The Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning’s LA 101 Design class came to the garden for their yearly three week project entitled “Revealing a Landscape”. Each student, undergraduate and graduate, are to find a place in the garden to highlight by creating a temporary installation using simple materials.
These Photographs of the student installations were taken at Blake Garden in October of 2008. A description of the project follows:
Project: “Revealing a Landscape”
Class: LA 101 (LAEP UC Berkeley)
Teachers: Judith Stilgenbauer, Daphne Edwards
Site: Blake Garden
The purpose of the 3 week project (Sept. 22 – Oct. 13) was to investigate the qualities of the landscape that can be captured or revealed as part of a new design. Using Blake Garden as a landscape laboratory, the students constructed and installed full scale 1 to 1 mockups of the projects (seen in these photographs), models at 1/2″ = 1′ scale, and drawings in section and in plan. Their final project boards also included photographs of the site. Among the qualities revealed by the various designs were: light, space, enclosure, paths, water features, views, growth, and geological activity.
