Architecture for Landscape

The workshop will represent an opportunity for practical synthesis through which students will test all the notions provided through the other teaching modules, offering participants the opportunity to engage with a real landscape architecture project. Tutored by Patrick Lüth, Managing Director at Snøhetta Innsbruck, in collaboration with LWCircus and with contributions from Simon Bussiere, landscape architect and professor at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, the workshop will focus on the development of a school dedicated to the production, experimentation and dissemination of local cultivation practices in Hawaii. 

The project will address the definition of an integrated system of open spaces and lightweight structures, able to combine agricultural activities, educational functions, and spaces for exchange and sales, acting as a new model of community market rooted in the landscape. In this context, the design will serve as a connecting tool between the natural environment and the social dimension, translating the principles of sustainability and adaptability into coherent and measured spatial solutions.

Particular attention will be given to the project’s ability to respond to complex environmental conditions through resilience strategies that integrate water management, flexible use and enhancement of local resources. Students will be expected to develop proposals that can interpret the landscape as an active infrastructure, where architecture, ecology, and community converge within a unified system.

Through the workshop, landscape architecture will serve as an operational tool to forge new forms of relation between humans and the environment, re-establishing the territory at the centre as a productive, cultural, and shared space.