Hannah Kohler
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours) University of New South Wales
Photograph: Hot air ballooning across Camden Valley, a landscape in my travels
Source: Kohler, 2021
I would like to acknowledge and pay my respects to the Wodi Wodi people, who are the traditional custodians of the Dharawal nation where I live and work. I would like to extend that to the Gadigal people of the Darug nation, where I participate in my studies, whose traditions and knowledge systems inform my current designs.
I acknowledge elders past, present, and emerging. I would like to personally thank them for their contributions and knowledge. I commit to respecting and working with Country in all future designs, and working with traditional owners across all projects so that their culture can flourish through future generations.
I acknowledge that this was, is, and always will be Aboriginal land.
Photograph: Above the sunrise Source: Kohler, 2021
Acknowledgement of Country i
Contents ii
Personal Statement 1-2
CV 3-4
Angus: A Resilient Suburb 5-6
Hidden Heights Adventure Park: Doorway into the Wild 7-8
Hidden in the Layers 9-10
Planting Design 11-12
Landscape Documentation 13-14
Group Advocacy Paper & Other Achievements 15-16
Photograph: Above the sunrise Source: Kohler, 2021
My name is Hannah Kohler and I will be shortly entering my 4th year of a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture with Honours at the University of New South Wales. Throughout my second and third years, I have enjoyed working alongside and being a part of the team at Taylor Brammer Landscape Architects in Austinmer, learning invaluable skills that I have been able to translate into my studies.
Growing up, I had the privilege of spending my family holidays touring in our caravan around Australia, from the coastline of Tasmania to the hot, dry far reaches of the Kimberley in Western Australia. These memories and experiences have played a core role in my love for nature, the Australian landscape, and its flora and fauna species. Exploration of these landscapes has revealed such a beauty that I think so many people should experience.
I have always been a very creative person, whether that be through drawing, painting, crocheting or photography and after completing year 12 and studying environmental science and visual arts I felt that landscape architecture would harmoniously bring together my two passions.
Wollongong, Australia
Email: hannahrk2001@gmail.com
Mobile: 0421022276
As I reach the end of my degree, I am excited to create spaces that will draw people together into nature and allow them to experience the beauty that remains in my memory all these years later. Being sensitive to and working with Country, I hope to create exciting, sustainable, and accessible spaces that will help to form core memories for so many others, drawing people together and fostering a sense of community.
Beyond these aspirations, I continue to enjoy different modes of art making, going to the beach, spending time with my family, and being involved in leading a youth group and band at my church.
Student Landscape Architect
Taylor Brammer Landscape Architects (2021 – Present)
Front End Team Member Woolworths (2020 – Present)
Youth Leader Woonona Presbyterian Community Church Youth Group Yconnect (2019 – Present)
Nursery Volunteer Jamberoo Native Nursery (2021 – 2022)
Higher School Certificate Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts (2014 – 2019)
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours) University of New South Wales (2020 – 2023)
Art Express Exhibition 2020 Goulburn Regional Art Gallery
Griffith Regional Art Gallery (cancelled due to COVID)
Yr12 Major Work Now Exhibiting, 2022 Minnamurra Rainforest Centre
UNSW Dean Merits List 2020 2021 Photoshop
Photograph: Rivers of New Zealand
Source: Kohler, 2018
Medium desntiy housing Town centre Community farm Parks Pocket parks
Existing heritage sites Exisitng cemetery Existing school
Across each term, assignments progressed with the intention of being able to prepare a masterplan for the desired population increase in the suburb of Angus. A flood affected area in Western Sydney, my design looked to create a resilient suburb that could cope with potential periodic inundation in order to reduce reliance on existing roads that also get flooded.
Reinventing the program of Moore Park Golf Course, giving half of the space back to the community to create a space that could be a backyard for those in dense urban living, in the surrounding suburbs of Kensington, Zetland, Waterloo, Redfern and Surry Hills.
Located in the far north of the site the Hidden Heights Adventure Park became a space inspired by Moore Park Zoological Gardens, offering activities including a Hippo Splash Pad, Monkey Trails highropes course, and Big Playground.
and structures. Interventions were designed to be in keeping with the space, enhancing and transforming the space.
and the shade created by them. sized squares.
Model Making located within the cliff face
Screwed up paper helps create the form of the rock wall and the rough sea/waves. Thick cardboard mimics the concrete walls.
Working at 1:50 was helpful as it allowed me to set in intricacies like the stairs and be able to photograph them in a way that could be drawn.
Site model created to be a base for perspective drawing
Experimented with creating lighting effects are by removing graphite from the smudged sky
From Project 1 @ 1:50
and Protected Planting twon garden beds the surface
Rough models are created with paper, cardboard and masking tape to model form.
Used 4B, 6B and 8B pencils to create the different textures, materials and shadows.
The place where water can flow down between the two walls marking the original coastline
Rough models are created with paper, cardboard and masking
me to set in intricacies like the Reflecting Amongest the Native and Protected Planting can flow down between the two
Editing the image to black and white helps to exaggerate the shad ows making it easier to transfer into a drawing.
Looking down the path between the twon garden beds that mark the original coastline on the surface
Dipping ones toes into the water after climbing out over
Using models can help set up perspectives to draw and has helped me to add the right textures/materials into the design to imagine the
original coastline carved out between
beneath the canopy of shade
Dipping ones toes into the water after the original coastline
Climbing out over the water creating a place to reflect.
Plan and section of one main intervention within the site
Climbing out over the water creating A place to reflect upon stories beneath the canopy of
Subject Planting Design Year
Term 3, 2020 Assignment Assignment 1: Herbarium Assignment 3: Planting Design
Location Waverton Coal Loader, Balls Head, Sydney
Brief
Drawn herbarium accurately depicting the overall form and appearance of various planting species, to help inform future planting designs.
Create a detailed planting design for an area of the Coal Loader at Balls Head on Sydney Harbour. To include both indigenous and exotic plant species suitable for the conditions of the site.
Subject Area Plan Coal Loader, Balls Head Waverton
Cupaniopsis anarcardiodes
Angophora hispida
Banksia spinulosa ‘Bush Candles’
Melaleuca thymifolia
Erysimum ‘Bowles’s Mauve’
Cistus creticus
Leucospermum cordifolium
Westringia fruticosa ‘Grey Box’
Correa alba
Hardenbergia violacea ‘Meema’
Angiozanthos humilis x flavidus ‘Landscape Tangerine’
Cordyline ‘Pink Passion’
Carex ‘Ice Dance’
Liriope muscari ‘Just Right’
Liriope muscari ‘Samantha’
Juncus usitatus
Carex appressa
Ficinia nodosa
Myoporum parvifolium purpurea
Viola hederacea
Lawn
Brief
Working by hand, learning the fundamentals of grading a site and applying the right levels to the site.
Run adjacent to Landscape Studio 4, work in this course aimed to develop a set of scale details of custom furniture and fixings utilised within our studio project. Details built to Australian Standards were to depict finishes, transitions, and furniture.
CONCRETE AND WOODEN SEAT SECTION SCALE 1:10 @ A3
TIMBER BRIDGE DECKING SECTION SCALE 1:10 @ A3
STAIR SECTION SCALE 1:20 @ A3
As populations rapidly increase in Western Sydney and the need for affordable housing grows, AILA is proposing that all new residential developments within Blacktown Council become ‘agrihoods’. Agrihoods are communities that combine local fruit and vegetable farming and biodiversity conservation with residential living to address the issues of climate change and food insecurity. In order to achieve this changes to development policy must be enforced throughout the construction and lifespan of future Agrihoods within the Blacktown City Council in order to maintain liveable, sustainable, and connected communities.
One of the central roles of a landscape architect in the development of agrihoods is to advocate and establish a means to educate the residents and the younger generation on the importance of growing their own local, fresh produce to improve urban food security Landscape architecture, in the development of agrihoods, also provides equality amongst a community, allowing all residents and people within the community, regardless of status, to access these essential resources.
1. Recommendations that change the practice of landscape architecture
- All new residential agrihood developments in Western Sydney must conserve and restore at least 30% of terrestrial biodiversity
- All new residential agrihood developments on former agricultural lands or peri-urban regions of Western Sydney must provide at least 21% of land for urban cropland farming
- Verges to be widened
- Irrigation systems to be included within the verge... Agricultural planting must be connected to swales located on the other side of the road
- Verge planting must be regularly maintained, supporting visual amenity and Agrihood productivity. Must be of either an edible variety or one that supports biodiversity.
- No height limits to be placed on planting provided sightlines are maintained at intersections.
- Approved street trees to provide either biodiversity value within the immediate development and broader Sydney context to maintain green networks, or be a food source for the community.
- School students must visit Agrihoods for a minimum of one hour per week, as part of the education curriculum
- All residents must own and use a compost bin to reduce waste
4. Recommendations that nominates investment and funding to address and make change around the issue
- Local cafes and restaurants’ ingredients bought must consist of at least 70% produce from the Agrihoods
- Farmers markets must sell locally grown produce and be held at least once a week
My body of work explored the destruction of Australian native species due to the introduction of foreign species into the ecosystem. Since European settlement, the Australian native fauna population has crumbled, with many creatures at risk of extinction. The fragmentation of the native animals further amplifies the vulnerability and collapse of indigenous fauna populations.
My passion for art and native ecologies has driven much of my desire to create landscapes that will support both human and animal communities.
