TOPOGRAPHY AND LANDFORM

GSD CAREER DISCOVERY 2012 | LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

...landscape is a system where a point of change is distributed smoothly across a surface so that its inuence cannot be localized at any discrete point... The slow undulations that are built into any landscape surface as hills and valleys do not mobilize space through action but instead through implied virtual motion... The landscape can initiate movements across itself without literally moving. The inections of a landscape present a context of gradients, which are enfolded. - Greg Lynn, (1999) Animate Form, p.29

TOPOGRAPHY AND LANDFORM

Application in design

TOPOGRAPHY AND LANDFORM

Application in design Material response

TOPOGRAPHY AND LANDFORM

Application in design Material response Basic landform types

Wave Field, Maya Lin, Storm King Art Center, NY, 2009

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Wave Field, Maya Lin, Storm King Art Center, NY, 2009

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Pompeii Stadium, Pompeii, Italy

Cultural | Collection

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Jordan Park, Richard Haag, Everett, Washington, 1970-1972

Cultural | Collection

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Fiddlers Green Amphitheatre, George Hargreaves, Englewood, CO, 1984

Cultural | Collection

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Carcassonne, France

Military | Defense

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Military | Defense

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Ha-ha at Stowe Landscape Gardens, Buckinghamshire, England

Agriculture | Formal Aesthetics

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Agriculture | Formal Aesthetics

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Agriculture | Formal Aesthetics

Ha-ha at Stowe Landscape Gardens, Buckinghamshire, England

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

old book scan

General Applications

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

El Garraf, Vall den Joan Landll, Batlle i Roig Arquetectes, Barcelona, 2002-2010

Circulation

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Shrubs

Vines + crops

El Garraf, Vall den Joan Landll, Batlle i Roig Arquetectes, Barcelona, 2002-2010

Circulation

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

El Garraf, Vall den Joan Landll, Batlle i Roig Arquetectes, Barcelona, 2002-2010

Circulation

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Pedra Tosca Park, RCR Arquitectes, Les Preses, Girona, Spain, 1998-2002

Circulation

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Pedra Tosca Park, RCR Arquitectes, Les Preses, Girona, Spain, 1998-2002

Circulation

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Pedra Tosca Park, RCR Arquitectes, Les Preses, Girona, Spain, 1998-2002

Circulation

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

The View from the Road, D. Appleyard + K. Lynch (1965)

Circulation

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

The View from the Road, D. Appleyard + K. Lynch (1965)

Circulation

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Olympic Sculpture Park, Weiss/Manfredi, Seattle, WA, 2007

Programmatic

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Olympic Sculpture Park, Weiss/Manfredi, Seattle, WA, 2007

Programmatic

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Expo 02, Swiss National Exhibition, West 8, 1998-2002

Programmatic

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Expo 02, Swiss National Exhibition, West 8, 1998-2002

Programmatic

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Expo 02, Swiss National Exhibition, West 8, 1998-2002

Programmatic

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Expo 02, Swiss National Exhibition, West 8, 1998-2002

Programmatic

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Landform Analysis, University of Toronto Student work

Ecology

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Circuits

+
Through Flows

Downsview Park Competition, James Corner Field Operations + Stan Allen,Toronto, ON 1999

Ecology

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Downsview Park Competition, James Corner Field Operations + Stan Allen,Toronto, ON 1999

Ecology

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Freshkills, James Corner Field Operations, Staten Island, New York, 2006 - ongoing

Ecology

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Freshkills, James Corner Field Operations, Staten Island, New York, 2006 - ongoing

Ecology

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Freshkills, James Corner Field Operations, Staten Island, New York, 2006 - ongoing

Ecology

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Freshkills, James Corner Field Operations, Staten Island, New York, 2006 - ongoing

Ecology

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Freshkills, James Corner Field Operations, Staten Island, New York, 2006 - ongoing

Ecology

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | APPLICATION IN DESIGN

Connecticut Water Treatment Facility, Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, New Haven, CT, 2001-2005

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | MATERIAL RESPONSE

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | MATERIAL RESPONSE

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | MATERIAL RESPONSE

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Parc del Ocellets, Battle i Roig, Barcelona, 2009-2011

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | MATERIAL RESPONSE

Guadalupe River Park, George Hargreaves, San Jose, CA

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | MATERIAL RESPONSE

ADE ORIGINAL GR

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | MATERIAL RESPONSE

ADE ORIGINAL GR

FINISH GRADE

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | MATERIAL RESPONSE

ADE ORIGINAL GR

CUT FINISH GRADE FILL

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | MATERIAL RESPONSE

Volume / Massing

Linear Forms

Stepped / Terraces

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | BASIC LANDFORM TYPES

Volume / Massing

Linear Forms

Stepped / Terraces

TOPOGRAPHY + LANDFORM | BASIC LANDFORM TYPES