Studio Co-ordinator:- Ravindra Punde
-Sharvin Jangle
Landscape architecture is the way of designing and creating an outdoor space that people can interact with. This includes things like streetscapes, plazas and even residential areas. It is focused on designing and crafting outdoor environments, integrating both natural and built elements. This field bridges the gap between architecture and ecology, focusing on the harmonious coexistence of human activity and natural processes in public and private spaces.
Saee Patil
Landscape is Indigenous (native) where one can connect themselves to nature. Landscape is an ecologically balanced space, which develops, and maintains through the natural seasons of nature. Where all kinds of beings inhabit.
Harshita Patel
Landscape Architecture is not gardening, it is not a front yard lawn or a tree plantation project; I believe landscape includes coagulation of Humans, non-humans and other biological matters busy in their process competing with each other. Some 'landscape ' entities have tried dominating a shared home we call 'Earth', but every time they have, they somehow fail.
Landscape Architecture is a continuum of different biological processes, and can also be said, a creation of multiple layers of organic cycles happening together
Sahil Sawant
These initial perspectives opened up various imaginations of the landscape. It reflects one’s context, practice, and scales of looking at the environment. Throughout the course, these imaginations were questioned and redefined.
“What is a forest? how does one make a forest?”
“How does one think about landscapes in a cluster of slums?”
“How do you think about the landscape of a Slum redevelopment scheme through its services?”
“What does flood mean?”
“When the landscape is dynamic, how do you draw time?”
The course focused on broadening the term landscape. It taught students that landscape is a larger framework for making space, not just flora and fauna. It opened up many layers at which a space can be learnt and understood through the landscape. Some of the layers we worked with were geology, natural drainage patterns, existing ecology, soil conditions, seasonal variation, flora and fauna. These layers helped us understand that these flows can shape and govern space and form. When we were introduced to the design process various questions about these flows were asked to us like: How does your intervention sit in the context and why? How does the intervention touch the ground? How do the variables of the site dictate the form of the space? These questions made us rationalise every decision we took and taught us that the moment we decide to intervene is the moment we are going to be disruptive to the environment. To contemplate this statement we had multiple discussions on terrain and the flows at the urban level as well. These discussions multiple times led us to ask a very large question: Vikas ki Paribhasha kya hai? (What is the definition of development?).
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