Landscape Architecture Portfolio

Fatema is a final year student of Landscape Architecture at postgraduate level. Her landscape design passion stems by her strong belief of an urgent need of a cohesive existance of the built and the natural environment. She is extensively enthusiastic about her work towards designing for a better world. Through her studies she has gained a 2:1 in year 1, actively gaining knowledge and experience about diverse landscapes that surround her. This is her collection of work showing her journey throughout her academic life starting from her undergrad to her postgrad level till date. It particularly aims to show the skills she has obtained progressively at each level that evidences development and enhancement each time. The range of her work also aims to show her acquired good knowledge and experience of design process starting right from site analysis through concept development and finally masterplanning. Each of the visuals be it technical drawings, rendered sheets, construction detailed sections, visualizations or collages are exclusively picked to showcase the diversity of her projects.

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UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL-Interior Design

1. Black Ink Rendering

2. Kitchen Design

3. Studio Apartment Plan

4. Rendered Furniture

GARDEN DESIGN- Freelancing Work

POSTGRADUATE LEVEL-Landscape Architecture

1. Haughmond Hill-Rewilding Project

2. Langley-Sustainable Urban Extension Project

3. West Midlands Agricultural Showground-Designing for Climate Change

4. University Forest Courtyard-Detail Design

5. Exuberant Shoreline- Thesis Design for a site in Mumbai, India

UNDERGRADUATE LEVEL

Interior Design

Showcasing more of hand-based rendering skills and technical plans

1. Black Ink Rendering

Medium: 2B, 4B and 6B lead. 0.2mm, 0.5mm and 0.8mm Ink pen.

3. Kitchen Design

Rendered Plan and Section

4. Furniture Design Plan, Sections and 3D Rendering

Garden Design

Freelance Work

Showcasing

Garden Design

[Sutton Coldfield]

Garden Design proposal to cater to the following demands of the client: -Child-friendly -Modern Aspect -Low Maintenance -Gazebo Area

3D Design Proposal

Postgraduate Level Work

Birmingham City University

1. Haughmond Hill

Rewilding Project

DESIGN BRIEF

Creating a mosaic landscape capable of absorbing great quantities of carbon and suppor ting a rich assortment of wildlife, including grassland, heathland and riparian wetlands. The Post-Covid times have been difficult for all living beings be it humans, plants or animals. The idea is to create a small place where all feel comfortable, healthy and rejuvenated away from city life.

Site Analysis

2. Langley (SUE)

Sustainable Urban Extension Project

Design Concept

Precedent Study (Passive Solar Design)

Story Board

3.West Midlands Agricultural Showground Design for Climate Change

The site is a floodplain site victimized of flooding. The design brief was to find a solution for the current and future climate change.

My approach to the site catered to a flood level of 6m. All the facilities including a flood bridge, stay, market and play areas were designed keeping the 6m level in mind.

-Designing for 6m Flood level

-Providing a nature-based solution for the flooding

-Taking full advantage of the fertile alluvial soil

-Making the site more accessible

A park which aims to build a healthy community and caters to the ecological as well as recreational needs of society and the environment with future climate change being the leading light.

SITE CONTEXT

PRECEDENT INSPIRATION

Jinhua Park, China

-Water resilient terrain and plantings to adapt to the flood

-Resilient bridge and paths system to adapt to the dynamic water -River currents, the flow of people, and the gravity of objects are all woven together to form a dynamic concord. -Meandering vegetated terraces, curvilinear paths, a serpentine bridge, circular bio-swales and planting beds

MY DESIGN APPROACH

Cross-sections and perspectives visualizing proposed design ideas

Flood Strategies used

-Flood Bridge

-Bio-Swales

-Vegetated Terraced strips

3D Model demonstrating the floodcontrol strategy used in the proposed design

4.UNIVERSITY FOREST COURTYARD

Living Graphical Ambience achieved by introduction of features that aid to elevate an exhausted user’s sensory experiences!

Detail Design

DIRECT

A convenient route which is a conbination of crispness and pleasure for users aiming to saving time

RESPITEFUL

A space for relaxation from the day routine for students and staff

DRAMATIC

Dramatic and Captivating in response to level changes and facilities

RESPITEFUL

DESIGN PRINCIPLES

DRAMATIC

HARD LANDSCAPE FEATURES

MATERIALS PALLETTE

Design Development

Glass Ramp 6m×3m×100mm

Toughened Glass fitten over 1m×1m Steel Frame with stainless steel balustrades

Retaining Wall Steps 6m×3m×100mm

Toughened Glass fitted over 1m×1m Steel Frame with stainless steel balustrades

Water Purifiers and Oxygenators like Hornworts and Frogbite

Deciduous Woody Plantation

Swamp Cypress and Marginal and emergent species

Wooden Foot Bridges

Artificial Stream 45m×2m×500mm

Recycled Concrete Pavements as river boulders, rocks and gravel

Pond Deck 2m×1m

MATERIALS PLAN

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

Placed

WOODEN BRIDGES

LARCH WOOD

TOUGHENED GLASS

DOUGLAS FIR DECKS

EUROPEAN REDWOOD

STONE

Scree Garden

With planting layers of groundcover, herbacuous perennials, shrubs and canopy towards the edges.

Pavement

450mm×450mm×75mm Flags

Sander Red Sandstone Pavement@Marshalls

Layered over Recycled Concrete pavement crushed chips

Bench Seats

Recycled concrete pavers topped with a larch wood slat for seating

Ramp

6m×200mm×100mm placed at 25mm gaps

European Redwood Slats

Layed on 1m×1m Steel frame with toughned glass infill stainless steel panel balustrades.

SOFT LANDSCAPE FEATURES

MATERIALS PALLETTE Design Development

PERENNIAL SCREE GARDEN

1:200m

Water Storage Pond at the highest level of the site-119m

50mm Slate Tiling

Water Cascades with water plants to purify and oxygenate water

DETAIL A

PLAN, SECTION AND FRONT ELEVATION OF RAMP RUNNING ABOVE THE EXISTING ROUND LEVEL

Ramp with tree avenue running on the central axis 6m×200mm×100mm placed at 25mm gaps

European Redwood Slats

Layed on 1m×1m Steel frame with toughned glass infill stainless steel panel balustrades.

PLAN, SECTION AND FRONT ELEVATION OF RAMP RUNNING ABOVE THE PROPOSED WATERFALL FEATURE 6m×200mm×20mm

Toughened Glazed glass with glass balustrades and stainless steel structural frame

Structural frame to hold the glass layer Main Steel columns (300mm thick) design to be confirmed by a structural engineer

Steel Mesh 1m×1m

A barrier with glass infill panel for achieving transparency minimising view distruption and functionally protect against a change in floor level more than 380mm.

DETAIL B

Toughened Laminated Glass structure used for the part of the ramp running above the designed waterfall to elevate the user’s experience of walking over a waterfall without physically getting into the water.

Sandy Loam Planting Medium -100mm

Toughened Laminated Glass structure with a strenghthening glazing interlayer to avoid glass spilling when broken

Glass Balustrades:

5. EXUBERANT SHORELINE

Designing for a site in India [Ongoing Project]

Site Location