Multi-scalar geo-landscape models: Interfacing geological models with landscape surface data

Melsom, J

Multi-scalar geo-landscape models: Interfacing geological models with landscape surface data

Melsom, J

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Citation:: Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture, 2020, 2020, (5), pp. 59-69
Issue Date:: 2020-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Melsom, J https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6703-6743
dc.date.accessioned	2020-09-03T00:46:03Z
dc.date.available	2020-09-03T00:46:03Z
dc.date.issued	2020-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture, 2020, 2020, (5), pp. 59-69
dc.identifier.issn	2367-4253
dc.identifier.issn	2511-624X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/142517
dc.description.abstract	© Wichmann Verlag, VDE VERLAG GMBH. Large scale geological processes inform many of the fundamental landscape characteristics shaping our landscapes, yet their form and nature remain abstracted from most aspects of Landscape Architectural practice. This is due to both the scale and nature of these processes, which do not fit within the frameworks of landscape architectural descriptive techniques, which tend to describe surface characteristics, and often resist translation into territorial scales. Despite the dominance of geology in many of our built environments, the geological scale remains abstract in modern literature and thought, whether in size, materiality or timescale, from its solid strata to its eroded form (MONTGOMERY 2007). This research develops a workflow to import three dimensional models from proprietary mining and geological software into Landscape Architectural packages, facilitating the integration of surface conditions with the underlying geological terrain. The selection, cropping, interrogation and integration of geological data offers new possibilities for fundamental Landscape Architecture education, and the fields of environmental design and planning, including prioritisation of land use for resource extraction, underground water management, and earthworks in terrains with shallow bedrock geologies.
dc.language	en
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.14627/537690007
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.title	Multi-scalar geo-landscape models: Interfacing geological models with landscape surface data
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	2020
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Architecture
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*
dc.date.updated	2020-09-03T00:45:53Z
pubs.issue	5
pubs.publication-status	Published
pubs.volume	2020
utslib.citation.issue	5

Abstract:

© Wichmann Verlag, VDE VERLAG GMBH. Large scale geological processes inform many of the fundamental landscape characteristics shaping our landscapes, yet their form and nature remain abstracted from most aspects of Landscape Architectural practice. This is due to both the scale and nature of these processes, which do not fit within the frameworks of landscape architectural descriptive techniques, which tend to describe surface characteristics, and often resist translation into territorial scales. Despite the dominance of geology in many of our built environments, the geological scale remains abstract in modern literature and thought, whether in size, materiality or timescale, from its solid strata to its eroded form (MONTGOMERY 2007). This research develops a workflow to import three dimensional models from proprietary mining and geological software into Landscape Architectural packages, facilitating the integration of surface conditions with the underlying geological terrain. The selection, cropping, interrogation and integration of geological data offers new possibilities for fundamental Landscape Architecture education, and the fields of environmental design and planning, including prioritisation of land use for resource extraction, underground water management, and earthworks in terrains with shallow bedrock geologies.

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