As students move their Major Design projects from concept stage towards master plans we held a one-day session exploring an aspect of their site in three dimensions.

Student in Model Workshop

We encouraged the group to make working models that could be manipulated and changed to explore design options. Students (and tutors) found the process revealed a new understanding of the individual sites and as hoped, demonstrated the value of working models as tools to explore and convey potential design solutions.

Students in Model Workshop

John MacCleary

Course Director / Leeds School Of Arts

John has practiced as a landscape architect for most of his professional life and is a Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute. He is Course Director for landscape architecture on the undergraduate and postgraduate courses at Leeds Beckett.

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