedents:Holocaust Memorial in Berlin ‘Topography of Terror’ (Peter Eisenman), Barcelona BotanicGardens (Carlos Ferrater & Bet Figueras), Yokohama International Ferry Terminal (FOA),Lovejoy Fountain Park (Lawrence Halprin), Nicholas Felton (Graphic Design)

Outcomes:Two graphically designed booklets (steps and slopes), two landscape designs (steps & slopes) for Site A, a fi nal design for Site B and an associated hybridized and composite diagram.

Tutor: Miki Mitsuta

1. AIM

This studio will investigate the condition of shade as both a landscape phenomenon and design concern. Through the use of an experimental design process it aims to arrive at a typology (classification) of distinctly landscape architectural approaches to the condition’s design.

2. BROADER ISSUE

The provision of shade in public landscapes is typically regarded as a utilitarian matter: its provision being driven largely by practical, rather than poetic concerns.

At its best it is typically the product of coincidence, its existence determined upon the results of design moves deemed of greater importance, or, at its worse, the unintentional outcome of untested ideas. In approaching its definition one walks a fine line between creating too much or too little: the plunging of a place into the physical and psychological margins of the city, or, the creation of a celebrated locus for individuals and groups seeking respite from the sun.

3. THEORETICAL/teaching POSITION

This studio will experiment with an approach to design teaching that aims to assist you in productively occupying the curious conceptual and physical distances that exist between a pre-existsing site and a design proposition. In doing so, the studio employs a process of designing that responds to the following questions:

How do landscapes ‘perform’?

How are we to learn about what landscapes do?

How can such an understanding inform design decision making?

How can we simulate, with accuracy and control, a landscapes’ performance through design representations (e.g. drawings and models)?

These questions respond to a series of interests that the studio deliverer is currently exploring in a landscape architectural doctoral project at RMIT.

4. TECHNIQUES

In the pursuit of designs for shade that are distinctly landscape architectural the studio will focus on working ‘with’ and in relation to fundamental aspects of the medium of landscape and the pre-occupations of landscape architecture; these include, but are not limited to: topography, vegetation, aspect, exposure, composition, and circulation.

5. TOOLS

The studio places an emphasis on 2 and 3 dimensional modes of working for the purposes of observation, description and analysis, conceptual inquiry, design development, and critical reflection upon the studio itself. Alongside orthographic drawing, sketching and photography, the use of physical scale modelling will be dominant. Approaches to the use of these representational modes will form a taught component of the studio.

6. OUTCOMES

a. Shade: a typologyVisual documentation accounting for the ‘peformance’ of shade as it is found in designed and ‘non-designed’ environments across Melbourne.

b. Shade: designs onVisual documentation of itterative design investigations exploring your landscape architectural approach to designing shade.

c. Shade: a revised typologyDiagrammatic and written reflection on the studio’s design outcomes in the context of the findings of exercise a. Shade: a typology. 7. SCHEDULE

Duration: 9 week semi-intensive studio.

Days: The studio will run on Tuesday (6hrs) and Friday (3hrs) - times to tba.

RMIT LOWER POOL DESIGN STUDIOLANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURESEMESTER 2 2012

IN THE SHADOWSLANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNS ON SHADE

A studio led by RMIT PhD candidate: Rhys Williams

Any questions about the studio can be directed to: [email protected]

Where + WhyThis studio’s laboratory is situated in the suburban laneways of Brunswick and Coburg - a hotbed of contested development, local pride and creativity. Moreland City Council is founded on conventional principles of zoned stability and assumed permanence of development projects with an emphasis on engineering solutions. Unexpected ephemeral conditions, blurring of boundaries and urban forms that are rich in complex landscape systems are seen as chaotic, costly and erroneous. Such conditions are routinely erased, filled, levelled, undone – normalised. The shortcomings of this approach recently came to light with the public outcry over failings of the councils Right of Way (ROW) policy. The studio will be conducted in view of this public protest and media attention.

Students are required to respond to this approach by applying principles of flexibility, dynamism and adaptation to their design process.

What + HowThe studio embraces change as a given condition. Emphasis therefore is placed on the catalytic power of dynamic responsive systems of urban design over the convention of fixed-vision master planning. Throughout the studio, students focus on the ongoing development of suburban laneway infrastructure driven by dynamic productive processes and associative analogies such as electronics, knots, plumbing... ; a landscape design based evolution of the laneway. It seeks to understand the extent to which analogy is an effective tool in the development of hybrid and flexible design propositions. Through a structured framework of design tasks, students are introduced to techniques of taxonomic categorisation, dynamic modelling, representational drawing and social media (blogging) to identify, describe and represent the ecologies that continuously evolve and shape the laneway and its immediate context. Through this process, students develop skills to critically engage with analogy as an effective design structuring technique.

Taxonomies become the primary vehicle for associating the analogous language with moments in the laneway network, representing the connections explicitly. The taxonomic ‘collections’ will be a structured compilation of image, small working models and diagrams. The taxonomies will evolve with the project as hybrid situations begin to emerge through the introduction of scenarios.

As the semester unfolds, students must re-make site using a language appropriated from another discipline. At two points during the course of the semester, an unexpected future scenario is layered onto their proposals requiring that they reconsider site and adapt their language and design propositions accordingly.

Using the taxonomies, students will intervene in the laneway through a series of design propositions communicated at various scales in plan, diagram, section and collage. Plan is the primary medium for describing the system. Students are required to work on a base plan at 1:2000. This encompasses the entire site and provides a consistent scale to apply scenario inputs over the course of the semester. Students are required to determine appropriate drawing scales to refine and communicate their proposals at smaller scales of operation. There will be a strong emphasis on high quality hand drawing throughout the semester.

Location + Time

Tuesdays 1.30 - 4.30pm Building: 45 Lv: __ Room: __

Fridays 1.30 - 4.30pm Building: 45 Lv: __ Room: __

Who?Ed Silveira (MLA)

+Niki Schwabe (MLA)

P L E X U S R e i m a g i n i n g S u b u r b a n L a n e w a y I n f r a s t r u c t u r e

How the West was won Leanne O’Shea, Astrid Huwald

The Land Grab currently under way in Wyndham City is the greatest in Victoria, the relentless expansion of tract housing into the Western Plains surrounding Melbourne requiring, on average, a new Kindergarten in the Shire every 2 weeks! The Impetus for this studio came from a request from the Wyndham City Council Community Strengthening Officer for ideas and input in remediating largely dystopian residential and commercial built environments. This studio is an ideas testing workshop/ partnership with the Council, and will be asking what role can Landscape Architecture as a discipline play in the creation of community resilience and cohesion? To answer this, specifically, the studio will examine the following: PLACE- MAKING / RE-CLAIMING ( reconfiguring) PUBLIC SPACE , via development of strategies to create visual and spatial coherence , with an emphasis on breaking up the visual and physical dominance of the car. RESILIENCE: (1) climate change, water scarcity: creation of permeable landscapes/harvesting, storage, re-use (2) Edible landscapes as part of re-localisation of food production / local networks (3) Climate change: higher summer temperatures: creation of cooling/ transpiring landscapes where Landscape Architecture plays a major role in passive solar strategies for conditioning built structures.

(4) Fire retardant landscape creation as a response to the fact that there are no mitigating structures / features between new housing and vast tracts of grass-land in fire sectors. (Note, species selection wise, the demands of 2, 3, 4 above tend to neatly overlap) (5) Public space as an opportunity for all the above (1, 2, 3, 4) to support and create community and social cohesion.

Theoretical Position

The studio will engage systems ecology strategies and analysis and urban design analysis and strategies, necessary to translate broad – scale issues to site specific spatial outcomes.

Techniques & Tools

● Grasp of broad scale issues : interpretation of systems analysis through mapping exercises ● Grasp of broad scale urban design issues : issues analysis and mapping exercises ● Scalar thinking: constant cross referencing between 1: 10,000 mapping, 1: 200 plan, section and 3d image:

no plans to be drawn in isolation as a studio discipline! ● Spatial understanding to be underscored by extensive use of 3-d modelling, models photographed to gauge

solar geometry/passive solar performance of design.

Close Encounters (third) KIND

withScott Mitchell & Saskia Schut

Broader issueThis studio contemplates the “wilderness” within the domestic environment, as something of an everyday occurrence. We will be developing research strategies and design outcomes that orchestrate an encounter between “human” and the “other” in order to develop complex understandings of “nature”.

Theoretical positionWe are drawing on two main bodies of thought. One is the conceptualisations of nature from the romantic movement through to contemporary understandings such as “subnatures”, the Third Landscape (Clement), “corrupted biotopes” (Roche). The second is from Elizabeth Grosz’s theory on the body as the central organising site through which encounters are ordered as a way to challenge the basis of Cartesian space that presents a disembodied vision.

Tools and TechniquesWe will be exploring several methods of recording and designing (including film/photography), drawing, modelling and 1:1 encounters to enable a deep immersion into site and into the “other”, as well as to develop an understanding of “creative practice”.

Scale and OutcomeWe will be compiling a catalogue of ongoing research and design over the semester that includes:* a design that orchestrates an “encounter” within your own domestic environment * researching and designing empathy for the “other”* researching and designing notation for “human” and “other” patterns/movement

Tuesdays 1:30 - 4:30pmFridays 1:30 - 4:30pm

Goldfield Studio:

araucaria cottage garden design

lower pool landscape architecture studio by jane shepherd

class times: tuesday afternoons and friday mornings / sometimes all day fridays

studio site and fieldtrips: Maldon: 140 kilometres north west of Melbourne accessible by train & bus/steam train

This is a garden design studio. We will explore how to draw from the histories of garden design to create new gardens of delight. The site is a 1/3 acre with a weatherboard miner’s cottage, a few established trees and lawn. It is located in the historic township of Maldon, 140 kilometres north west of Melbourne. Outcome By semester’s end you will have produced a garden design including planting and contour plans, sections and images of your proposal. In addition, you will produce a book that documents your proposals throughout and at the conclusion of semester. The garden has recently been surveyed and a CAD contour and feature plan produced for your use. Method and structure In the first half of semester we will use particular design periods/themes for generating contemporary concepts. Examples include:

• Theatricality of High Victorian including a visit to Ripon Lea ; • Rococo rocks & the grotto: Maldon and district is a geologically

rich area with some beautiful examples of stonework in everyday infrastructure- we will visit a local stone supplier;

• Arts and Crafts through to new perennial planting movement; • Australian bush garden to the indigenous movement.

At mid semester you will select one of four ‘client briefs’ and prepare a concept for that client. Each client will have an interest in differing aspects of projects produced pre mid semester. Throughout semester you will work between plan and sections, working models & vignette drawings to develop and test your design proposals. You will need to select plants for your designs and work with the form, massing and spatial potential of planting design to develop your proposals.

Araucaria Cottage

 S  W  E  L  L    –    The  design  of  surge  resilient  landscapes  The  dynamics  of  the  Port  Phillip  Bay  in  combination  with  sea  level  rise  may  

enforce  danger  to  communities  and  towns  around  the  bay.  In  this  studio  we  

will  explore  design  solutions  and  interventions  that  increase  the  resilience  

of  these  areas  to  deal  with  future  storm  surges.    

In  the  studio  the  landscape  is  seen  as  a  system,  functioning  on  a  large  scale,  

with  many  subsystems,  such  as  water,  ecology,  transport,  energy  and  the  urban  

fabric.  All  systems  together  determine  the  resiliency  of  the  area.  Resilience  is  a  

basic  concept  for  landscapes  at  the  higher  scales  to  accommodate  natural  

processes  allowing  the  landscape  to  deal  with  external  factors  and  impacts  such  

as  climate  change.  In  the  studio  we  will  use  the  concept  in  a  cyclic  way  of  growth  

and  decline  and  growth  again.  This  makes  it  possible  to  design  the  

landscape  in  every  phase  of  the  design  studio  towards  ongoing  increasing  

resilience.  The  design  studio  is  organised  in  several  

phases  and  starts  with  researching  the  main  topic  of  sea  level  rise  and  its  

potential  impacts,  will  analyse  the  existing  networks  and  examine  potential  

ways  to  respond  to  a  rising  sea  level.  After  this  research  phase  a  preliminary  

design  is  conceived  for  the  case  study  

area:  Hobsons  Bay  (Williamstown-­‐Altona-­‐Point  Cook).  On  the  basis  of  your  

initial  design  proposals  you  will  then  formulate  and  develop  your  own  design  

project,  which  needs  to  emphasise  how  the  resiliency  of  the  area  is  increased.  

You  will  develop  your  own  story,  formulate  your  ambition  and  design  it.  In  

the  design  phase  we  will  zoom  in  and  out,  designing  for  the  whole  landscape  

of  Hobsons  Bay  as  well  as  for  specific  places,  where  you  have  determined  

design  interventions  that  imply  a  positive  change.  In  this  phase  you  will  

also  create  a  3D  model  of  your  design,  using  locally  collected  material  during  

the  site  visit.  The  studio  process  is  based  on  

collaborative  design,  in  which  you  will  be  working  intensively  together  with  your  

fellow  designers.  It  gives  you  the  responsibility  to  contribute  to  the  group  

process,  take  actively  part  in  design  discussions  and  critiques.  It  also  gives  

you  the  opportunity  to  learn  from  each  other,  create  joint  design  projects  and  

design  by  experimenting  and  interacting.  There  is  no  set  design  assignment,  but  

you  are  expected  to  define  your  own  design  project.  This  gives  you  the        

freedom  to  explore  your  design  ambitions.  

The  case  study  of  Hobsons  Bay  offers  the  potential  to  work  as  a  Landscape  

Architect  in  an  existing  urban  environment,  threatened  by  potential  

storm  surges  from  the  Bay.  During  the  studio  several  guest  lectures  from  

practitioners  in  the  field  will  provide  surpluses  of  practical  information  and  

food  for  thought.    The  expected  results  of  the  studio  are  an  

innovative  way  to  design  for  sea  level  rise  at  the  scale  of  the  entire  landscape  

system  and  at  the  scale  of  specific  design  interventions.  We  take  the  perspective  

to  design  in  anticipation  of  future  sea  level  rise  instead  of  defending  the  area  

against  it.  Concrete  results  consist  of  your  design  proposal  in  the  form  of  

maps,  visualisations,  collages  and  models.  

Readings  we  will  use  during  the  studio  include:  

• Panarchy  by  Holling  et  al  • Resilient  Cities  by  Newman  et  al  

• Resilience  thinking  by  Walker  and  Salt  

• Resilience  and  Transformation  by  Cork  

• Roggema  et  al.    1  (1)  29-­‐58  

• www.resalliance.org  • www.ecologyandsociety.org  

Tutor:  Rob  Roggema