Digital Landscapes
From sensing to design to fabrication — one continuous digital workflow.
Digital Landscapes is the practice of Marc-Eduard Ihle, based in Northern Norway, working at the intersection of architecture, landscape architecture and design.
The work spans the full digital chain, from sensing to making. Sites are captured through UAV flights, 3D scanning and surveying at every scale; geographic information systems and terrain analysis turn that data into a precise reading of a place — its ecological context, its prevailing climatic and morphological conditions, its pre-existing potentials.
That understanding becomes the ground for performative design strategies that negotiate natural interests with architecture: vernacular, locally rooted solutions, developed with a wide range of digital tools and increasingly powered by AI.
The same data carries through to making. Digital fabrication — laser-cutting, 3D printing, robotic milling — turns designs into physical models at every scale, from landscape to object, a decade of practice folded into every step.
Alongside commissioned work, Digital Landscapes is active in research and teaching, exploring the ideas and potentials of the digital landscapes of tomorrow.
Services & Competence
Architectural Design & Spatial Planning
UAV Aerial 3D Scanning
GIS & CAD Solutions
Digital Terrain Analysis and Site Survey
Graphic Design & Visualization
Digital Design and Fabrication
Teaching
Digital Landscapes teaches bespoke digital tooling to foster a more fruitful dialogue between architecture and landscape — GIS, CAD, parametric systems and digital fabrication — in courses, studios and workshops.
Research
Research centres on terrain: point cloud analysis, geomorphometric features and the visual and material translation of landscape data — pursued through projects, publications and built experiments.
Marc-Eduard Ihle