*NOTE: label EVERYTHING in a consistant system, number/title trace paper to look back to.

thesis_reseach thesis_analysis thesis_designdocs thesis_constructiondocs thesis_book, boards, etc.

thesis_reseach_flooding thesis_reseach_soils

thesis_reseach_flooding-Book Title.doc thesis_inventory_flood map-Red River Basin.pdf thesis_inventory_flood map-Fargo.pdf thesis_cd_floodwall-CompNameorType.pdf

THESIS

thesis_cd_floodwall.dwg thesis_cd_bench.dwg thesis_scriptforbook.doc thesis_book_DATE.ind thesis_boards_r&a.ind thesis_boards_r&a.pdf

DO NOT get caught up in graphic layout, graphics, or titles, until completion of analysis! Sketch out ideas but dont impliment them until after analysis. Let it look like crap, just get the info and organize it. RESIST THE URGE! With all the info in, you can storyboard the whole thing, and develop a layout from that, saving, DAYS of wasted work! Script everything in Word. 11x17,8.5x11,landscape,portrait based off site map.

programming/analysis

program/data get your arms around it environmental design, fusion of art and science in a set of forms suitable for habitation. Form as landscape spaces available for human occupation and use.

RESEARCH

issues: problems/needs: quantitative & qualitative precedents: research into projects addressing similar issues goals and objectives: what is desired (goal) and how it will be accomplished (objective) program: goals/objectives/precedents combine to establish the program
*chart form helps

activites - use settings - describes form/style/char. of landscape of the activity quantities - estimate of items needed per setting materials - materials/landscape elements inventory: what is there (cslope, aspect, geology, soils, hydro/drainage, veg., climate, wildlife,
cultural:historical use, current land use, aesthetics, circulation, structures, utilities, ownership, land use zoning,) *only use those that apply

turn program/data into information

ANALYSIS

analysis: what difference it makes to your program?

homogenous units corresponding to characteristics of the landscape analyized for ability/appropriateness to accomodate settings for program activities

Design Process

design development

SYNTHESIS

articulation of space and form

theme: written descriptive philosophical prose concept: drawn descriptive philosophical prose (symbolic) functional diagram: bubbles, arrows, symbols, exploring/analyzing/describing relationship of activities/settings to eachother and to the landscape schematic: detailed sketch to scale analyzing/describing proposed landscape form/pattern in terms of masses and voids.
loose, , many labels/annotations *a.k.a. conceptual plan

sections/elevations : perspectives : human scale master: proposed landscape

contract documents

grading plan, planting plan, irrigation paln, electrical plan, details. numbers, supplies, materials, etc.

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