Landscape Architecture Portfolio Eddie Pugh

PORTFOLIO EDDIE PUGH selected works 2020 - 2022 Master of Landscape Architecture Manchester School of Architecture

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CV

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STATEMENT

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STUDIO

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&rchitecture Garden Landscape Landscape Urbanism

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EXPERIENCE

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Terraform Landscaping

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ENGAGEMENT

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CV

TRANSFERABLE SKILLS PUBLIC AFFAIRS

Work cohesively within a team, with the ability to lead projects •

Liaise, manage and maintain professional relations and contacts •

Excellent oral and graphic communication skills •

KNOWLEDGE

Technical fieldwork and landscape management abilities •

Research and analysis in professional and academic contexts • Know-how of putting sustainability into practice •

Experience in QGIS, AUTOCAD, SKETCHUP • Fluent in ADOBE SUITE •

EMPLOYMENT and EXPERIENCE LANDSCAPE JOURNEYMAN // Terraform Landscaping // Vancouver My role involved turning drawings from architect studios into the physical built form. This included planting, irrigation systems, stone walls and planters, earthworks, drainage, fencing, hardscaping, and timber construction.

Projects included a Passive House in West Vancouver. [2018 - 2019]

COUNTRYSIDE RANGER // Shropshire County Council // Shropshire My role was to promote understanding of the Country Park and Rights of Ways, conserve and enhance the natural landscape, and provide a key point of contact between Shropshire County Council Outdoor Recreation, local people and visitors. [2015 - 2016]

RECYCLING AMBASSADOR AND EVENT MANAGER // Alupro // International Every Can Counts is a non-profit organisation that focuses on the partnership between drink can manufacturers and the recycling industry. [2012 - 2018]

STUDIO PLACEMENT // Landscape Projects // Manchester Virtual part-time placement with Manchester based landscape architecture studio. My role was to assist with developing and researching live projects. [2021]

EDUCATION

Master of Landscape Architecture // Manchester School of Architecture [2020 - 2022] BSc Honours Geography (Sandwich) 2:1 // Manchester Metropolitan University [2014 - 2018] Landscape Studies // Landscape Atelier // Contemporary Urbanism and Planning // Impacts and Models of Climate Change // Glacial Systems // Climate and Climate Change // Geomorphological Processes // Social and Cultural Geography // Fieldwork Activities // Spatial Methods (GIS) // Earth Systems // Introducing Human Geography

ACHIEVEMENTS The Atkins Placemaking Award // Winner of the 2021/2022 MSA award Featured on Dezeen // Studio project shared on Dezeen.com Landscape Institute // Student Member and Speaker - Invited to share MLA feedback to LI NW board Landscape Architectural Cultural Exchange with CEPT // Speaker - Invited to share MLA project &rchitecture Atelier // Student Representitive The Carbon Literacy Project // An awareness of carbon costs and impact on an individual, community and

organisational basis.

m: 07401302579 e: eddie150@live.co.uk a: 93 Grove Lane, Hale, Cheshire, WA15 8JQ

Young Curators // Co-curated an exhibition entitled ‘Lines of Desire’ at the Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown, Merz Barn Harry Pierce Garden // Workshop, research, curation project at the Merz Barn, Lake District [w.i.p.]

Landscape has always been something that intrigues me. I feel most at home in the outdoors, thriving off the natural landscapes I grew up in at the English/ Welsh border. From an early age I wanted to question these landscapes, how they are formed, and how they were used. This formed the basis for me to study Geography as an undergaduate. Living abroad in Canada has allowed me to view different approaches to landscape and how it manifests or emerges. I have also travelled parts of Asia, the Middle East and much of Europe. Through this I have continually built a picture of how landscape is intertwined with its process, culture and political nature.

I have taken this passion and knowledge one step further by studying for my Master of Landscape Architecture. I hope that I can contribute beneficially to the field of Landscape Architecture, building upon my resourcefulness and diverse experiences. I am passionate about protecting, enhancing and establishing long term successful and sustainable landscapes. I aspire to be part of an industry that has the ability to improve the public's relationship with the environment. I believe we can create world class solutions to the highly important ‘spaces in between’.

My strength lies in my approach and ability to think creatively, recognising potential and possibilities that each landscape already possesses and can be re-cast from. I believe strongly in the ‘unfinished’, spaces that aren’t overprogrammed, and most importantly, give opportunity. I work hard to improve and increase my technical skills, theoretical base, and approach to landscape architecture. I want to continue to be inspired by my passion for the environment and my belief that good design is paramount for a sustainable future.

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STUDIO &RCHITECTURE ATELIER HIDDEN TERRITORIES Hidden [ hid-n ] concealed; obscure; covert: Territory [ ter-i-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ] land with a specified characteristic

This insatiable appetite of capitalism has altered Burnley’s land use at an unprecedented rate, meaning its history, environmental systems, and natural occurrences are oftern hidden territories and relics of the past. Splitting the palimpsest layers of this landscape, revel those that have been hidden.

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STUDIO &RCHITECTURE ATELIER TAKE BACK THE LAND

The orignal MANPLAN provided a voice for the 1970s to re-examine - health, welfare, education, housing, communications, industry, religion - and ask itself and its readers what images spring to mind at each signal, and of those that do, which apply to the next decade. The aim being - hardly analysis - but re-definition. If we want to secure a climate safe and healthy community for Burnley’s future we need to radically re-think, re-define, and re-act. It is now we should act. It is now we should take back the land.

There is an alternative, one where the river is key to a sustainable and resilient future for Burnley and its citizens. Through this simple idea, the ANDPLAN was born.

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STUDIO &RCHITECTURE ATELIER TAKE BACK THE LAND

This project showcases how a market square will reveal and reclaim the River Brun for Burnley. It is this connection with its natural capital, processes and systems that aims to remove the town centre's reliance on consumerism and towards a landscape of local representation, openness, and healthy ecological function.

This proposal is therefore an acknowledgement of people and community as actors within the ecosystem, the missing relationship with nature and the need for communities, such as Burnley, to explore landscape value beyond finance and economic growth.

The role of the parallel streets [see next page] is twofold - to allow the river to dictate the space around it, bringing it to the forefront of attention. Secondly it allows for distinct spaces to be generated. Near the market hall each street is kept open, allowing for a flexible use of space and expansion of market stalls. As you move further out from the bustling market, each street becomes more secluded, wild, and natural. It is this natural succession and blending of hard and soft boundaries that draws links to the rivers sinuous and holistic relationship with its landscape. It is all connected, and the seams or streets breaking out from the river echo like contours throughout the market square. The emergence of the forest is a direct comment on the connection with the natural habitat that the river flows through upstream.

The sharp juxtaposition of orthogonal, versus wild, spontaneous slowly merges yet always keeps signifiers of the previous states, as a testimony of its natural or cultural dynamics – as a palimpsest of its history. In revealing hidden territories, new territories are claimed.

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STUDIO &RCHITECTURE ATELIER TAKE BACK THE LAND

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Car Park Car Park

River Brun

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110.3m 120.7m NORTH

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SOUTH

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River

Brun

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Car Park

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STUDIO &RCHITECTURE ATELIER TAKE BACK THE LAND

The river is all about process and connection. You need the people who live with an ecosystem to be part of it (Matteos, 2020). Engaging with a functioning ecosystem within a cultural landscape and within a democratic society should be viewed as an ongoing process. This engagement involves actively studying—and imagining—what landscapes are, and what they can be.

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STUDIO

ATELIER 1A GARDEN

BRIEF: USING ONE EMOTION AND ONE ELEMENT, DESIGN A GARDEN: The emotional element acted as the conceptual tool, and the element acted as a means of delivery for the design in the form of a Hortus Conclusus garden. This garden was based on the relatioship between EARTH and FEAR.

emo·​tion | \ i-ˈmō-shən \ Definition of emotion 1a: a conscious mental reaction (such as anger or fear) subjectively experienced as strong feeling usually directed toward a specific object and typically accompanied by physiological and behavioral changes in the body.

el·​e·​ment | \ ˈe-lə-mənt \ Definition of element 1a: any of the four substances air, water, fire, and earth formerly believed to compose the physical universe.

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STUDIO ATELIER 1B LANDSCAPE

land·​scape | \ ˈlan(d)-ˌskāp 1a: “The term Landscape acts as a metaphorical telescope to visually describe the pattern and boundaries of human activity on the surface of the land, dependent on social, economic, cultural and environmental considerations.”

BRIEF: REPURPOSE THE MANCUNIAN WAY. This design was based on the strategy CONNECTION and LIVING. The upper level embraces the living of biology. It focuses on embracing the calmness that small natural habitats can bring to a bustling city like Manchester. Sinous ribbon-like pathways take the users effeciently (but not directly) through a landscape laden with ‘living’ habitats and unique views of the city.

The design uses ‘cling’ on architecture. Despite broadening its physical presence, it acts as way to break up the monotomy of the strucutre. The structures are felixible in their use and users, enabling them to be added to, and/or retracted from, to best suit the situation. They create spaces for ‘living’ because of their active function or use. As these strucutres grow along with the development and use of the Mancunian way, they will cement the connections that this redesign aims to acheive.

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ATELIER 1C LANDSCAPE URBANISM

BRIEF: REGENERATE THE LANCASTER QUARTER THROUGH A FRAMEWORK DEVELOPMENT AND SPATIAL DEVELOPMENTS: The methodology is an attempt to undo the ‘masterplan’ theory. It recognises inspiration and spontaneity at multiple scales and embraces the ‘unexpected in everyday life’. In short, the future is messy.

Building a framework that embraces change could be seen as endless and indefinite. But by recognising that the curation and evolution of landscape is every bit as important, perhaps even more important, than the ‘regeneration’ itself, we can provide a framework that builds in the unknowable and the ability to embrace a landscape in flux. This is how we accept the unknown within a landscape and simultaneously ground the design in ‘tied’ moments of space and time. Ultimately, the experience will become greater than the sum of its parts.

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STUDIO ATELIER 1C LANDSCAPE URBANISM

AIM: Create microclimate spaces. This process will utilise the unique nature within the open roof spaces to start multiple processes. Each space will be set out to host a microclimate of vegetation and a microclimate of social and cultural interaction.

PROCESS: Nature activation - new ecologies, pioneers species, loci, endless cycles of life, nature led moments

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EXPERIENCE TERRAFORM LANDSCAPING

I worked for Terraform Landscaping whilst living in Vancouver, BC. The company was concise and specialist, providing unique landscaping solutions to some of the most prestigious areas in western Canada.

Under the direction of company owner, Brad Saugstaad, I quickly gained competence in realising the design expectations of both the architect and client. I helped to complete multiple projects with Terraform landscaping, but most notable was a long standing project in West Vancouver.

‘Radcliffe Passive House’ was designed by the firm BattersbyHowat.

This project expanded my knowledge on how considered design choices can both please aesthetically and also carry beneficial environmental impacts. Terraform Landscaping’s responsibility was to interpret, curate, and physically reproduce the ideas of the architect and client.

It gave me insight into the need for negotiation and highlighted the challenges of realising certain ‘drawn’ or ‘designed’ aspects in the real world. This could be due to a number of things, not limited to budget, topography, availability of materials and planning regulations.

This project was a highly informative insight into how design must be acutely aware of its own limitations, producing realistic achievable goals so the end vision or product is not compromised. This did leave room for interpretation and flexibility, as the design took on a fluid approach in order to achieve the overall brief. It was here where Terraform Landscaping could explore creatively, building with organic shapes and local materials to produce quality results.

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ENGAGEMENT @allislandscape

Featured on @act.of.mapping

Featured on dezeen.com

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FINI EDDIE PUGH selected works 2020 - 2022 Master of Landscape Architecture Manchester School of Architecture

m: 07401302579 e: eddie150@live.co.uk a: 93 Grove Lane, Hale, Cheshire, WA15 8JQ

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