The Landscape Architecture Environments stream develops your capacity to understand, interrogate, and work with landscape systems, processes, and materials. Across the stream, you will explore the complexity and dynamic behaviour of landscapes through design-led learning activities including drawing, mapping, documenting, researching, making, fabrication, and prototyping.

The stream consists of four sequential courses: Environments 1-4

Environments 4, the final course in the course sequence, focuses on the application of landscape architectural knowledge within a professional practice context. The course consolidates and extends your understanding of structural, material, and construction systems through design research and modification processes aligned with contemporary landscape architectural services.

Building on the skills and knowledge developed across the Environments stream, this course positions you to operate at the intersection of design, documentation, technical resolution, and professional responsibility. You will integrate landscape systems thinking with the performative behaviour of materials, construction techniques, and site-based interventions.

You will apply this knowledge through an applied design project that engages landscape structures, materials, and construction processes, supported by small-scale prototyping and testing. Emphasis is placed on the preparation of landscape architectural specific documentation, including technical drawing sets and representational material that reflect professional standards of communications and delivery.

This course is a designated Work Integrated Learning (WIL) course for the Bachelor of Landscape Architectural Design. Your learning will be situated in real or simulated professional contexts, including industry-informed projects or scenarios. Feedback from industry and/or community stakeholders forms an integral part of the learning and assessment process.

Learning activities include field-based research, lectures, and technical workshops. Through these activities, you will investigate, test, and modify landscape systems and develop professional judgement in relation to constructability, performance, and site conditions.