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Topology
Last Updated: 2026-06-01 11:30:29
Abstract
The Topology elective course series delves into the multifaceted nature of places. In the Autumn Semester 2025, the focus will be on urban biodiversity. Students from D-ARCH and D-BAUG will examine how biodiversity can be fostered within urban environments and develop forward-looking concepts through the interplay of digital tools with urban and ecological systems.
Objective
This Elective Course offers students a chance to deepen their spatial perception through a site-specific lens rooted in landscape architecture. Participants will engage with 3D point cloud technologies and other spatial sensing tools to analyze the complexity of urban landscapes. The aim is to develop new methods of reading, editing, and representing these entangled spaces across physical and digital layers.
Content
Course participants will become acquainted with working methods involving digital models produced through laser scanning and combined with sound. They will learn how a laser-scanning survey is conducted, how raw data is processed and analyzed, and how point cloud models are transformed. These models provide new ways to interact with spatial qualities as an audiovisual experience. Building on this knowledge, students will document and analyze a case-study site to reveal its topological potentials and sensory qualities. This understanding will be deepened through point cloud modeling and audiovisual composition. In particular, we will develop a new, comprehensive sectional model of a topologically interesting site situation. Collected samples from the field will then be assembled and built into an interactive application in the «Large-scale Virtualization and Modeling Lab» (LVML). The software taught is open-source and can be installed on private laptops, facilitating applicability beyond the course.
Resources
Lecture Notes
Literature will be provided during the course.More information provided onhttps://lvml.ethz.ch/
Learning Materials (Links)
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General Information
- Language
- English
- Levels
- BSC , MSC
- Frequency
- Semesterly recurring
Examination
- Type
- ungraded semester performance
Course Components
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Topology
Keine Lehrveranstaltung am 20.10.2025 (Seminarwoche) sowie in den beiden letzten Semesterwochen (vor Schlussabgaben).
Unterrichtssprachen: Deutsch und Englisch / Teaching languages: German and English.
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2 h weekly |
Offered In
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Kernfächer (Die Kernfächer bauen auf den Grundlagenfächern auf und vermitteln grundlegendes, breites Wissen in den Kernbereichen der Landschaftsarchitektur in Relation zum Entwurfsunterricht. Die Kernfächer sind teils obligatorisch zu absolvieren, teils frei wählbar. Weitere Einzelheiten, namentlich über das Belegen dieser Fächer, für die Leistungskontrollen und zur Kompensation nicht bestandener Fächer, sind in Art. 27 und Art. 31 Abs. 4 geregelt.)
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