Studio 4/03
Climate Responsive Landscape Planning Strategy
Jenny Yu
Studio Description
As an increasing number of planning projects have engaged with climatic, geographic, hydrological, cultural, and other data as a strong support for decision-making, the studio is to enhance student’s abilities to use GIS applications to digitise and analyse data to make critical decisions in landscape planning. The aim is to create sustainable and liveable frame for the city through establishing climate responsive landscape planning strategy, especially engaging with climatic conditions and other relevant influential factors at a metropolitan level.
Students will engage with land development from large scale of master planning to medium scale of site planning to generate a vision and master plan for future development. With the aid of Geographical Information System and the support of data, this studio will explore the potential of making data and research informed landscape decisions to form the base for detailed spatial design and establishing evidence-based framework and strategies to guide the planning and design process. As the extensive engagement with multidisciplinary thinking in climate, hydrology, ecology, culture, and policies, students will be able to reconsider their roles and leadership possibility in the design realm.
Studio Outcomes
In developing their projects, students will focus on collecting and digitizing relevant data using GIS applications and drawing the conclusion to mitigate environmental problems such as climate change, air pollution and other socioeconomic issues for future development in Melbourne. By learning in GIS tutorials, students will develop skills in GIS for spatial analysis, computational simulation, 3-D visualization, landscape capacity analysis for site development potentials. For the second half of the studio, students will be challenged to set up rationales and strategic moves to guide the site detailed planning, which responds to initial data analysis and future development plans.
Studio Leader
Jenny Yu is the Founding Director of JF Studio – a landscape planning and design practice in Melbourne. She is an advocate and practitioner of digital technology in landscape architecture industry. She has professional experiences in both public and private sectors in China, Australia, and the US since 2010. Her passion in education is to inspire the younger generations and advocate the power of landscape architecture for both people and the environment from a high level of thinking in planning to the detailed consideration in design. In 2018, her planning and design project received regional shortlist in City Future Challenge Competition, which was involved with GIS applications in urban climate and morphologies.
Schedule Lectures Thursdays 12:00-13:00; Tutorials Thursdays 13:00-19:15