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Requirement

2. Four questions about the site you visited

Required

All four are required and all four are about requirement 1's site, which is why this requirement opens by naming it. Nothing here can be looked up afterwards: every one of the four answers is an observation, and the only place to make it is standing on the ground somebody designed.

Notes and warnings

Note. ALL FOUR PARTS ARE REQUIRED AND ALL FOUR ARE ABOUT ONE AFTERNOON. This requirement opens "After completing requirement 1" and is the only place on the badge that says so, because there is nothing here to discuss until you have stood on the site. TAKE THE NOTES AND THE PHOTOGRAPHS WHILE YOU ARE THERE. Every one of the four asks about something precise that memory blurs within a fortnight: how the space was divided, where the way in was and how you knew, where you could walk, where the sun fell and at what time, how the seating and the parking sat in the whole, and which plants were doing which job. If you obtained the design plan in requirement 1, mark your observations on a copy of it as you go, because half of these questions are asking what the designer intended and the drawing is where the intention is written down.

What this is made of

Where this step comes from

  1. Landscape Architecture Merit Badge Requirements (Merit Badge Hub, last modified 2025-09-19), Requirement 2 · The requirement opens "After completing requirement 1", naming that requirement by number.