Studio 2

Landscape Studio 2: Site and Design

Wendy Walls and Fiona Johnson

Studio Description

Studio two is focused on landscape design processes, exploratory techniques, critical research and inquiry for developing ecologically sensitive urban design. This studio follows a multi-objective approach in exploring the interrelation between site and design in landscape architectural practice. The landscape design brief will cover site exploration and conceptual design aspects of site transformation, alongside digital modelling using Rhino 3D and representation techniques.

Studio Outcomes

*Critical and Analytical thinking: To critically interrogate landscape sites and precedents and apply landscape theories and practices in design thinking. *Design process: To understand and apply a range of processes and techniques for exploring sites and generating multiple design outcomes. *Communication: To effectively represent and communicate design ideas in 3D with special focus on digital media

Studio Leader

Wendy Walls is a lecturer in Landscape Architectural design, at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her research and teaching focuses on the use of data and digital technologies for designing with dynamic climatic phenomena in external open space, design methodologies and interdisciplinary practices. Outcomes from her research and teaching have been presented at a number of peer-reviewed journals and international events including Digital Landscape Architecture, the Architectural Science Association conference and Landscape as Necessity.

Dr Fiona Johnson is a Landscape Architect with a background as a practitioner, educator and academic. She has extensive teaching experience in digital design and representation for landscape architecture, and as a design studio leader at both the University of Melbourne and RMIT. Her research and writing have been published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, as well as publications such as Landscape Australia, Landscape Review and Indigenous Place: Contemporary Buildings, Landmarks and Places of Significance in South East Australia and Beyond.

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