2024

Landscape Design I

Name: Landscape Design I
Code: PAO13872M
12 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/312 hours
Scientific Area: Landscape Architecture

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

To endow the students with a framework of knowledge about concepts, methods, techniques and laws that support and rule a creative intervention to increase the value of rural landscapes, urban fringes, protected areas, industrial areas and in order to accommodate multiple use, big structures and infrastructures.

Contents

Landscape and nature conservation. Protected areas. Portuguese Network of Protected Areas .Leisure and recreation. Impacts of leisure and recreation on landscape. Planning and conception of recreation areas in the countryside and urban fringes. The meaning and conception of greenways. Environmental Impact assessment – concepts, law and procedures. Landscape and roads, highways and other structures and infrastructures - planning and landscaping.
Development of preliminary master plan for a rural or ex-urban area, to enhance its aesthetic and ecological qualities , functional articulation , leisure, recreation, cultural and educational use, to achieve: nature conservation, landscape conservation including its cultural heritage, roads and other structure and infra-structures in the landscape, enhancement of the natural and cultural heritage, ecological and aesthetics restoration of river, streams, lakes, wetlands, channels and dams. Rehabilitation of derelict lands.

Teaching Methods

Lectures, conferences with invited specialists, videos, study trips. Development of a master Plan that will be an exercise of synthesis of all the knowledge acquired in the unit and previously. The project is developed into times with compulsory oral presentation of the work. The final classification is the weighted average of the classifications obtained in each phase - 1rst weight 1 and 2nd weight 4. The skills obtained in the curricular unit can’t be evaluated by final examination. So it is proposed an inclusive teaching/learning methodology that intends to counter a sectorial and fragmented approach to landscape design and planning.

Teaching Staff

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