LARP 502 - Studio II

Institution:

University of Pennsylvania

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Description:

Faculty. This foundation design studio explores the relationship between sites, drawings, and the making of landscape architectural projects. The sites are typically urban, complex, and large in scale. Students begin with a series of site interpretations (ranging from photographic recordings and sketches to measured surveys and documentation). They are then asked to build a large model of the site, emphasizing its topographical form. The first design project is for an enclosure, "a civic garden," where the emphasis is upon the relationship of "inside" to "outside" and the architecture of spatial fabrication. The second project is for a large urban park that is to accommodate a diverse series of urban events and gatherings. Students work with a wide-range of conceptual, graphic, and projective techniques. At the end of the studio, each student is asked to graft each of their individual projects into a large plan of the existing precinct, presenting the urban landscape as an interactive field of accretive forces and entities. Past studios have proposed new urban gardens and parks for the Schuylkill Waterfront surrounding the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the Camden Waterfront, N.J.; the derelict Venice Island territory of Manayunk, PA; and the North Delaware Riverfront in Philadelphia; and Bergen Point in Bayonne, N.J.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.upenn.edu

Phone Number:

(215) 898-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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