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Eco-logical Design Principles LACH2240 Unit Guide Semester One 2007 Faculty of Architecture, Landscape And Visual Arts The University of Western Australia, Australia Unit Coordinator: Grant Revell - Room 4.15 Telephone 6488 1566 Venue: Hew Roberts Seminar Room 1 Contents # Introduction 4 Unit Objectives & Session Times 5 Unit Communication 5 Lecture & Tutorial Schedule 6 Lecture Programme Abstracts 7 Assessment 21 Assignments & Tutorial Reports 21 Report Writing Tips 26 Unit Policies, Protocols and Rules 29 Preliminary Class & Group Lists 32 References 33 Reproduced with permission from Michael Leunig & Penguin Books. In: The Stick. Penguin Books Australia Ltd. 2002 Eco-logical Design Principles ntroduction – problems, problems This unit explores the role of landscape architecture in the multi and inter I disciplinary practices of landscape systems ecology. Topics focus on a broad understanding of varying biophysical types and their behavioural systems including bio-regions, landscape character units, species communities, networks, patches, mosaics, corridors, paths, nodes, edges, diversity, representativeness, connectivity, and fragmentation. Eco-logical design principles that investigate scientific insight with creative and constructive environmental planning and design—implying designed human co-operation and biological partnership—are explored via the designed management of air, water, earth, fire & energy, biomass, food, biodiversity, habitat, eco-links, waste and material resources and values from the regional to the local site scales. Comparisons will be made between the designed behaviour and performance of cultural settlements in suitably repairing, maintaining and enhancing sustainable ecological systems with the performance of natural ecosystems. The defined sustainable ecological design principles are applicable to all subsequent landscape architecture design studios undertaken in the Faculty. The Unit has been designed to investigate and illustrate both historical and contemporary ecological design case studies where scientists and designers have collaborated in one form or another to produce physical landscape works – either as site specific designs or as broader landscape management interventions. Case studies of designed landscape ecology, restoration ecology, and ecosystem management will be provided. Most importantly, the Unit will be run in collaboration with the Bioregional Studio unit and will undertake a field trip to Meelup in the south-west of Western Australia where participatory and inter-disciplinary eco-logical design principles will be explored, along with the design of a number of environmental ‘interventions’. This Unit, contexualised within the ever inventive and prosaic fields of landscape architecture education and practice, has typically involved a great deal of preparation and coordination. The Unit will require students’ full and engaging participation throughout the semester. To a greater degree, the anticipated learning experiences will rely upon it! It is hoped that the open, yet structured group project work will play a significant role in the further support and development of these worthy ‘design-thinking’ educational outcomes. Remember, ‘…. Learning about a subject becomes a passion. This learning teaches others. An ongoing, critical, evolutionary discussion forms around various problems. The reward for participation is peer recognition. This open learning model is a continuously evolving learning environment created by the learners themselves. The teachers or assemblers of information are often those who have just learned something themselves. Someone just engaged in the study of a subject is better able to teach it to others than the expert who no longer comes to it fresh, and has already lost any grasp of how novices think. And if one is able to teach something to others, one must have made the material very clear to oneself.’ Himanen, In: van Schaik, (2001). Finally, this Unit wishes to acknowledge and pay its respects to the traditional owners and First Nation peoples of the Country studied throughout the semester. Good luck! Unit Co-ordinator: Mr Grant Revell, Room 4.15, Phone 6488 1566, [email protected] Unit Lecturer + Tutor: Mr Grant Revell Eco-logical Design Principles LACH2240 Semester 1, 2007 Page 4 Eco-logical Design Principles nit Objectives The key objective of this unit is to suitably equip students with the U knowledge, skills, ethics and attitudes necessary to the understanding and application of eco-logical design principles for landscape architecture. Students will need to become aware of the breadth and depth of the fields of information from scientific, humanistic, technological and artistic viewpoints. Understanding inter-disciplinary eco-logical design practices and the importance of skill collaboration will be paramount. The unit should foster an awareness of and familiarity with key terms, concepts, principles, methods, techniques and settings of practicing eco- logical sustainable design; and likewise an ability to apply this knowledge to given environmental design situations and solve specific eco-logical design problems. nit Programme Sessions U Lectures (L): Tuesdays 2-4pm, Hew Roberts Seminar Room 1 (Compulsory) Tutorials (T): Tuesdays 4-5pm, Hew Roberts Seminar Room 1 (Compulsory) Field Trip (F): Thursday 15th – Monday 19th March, Meelup (Compulsory) nit Communication U The unit will be coordinated by full-time faculty staff member Grant Revell with the assistance of Jeremy Flynn & Megan Salom (studio instructors) during the field trip. Invited guest mentors and unit critics will also attend various studio sessions over the course of the semester. Contact details: Grant Revell Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture & Associate Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape + Visual Arts Office: 4th Floor, Room 4.15 Phone: 6488 1566 Fax: 6488 1082 Email: [email protected] Most communication between staff and students concerning unit details will occur in class. Although at times staff may have to contact students directly by email. Refer ALVA Survival Guide for email instructions. Grant will be available for extra consultation on Wednesdays and Fridays between 10 & 1 pm. Contact Grant by email to arrange an appointment. Eco-logical Design Principles LACH2240 Semester 1, 2007 Page 5 Eco-logical Design Principles Lecture & Tutorial Schedule Week Date Topic 1 27.02.07 L Course Introduction & Outline of Course Guide Tuesday Landscape, Ecology & Design – Designed Social & Physical Realisations Bio-Regionalism #1 – Global & National Conditions; Designing With The Energy of Cycles, Sustainable Design Principles, Tools & Techniques T Introduction to Assignment One 2 06.03.07 L Bio-Regionalism #2 – Landscape Planning & Regionalism, GIS, Hazards & Tuesday Capability Mapping, Landscape Assessment, & Ecological Design Participation T Assignment One Workshopping & Introduction to Assignment 2 3 13.03.07 L Presentation Techniques 1A T Assignment One Draft Presentations Tuesday 20.03.07 F Meelup Field Trip (15/03-19/03). Details later. 4 5 27.03.07 L Rural Principles #1 – Fragmentation, Patches, Edges, Nodes, Mosaics & Tuesday Networks, Corridors & Connectivity, Key-Lining, & Designing Bushland. T Assignment 1 Workshopping 6 03.04.07 L Rural Principles #2 – Design Guidelines in Agraria & Sustainable Eco/Cultural Tuesday Tourism T Assignment Two Workshopping Non-Teaching Break 7 17.04.07 L Suburbia’s Principles #1 – Climate Control, Energy & Water Design Management Tuesday T Assignment Two Workshops & Presentations 24.04.07 L Suburbia’s Principles #2 – Ecological Design Principles & Guidelines across 8 Australia and Overseas. Tuesday T Assignment Two Workshops & Presentations 9 01.05.07 L Urbania Principles #1 – Eco-Cities, Smart-Green Design, & Frog-Sticking. Tuesday T Assignment Two Workshops & Presentations 10 08.05.07 L Garden Principles #1 – Integrated Living Environments Tuesday T Assignment Two Workshops & Presentations 11 15.05.07 L Principles of Materials – Things or Processes Tuesday T Assignment Two Workshops & Presentations 12 22.05.07 L Unit Summary – Integrated Design Models and Cultural Design Ethics Tuesday T SPOT Session & Unit Review Discussion 13 29.05.07 Studio Folio Week( No Lecture or Tutorials) Eco-logical Design Principles LACH2240 Semester 1, 2007 Page 6 Eco-logical Design Principles ecture Programme Abstracts L Week 1 Part One: Course Introduction & Outline of Unit Guide Landscape, Ecology & Design – Designed Social & Physical Realisations ‘… all designs should be held accountable for their ecological impacts. ... where design excellence must be judged by both aesthetic and ecological criteria.’ Johnson B.R. & Hill. K. (2002), p 7. Key Idea: This introductory session will begin with a concise outline of the Unit’s programme over the semester, noting the relationships between lectures, tutorials, forum and field trip sessions and their learning and assessment expectations. The lecture will examine the history of landscape architecture design practice and it’s relationships to the disciplines of landscape ecology, restoration ecology and ecosystem management. Paradigms of political, professional and ethical sustainable development will be discussed with particular links to the social and design aspects of ecological, environmental, technological, phenomenological, and energy based systems. The key cultural differences between ‘ecological’ design and ‘conventional’ design will be introduced. Key Principles & Terms: landscape