Studio - Landscape architecture for sustainable urban design

About this programme

The main focus in the course is on contemporary sustainable urban design development on a neighborhood level. The studio project work is organized as teamwork. Tutoring, lectures and seminars support the project work. Sustainable development is explored and evaluated for different urban morphological characters. Emphasis is on the green and blue structures in relation to built structures, street networks and public meeting places. Methods to gather site-specific knowledge include drawing by hand as a powerful analyzing tool. The project develops skills in finding solutions for combinations of esthetic, technical, functional for sustainable urban design. Presenting of ideas uses a combination of digital tools and drawings by hand. The course includes methods to evaluate of sustainability parameters and work with the legal urban design process of environmental assessment. The template for the project report follow a scientific structure that help the teamwork to agree on solutions that rely on theory and findings. The structure also allows discussion on alternatives as reflections on the project proposal. An individual final exam summarizes the most important sustainable urban design theory discussed on lectures and seminars. Knowledge equivalent to 150 credits of which 90 credits in Landscape Architecture and/or Architecture and/or Urban Planning and/or Human Geography and/or Community Planning, and knowledge equivalent to English 6, or admitted to the Landscape Architecture for Sustainable Urbanisation – Master´s programme.