5 hours. 2 hours lecture and 6 hours lab per week.
Community and Place
Creativity & Innovation
Course Description
Integrating landscape architecture, architecture, and urban design
to reinforce and build community space. Concepts of public and
private space, perception and behavior in urban environment, and
spatial proportion and enclosure will be explored. Projects
developed to address contemporary societal concerns through a
variety of scales to a design development level.
Athena Title
Community and Place
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in LAND 6040S
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will demonstrate knowledge of the relationship between architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design.
Students will demonstrate knowledge of appropriate and sustainable design elements.
Students will demonstrate a comprehension of spatial concepts, organizational frameworks, and ordering principles in architecture and urban design.
Students will become familiar with urban design and planning terminology and how it relates to the physical form and function of a city.
Students will demonstrate knowledge of the pressures that affect the built environment.
Students will demonstrate the ability to recognize, analyze, and reinforce spatial structure in urban and sub-urban contexts.
Students will incorporate various human-behavior research methods into the design process.
Students will demonstrate the ability to site buildings and structures, adaptively reuse existing features and incorporate circulation systems (pedestrian, bicycle, automobile, bus, rail) into a responsive urban design plan.
Students will demonstrate the ability to apply urban design concepts through a range of scales from an urban design scale plan to its articulation in site scale and detail design.
Students will further develop design skills and creativity in landscape architecture.
Students will further develop abilities to effectively communicate design ideas through advanced visualization techniques, graphics (hand and computer), models, written documents, and presentations.
Students will become more aware of how community values are manifested in landscapes and design.
Students will gain a deeper understanding of the complexity involved with community development and participation.
Students will recognize the relationships between aesthetics, community values, cultural diversity, ecological quality, and sound urban design and planning.
Students will understand the importance of recognizing and reinforcing community values through design forms.
Students will develop an appreciation for the importance of creating human-scaled, pedestrian-friendly environments.
Students will develop an appreciation for the need to design for human health, safety, and welfare.
Topical Outline
Studio and lecture format, discussions and project critiques, supplementary readings and presentations by the instructor and students.
This is a design studio with pin-ups, sketching, design iterations, and finally presentation drawings and models.
This studio will be a collaborative experience with discussion and physical design solutions.
Additionally, lectures and readings are incorporated into studio to reinforce design studio materials.
Topical Outline:
1) Develop tools and techniques for observing community ideas in urban space, and their spatial manifestation. Examine urban environments that are excellent examples of using design elements, including master planning, urban infrastructure, and design details, to create vital urban environments. This includes visiting urban environments and researching examples.
2) Develop a vocabulary of best practices of urban design solutions to enhance community.
3) Explore studio projects (2-3) that offer a high level of complexity in terms of community ideas and cultural concerns.
These selected projects engage community processes, planning infrastructure, complex site issues, and design programming.
4) Assignments may include:
a. Readings and discussions focused on site, community,
and environmental concerns
b. Site assessment and analysis
c. Conceptual designs
d. Master planning
e. Complex design solutions
f. Design of detailed elements
g. Spatial enclosure
h. Mass-void
i. Urban infill
j. Scale and proportion
k. Edges
l. Nodes
m. Focal points
n. Landmarks
o. Gathering places
p. Path and place
q. Approach, entry, threshold, and arrival
r. Animation of the street
s. Social behavior
t. User needs
u. Behavioral studies
Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes
Creativity & Innovation
The capacity to combine or synthesize existing ideas, images, or expertise in original ways and the experience of thinking, reacting, and working in an imaginative way characterized by innovation, divergent thinking, and risk taking.
