Project Name: Learning Landscapes University Program
Project Overview:
A year-round hands-on, civic engagement curriculum at UCD enlists graduate students to develop master plans in the fall and design documents in the spring. UCD students prepare master plans comprised of 5 main components:
- a vision,
- a set of goals to implement the vision,
- a program of uses,
- a spatial relationship diagram and
- an aesthetic ordering system.
The master plan targets existing and proposed uses, relationships between uses, and programmatic requirements for uses, maintenance and safety issues, and preliminary cost estimates.
Once the master plan is complete the schools participating in the Learning Landscape program move into a design studio where graduate students synthesize the pieces of the master plan into a detailed site design. This process involves the students, teachers, parents and communities. All work together to develop a comprehensive and detailed campus plan, identifying cost estimates for traditional and non-traditional construction alike. The end product for the studio is a set of design development drawings. Landscape architects are selected to finalize the student’s drawings in the form of construction documents. In the summer students gain invaluable experience in independent design-build classes at DPS schools under construction.
Project Aims:
- Civic engagement
- Hands-on experience for graduate students
For more information please contact:
Cate Townley, MURP MUD
Volunteer and Maintenance Coordinator
303-556-2608
Cate.Townley@ucdenver.edu