LA301L Fall 2015 Topic Studio
Source: Wikipedia
As the gateway to the metropolis, LAX is a 3,425-acre void in the urban fabric. This studio will explore opportunities to address contemporary urban and ecological issues in the vast interstitial zones between the aviation and logistics hardscapes.
Projects in this 301L.02 will explore mapping landscape systems, visual variables and pattern generation, and use/event theory to support the final project.
Course Goals
Upon successful completion of this studio, students will gain the following design frameworks and methods:
- Graphically evaluate ecological & technical systems in the landscape, documenting their processes, flows, nodes, topologies and spatial arrangement, boundaries and limits, and interactions with other system.
- Express landscape systems as integral design features.
- Use visual variables in the quantitative mapping of landscape systems and in the design graphics.
- Generate pattern-based design framework that respond to the context and supports specific design goals or parameters (such as noise reduction).
- Develop site-specific programming supported by the designed features, materials & plants, spaces, surfaces, and systems.
- Refined ability to construct a clear
- Integrate design fundamentals into the development & presentation of landscape design project.
Infrascape Design 