ArChimera // The Island of Entropic Flux
Landscape Architecture Programmes
University of Edinburgh
The five projects presented in this one document represent a selection of the landscape architecture design portfolio projects completed at ESALA in the last two years. Five landscape architecture students from the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes are independently represented in this succinct showcase, the authors of the different projects are: Jennifer Fauster, Norman Villeroux, Yanqin Pan, Yiyu Zhu and Anna Reid, their work has been developed autonomously within different studio contexts.
The school aims to support students in developing unique and distinct voices in their work and to harnesses the creative context of Edinburgh College of Art at all stages of project development. The project studios at ESALA centre on site specific landscape architecture problem contexts in which reading the landscape is foregrounded through both studio explorations and active fieldwork. In the studio, drawing in the widest possible sense is encouraged in both two and three dimensions supported by the dedicated workshops. ESALA acknowledges climate breakdown as a socio-ecological environmental crisis, one to which the built environment professions contributes in no small part. Together with colleagues from across the school, we are working to collectively re-examine teaching and research practices, modes of working and making, values and responsibilities.
ESALA staff who have contributed directly to the studio projects showcased here, for the Manhattan based projects: Adrian Hawker, Victoria Clare Bernie and Tiago Torres Campos, for the Oslo based projects: Lisa Mackenzie and Chris Gray, and for the Scotland North Coast Landscapes context projects: Elinor Scarth and Anaïs Chanon.