This elective provides an opportunity for students to engage with physical model making as an interpretative, conceptual, design practice, one that mediates our understanding of spaces and places in the natural and urban landscape. It encourages students to persue a purposeful, considered, strategic approach to designing spaces that are informed by personal observation, experiences and reflections of place. Improving and extending student capability in the making and crafting of models is a key aspect of this course.

Students will be required to undertake a range of investigations of a space in the landscape. Using a variety of materials, model making techniques and scales students will construct a series of models that are evocative of the particularities of that space, and its place in the landscape. In improving their model making skills and techniques students will investigate the potential relationships between material choice, site, representation and craft technique.

Involving field and studio work this studio will focus on process development and encourages students to be observant and systematic in undertaking investigations, creative in exploring and experimenting with materials, assemblies and interpretive possibilities, reflective about their decision making, diligent and economic in their craft technique in the making of the models. Assessment in this course will be based on both process and product work. There will be two assessable tasks. An economic selection of materials and tools will be made available.