| Forest & Landscape | |||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 1 year | ||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||
| Credits | 15 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||||
| Examination | Continuous Assessment written examination and oral examination Portfolio Examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: An individual oral presentation is based on a landscape architectural project and two excersices. The individual presentation contains landscape architectural as well as theoretical and IT subjects. Weight: 50 % is the presentation of the landscape architectural project, 20 % is related to IT and 20 % is the students relation to the two exercises. 10 % is overall insight and understanding 7-point scale, external examiner | ||||||||||||||
| Requirement For Attending Exam | Handing in project and exercises. | ||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Terrain and technology is a part of an international package, it is based on IT and the softwareprogram AutoCAD, civil 3D. KURSET UDBYDES IKKE I 2007 MEN FØRST I 2008. | ||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 2 Week Structure: A Block 2 Week Structure: B | ||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||
| Areas of Competence the Course Will Address | |||||||||||||||
| Basic Science: The student gains knowledge in digital terrain modelling and the use of terrain in landscape design. Based on Danish landscape architect projects from the start of the 20th century until now and to theory of terrain and landscape architecture. The student will be able to design and make judgment about terrain modelling. Applied Science: At the end of the course the student will comprehend digital terrain modelling and design for all levels. Terrain is understood as a 3D surface enhancing aesthetic, functional and technological objectives. Ethics & Values: The student is after the course aware of the coherence between the terrain and landscape architecture and can respond and reflect to problems and challenges about terrain and landscape architecture. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||
| The objectives are to comprehend and develop knowledge and understanding of the terrain as one of the most important issues in landscape architecture. The course gives knowledge to digital terrain modelling. Digital terrain modelling is evaluated and reflected upon as a tool. The process, which gives new opportunities and changes the designprocess, is discussed and trained. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||
| The course is split into three parts. Overlapping in the first four weeks is an article and an analysis of a landscape architectproject. The students will in groups produce an article for an imagined theme edition of a landscape journal, entitled: "Terrain modelling in landscape design". The focus of the article can be: terminology, terrain vocabulary, a specific period, the works of a single landscape architect, design types (e.g. cemeteries or City Hall plazas), technical aspects, design principles, a historical overview or to produce a review of previous literature. Introductions to the different subjects and approaches will be given as lectures. At the presentation of the article it will be discussed what criteria determine the terrain form. The work will be carried out in groups of both Danish and international students. The analysis of the landscape architect project is based on an introduction to digital terrain models using software that deals with the terrain as an intelligent object. The digital terrain model is not only a representation of the landscape, but the source for exploration, sketching, analysis, cut and fill calculations stakeout plans etc. The following subjects will be presented: Intelligent landscape modelling, building a terrain model, existing terrain, triangulation, terrain analysis, signs indicating terrain form, proposed terrain, alignments, profiles and visualization. The subjects will primarily be introduced in the first 4 weeks of the course and are expected to be used in an active way in the rest of the course. The software used is CIVIL 3D, which is an AutoCAD product. The landscape analysis will be on selected Danish landscape architect projects handed out to the students, and the presentation of the analysis should be in PowerPoint presentation. In the last 5 weeks the students make a landscape design in which terrain modelling has a certain importance as for example relocation of surplus soil, landscaping a mass takeout area, a design for a square on a sloping terrain or noisebarriors along a highway. The subject is fixed each year by the choice of project area. This is basically a landscape design project, but it is required to reflect on the theoretical knowledge obtained and presented (by all groups) in the first part of the course. During the process course participants may be asked to make studies that explore specific themes in their project. | |||||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||
| Terrain and technology is a projectbased full time course with a mixture of lectures, exersices and studies based on group- and individual work. Access to the computers is reserved in at least 2 out of three moduls. | |||||||||||||||
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| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||
| Strom, Steven and Nathan, Kurt, Site Engineering for Landscape Architects, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons. 1998. 293 pages. Web: www.novaland.kvl.dk | |||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||
| Torben Dam, toda@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Unit of Landscape, Phone: 35331797 Ian Jørgensen, iajo@life.ku.dk, Forest & Landscape Denmark/Unit of Landscape, Phone: 35331779 | |||||||||||||||
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