Studio - Vegetation and Landscape Regeneration

Code:

AP4014

Acronym:

AP4014

Level:

400

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Landscape Architecture

Instance: 2024/2025 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Geosciences, Environment and Spatial Plannings
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Landscape Architecture

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
M:AP	24	Official Study Plan	1	-	9	70	243

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

To acknowledge the main types of intervention and regenerative design with vegetation for the most recurrent situations of degraded landscapes in the current context, using low-cost and long-lasting techniques and materials (eg, local resources, natural regeneration, native plants, little additive substrates, high resilience, high diversity, low maintenance).

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of this course unit, students should had develop conceptual and technical skills for the regenerative design with vegetation, namely intervention programs, master plans, modeling, and natural drainage plans, planting plans for native vegetation formations, maintenance plans and monitoring, measurement, quantification, and budgeting

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

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Program

1. Regenerative design with vegetation: ethics, aesthetics and functionality.


2. Principles underpinning regenerative interventions with vegetation.


3. Landscape design project promoting and the natural succession.


4. Quarries, rubble deposits and sites with construction debris.


5. Slopes and steep hillsides.


6. Areas subject to desertification, erosion and fire.


7. Watercourse margins, industrial sites, buffers and intensive agriculture buffers.


8. Dunes and costal areas.


9. Landfills and contaminated soil areas.


10. Best practices and reference cases

Note: The programme may have to be readjusted depending on the specific nature of the practical component.

Mandatory literature

A.D. Bradshaw, M. J. Chadwick, ; Restoration of land: the ecology and reclamation of derelict and degraded land (Studies in Ecology). , Blackwell Science Inc, 1980. ISBN: 13: 978-0632091805
João Manuel da Silva Alves; Habitats naturais e seminaturais de Portugal Continental. ISBN: 972-8402-50-3
Kate Kennan; Phyto. ISBN: 978-0-415-81415-7
Landscape Institute; Guidelines for landscape and visual impact assessment. ISBN: 978-0-415-23185-5
D. Harker, G. Libby, K. Harker, S. Evans, M. Evans; Landscape Restoration Handbook, Lewis Publishers, 1997. ISBN: 56670-175-9
Gilbert, Oliver; Anderson, Penny ; Habitat Creation and Repair, Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0-19-854966-0
N. J. Coppin; Use of Vegetation in Civil Engineering, Butterworth-Heinemann. , 1990. ISBN: 978-0408038492

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures:

1. Exposition of syllabus contents using Powerpoint projections.
2. Presentation and discussion of case studies.

 

Studio classes:

Development of designed exercises related to selected topics. These exercises will be focused on real landscapes where disturbances of different types have been identified. The exercise will comprise the analysis and diagnosis of the main existing problems, development of restoration techniques with vegetation, design proposal and forecast of the expected evolution.

The exercises should take place in a “workshop” environment, which should, whenever possible, have invited specialists in the subject under analysis.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Teste	20,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	80,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	173,00
Frequência das aulas	70,00
Total:	243,00

Eligibility for exams

Eligibility for exams: class attendance according to the regulations; compliance with all the evaluation moments; mandatory participation in field trips and in classes with the presence of invited experts

Calculation formula of final grade

Theoretical assessment: 20%.

Practical Evaluation: 80%.

The final grade will be weighted according to the effort put into the preparation and presentation of the work, as well as the students' participation and attendance in class.

Students will carry out a self- and hetero-assessment, which will also be considered when awarding the final grade.

Different marks may be awarded to members of the same group, considering individual effort in preparing the work and performance in the presentation.

Failure to attend or hand in any element of the group assessment will result in students being unable to pass the course.

Examinations or Special Assignments

n/a

Internship work/project

n/a

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

FCUP/UP regulations apply.

Classification improvement

There is no possibility of improvement in any of the assessment moments.

Observations

Jury of the Curricular Unit: 
Cláudia Fernandes
Paulo Farinha Marques


Students exempt from the attendance conditions should previously agree with the teacher about aspects related to their class participation and the mode of assessment in the first week of classes.
Attendance at group assessments, study visits and guest lectures is a condition for obtaining attendance.