LARCH 315Design V: Expanded Use, Scale, and Context

4 credits · Landscape Architecture · Penn State

Landscape Architecture Design Studio V - the fifth design studio in the undergraduate Landscape Architecture curriculum - follows LARCH 216 and introduces community and spatial design that accommodates civic and public functions while addressing social and environmental imperatives. It also expands on site design and program that creatively reconciles community-based (i.e. residential and/or public space) agendas. In support of focused explorations of community-oriented design, students are expected to draw on their knowledge of regional and landscape systems from LARCH 216 , as well as site design in LARCH 215 . In designing public spaces that lie at the heart of thriving communities, students are also expected to draw on technical skills in grading, materials, and planting acquired the implementation sequence. Throughout the semester, students will continue to develop skills in graphic representation and visualization to explore design ideas and develop presentation graphics. Students are expected to draw upon visualization skills developed through the skills lab sequence.