Private family garden + phenomenology + deconstructivism; alias landscape design
cooking a la Czech is a thesis project the main purpose of which was to answer authors
questions concerning the practical use of the two design approaches applied to project for a
real site through a development of designs driven by the principles of the respective
styles/movements. Emphasis were paid to the influence the movements have on
architectural and garden design. Second aim was to investigate the appropriateness and
usefulness of designing through a model creation in a miniaturised simulation of the real
situation in three dimensions. Following, and the last step, was to investigate the
effectiveness of the model to communicate and truthfully represent/simulate the impact of
the proposed design interventions. Throughout the work on the project, stages and
consecutive steps taken were recorded to document the process.
Development of the project was divided into several phases. First, suitable site was
chosen and data related to the property gathered. Second, phenomenology and
deconstructivism had been studied - mainly through looking at precedent design work and
development of visual annotated analysis. Third step, happening simultaneously with second,
was creation of a model simulating the current state and conditions on the site. Fourth,
preliminary design proposals were developed. As a reflection on step four, design guidelines
were developed (step five) to provide more steady ground/base for development of a
coherent and better focused final design, which was the product of step six. In the seventh
step, a rough model of the final design was developed and had been gradually refined into a
stage of a final model with minor changes to the design elements occurring throughout the
process. The changes were executed as they became desirable after the three dimensional
simulation of the proposed design was developed and a higher level of understanding of the
spatial relations was achieved.
In conclusion, a high effectiveness of the model "to tell the story" was observed and
emphasized even further by digital photo-documentation targeted to "draw the viewer into
the model space." Lessons about time demands for the model creation were learned and
better level of understanding the way deconstructivism and phenomenology reflect in design
work was achieved.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:BVAU.2429/12750 |
| Date | 11 1900 |
| Creators | Kovář, Martin |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Relation | UBC Retrospective Theses Digitization Project [http://www.library.ubc.ca/archives/retro_theses/] |
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