Week 18 – Physical Model Planning & Water Management Representation

This tutorial focused on planning the physical model and exploring how water management systems could be represented through the model-making process. The session investigated how the model could communicate the movement of water across the site, materiality, planting areas, and the tensile canopy structures.

The sketches explored both the conceptual layout of the model and the physical materials required to represent the landscape proposal accurately at model scale.

• How water flows through the site

• Representation of drainage channels and ponds

• Layering and materiality within the model

• Physical representation of the tensile canopy structures

• Relationship between hard landscape, planting, and water systems