HKU-Landscape-Annual-2013-14

BA(LS)
ARCH4710
Landscape
Practicum
Instructors:
Vincci Mak, Nina Wang
(teaching assistant)
Landscape
Practicum
The Landscape Practicum is an elective course aimed
at offering landscape students in their senior years an
opportunity to nurture practical knowledge and experience
in developing a conceptual design idea into a realized built
project.
In this course, students approached a real-life project with
an actual site, real-life users/clients, and had to commit to
deliver a built project at the end of the course.
Through these real-life engagements, students were required
to, first, learn from the theoretical ideas of landscape
architecture, and second, apply these learnt theories to
practical issues.
Emphasis was placed on translating classroom-learnt
knowledge into out-of-classroom learning experience.
In this course, students learnt and gained hands-on knowledge
about the issues involved in building landscape architecture,
such as site and functions, users’ needs, cost, schedule,
materials, construction techniques, on-going site performance
and maintenance, etc.
Landscape Practicum
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Students cosulting with
village representatives
about their designs
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Students installing a new
community garden in
Pokfulam Village
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