A case study of the traveling transect - site discovery through analysis and design
This thesis undertakes the issue of ‘site’, what defines a site, how to discover it and how to translate knowledge created in the phase of analysis into design. More specifically it focuses on water landscapes as sites defined by elusive, ephemeral and site specific aspects. These topics all come together in the form of a caste study seeking an answer to the question of ‘how a method for site analysis, specifically designed to communicate site specificity and ephemeral aspects of the landspace affects the design process?’. This case study explores ‘The Travelling Transect’ as a method for site analysis. This is a method, created by three professors in landscape architecture; Lisa Diedrich, Ginni Lee and Ellen Braae. The method has also introduced most of this thesis theoretical framework with writers such as Andrea Kahn, Carol Burns and Alexander von Humboldt.