Case Study
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Købmagergade, Copenhagen – Karres en Brands – Case Study 3
This example is inspired by a project by the Dutch Landscape Architecture Firm Karres en Brands in Copenhagen, Denmark, the pedestrian street Købmagergade. I saw the project in its initial stages during a visit in 2009 but haven’t yet seen the final results. The concept is fairly simple. The designer wanted to create an effect…
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Keio University Roof Garden – Michel Desvigne – Case Study 02
One of the most interesting landscape architects from the past 20 years is the French Designer Michel Desvigne. His approach to design and form is very contemporary, and he would generally be considered in the avante-garde of the field. He deals with and talks about issues of mathematical complexity, emergent form, intermediacy/in-determinancy, as well as…
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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe – Case Study 01 – Part 01 – Setting up the Plan
This is the first in what I hope to be a longer series of Case Studies, where I want to look at well-known landscape design projects that include parametric thinking, and to try and understand the projects through recreating their logics using Rhino and Grasshopper. This first one is the Memorial to the Murdered Jews…