ABSTRACT
For landscape architects, exploring the dynamic and often invisible forces and
systems that shape landscape through digital tools or prototyping has immense
potential. Environmental and civil engineering have a long tradition of testing
design performance through physical modelling (such as wind tunnels or hydro-
logical models) or digital simulations. Increasingly accessible software capable of
modelling the fluid dynamics of wind, water, tides, heat, humidity and pollution
present new opportunities for embedding temporality and change into design
processes. This chapter explores how these digital tools, combined with access
to real-time site data, are expanding landscape architecture’s design and research
practice to achieve increased performance capability and novel design outcome.
