3 hours. 1 hours lecture and 4 hours lab per week.
Landscape Construction
Analytical Thinking
Course Description
Introduction to materials of landscape architectural
construction; their physical characteristics; their effects on
people, environment, and economy; their installation methods;
their purposeful use in design; sources of information about
them and their use; and their documentation in contract
documents.
Athena Title
Landscape Construction
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will know materials of landscape architectural construction (their origins and physical characteristics; their effects on people, environment, and economy; and their installation methods). Measurement: Specification of materials which are functional, buildable, durable, and economical, in pavements, walls, and elevated (frame) structures.
Students will document materials’ arrangement in construction drawings. Measurement: Creation of construction drawings which are complete, clear, and unambiguous.
Students will find and apply information about landscape construction as needed in developing technologies and emerging project needs. Measurement: Discovery and direct use of web-based sources of information in the creation of construction specifications and drawings.
Students will convey the professional basics of landscape construction drawing and specification.
Students will bring interests, motivations, and decision-making activities to landscape construction, so that theycan discover their own minds in application to landscape architecture.
Students will be in direct working contact with sources of landscape construction information.
Students will experience the design and specification of three common types of landscape construction systems: pavement, wall, and details, in their full context of site-specific concerns.
Topical Outline
The experiential (lab) aspect of the course is organized around
a single design project. The intent is to make, by the end of
the semester, a complete, coherent set of construction drawings
suitable for use in contractor bidding and implementation.
An initial site design project sets each student’s template for
the specific construction that will be documented. Then a
sequence of construction design completes the documentation for
each fundamental type of landscape structure within that
template: pavement, wall, and frame structure.
Institutional Competencies Learning Outcomes
Analytical Thinking
The ability to reason, interpret, analyze, and solve problems from a wide array of authentic contexts.
