Slope is simple, but slope is hard. It’s a simple equation with elusive variables. And it doesn’t help that landscape architects toss around up to four different conventions for describing slope — not even counting the most obvious one, angle, which makes sense on paper but is close to useless in the field. It’s hard [...]
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Site Engineering 1, part three
Posted in Miscellaneous, Teaching, Toby's posts, tagged BAC, landscape architecture, landscape institute on September 25, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Site Engineering 1
Posted in Teaching, tagged BAC, boston architectural college, Contours, engage with landscape, landscape architecture, Landscape Design, Site Engineering, Teaching, Tobias Wolf on September 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In most design schools, Site Engineering is the most dreaded course in the landscape curriculum. It requires students to visualize three-dimensional landforms graphically and mathematically and to address multiple technical and environmental goals, all without sacrificing a larger sense of design. Even for the best-prepared students, it’s heavy lifting. So a teacher is obliged to make the [...]
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