ERIN HODGES LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
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ehodges83@gmail.com (718) 300-6686
UNITEC, Auckland, New Zealand Build a base model using ArchiCAD to define the site boundaries and building footprint Presented with an inaccurate site plan and instructed to produce a landscape design that portrayed a creative process using surveying techniques. In the process of building the model I gained substantial skills in ArchiCAD operating system, menu structure and commands, accurate drawing setup techniques, geometry creation, manipulation and alteration editing functions, display, printing and plotting techniques. I gained a wealth of knowledge and techniques from this project in particular when creating the textures for the walls and creating wall profiles. This made me, as a Landscape Architect aware of the small details that you need to concentrate on when designing at all scales to make each part of the project unique.
Computer Aided Design
ST PATRICK’S SQUARE, Auckland, New Zealand A self-directed investigation of animation that portrays landscapes through moving and still images and the techniques drawn from film. With the use of sketch-up & Vue Infinite to produce a highly detailed 3D model of an exterior space I then developed this imagery into a short animated film. An popular Auckland landscape, St Patrick’s Square is an existing site. With the objective to script, storyboard, shoot (including some green/blue screen footage), model, render, composite, edit, and also incorporate rendered 3D models (using e-on software’s VUE Infinite) the final outcome to produce a short film, highlighting the importance of the area.
View film: https://youtu.be/NEkXo4vDtRY?t=56s
Vue Infinite & Film CAD
CAD & Vue Infinite
WAITEMATA ARCHIPELAGO, Auckland, New Zealand How can landscape architects assist in the redemption of landscapes afflicted by disaster? Sea level rise is predicted to rise 4m over the next 100 years. With the greater part of open space in Auckland being situated on the coastal edge, this puts a threat on public land as the sea level rises. With the projected rates of sea level rise over the next century the Point Chevalier area now requires a new strategy to preserve the community investment, as well as to protect the financial investment in infrastructure and urban development. The Waitemata archipelago is a unique developed island-park and mixed use community, an association of the islands of the Hauraki Gulf. This strategy is set out in a series of phases which identifies future business growth and the infrastructure required to support business. A plan change will shift a residential zone to a business zone in conjunction with the first phase commencing. New transport links include a continuous pedestrian walkway and cycleway, that connects the various waterfront areas from Point Chevalier shops to Point Chevalier beach and across to the west, shaping a signature feature that will connect to the wider Auckland. A proposed ferry link will also connect this new hub to wider Auckland and is planned to launch in phase three.
WAITEMATA ARCHIPELAGO
REDEMPTION OF OPEN SPACE THROUGH SEA LEVEL RISE
New Zealand
No Intervention
2012
No Intervention
2025
SEA LEVEL RISE
No Intervention
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Waitemata Harbour
Eric Armishaw Park
Our proposal will work in conjunction with the Auckland City Council spatial plan, a strategy to make Auckland the most livable city in the world by 2040. These interlinked plans will ensure we develop an Auckland with a strong heart to draw visitors and residents.
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View entire project: http://issuu.com/ehodges/docs/sea_level_ rise/1
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Research, CAD & Vue Infinite
PUKETUTU ISLAND, Auckland, New Zealand How can a landscape architectural master planning approach to disturbed landscapes help to return Puketutu Island to the public? Post Industrial sites, such as quarries are essentially a temporary use of land, taking valuable resources and exploiting the earth’s surface. As minerals are depleted these disturbed landscapes are abandoned. Disturbed landscapes near the centers of growing cities are emerging as a highly valuable land resource, which is too valuable to be left untouched.
Hillsborough Auckland CBD
PUKETUTU ISLAND
One Tree Hill
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Post Industrial sites, such as quarrying are essentially a temporary use of land, taking valuable resources and exploiting the earth’s surface. As minerals are depleted these disturbed landscapes are abandoned.
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Disturbed landscapes near the centers of growing cities are emerging as a highly valuable land resource, which is too valuable to be left untouched.
Living Earth Limited
Dealing with post industrial sites is a continuous issue with extreme important to the practice of landscape architecture professionals in both the practical and academic sector.
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Puketutu Island has been subject to quarrying since the 1950’s and recently proposed to undertake a rehabilitation project injecting biosolids to reconstruct the island back to its original form as an attempt to heal scars and cover ugly wounds.
The island today contains the Kelliher homestead, which operates as Dawson’s function centre on the north eastern side, the Quarry operation to the west, Winstones Aggregates began on the island in the 1950s and Puketutu’s scoria cones were heavily quarried for fill to extend nearby Auckland Airport and the sewage treatment ponds. Since the lease expired in 2012, the operations now bring in clean fill. Living Earth Limited who has recently established a green waste composting facility with a 10 year lease on the island is located on the southside. The island is connected to the mainland at Mangere by a causeway, which crosses the decommissioned sewage settlement ponds associated with the Mangere Wastewater Treatment Plant operated by Watercare Serves Limited (Watercare). The purchase of the island has been passed on through the centuries but has recently been purchased by Warercare, with the arrangements to dispose of 4.5 million tonnes of biosolids from the Mangere Wastewater Treatment over the next 30 years.
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PUKETUTU ISLAND TODAY
Kelliher Estate Homestead
Auckland, New Zealand
Auckland Airport
One Tree Hill
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Puketutu Island is situated in the Manukau Harbour at 197 hectares, this island exists because a series of volcanic eruptions. Quarry activity has taken place on the western side of the island since the early 1950’s; prior to quarrying it had a cluster of 8 volcanic cones, the highest at 70 m above sea level, Puketutu hill remains only with a few other partial cones.
Kelliher Estate Winstone Quarry
View full research http://issuu.com/ehodges/docs/puketutu_island/1 Current Open space and Coastal walkways
Living Earth
PUKETUTU ISLAND TODAY
My intention is to work closely with the current rehabilitation proposal by Boffa Miskell and investigate ‘a good fit’ for the island, developing a Master Planning approach that re mediates and reveals past “the quarry” and future “the biosolid’s” disturbances using Puketutu Island as a case study Revealing the potential of the site, Respecting the past and future, Returning to the public and Remediating the soil to inform a rehabilitation master plan approach.
ANZAC COVE, Kocadere Köyü/Eceabat/Çanakkale, Turkey How should we commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli landings? A collaboration of Students from Istanbul University and Unitec New Zealand working together to commemorate the centenary of Gallipoli. Our proposal is to expose the threads of opportunities, revealing issues that need addressing. We plan to open up spaces to allow nature to grow it’s own course working at different scales from macro, through to meso and then micro as all these holistically are intrinsic of each other. By changing one we enhance them all. We are not looking to replicate “nature” or to mimic the creation of natural growth but rather to allow for regeneration, our intention is to create the ability to open up a space for the beauty to regenerate/revive the ecological environment. “As when the ecological environment is restored the birds return, the people come and the economy rises”. We open up spaces to allow nature to grow its own course working through the different scales from macro, to meso, and then micro as all these layers are intrinsic of each other. By changing one we enhance them all. Chunuk Bair is the beginnings of this successional strategy which will rehydrate the neglected landscape to ensure its continued preservation for future generations. a n d
In the Mediterranean region there are two main vegetation of plants of higher ecological order with a community of lower formations: In the lower belt is the main natural occurrence area of ecological order. This secondary succession usually begins with red pine Pinus brutia forests and the secondary vegetation of the higher stages of soil development and plant communities therefore maquis. improvement can be quite rapid. The first step in the process is migration, which is the movement Maquis: of the progeny of a plant to a new location. Migration can occur A Mediterranean shrub land biome, typically consisting of densely sexually in the form of seeds or vegetatively using eco-sourced plant material. growing evergreen shrubs typically 2–4 m high. Plants species include oak, heather, strawberry tree, and juniper. Similar habitat types exist in England (heath) North America, Roadside Greenways and Stream Margin Habitats: (chaparral) South Africa (fynbos) and Australia (kwogan) although Essential for providing connectivity between ecosystems, corridors, the kinds of plants indigenous to these other habitats are different. even narrow ones, provide habitats in which some organisms will The Maquis vegetation in Turkey is a secondary regressive live and reproduce. For some species the value of these corridors is plant community where red pine forests have been destroyed, greater as habitat than as travel-way. The most effective corridors degenerated and cleared. Maquis communities are widespread are those that contain resident reproducing populations of the on limestone soils and grow very well because of the fact that species of interest. their roots easily develop along the cracks and between the layer surfaces. Even if they are subject to fire or cleared, they can We propose using plantings of low maquis trees and shrubs to regenerate through root suckers. vegetate roadside greenways and stream margins. Due to the current degree of disturbance on the steep hillsides of the Gallipoli In order to improve the ecological function of the area we aim to Peninsula we propose to use seeds of low maquis flowers in this compensate or eliminate disturbance (and soil degradation) and area. limit vegetation deterioration by replacement of a community
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Our research lead us to believe that memorial styles typical of the Our proposal is to expose the threads of opportunities, revealing 20th century are slowly declining and branching in a new direction. issues that need addressing. We plan to open up spaces to allow Is a living memorial the way of the future? A process that will re nature to grow it’s own course working at different scales from evaluate, conserve, restore and re- habilitate. To further enhance macro, through to meso and then micro as all these holistically the environmental, archaeological, historical, cultural and human are intrinsic of each other. By changing one we enhance them assets to ensure the protection of the natural area of the Gallipoli all. We are not looking to replicate “nature” or to mimic the Peninsula in it’s entirety as a National Park. creation of natural growth but rather to allow for regeneration, our intention is to create the ability to open up a space for the beauty We aim to “develop a vision and a philosophy; concepts, policies to regenerate/revive the ecological environment. “As when the and strategies; planning and design ideas rather than singular ecological environment is restored the birds return, the people solutions to a specific location”. come and the economy rises”.
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Landscape Ecology assessment of the Gallipoli Peninsula Historical National Park that identified areas of poor biodiversity and low connectivity. This highlighted roads and stream margins as potential greenways.
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Cape Reinga, Te Rerenga Wairua is the iconic northern tip of Aotearoa. It is an area, which is highly regarded by many for its significant spiritual, cultural and ecological values. Regardless of cultural and spiritual beliefs, most visitors appreciate the Cape’s uniqueness and many have jumped at the opportunity offered by Wayne Petera to establish a tangible connection with the land. The ‘Seed for the Future’ project offers all visitors, ecologically focused individuals and corporate sponsors, an opportunity to reduce their carbon footprint by leaving a living legacy at Te Rerenga Wairua. For $20 they are able to plant a native seedling of their choice in a pre-prepared hole and are issued with a certificate bearing the plant’s GPS coordinates so
they can monitor its growth from afar. “People go there as visitors and have a meaningful experience. They leave something positive behind and feel as if they’ve put down roots”. (http://www. natives.co.nz/)
The Bugday Association for supporting ecological living is an organization working in many areas of ecological living. They are active in lobbying for protection of key biological areas including the Mediterranean Basin of which the Gallipoli Peninsular Historical National Park is part of. Bugday believe that biodiversity also has an important role in rural culture and the appreciation of nature through traditional practices has been extremely important for the conservation of biodiversity in Turkey. The human activity that occupies the largest land area in nature is agriculture. The land does not have to be cleared from human activity to be protected; it should be protected and enriched by human life and activities. Their aim is to protect biodiversity through education campaigns in agricultural areas including ‘Farm stay’ tourism projects across Turkey as a way of protecting traditions and traditional values from the threat of land fragmentation, rapid economic development and the abandonment of rural areas. Historically, Turkey’s agricultural impact on the environment was relatively benign. Until the early 1950s, more than 80% of the inhabitants of Turkey still lived in villages. Subsistence farming is a way of life that is rapidly changing as agriculture continues to modernize, and small-scale farming is abandoned by an increasing number of people due to poor socioeconomic conditions in rural areas compared to the cities. Turkey’s location at the crossroads of the Asian, European and African continents makes it a key site for global diversity both ecologically and culturally.
By taking a significant part of this case study, the spiritual, cultural and ecological values that a site contains and offering visitors to share a meaningful experience or moment by having an opportunity to rejuvenate the landscape they walk on.
species of which 848 are endemic. • There are more than 300 Key Biodiversity Areas in Turkey selected for plants, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, freshwater fish, butterflies and dragon flies. The total area of these Key Biodiversity Areas occupy 20.3 million hectares of land which is equivalent to 26% of the territory of Turkey, although the designated protected areas total a mere 5.8 %. • Approximately half (53%) of Turkey’s total area of 77.9 million hectares is currently used for crop and livestock production. This integration of conservation and agriculture is a basis for the enhancement of biodiversity across farmland. The establishment of roadside wildlife corridors and enhancement of stream margin habitats has little impact on the economy of the subsistence farming community but substantially improves ecology in general.
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View full research: http://issuu.com/ehodges/docs/gallipoli_100/1 We will use this ceremonial process as a framework to commemorate our lost soldiers on the shores at Gallipoli. Carpeting a significant area of the landscape, that has been disturbed over centuries by the influx of outer nations.
• By the end of 2009, the Turkish population stood at a little over 72,5 million, which is made up of numerous ethnicities, the majority of which are Turks. • With nearly 9,000 species of vascular plants and ferns, Turkey has the richest flora of any country in the temperate zone and a level of endemism of almost 34% (3,022 species). • There are 22 mammals, 13 internationally and 90 nationally threatened birds, 10 amphibians, 9 reptiles, 12 freshwater fish. 50 fish species under threat of extinction according the Global Red List and 1633 endangered plant
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