Pathing and Topography

My work this week is landscape architecture, where I will be designing a path from the A-School to a house about a mile away.  There are many rules to this assignment, but the main ones focus on diagramming the trees and root systems, working around them, and never going about a 6% slope increase or decrease (as per Virginia building code).  I'll have to level some of the ground and then carve my way through trees and the UVa ground, eventually weaving through side streets before reaching my destination.

Luckily, the head of the landscape department realized how absurd it was to assign so much work for 3 days, so she has simplified the assignment a tad.

Today I had drawing in the morning where we did tonal diagrams, axons, and perspectives.  Then I had a Rhino class about elevations and how to put those into AutoCAD from Rhino and then use those to laser cut material, making a topography model.  Studio time was spent walking around outside measuring the diameter of tree trunks, the canopies, and mapping the root systems underneath.  The directions are really unclear so I don't know what I'm doing and can't really tell you much.  Here is a little AutoCAD work from today.

I really don't have much to say because I'm not a huge landscape architecture person, but I'm hoping to weave my path through a forest that cuts through a frat house and then wrap that around the main street.

I'm not sure what I'll be doing tomorrow other than drawing in the morning then more Rhino modeling with the laser cutter, but we'll see.  Thanks for reading.