ABSTRACT
In addition, chunking-as it relates to landscape representation-also implies a conflation of drawing types. Whereas landscape architectural representation has long employed the plan or the section or the perspective or (more recently) the diagram as a means of conveying information, the axonometric chunk provides a method by which to collapse the information conveyed in these individual methods into a single drawing type. Here, the section is extruded into a fragment of the plan, and is then rotated in order to understand both plan and section simultaneously. The material and spatial qualities of the perspective are able to occupy the surface of this extruded section, while the relationships embedded in the diagram can be overlaid on to this composition. When combined with a discrete system of notation, the landscape chunk provides a powerful tool for conveying complex and manifold ideas about urban form and strategy to both disciplinary and lay audiences.
