LAWI100139 Designing across scales - Land use planning
- Type
- course with continuous assessment
- Semester hours
- 3
- Lecturer (assistant)
- Grossauer, Franz
- Organisation
- Spatial Planning, Environmental Planning and Land Rearrangement
- Offered in
- Sommersemester 2026
- Languages of instruction
- Deutsch
- Content
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In this course, students will practise working at different planning scales using a practical example. During the first phase (March–April 2026), they will use local spatial planning instruments (local development concept, zoning plan and development plan) to select and evaluate areas based on specified framework conditions, assigning them the necessary designations.
This semester, the municipality of Tullnerbach will be available to us.
Working in small groups of 4–5 people, we will develop basic principles, conduct site visits and surveys, and analyse the data. At the municipality's request, citizens will also be surveyed at the beginning, and these results will serve as a basis for the planning work. Throughout the semester, there will be ongoing communication with representatives of the municipality to ensure that the results can be built upon in the future.
In the second phase, depending on size and task, one or more sub-areas will be worked on using object planning methods.
- Previous knowledge expected
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Recommended semester: Sixth
Experience in regulatory planning, spatial planning, property planning and landscape architecture.
Design and presentation experience is also required.
Successful completion of the 'Allgemeine Raumplanung' examination is recommended.
Completion of the spatial planning project is also helpful.
- Objective (expected results of study and acquired competences)
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.Students will learn to recognise and classify the connections between regulatory and object-based planning methods and instruments. They will develop an understanding of spatial relationships at different scales, and be able to discuss planning drafts in writing and orally in the context of their scale sequence, as well as presenting them graphically.
Students will be able to name and describe the basic principles of regional planning, local spatial planning (IRUB), and detailed object design (ILA).
They will be familiar with the relevant scales and their significance for landscape architectural planning and design.
Students will explain how design decisions at one scale (e.g. regional or municipal) influence design at other scales (e.g. object).
They will interpret the interactions between regional/local planning and detailed object design.
Students will apply methods of regional planning, municipal planning (IRUB) and object design (ILA) to specific design tasks.
• They will develop design concepts that take into account the requirements of different scale levels.
Students analyse the effects of design decisions at different scales, identifying potential conflicts or synergies.
• They examine how regional and local conditions influence the detailed design of a building.
• Students evaluate the coherence of design concepts between regional planning, local spatial planning, and building design.
• Students assess the sustainability and functionality of design decisions at different scales.
• Students develop independent, innovative design solutions that integrate the requirements of regional and local planning (IRUB) with those of detailed object design (ILA).
They design concepts that consider the interactions between scale levels, implementing them in their designs.
You can find more details like the schedule or information about exams on the course-page in BOKUonline.