LA 3180

Site Assembly

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2022-2023.

Site Assembly intends to establish a solid base of technical knowledge about the physical and performative characteristics of traditional building materials (e.g., vegetative, recycled, composite, sustainable, etc.) related to landscape architecture.  In addition, the course encourages students to become astute observers and skilled recorders at the detail to landscape scales, while obtaining a greater materials sensibility to the design and construction processes that eventually translate into built landscapes.

When Offered Spring.

Course Attribute (CU-SBY)

• Students will advance research and design methodologies related to material systems and technologies for the built environment.
• Students will recognize social, economic, and environmental climates of material systems and technologies in landscape architecture; and understand the design opportunities and challenges afforded from past, current, future applications.
• Students will sharpen observational and technical knowledge of material systems and technologies; and understand the fundamental relationship of siting design and materials with the climatic conditions that might impact their performance.
• Students will cultivate a sustainable, ethical, and environmentally sensitive design practice and ethos.

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