ARCH291 LANDSCAPE DESIGN
| Course Code: | 1200291 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 4.0 |
| Department: | Architecture |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. FUNDA BAŞ BÜTÜNER |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Landscape Design is a lecture-based course that incorporates a variety of teaching strategies, including but not limited to: lectures by specialists, in-class debates, site inspection, examination of precedent designs, etc. The course develops through a combination of weekly lectures and continuous individual and group activities, covering topics such as landscape space and concepts, site and site reading, landform, plant material, planting design, and analysis of precedent projects. To encourage student-centered learning, the assessment process is based on interpreting and expressing the knowledge gained through weekly lectures and course materials over actual spaces.
The primary objective of Arch 291 Landscape Design is to provide second-year architecture students with fundamental knowledge and proficiency in landscape and landscape design. The course offers an in-depth framework for understanding the site, landscape space, and design elements, concepts, and principles while considering landscape as both a natural and cultural process. The main goal of this curriculum is to facilitate the integration of knowledge given during lectures with actual spatial contexts, thus allowing students to comprehend the intricate interplay between landscape and architecture.
Course Content
ARCH 291 Landscape Design is a studio‐based course dealing with the design problematic of outdoor spaces through landscape design lens. The course mainly focuses on landscape design process that provides students with every stages of design; site visit, observation and recording; analysis and synthesis; landscape design brief, initial ideas and conceptual diagrams; 1:500 and 1:200 scale landscape plans, sections and elevations; details; verbal and graphic presentation of a final landscape design project.
Design process is integrated with a series of lectures and recommended readings.
Course Learning Outcomes
At the end of the “ARCH 291 Landscape Design” course, students are expected to have knowledge on...
…landscape lexicon and concepts;
… major elements and components of landscape space;
…plant material and creating space with plants;
…fourth dimension of landscape space;
…relation between landscape and architecture;
…site reading and site analysis;
…relational settings while developing architecture projects;
…collaboration in the design process and working in a team.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Ability to establish connections between the discipline of architecture and its related areas of competence, with the cultural and social aspects of architectural production. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Gaining, evaluating and applying the technical, aesthetic and ethical dimensions of the knowledge and values of architecture with a scientific and critical approach. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Making analysis and synthesis of data by employing theories, methods and currents of thought that aid in the identification and solution of architectural design problems. | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Developing creative and original ideas into the stages of theoretical design, projects, application and evaluation of architectural services and realizing them independently as well as in a team. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Being able to effectively use the traditional and digital communication technologies and visual expression tools. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Providing leadership to achieve synthesis through a productive coordination of the scientists and professionals of different disciplines taking part in the formation of the built environment. | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Being open to lifelong education by internalizing world experiences related to architectural thought and applications and following new developments. | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Understanding the requirements of environmental, cultural and economic sustainability in both global and local scales and considering them in all professional activities. | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Defending the society's rights to shelter, within nature and city applying universal principles and resisting applications that are against professional ethics and laws while creating unique solutions and putting them into practice. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution