Landscape design is strongly influenced by the site and the context; however, there are many cases where sites are completely fabricated or generic and, sometimes, unknown. While site is one of the key elements in a project, it often discourages intuitive design ideas. The site is another hint, just like any of our design studies. Site analysis helps the project, but your project ideas are not always found in the site. 

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In this context, Landscape Form & Space Design Studio intentionally eliminates sites and programs at the beginning of the project. Instead, the studio focuses on the investigation of design processes that are initiated from interesting found images as results of human and natural action. Sites and programs are invented through the process without being controlled by given conditions. Students are required to work on the unsettled ideas and turn to potential ideas through analytical and physical processes. 

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In conventional design processes, visual representations are often the outcome of analyses of sites, users, or events. We subconsciously try to act like a landscape architect or an architect, and all of our representations turn out to look like “landscapes” or “buildings.” However, there are no boundaries between buildings and non-buildings in our design processes. All drawings and models become the subjects for experiments, exploration, and interpretation.