Environmental Design

Urban professions
Lesson 4 - Part 2:
- Landscape Architecture
- Geomatics

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 Landscape Architecture
(Definition)

Landscape architecture (LA) is the art and science of planning,

designing, constructing and managing outdoor spaces (Built
and natural) at different scales.

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 Landscape Architecture
Landscape architects enhance the
quality of our lives by adding
beauty & functionality to the
environment…

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 Landscape Architecture

Brief History:

1863 – Birth year of LA profession by

Olmosted and Vaux
1900 – First academic program of LA
worldwide
1976 – First academic program of LA
in the Arabic world was in KAU,
Saudi Arabia.

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 Landscape Architecture
(Types of Projects)

Plazas Pedestrian areas

Sport Clubs Playgrounds
University Campuses
Shopping Centers
Highways Parks
Resorts
Residential Projects
Recreation Areas
Trails and Bike Paths
and much more…
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 Landscape Architecture
(Scales of Work)

Large: Medium: Small:

LANDSCAPE SITE SITE DESIGNING &
PLANNING PLANNING CONSTRUCTION DETAILING

- Urban Open Space - Coastal Areas - Roads

System - Campuses - Parking
- Transportation - Parks - Playgrounds
- Impact Analysis - Complexes - Picnic & Campgrounds
- Reclamation - Grading - Small structures
- Conservation -Shopping Centers - Paving
- National Parks - Business Centers - Planting
- Etc… - Etc… - Lighting
-Etc…
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 EXAMPLE: Large Scale> LANDSCAPE PLANNING > Transportation

Suitability
Analysis
Categories:

- Flora
- Fauna
- Geology
- Topography
- Soil
- Hydrology
- Climate
- Land use

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 EXAMPLE: Medium Scale> SITE PLANNING > Residential Complex

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 EXAMPLE: Small Scale> SITE DESIGNING > Spaces around buildings

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 EXAMPLE: Small Scale> CONSTRUCTION DETAILING

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 Landscape Architecture
(Clients type/communication)

 Private Sector:
- Landscape Architecture firms…
Types of Clients: - Architecture firms…
- Engineering & Construction firms…
- Investment & Development firms,
-Private Sector - Consultation firms
- Planning firms.
-Public Sector (third-party-users) - Research Centers.
-Who approach first?
-Understanding and healthy relations
 Public Sectors:
- Ministries…
- Municipalities…
- Transportation…
- Environmental…
- Planning…
- Educational…
- Research Centers…

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 Landscape Architecture
(Needed Skills)

Some Needed Basic Skills:

-Appreciating nature…
-Understanding environmental issues in design/planning
- Appreciating engineering and environmental sciences
- Ideas conceptualization and realization
- Communication skills
- Graphical: (Free-hand & Computer)
- Verbal

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 Geomatics
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 Geomatics
(Definition)

Geomatics is the science and

technology of gathering,
analyzing, interpreting,
distributing and using
geographic information.

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 Geomatics
(History)

• Geomatics Term - first used in 1975 by Bernard Dubuisson.

• First Academic program in (1986) – Laval University, Canada.
• Geomatics (new) = Geoinformatics (relatively old)
• Partially new discipline – Partially an umbrella for a number
of disciplines.

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 Geomatics
(Disciplines)

1. Geographic Information Systems (GIS): captures, stores,

analyzes, manages, and presents data that is linked to
location
2. Global positioning system (GPS): provides reliable
positioning, navigation, and timing services anywhere on
earth using satellites, monitoring stations on earth and the
GPS receivers owned by users.
3. Geodesy: a branch of earth sciences, is the scientific
discipline that deals with the measurement and
representation of the Earth, including its gravitational field,
in a three-dimensional time-varying space.
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 Geomatics
(Disciplines)
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4. Remote sensing
5. Surveying
6. Cartography
7. Photogrammetry: the science of taking measurements
from photographs to make physical maps, including
topographic maps
8. Computer Science

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 Geomatics
(Dimensions)

Space (X Y Z) + Time (T) = XYZT

3Ds + 1D = 4Ds

Examples: Population growth, Gender & Age

distributions, Air Temperature… etc.

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 Geomatics
(Dealing with Data)

1. Data Collection:
Instruments:
a. Ground-based
b. Air-based
c. See-based
d. Satellites

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 Geomatics
(Dealing with Data)
2. Processing & Analyzing:

3. Final Products:
- Thematic Mapping
- Surveys
- Satellite Images
- 3D Models

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 Geomatics
(Clients)

Canadian Study (2004):

68% Private Sector

32% Government and Public institutions

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