Dark, grey open skies and rolling hills: typical Essex
Students surveying the site
A farm family member welcomes our students
As part of Site and Concept studio 2nd year undergraduate Landscape architecture and MA conversion students visited a site at The Salvation Army's Hadleigh Farm in Essex to explore and understand its spatial, topographical, social, ecological, and historical context. Although it was a grey January day, students enjoyed this day long site visit taking photographs and drawing and sketching landscape characteristics for their first site impressions. It is a team exercise, and students will formulate a design brief to include their design philosophy and approach, produce a series of masterplan working drawings and a physical model of the wider landscape for the design process. For final assessment, student teams will have to introduce, interpret and summarise their concept, and present their ideas and design objectives on a sketch masterplan, vignettes of detail areas including planting choices, and cross sections of the site in context. Outcome of the design projects will be presented in May 2017 by students in our design studio.Dr Kristof Fatsar, Lecturer at WUC
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