Course Code: 
LAUD 401
Course Period: 
Autumn
Course Type: 
Core
Theory: 
4
Practice: 
4
Lab: 
0
Credits: 
6
ECTS: 
10
Prerequisite Courses: 
Design Studio IV
Course Language: 
İngilizce
Courses given by: 
Bengi KORGAVUŞ
Zerrin İNAN
Pınar KARAKAŞ
Course Objectives: 
1. To teach how to read a settlement and to instill basic principles of landscape design. 2. To instill basic values and principles of landscape design at the scale of settlement. 3. To teach the effective presentation of complex design. 4. To teach how construction and materials can affect a design.
Course Content: 

Introduction, Individual study areas assigned, Determination of design program and function diagram, Conceptual design, Conceptual design review and formal study, 1:500 preliminary sketches, 1:500 preliminary design, 1:200 sketches, 1:200 final design, Final design review, Detail drawings and documentation.

Course Methodology: 
1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion, 4:Drawing, 5:Case Study
Course Evaluation Methods: 
A: Testing, C: Homework

Vertical Tabs

Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes

Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

1) Develop an understanding the creative problem solving process used in LA practice.

2 & 7

1,2,3,4,5

A & C

2) Develop a design ethic that recognizes the meaning of the landscape.

10 & 11

1,2,3,4,5

A & C

3) Develop the ability to achieve an individual and synchronized group effort.

9

1,2,3,4,5

A & C

4) Learn how to create outdoor spaces that response to human needs and ecological systems.

3 & 11

1,2,3,4,5

A & C

Course Flow

COURSE CONTENT

Week

Topics

Study Materials

1

Introduction and Individual study areas assigned

  

2

Determination of design program and function diagram

  

3

  Conceptual design

  

4

Conceptual design review and formal study

  

5

Design development (1:500 sketches)

  

6

Design development (1:200 preliminary design) – midterm jury

  

7

Design development (1:200 sketches) – Paving plan

  

8

Design development (1:200 sketches) - Planting plan

  

9

Design development (1:200 sketches) – Irrigation plan

  

10

Design development (1:200 sketches) – Lighting plan

  

11

Design development (1:200 final design)

  

12

Final design review

  

13

System details (1:50 - 1:20)

  

14

Detail drawings

  

15

Final review of the project

  

Recommended Sources

RECOMMENDED SOURCES

Textbook

Seçkin, N.P., Y.Ç. Seçkin, Ö.B. Seçkin, 2011. Sürdürülebilir Peyzaj Tasarımı ve Uygulama İlkeleri, Literatür, İstanbul.

Additional Resources

Bertauski, T. (2009), Designing the Landscape, Pearson Prentice Hall, New Jersey.

Reid, G. W. (1993), From Concept to Form: In Landscape Design, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.

Sauter, D. (2005), Landscape Construction, Thomson Delmar Learning, New York.

Seçkin, Ö.B., 2004. Peyzaj Konstrüksiyonu Cilt I. (Landscape Architecture Construction Volume I). İ.Ü. Orman Fakültesi Yayını No: 4508/480, ISBN 975-404-464-3, İstanbul.

Seçkin, Ö.B., 2003. Peyzaj Uygulama Tekniği. Geliştirilmiş ve Güncelleştirilmiş İkinci Baskı  (Techniques of Landscape Architecture, Second Edition). İ.Ü.Orman Fakültesi Yayını No: 4105/453, ISBN 975-404-507-0, İstanbul.

Material Sharing

MATERIAL SHARING

Documents

Case Study Examples

Assignments

Weekly Design Homeworks

Exams

Sketch

Assessment

ASSESSMENT

IN-TERM STUDIES

NUMBER

PERCENTAGE

Mid-terms

1

%40

Quizzes

-

-

Assignment

12

%60

Total

14

%100

CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE

  

% 50

CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE

  

% 50

Total

  

%100

Course’s Contribution to Program

COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

No

Program Learning Outcomes

Contribution

1

2

3

4

5

  

1

To breed people as being an artist landscape architects.

    

 

X

    

2

An ability to have basic knowledge in the field, to provide a healthy and liveable spaces, and to organize the environment.

  

 

    

X

  

3

An ability to restore the environment that has been destroyed, to identify natural conditions, to provide same natural conditions in the places newly designed.

      

 

X

  

4

An ability to have basic engineering knowledge; to create environments which are suitable for nature, instead of destroying it.

    

X

      

5

An ability not only for efficiently use of information techniques or computer aided programmes, but also for finding the current applications appropriately to draw, make presentations and plannings.

  

 

  

X

    

6

Having skills to have sufficient knowledge about the basic subjects and the historical progress of the field, to interpret these theoric and practical knowledge and to transfer them to the modern practices.

    

 X

      

7

An ability to not only analyse the problems in the field of landscape architecture; but also to use the appropriate modern design techniches to find solutions for them.

  

 

    

X

  

8

An ability to search, reach and utilize all the resources in the field including databases.

    

X

  

 

  

9

An ability to work alone or in a multi-disiplinary team efficiently and a self-confidence of taking responsibility.

 

      

X

  

10

Consciousness of professional and ethical responsibilities.

  

 

    

X

  

11

An ability to be conscious about the universal and social effects of solutions and practices found; being conscious about the problems of era.

 

      

X

  

12

Consciousness of life-long learning; an ability to follow the improvements in the field of science and technology.

    

X

      

ECTS

ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION

Activities

Quantity

Duration
(Hour)

Total
Workload
(Hour)

Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16 x Total course hours)

16

8

128

Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)

8

4

32

Mid-term exam

1

8

8

Homework

8

4

32

Final examination

1

8

8

Total Work Load

    

208

Total Work Load / 25 (h)

    

8,32

ECTS Credit of the Course

    

10

 

 

 

 
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