The Integrated Landscape Design studio was conducted during the Fall 2022 semester as a joint collaborative studio between the Bachelor of Architecture program at SADA-NUST and the Master of Architecture program at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM).

As part of the initiative, SADA-NUST hosted an international colloquium virtually with Universiti Technology Malaysia (UTM) alongside a virtual integrated studio under the Landscape Design course taught by Ar./Lec. Humna Naveed with project advisors, Ar./Asst. Prof. Zainab Javaid, Ar./Asst. Prof. of Prac. Farheen Asim and Ar./Lec. Sidra Khokar.  The studio initiated with a symposium on artificial landscape and urban heritage in South Asian Cities by Ar. Humna Naveed from SADA-NUST and by Dr Shahahriah Noorain from the Dept of Architecture, UTM. The project undertaken titled “Machine Ecologies” was initiated by the supervising faculty at SADA – Ar. Humna Naveed. The project site was located in Islamabad and the duration of the joint studio was a total of 4 weeks.

The project brief was centered on the research topic of terraformation and its impact on landscape ecology and design. It looks at machine processes and their integration in how we shape our current ecology and form of landscape and how it impacts our current plant species, and generates new landscape conditions not only as a site but also as an architectural byproduct  in our ecosystems. The project evokes this concept through two lenses: one of landscape design and second through a climate responsive pavilion as a by-product to this provocation.

The integrated studio was run in collaboration with the master’s in urban Heritage program at UTM under the supervision of Dr Alice Sabrina, Dr Shahariah Noorain and Dr. Azalillah Ramdani. The students presented their work in twelve teams of six students each – three students from the fourth-year undergraduate architecture program at SADA-NUST and three students from Master’s in Urban Heritage program at UTM worked together to deliver detailed landscape design proposals.