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The studio's objective is to design two botanical gardens, one in Guatemala and one in Andorra. Despite their contrasting cultural, climatic and geological conditions, the two sites share a rich tradition of indigenous medicinal plants use.
the course introduces students to living systems and dynamic landscape processes through rule-based design and system thinking. With an emphasis on reading a site and translating scientific information through drawing, we will teach students to identify the "genius loci" and to design a landscape artifact, as an answer to biotic and abiotic factors and their relational potentials.
This course introduces a design methodology for landscape architecture that emphasizes the design of living systems and dynamic landscape processes in dialogue with the environmental sciences. With a focus on translating and synthesizing scientific information through rigorous drawing and critically engaging with the primary matter of landscapes, this course teaches core tools of the discipline.