This course advances visualization techniques for landscape architecture students in the first year of the Master of Landscape Architecture program. The sites were carefully selected for a range of topographic, cultural, and experiential qualities that they exhibit. The process of iterative drawing and modelling resulted in an insightful and deep understanding of site.
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Each student selected a site from a list of colonial fortifications and indigenous burial mounds (tumulus) for a semester-long investigation. These culturally significant landforms were analyzed, modelled, and depicted in varying phenomenological conditions throughout the semester. Students depicted a visual narrative that situates these landforms within socio-economic, cultural, historical or constructed narratives through drawings and animations. The course was divided into two main segments: the first devoted to the physical description of the geometry of terrain, emphasizing topography and its context, vegetation, and urban form through scaled design representations. The second half was devoted to the experiential, dynamic, and phenomenological qualities of place, emphasizing time, light, and atmosphere.


Website:
https://fortsandtumuli.cargo.site/