Angela Hird: Landscape Portfolio 2017

ANGELA HIRD LANDSC APE PORTFOLIO 2017

MA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 2015 - 2017 BA TOWN PLANNING 2011 - 2014

EXPERIENCE 2016 - Present

2015 - 2016

MA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: YEAR 2 (SLU, SWEDEN + UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD)

I am an enthusiastic, hardworking and friendly individual who has a passion Landscape Architecture and all creative design. I have been fortunate enough to have recently returned from studying at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, where I explored its forestry and restorative landscape experiments and visited high profile landscape projects within Malmo, Stockholm and over the bridge in Copenhagen.

Resowing Walker Walker, Newcastle Upon Tyne

4-9

Internship: Green Estate Manor Parks, Sheffield

10 - 11

Harbour Transformation Nyhamnen, Malmo, Sweden

12 - 13

MA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: YEAR ONE (UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD) Landscape Urbanism Silver Forest Ring Park, Sheffield

14 - 17

Ecological Design Sheaf Square, Sheffield

18 - 19

2014 - 2015 YEAR OUT PLACEMENT Assistant Development Planner Fairhurst, Newcastle Assistant Landscape Architect Fairhurst, Newcastle

2011 - 2014 BA TOWN PLANNING (NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY)

RE-SOWING WALKER

LOCATION

STRATEGIES

Walker District, Newcastle Upon Tyne

Towards coast

My final university project provides an urban regeneration strategy for the deprived district of Walker, which struggles with a declining population, unemployment + food poverty. The project aims to provide a redefined greenspace framework, to tackle community multiple deprivation issues through urban agriculture. This will slowly transform Walker into a self-sufficient, resilient urban village, with a renewed collective identity surrounding food. The strategy combines top down infrastructure whilst encouraging bottom up projects to build a resilient community incrementally.

Byker Newcastle Quayside

WALKER

PRODUCTIVITY

CONNECTIVITY

HOUSING

Re-allocate vacant space for productive use e.g. food production

Re-link Walker to key destinations + people together i.e. integrated sustainable transport

Infill housing will incorporate productivity + connectivity

Productive Greenways

Densification: Communal Space

Urban

NCR 72

Rural

8.72%

Vacant land for production

Vacant Land [297,050M2 ]

30m2

Empower

Community Spine

Self Sufficiency

PROCESS [Won ARES Design Prize for Excellence in Landscape Design 2017] Key Skills: Greenspace Functionality and Typology Assessment, Masterplanning, Illustrator, Photoshop, CAD. Plant Catalysing Seeds

+ incentivise food production + top down infrastructure

Seeds Activate + Grow

+ food production grows + greenways: networks grow

Seeds Spread

+ new self initiated food growing sites + new housing includes food narrative

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Towards Coast 10 km

Metro 1 km

STRATEGIC PLAN: PRODUCTIVE WALKER

BYKER ESTATE

COMMUNITY SPINE Newcastle Quayside

ST PETER’S MARINA

New Local Centre

INDUSTRIAL PARK

KEY Fruit + Nut Orchard RIVER TYNE

Community Corridor Allotment: tool shed + seating High/ Medium yield fruit + veg production Food Trade + Education Homezones: Streets 400m from green space Potential bottom up food space Housing (Year 20 +) Mixed Use Development (Year 10 +)

DESIGN SITE 10M

50M Reduced from 1:5000 @ A1

BB

WALKER RIVERSIDE SUB-SITE

Community Plots Commercial Plots

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As housing demand grows, land will be released for development. The housing and revitalised riverside park will combine daily life with urban agriculture, providing infrastructure and production plots, inspiring self-sufficient living city wide.

Mixed Use Sheltered Housing Family Housing / Flats Green Roof Courtyards

[A ]

Shared Surface

EXISTING SITE CONDITION

Irrigation Channel + Water Tank Boardwalk: Water

EX - RAIL BRIDGE + CYCLEWAY

POTTERY BANK [historic road]

AA SERIES OF INLETS [historical boat slipways, stone walls]

Fruit Orchard

[B ] CC

SERIES OF TERRACES [grassed ex-industry + tree belts] [Monotonous experience]

Production + Sports

C

RIVER T YNE A 10m

50m

Reduced from 1:1000 @ A1

D

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DD

P R ODU C T ION VISI T OR ’ S C EN T R E

CONCEPT: PRODUCTIVE TERRACES GE

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EVOLVING TERRACES

Year 0 Planting improves soil quality.

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Year 10 Terraced production.

Terracing will organise production + built form, maximising sun capture from south facing banks.

Inspired by vernacular agricultural terraces, geometric forms structure plots which users design individually.

Year 20 + Housing reuses irrigation channels and terracing for domestic production.

SECTION A-AA: PRODUCTIVE PARK

HWL LWL

Commercial Plot

Viewing Platform

Field Maze + Seating

Exploratory Trail

WALKER RIVERSIDE: SECTIONS

Private Garden Main Road

Water Capture

Communal Garden N

Section B-BB Food Trade Square: Flexible events space enclosed by retail ground floor

Section C-CC Kitchen Garden Courtyard: Built form maximises sun capture

National Cycle Route Park Irrigation Channels

Food Growing Plots Temporary Ponds

Housing Grey Water

Section E-EE Urban - Park Threshold: Retention Ponds mark park entrance, welcoming Walker residents + NCR visitors.

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[A] Community Hub

[B] Productive Terrace Greenway

INTERNSHIP: GREEN ESTATE

MANOR FIELDS PARK: ENTRANCE IMPROVEMENTS

Manor Parks, Sheffield Role: Assistant Landscape Architect My main role was to undertake the redesign of pocket parks within Manor, Sheffield. This involved concept and masterplan design, to detailed design and implementation; costings and sourcing suppliers for play equipment. This role has expanded my understanding of landscape maintenance and design implementation, through working to small budgets and a maintenance led design approach.

Key Tasks: • Wrote report offering design and maintenance recommendations for entrances of Manor Fields Park, which has successfully gained funding. • Detailed design and implementation of pocket parks, including providing costings and sourcing suppliers for play equipment.

Key Skills: Site Analysis, Photoshop, Visualisation, Construction, Costings.

Park Entrance

CAD, Swale Extension

Proposed Swale Wall

MANOR POCKET PARK DESIGN CONCEPT

Toddler Fenced Play

3 core play areas will be interlinked with a weaving natural play trail, encouraging movement through the park. Tree and hedge belts will define the play areas and provide a sense of adventure down the sloped topography.

In contrast, the terraced play areas with retaining walls offer pause points with shelter, seating and activity. The metal, linear and block robust forms of the play equipment areas will juxtapose the adjoining natural and flowing shapes of the wood and stone trail. Perennial meadow planting with neat grass edges will add texture and colour, offering a natural buffer from the main road, informal play opportunities and a welcoming entrance to the park.

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Teen/ Junior Play area

7

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FRET SON

MAIN ENTRANCE

ROA D

1 embankment Slide Existing Slide, Regraded Mound, Grass Matting + Play Boulders

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Shared Play area

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[3] TEEN PlAY AREA

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MEADOW DRIFTS 2 embankment ramp 7+ years, £913 - HAGS

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[2] INCluSIVE PlAY AREA

NATuRAl TRAIl

[1] TODDlER FENCED PlAY

SECONDARY ENTRANCE

CLE THE CIR

Toddler Fenced Play

7

5 3

4

3 little climbing net 1.2m 3+ years, £650 - HAGS

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6

2

CONCEPT SkETCh: ThE WEDgE

4 Traverse Wall 1+ years, £743- HAGS

new welcome aRea with bench

RetRofit embankment Slide + GRaSS mattinG

+ meadow

naTural Play Trail 5 rope Walk 7+ years, £550 - HAGS

key FeatureTree (acer campestre)

Meadow with neat mown edge

Wet Pour Safety Surface

Wooden retaining wall with boulder seat features

Multi Stem (Betula Pendula)

rough grass with bulbs asphalt

Play Equipment with grass matting

Steps and Boulder Features, with Gravel Surface

Shrub

Picnic Bench/ Bench

repainted Fencing

butteRfly Roundabout + wet PouR Safety SuRface 6 Roundabout Butterfly 4 – 10 years, £987 - Sutcliffe Play

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Wood/ boulder features: stepping stones, log ramp, Source: own wood stock

Shared Play

Junior/Teen Play

VISuAlISATION: TODDlER FENCED PlAY Drawing Title: Wedge Pocket Park Concept & Visualisation Manor Oaks Farmhouse 389 Manor Lane Sheffield S2 1UL

Project Title: The Wedge Pocket Park

Drawn By: AH

Date: 10.04.17

Checked By: AF

Date: 10.04.17

DWG No:

Rev

Drawing Scale: 1:1000 at A3

Drawing Title: Wedge Pocket Park Masterplan & Play Equipment Manor Oaks Farmhouse 389 Manor Lane Sheffield S2 1UL

8 Olympic Swing Basket + 2 Seat 2+ years, £3,095 - HAGS

9 Balance Beam 6 – 16 year, £882 - Sutcliffe Play

10 Multi-Purpose Fitness Frame 14+ years, £2,999 – HAGS

Project Title: The Wedge Pocket Park

Drawn By: AH

Date: 10.04.17

Checked By: AF

Date: 10.04.17

DWG No:

Rev

Drawing Scale: 1:500 at A3

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STORMWATER CANAL

HARBOUR TRANSFORMATION

FLOATABLE HOUSES

STORMWATER RILL + COMMUNITY SEA PRODUCTION

SEA SPACE

LARGE SCALE SEA PRODUCTION

Nyhamnen, Malmo, Sweden This project challenged my ideas on the role and tools of Landscape Architect’s. Critical of current economic models, the project developed a test site for ‘the next economy’, requiring urban transformation which was resource saving, environmentally friendly and democratically orientated.

As a group we created a 100 year ‘plan-guide’ for the ex-harbour site, Nyhamnen. The project balances top down ‘direction’ to catalyse development with a democratic ‘process’ which leads to user generated landscape and state assisted self-governance.

Key Skills: Film Making, Animation, Sculpture, Critical Thinking,Visualisation.

+3m Storm Event CUT

CUT

CUT

CUT

+66cm New Sea level

LOCATION: MALMO

CLOSED PRODUCTION LOOP

PLAN GUIDE PROCESS Scan Me! For timeline animation

BALTIC SEA

MALMO

PLAN GUIDE SCENARIOS Catalyst Current (Y0 – 5)

Experimental Current (Y5 – 10)

Currents on Land (Y10 – 50)

Clean Water Currents (Y50 – 100) STORMWATER CANAL

Predicted Currents (Y100 +)

FLOATABLE HOUSES

STORMWATER RILL + COMMUNITY SEA PRODUCTION

SEA SPACE

LARGE SCALE SEA PRODUCTION

+3m Storm Event CUT

[Reconnect To Malmo] [Sea Interaction]

[Inspire & Educate] [Land Colonisation from Water] [Try Everything] [Free Rent:Water Values]

CUT

[Controlled Flooding] [Closed Production Loop]

CUT

CUT

+66cm New Sea level

[Mosaic Landscape] [Living on Water] 13

LANDSCAPE URBANISM + DETAILED DESIGN Silver Forest Ring Park, Sheffield Central to this group project was using trees provide a new park at Sheffield’s ring road. We explored how trees can re-prioritise pedestrians, provide new identity and permeate the road barrier.The proposal weaves together 3 distinctive woodland types to unify fragmented roadside spaces. ‘Edible groves’ at key nodes provide meeting spaces, allowing for recreation in a vehicle dominated landscape.

Key Skills: CAD, Photoshop, Visualisation, Detailed Construction.

CONCEPT: ‘FOREST OF RIBBONS’

PLAN: SURFACING & RIBBON BENCH Deep grey granite setts (240x160x100mm). Rough split face finish.

Deep grey granite setts (240x160x100mm). Flame textured.

Cast in situ concrete with light grey aggregate. Strength class C30/37. Sandblast finish.

500mm expansion joints.

Meadow (Matted vegetation roll).

Blister texture concrete paving slabs with light grey aggregate (400x400x100mm).

Hot Rolled Asphalt (HRA 30/14 F Surf 40/60).

Bioswale planted area.

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DETAILED DESIGN: RIBBON BENCH (1:40) Cedar timber square block (70 x 70mm).

Cast in situ concrete with light grey aggregate (ST(C20/25).

Compacted course sand bedding layer (500mm), Class M. Ballast base course 0/45 (300mm) Joining steel Strip (10mm). Hot dip galvanized.

Flat-headed countersunk wood screws (40mm).

Charred Cedar timber durable + turns silver over time

Anchor with counter sunk head, zink plated (dowel length 100mm).

Deep grey granite setts (240x160x100mm).

Rough split face finish.

SECTION A-AA

SECTION B-BB

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ECOLOGICAL DESIGN Sheaf Square, Sheffield This project applied concepts of ‘ecological urbanism’, including ecological vegetation design and low intervention management. The proposal balances ecological function against human uses and water management, within the cultural context of Sheaf Square.

Key Skills:AutoCAD, Photoshop, Google SketchUp, Model making, Illustrator, Masterplanning, Construction and Planting design.

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CONCEPT: ‘URBAN ISLAND OASIS’

K EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

Caltha palustris 6 Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' 5

ECOLOCIAL PLANTING DESIGN

Buddleja 'Lochinch' 1

Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' 5

Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' 5

Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' 5

Phlomis Russeliana 6 Stipa tenuissima 4

Cornus alba 'sibirica' 21 Acer rubrum 1

Liriope muscari 'Monroe White' 17

Betula utilis var. jacquemonti 'Doorenbos' 1 Molinia Caerula 8

Iris 'White Flag' 18

Stipa tenuissima 6 Papaver rhoeas 9 Echinops bannaticus 'Taplow Blue' 7

Buddleja 'Lochinch' 1

Achillea filipendulina 'Cloth of Gold' 5 Leucanthemum vulgare 3

Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Firetail' 1' Caltha palustris 6 Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' 5

Section A-AA @ 1:50 Month of July. Formal urban streetscape - natural calming riverside.

Journey into nature: 'Urban Pioneer' native planting will complement the industrial river channel heritage feature of the derelict brownfield site. Repeating long grasses and specimen trees define otherwise natural 'self seeded' planting styles.

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

e of the derelict brownfield

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

LOCATION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' 5 Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' 5 Betula utilis var. jacquemonti 'Doorenbos' 1 Liriope muscari 'Monroe White' 17

SECTION A-AA: Month of July. Formal urban streetscape to natural calming riverside.

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