Technology

in the School of Landscape Architecture

Brendan Harmon

New Technologies

  • Digital Fabrication
  • Lidar
  • Drones
  • Robotics
  • Virtual Reality
  • Tangible Landscape

Digital Fabrication

  • Laser cutting
  • Computer numerical control (CNC) machining
  • 3D printing
  • Vacuum forming

Laser Cutting

CNC Routing

Vacuum Forming

3D Ceramic Printing

3D Ceramic Printing

Digital Fabrication Courses

  • LA 2101 | 7102 Media II: Lasers & 3D Printing
  • LA 4201 | 7075 GIS for Designers: 3D Printing Cities
  • LA 7032 Media III: CNC Routing
  • ART 4020 Ways & Means: Lasers, CNC, 3DP, etc.

Lidar

LSU Art & Design Quad

Author: Brendan Harmon et al.

Platform: Sketchfab

System: FARO Focus

Drones

Flight Training

Aerial Photography

Drone Data Analytics

  • Terrain
  • Vegetation indices
  • Biomass
  • Carbon
  • Flowers

Cajun Prairie Wildflower Meadow Surveys

LSU Hilltop Arboretum

Point Clouds

Meadow Flowers

3,471 flowers surveyed on June 1st, 2020

Flowers

Biomass

Our Drones

Drone Courses

  • LA 7032 Media III: Drone Photogrammetry

Robotic Fabrication

  • Robotic 3D Printing
  • Robotic Planting
  • Autonomous Construction

Robotic 3D Printing

Robotic 3D Printing

Robotic Planting

Aerial Planting

Our Robots

  • 2 x UR5e collaborative robotic arm
  • 1 x UR10e collaborative robotic arm

Robotics Courses

  • LA 7051 Advanced Topics Studio: Robotic 3D Printing
  • LA 7504 Ecological Robotics: Robotic Planting

Virtual Reality

Bioswale

Author: Brendan Harmon

Software: Rhino & Lumion

Platform: Sketchfab

Media: 3D Modeled & Rendered Photosphere

Our Virtual Reality Devices

Tangible Landscape