Landscape and garden architecture is an aesthetically-based profession founded on understanding of the (human) environment. As is true in the field, design is the core activity of the professional Bachelor in Landscape and Garden Design programme at KASK. Design is a creative process of exploration and inspiration leading up to the design, execution and long-term planning – the successful functioning – of outdoor spaces of diverse scopes and formats. In the design studios, students begin with the garden as a central theme, followed by assignments on an urban scale, to complete the programme with a final assignment on a true landscape scale. This practical approach consistently begins with actual, existing design problems and issues. In addition to the necessary design skills – with which a landscape and garden architect must be able to communicate his or her idea with visualization as a first language – he or she must also have sufficient insight into landscape, ecology and botany, and knowledge of the respective flora, soils, the history of landscape and garden design and the requisite technical stock-in-trade.

The final Bachelor project in Landscape and Garden Design for the 2015-2016 academic year was an academic study project commissioned by the Municipality of Merelbeke, entitled ‘Gemeentepark Ijsenbroek, een recreatieve en educatieve groenpool’ (‘The Ijsenbroek Municipal Park: A Recreational and Educational Pool of Green’). This study project, including an architectural design and a vision statement, embraced every possibility of activating students’ competencies, skills and architectural creativity.
In three large public green spaces around the centre of Merelbeke (and directly related to the town centre) the municipality envision the development of a new recreational infrastructure. These spaces all complement one another, with each having its own recreational function and its own spatial identity. One of the three, Ijsenbroek, at 15 ha, is being organized as a city district park for relatively passive and nature-oriented leisure. Here, the Schellebeek river valley plays an important role as a main artery in the outdoor space. In addition to the internal relationships within the larger whole of the natural complexes (tributaries, sources, landscape relicts and wooded areas), the Schellebeek serves to connect Ijsenbroek Park with the surrounding green elements.

Applying for a bachelor’s degree:

1. Dries Baetens
2. Rowan Beernaert
3. Anthony Blanckaert
4. Louis Bossant
5. Geraard Buyck
6. Thibaut Callens
7. Laurens Carpentier
8. Michiel Carron
9. Benjamin Claeys
10. Abel Cochuyt
11. Siegfried Coens
12. Tieme Coppens
13. Richard De Boeck
14. Klaas De Jongh
15. Bert De Jonghe
16. Florian De Kesel
17. Arthur De Maeyer
18. Tijl De Meulemeester
19. Lieve De Porre
20. Bruno Debaenst
21. Glenn Debey
22. Elias Declerck
23. Bram Dedeyne
24. Pieter Denaeghel
25. Arno Deruyck
26. Diego Desmidt
27. Robbe Devisscher
28. Inge Focquet
29. Jelle Haudenhuyse
30. Julien houtekeete
31. Jakob Kiekens
32. Joren Lathouwers
33. Sophie Lecompte
34. Benoit Leroy
35. Maxim Lissens
36. Geoffrey Marcoen
37. Glenn Michiels
38. Angélique Moonen
39. Lisa Moyson
40. Timo Platteau
41. Jolan Poppe
42. Jeroen Provijn
43. Loran Quintelier
44. Sara Smet
45. Koen Steurs
46. Ivo Thibau
47. Aude Van Brandt
48. Mara Van den Breen
49. Kenneth Van Der Taelen
50. Gauthier Van Waetermeulen
51. Marie-Laura Vandekerkhove
52. Vital Vanderhaeghe
53. Ken Vanhecke
54. Caroline Vanleke
55. Michiel Verbauwhede
56. Femke Vercauteren
57. Thijs Vercruysse
58. Laurens Vereecke
59. Jana Vermeulen
60. Pierre Verraes
61. Sander Wallays