HORT5407 – Advanced Design Studio
Module code
HORT5407
Module title
Advanced Design Studio
Prescription
The aim of this course is to enable aakonga to create a landscape design project to a professional standard.
NZQA Level
Level 5
NZQA Credits
15
Delivery method
- Web-Enhanced
Learning hours
- Total learning hours
- 150
Resources required
- Content
- LO1
- Client considerations and client relationship management
- Site and environmental analysis
- Development of conceptual basis for design
- Application of Te Aranga design principles with emphasis on kaitiakitanga
- Iterative design process
- Complex site situations or requirements, range examples: rural life-style sites, complex covenant, sloping sections, exposed coastal sites, on-site water body, complex user requirements, etc.
- Sustainability (hard and soft material selection, long-term management strategies)
- Plant and material palettes
- Planting plan
- Construction details
LO2
- Design communication in a graphic format
- Coherent and graphically consistent landscape design document sets
- Verbal presentation skills - Learning Outcomes
- LO1: Produce landscape design outcomes that respond to the complexities of site conditions and project brief.
LO2: Present landscape design proposals in an appropriate professional manner. - Learning and Teaching Resource
- All required and recommended resources are advised to aakonga via course outlines.
- Teaching and Learning Strategy
- Learning and teaching activities will employ a range of elements drawn from approved methods to align with the context of the learning (delivery mode, regional specific requirement, etc.) and any particular needs of the group of aakonga.
- Assessment Criteria
- Assessment in this course is achievement-based. Aakonga must submit all specified assessment items, achieve all learning outcomes, and obtain at least 50% overall in order to pass this course.
