Functional Spaces in Landscapes

Othman, Abd Aziz (2010) Functional Spaces in Landscapes. Sustainable Tropical Environmental Design Exhibition (STEDex’10), 2. pp. 106-107. ISSN 2180-0685

Abstract

The landscape architecture profession has grown rapidly in recent years and played a major role in present development as the nation moves towards improving sustainability and quality outdoor spaces and environment. The scenario has to be closely tied to the education and training of students as future professional landscape architects. The general purpose of landscape architecture education and training is educating students by enhancing their intellect as well as developing their capabilities in the relevant field. The department has tailored a curriculum towards developing students’ technical knowledge and analytical skills as well as understanding the complexity of outdoor tropical environment to fit human needs and sustainability. As in any design programme, a special concern is on the design studio works. They are systematically organised on the basis of type and scale to describe a comprehensive pattern of courses leading to a degree in landscape architecture. Fourteen works illustrated in the following pages were selected by judges as examples of the landscape architecture studio exercises which relied on the rational taught process. Beginning with the first year, Space Fragmentation is a work resulted from the Basic Design Studio to gain understanding about creating spaces and space interrelationships. Students explored their ideas about spaces and showed their creativities in creating various conceptual spaces. The bulk of this work is devoted to the 3-D conceptual model of 1M3 cube. The second year works focus on landscape site planning for solving the issues and problems of a specific site in a moderate small scale. Complimenting Nature is a project reflecting the pristine greenery of Tasik Raban in Perak. A thorough study was conducted earlier involving nature and ecological principles.......[Read More]

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