UWA Handbook 2026

Unit Overview

Description

This studio enables students to move from the theoretical/conceptual to the realised/built through critically considering landscape architectural construction and detailing. The use of drawing as a means of design resolution and communication and site detailing underpins studio project investigations. Through considering site-specific understandings, building methods and technologies, a mixed range of methods across the semester – typically including mapping, masterplanning and model-making – a special emphasis on construction detailing as it applies to the profession of landscape architecture culminates in a series of professional drawings, sections, details, material and plant studies, diagrams, models and illustrations that investigate the shift between masterplanning to detail scale. Students thereby refine the conceptual, lateral and poetic skills integral to the scope of studios in the School of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts (ALVA) while synthesising and developing the skills and knowledge necessary to resolve a scheme to a state of 'buildability'.

Credit

12 points

Offering
(see Timetable)

Availability	Location	Mode
Semester 2	UWA (Perth)	On-campus

The timetable for this teaching period is not currently available. Please see the Important Dates page for the timetable release date and other key date information.

Outcomes

Students are able to (1) demonstrate an awareness of design precedents and ideas as well as traditions of landscape architecture as mediums of cultural and material expression rather than methods of solving problems; (2) research and define landscape architectural problems through analysis of social, cultural and ecological contexts towards the development of a design proposal; (3) develop conceptual landscape design propositions of advanced complexity in response to site analysis and a design brief; (4) demonstrate application of advanced technical areas of study relevant to landscape architecture; (5) demonstrate advanced and professional standard design development processes and methods involving iterations of making, reflection, feedback, research and redesign at differing scales; (6) produce professional standard presentation diagrams, plans, sections, imagery and/or models to aid in the understanding of the proposed landscape architectural design concepts; and (7) deliver refined verbal presentations to explain and justify proposed landscape architectural design concepts.

Assessment

Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) interim folio submission and (2) final folio submission. Further information is available in the unit outline.

To pass this unit, a student must: (a) achieve an overall mark of 50 per cent or higher for the unit; and (b) achieve the requisite requirements(s) or a mark of 50 per cent or greater, whichever is higher and specified in the unit outline, for the final folio submission component.

Student may be offered supplementary assessment in this unit if they meet the eligibility criteria.

Unit Coordinator(s)

Simon Kilbane

Unit rules

Incompatibility

LACH4422 Design Studio—Making

Incidental fees

Incidental student fees and charges are costs incurred by students as part of their studies at UWA that are in addition to their tuition fees (further information is available "
Participation in this unit will incur the following incidental fee(s):
(1) Field trips within the metropolitan area, travel and food only (estimated cost - $10-$50)
(2) Field trips outside the metropolitan area (estimated cost - $50-$250).

Contact hours

up to 9 hours per week