work by Helen Rebane
Landscape architecture course for 2nd year architecture students- 22-24 september 2006
The aim of the introductional course was to open minds towards the environment and the surface that we are walking on – the landscape – and interpret it in models according to given themes.
Modelling helps to analyse the characters of the landscape’s different aspects. The idea of the modelling is similar to creative mapping – the process of searching for original materials and testing different ways of compatibility are already part of active imagination, not just rigid analyse. Students were encouraged to invent their own techniques for modelling. Materials have their own character and „message” that is not universal but unique.
The chosen place was Paldiski and especially the bastions from czar Peter I era. After the workshop at the site (tutored by Kalle Komissarov, Katrin Koov and Lilia del Rio) students were asked to make models for three themes – borders, voids, rhythms – of the site. After approval they had to make a final model/drawing with conclusions and give a landscaping idea for enhancing the site.
About results. The course was rich of original materials and self-expressions. Without going here into details we can find joyful, clever, elegant, fragile, thoughtful, systematic models. These models are speaking about students who were excitedly working.
Katrin Koov
work by Mari Hunt
work by Helen Rebane
work by Mari Hunt
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