Catherine Browne Portfolio June 2021

Catherine Browne Landscape Architecture Portfolio erz Landscape Architects 2018-Present PG: University of Edinburgh 2020-2022 UG: University of Greenwich 2014-2017 Bachelor of Arts 2:1 Honours

erz projects Schools, Nurseries and Horticultural Therapy

Ayrshire ASN School From concept to construction I have been involved in the creation of a new ASN school in Ayrshire. This school merges 4 existing schools and creates a custom built environment focused on outdoor therapy and play.

Parklea Horticultural Centre Growing homogeneously over 20 years Parklea provides skills and job opportunities for those with assisted needs, who have left the education system. We were given the opportunity to create a report and sketch design proposal in order for the charity to apply for future funding and extend their lease from the local council.

Parklea Branching Out

(Photo credit to Patna nursery)

East Ayrshire Nurseries Due to government funded support to nurseries with ‘exceptional’ outdoor play space, erz were comissioned to create a series of outdoor classrooms for nurseries accross Easy Ayrshire.

Each classroom contains; a looped path, play mounds, a slide, sandpit, water rill and puddlepond, willow arbour and diverse mix of tree and shrub planting.

We worked along side the clients to assess what the strengths and weaknesses of their current play spaces were, kept the assets (such as the pirate ship below) and removed the harmful - Many of these play spaces were either tarmac or rubber surface, which becomes incredibly slippery when wet and caused many accidents.

Patna Nursery

We were fortunate to be paired with an engaged and enthusiastic client and council team, which made the whole project a delight to work on!

Hurlford Nursery

Newmilns Nursery

erz projects Housing and Green Infrastructure

Dundashill housing development.

Situated at the top of a exposed hill to the North of Glasgow. With West of Scotland Housing Association we were paired with Collective architecture to create a sustainable and biophyllic design for the surrounding landscape. The buildings have been designed to passivehaus standards with each a corresponding rain garden to reduce surface runoff on site. There is a community growing space to the heart of the development and each private garden has a coreten cycle shelter with a lazercut of one of the UKs native trees.

Green Infrastructure Axonometric Following a previous GI study we were commissioned to create a descriptive exploded axonometric to help describe the process contained within the GI system for a council report. These include habitat, water, access routes, public open green space.

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Positive Corona

How can we promote positivity and interact during these unprecedented times?

For the first term of my time in Edinburgh, I focused on the effects of coronavirus on the city of Glasgow, where I have been living for the past 3 years:

Glasgow is a city with a history of external forces coming in and deciding what is best for it. The 1960s grand City Corporation plan of a ‘modern Glasgow’ saw the segregation of communities by the demolition of tenements, expatriation of people to the ‘schemes’ and the dividing plane of the motorway cutting a line through the heart of the city. At the start of the last century Glasgow’s population expanded to over 1 million people, through the industrial decline of the 80s it contracted to 500,000, leaving areas of vacant land and a population ‘rattling around’ its borders.

Testing Engagement I strung up a washing line and pegs and encouraged the idea of the ‘Lost and Found’ and invited people to hang up masks or other found objects to try and change the perceptions of Coronavirus ‘litter’ and create a moment of ‘fun’ during this interesting time.

Left for a few days, a few people participated, hanging up masks. A few days later all of the pegs had been removed, hence the below light paintings, trying to depict the action of taking and involvment.

However, this gave Glasgow room to breathe and thrive creatively. Before coronavirus, you could hear live music in every pub, attend festivals throughout the summer, explore mural trails and historic walks, and be invited to voyeur through people’s windows at the Strathbungo Window Wonderland. Though all of these events have halted, it is possible to recreate them in a new way and inspire engagement in an alternative way.

Bearing in mind the concepts of degrowth, commons and participation. My idea is to create a positive and hopeful socially distanced festival, using inspiration from the restrictions we have and working with them to create platforms for interaction, discussion and joy. The festival will be anchored with landscape Installations throughout Glasgow, located in these areas of industrial decline, curated on a site specific basis and hosted by local community organisations.

This will both regenerate stalled spaces and be a catalyst to create a thriving community. The aim will be to inspire the community to take ownership of these sites and have an influence in what they will be in the future.

A Light Touch: Where Are My Pegs?

Stemming from the idea of a street trail, looking at events such as ‘oor Wullie, hosted throughout Scotland’s cities and the Street Art festival in Bristol. We can look at the idea of a long duration festival, limiting the risk of crowds, ensuring safe social distancing yet encouraging life to evolve and continue.

A Light Touch: Washing Line

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Positive Corona Strategies

Points of Engagement Interactive Map

KEY Community Groups MLA Coursemates Interventions CB Interventions C19 Community Reactions Government City Changes Open Gates Conversations Life Before Govan Docks Bellgrove Cattle Market Hamilton Hill

Catherine Browne

Undergraduate Landscape Architecture Portfolio University of Greenwich 2017 Bachelor of Arts 2:1 Honours

Canal City Creating a Floating Community

Roses and Castles planting scheme

My final year project revolving around the London Canal Systems. With the aim of creating a fun, interesting and sustainable way of dealing with water management, history, culture and the bond between two very different communities: on and beside water.

Reclaimed bricks from local demolished buildings line the dock base.

I took inspiration from Londons 10, 000 floating inhabitants and their ephemeral community and created a haven of water and greenspace. Keeping to the ideals of Old Oak Common and revamping the 17th century canals to a 21st century way of living.

Dock filling Spectacular.

A wave of water from the tanks acts as a tourist attraction to bring visitors to the market.

3D printed Rhino model of Freight Traffic Market

Disabled access ramp and boat launch

The ‘Freight Traffic Market’ water space, which fills up twice weekly/monthly from reclaimed railway tanks, provide a floating water space for people to trade, learn, borrow books from the floating library or see a play at the Puppet Theatre (search for them on Google it is brilliant to watch!).

The drained docks allow for easy maintenance of parts of the boats which would not be accessible normally, as well as a fun interactive place to play, skate or perform.

Gabions made using site reclaimed aggregate

Shaped reclaimed wooden railway sleeper sections

Freight Traffic Market: Dock Filling

CorTen steel sheet pile 1:3 grounding/stabilising ratio

Railway sleeper cutting examples

250mm Final compacted Type 1 sub-base Capping stone made using site reclaimed aggregate

Greenwich Peninsula: Green Lung Community Dynamic Rural Living in the Heart of London

Inspired by the Christiana community in Copenhagen, the Green Lung Community was designed to bring a more homogeneous way of life on a semi-abandoned industrial area of London.

With the aim of actively reducing the urban heat island effect, every conceivable suface is either green space, green roof or permeable paving. With tide-dependant swales adding to an immersive landscape. And a carbon friendly way of living.

Existing: lawnmower Man

Existing

Blackheath Bombs Working With Destruction

A second chance to design Blackheath, I focused on two of its landscape histories, the most recent being its part in the Second World War as both a bomb site and a stable landing site for the Germans. To counteract this, trenches were dug across the site to remove its runway-esque properties. The other history was its role in providing ballast to the Tea Clippers in Greenwich and Woolwich Docks, as a result the ‘heath’ was left pockmarked with pockets of microhabitats, these only being filled up with WW1/2 rubble and becoming the flat landscape we see today.

The aim of this project was to create a fun educational landscape, acting as semi memorial, and a element of hope, to use post-war landscapes as a call for good. With the added provision of being a temporary home to refugees in times of need.

SWOT Analysis

Blackheath Amphitheatre Inspired by the Doris Salcedos’, Shibboleth. The idea was to provide a intersection across a linear desire line. I wanted to interrupt this blinkered route with a fun, interesting, useful and educational installation.

It is part maintained by an annual migration of Mudchute farm’s sheep flock, creating a drove spectacle to entice visitors to the ‘heath.

Acrylic panels to reveal the stratigraphic section

Solar powered lights

Cor-ten reinforcements

West facing section

Hand carved, balsa wood scale model

SuDS Strategy

Roof Top Planting Scheme: Sound and Vision A sensory garden for the deaf and/or blind; focusing on colour, scent, texture, sound and taste.

Sketchbook Pages

Hand Drawn

Flatford Mill. Water colour and Indian ink A3.

Gateway to India. Screen print.

Jodhpur ‘The Blue City’. Fine liner and water colour A3.

Thames Path. Reimagined quick sketch.

Snettisham Beach shingle pits. Fine liner and water colour A2.

Sculptures

Sky High. Sculpture made out of found objects.

Including; Saws, trivets, clock faces, circuit boards, car exhaust, and a copper coil from CRT TV et al.

Copper Wave Installation: 1:200 scale model using balsa wood and copper mesh. Based at the maritime entrance of the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, the wave is designed to both attract and intrigue as well as being a place for shelter. Its contact with the tidal water speeds up the oxidisation process and gradually turns turquoise over time.

Designed to be made from Muntz metal, the like used on the hull of the Cutty Sark in Greenwich, to link in with the history of the site.

Flesh and Bone: Wearable sculptures