Landscape Portfolio

jaideep.warya@gmail.com, +44 7908737334

Jaideep Warya

Landscape Portfolio 2012-14

resume profile

I am a multi-skilled & highly motivated designer looking for engaging, long term work to contemporary design practice and help me grow as a professional. I thrive in collab variety of organizations.

education

Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Master of Landscape Architecture Sushant School of Art & Architecture, Indraprastha University, , New Delhi, India Bachelor of Architecture, First Class

professional qualification

Registered Architect, Council of Architecture, India

professional experience Landscape Designer

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Architectural Designer

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Student Intern

|Development Alternatives World Group, New Delhi, India|

DesignCell Landscape Architects, Gurgaon, India

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Conceptualization, construction documentation & visualization of corporate and institutional landscapes. Co-ordin

Brick By Brick Associates, Gurgaon, India

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Conceptualization, interaction with clients & consultants, construction documentation, visualization & site manag Architectural design & drafting, costing & estimation, site management, web content creation & mason training.

volunteering & extra-curricular Volunteer for Arch-e on 7Cities, a study of Scottish cities through citizens’ perspectives Secretary, Edinburgh Landscape Students’ Society (E-Scape) Resident Assistant, Accommodation Services, University of Edinburgh

awards

First Prize in the Private Garden Category in the Slant International Design Competition, 2013

First Prize in the Designing Places Competition 2014, Architecture & Planing Dept., Govt. of Scotland, for the urban

skills

Proficient in AutoCad, Revit Architecture, Google SketchUp, Rhino 3D & Microsoft Office Competent in Adobe Creative Suite- Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, After Effects Experienced in Sketching & Model-making using various media

research interests

Landscape Architecture and the Anthropocene, Landscape Design Processes & Theory

languages

Proficient in English & Hindi, Intermediate Knowledge of French

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k association with a reputed landscape architecture firm which will give me exposure borative environments and have professional as well as volunteering experience in a

(expected) Sept 2012-Jun 2014 Aug 2005 - May 2010

October 2011 Jan-Sept 2012

nated multiple projects through consultation with clients & specialists.

gement. Co-ordinated several architectural & interior design projects

n regeneration of Raploch City Centre

May 2010 -Dec 2011 Jun 2008 -Apr 2009

Jun-Aug 2013 Jun 2013- Jun 2014 Sep 2013- Ongoing

projects

typology

professional

Residential

Planting Design Tender Drawings Institutional

academic Masters Design Project

Fieldwork

w Anna Rhodes, Jiemei Luo & Lorne Ferguson

Memorial Park

Community Park

Detail Design

title, site

page

Mani Imperial Housing Calcutta, India

10-13

ONGC Headquarters New Delhi, India

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School of Planning & Architecture Campus Bhopal, India

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Terrain d’Entente (Middle Ground) Rouen, France

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A Value Topography Plaszow Concentration Camp, Krakow, Poland

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Out of Place Plaszow Concentration Camp Krakow, Poland

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(in)Stead , Almondell Country Park Edinburgh, Scotland

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Crag Terrace, St.Margaret’s Loch Edinburgh, Scotland

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projects

typology Urban Redevelopment with Anca Panait, Tianyu Zhang, Jiemei Luo & Shuai Liu

Housing

Planting Design with Anca Panait, Tianyu Zhang Jiemei Luo & Lea Rempel

competitions Urban Regeneration with Anca Panait, Tianyu Zhang & Jiemei Luo

Theme Garden

Urban Infill

with Anca Panait, Tianyu Zhang , Jiemei Luo & Anna Rhodes

Streetscape with Anna Rhodes

title, site

page

Interlace , City Centre Aviemore, Scotland

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The Surround, An Camas Mor Cairngorms National Park

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East Gate Cafe, Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Scotland

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HornWay, Otto Linne Preis Horn, Hamburg, Germany

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Tagesreste: A Garden for Kazuo Ishiguro St.Andrews, Scotland

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Past Forward, SixtyNine-Seventy Utah, USA

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Winter Huddle, Coldscapes Glasgow Scotland

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statement “There is no prospect of an end.”

James Hutton, Geologist, 1785

Over the past decade of academic and professional work I have worked on projects across a variety of scales, typologies and design stages. I believe that every designer strives for an essence in his design which can remain elusive if not consciously pinned down early in the design process. This essence can manifest itself in many ways and is, for me, the most vital component of the project; the component without which the project would not remain cohesive. In some projects this may be the way parts have been assembled, in others it may be the way materials have been selected, how the design relates to the lay of the land, or a poetic symbolism.

To be able to pinpoint the essence of my designs, I attempt to always ground my projects in landscape theory, which i use to both inform and enrich my designs.

During my time at the Edinburgh College of Art, two themes have emerged in my work that have driven my design of landscapes; aggregation and revelation. The ability of landscapes to act as platforms that exhibit change by allowing ecological processes to deposit materials/artefacts on their surfaces is what i call aggregation., and is what i believe differentiates landscape from other forms of design. Revelation is more site-specific; it is the ability of a design to expose an aspect of the site that is hidden or buried. This could be the history of the site, or the way a site interacts with its environment. Both these themes are on display in the academic projects within this portfolio.

In my time as a professional, i learnt that when it comes to details, drawing skills, theory or any other aspect of landscape architecture, the learning process is endless; it is better to understand how to go about learning rather than attempt to know everything. “Learning how to learn”, then, became the focus of my time as a student, and it is an approach i would like to continue as a professional.

credits

This portfolio represents work undertaken by me between January 2012, when i joined DesignCell as a landscape designer, and May 2014, when i completed my Masters in Landscape Architecture at the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh.

All images, drawings, physical models and sketches contained within these pages are my work or work i have done in collaboration with others. In the case of work done as part of a team, the names of collaborators are mentioned on the contents page.

Mani Imperial

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Multistorey Group Housing

2.3 acres

Calcutta, India

Residential

site plan The residential buildings of the multistorey group housing overlook a central park , designed over the podium creted by ground floor car parking. The podium contains a lawn with seating, a swimming pool ,a half-basketball court, space for a barbeque & grill and is drained through shallow water bodies. An amphitheatre serves as a community gathering space and also helps pedestrians negotiate the level difference between the ground floor and podium . The peripheral setback from the boundary is used for visitor parking, drop-off areas , services, a badminton court and temporary seating

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Mani Imperial

pool and deck

podium water body

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temporary seating area

Residential

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ONGC Headquarters

Office Courtyard

4.2 acres

New Delhi, India

PROD

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

The central courtyard is designed as a “Garden of Evolution�, generated by the arrangement of plants within the circular court on the basis of their geological age. A clockwise circuit of the courtyard is a walk through the various epochs of plants, and therefore of the earth, ranging from the Paelaeozoic with its Cambrian, Silurian, Carbonifrous etc plants through to the Caenozoic period with its Pliocenic & Pleistocenic plants

planting plan CT

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Planting, Detailing

DUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PROD

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ONGC HQ

bench section

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Planting, Detailing

site section

cascade section

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SPA Campus

site axonometric

central courtyard

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University Campus

12.3 Acres

Bhopal, India

Institutional

courtyard and garden

paving pattern The campus landscape is inspired by the helical motifs found in the medieval city of Mandu.

Open spaces between the campus buildings are primarily hardscaped with a system of interconnected open stormwater drains doubling up as water features. Wetland trees and benches are used in combination with changing paving patterns to demarcate sitting areas from walking areas.

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Terrain d’Entente

Ile Lacroix Redevelopment

Masters Design Project

35 Hec.

Rouen, France

island snapshot

view from south-east

landmarks city networks, existing & proposed

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public transport

Urban Redevelopment

The Ile Lacroix is an island located in the heart of Rouen(capital of Normandy), in the middle of the river Seine. The brief for the project is to conceive an urban structure that can form the basis for a new identity and a layout that can be adapted over time, along with initial ideas for the public spaces.

The Ile Lacroix was two islands (Lacroix & Brouilly) up until 1829, and had no urban role. The city’s ramparts were demolished at the end of the 18th century and, from the revolution until 1829 Île Lacroix (2 islands at the time) had no urban role. Thermal baths and small scale boatbuilding activity were established here in the first half of the 19th century. In 1843 the St-Sever railway station (Paris-Le Havre line), was accompanied by the development of surrounding areas The development of Ile Lacroix led to a divide between the left and right banks where two promenades had coexisted as places for leisure and spectacle - the Cours Dauphin on the right bank and the Cours la Reine on the left bank, Rouen’s big exhibition-fairs were then shifted to the Ile Lacroix in 1960 even though it was difficult to access. In the eastern part of the island there are indoor sports facilities, including a swimming pool and an ice hockey rink.

Today, river traffic is present on the left bank side of Île Lacroix (southern side) while the right bank side is set aside for sports, etc.

public spaces

ped. circulation

ecology

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Terrain d’Entente

graphic novel cover page

A dialectic approach to site analysis & brief developmentinspired by Rouens rich graphic art subculture, is adopted, in the form of a series of fictionalized walks within and around the site. A threefold agenda is established for the site through “discussions” between the protagonist and landscape theorists; 1) Response to the tidal variations of the River Seine 2) Reconciliation between the left and right banks of the river 3) Response to the de-industrialization of the Ile Lacroix locality

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Urban Redevelopment

sample page

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Terrain d’Entente

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sectional templates

Urban Redevelopment

cut & fill studies

Topography is the key device for design generation, with three distinct sectional templates being used to design the island.

Resistance, Remediation and Resilience are notional topographical responses to the tidal fluctuations of the Seine that subsequently inform the planting and programmatic aspects of the site.

existing topography

reshaped topography

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Terrain d’Entente

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Urban Redevelopment

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Terrain d’Entente

urban strategy

buildings

design diagrams

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public spaces

drainage

Urban Redevelopment

programme

circulation

planting

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Terrain d’Entente

site plan, platform park

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Urban Redevelopment

low tide, twice daily

high tide, twice daily

median tide

flood, decennial

tidal variations, platform park

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Terrain d’Entente

View B

View A

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Urban Redevelopment

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Plaszow Labour Camp

Fieldwork

60 Hec.

Krakow, Poland

field walks The Plaszow Labour Camp and adjoining areas were analyzed by conducting three walks within the site that roughly conformed to a grid. The topography and vegetation made certain areas inaccessible, which meant that the imposed, intented grid was altered to an actual, achieved grid.

This process of movement around the site in response to terrain was recorded via serial vision photography that was made into a video, which shows movement across the site at a pace that alters with altering site conditions

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serial vision video

Fieldwork Observations at each point along the grid were recorded under five categories; View, Economy, Ecology,History and Uniqueness.

Each point received a grade for all of these categories and these grades were used to generate a “value topography� of the site

site recording

value topography

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A Value Topography

The interaction between the value topography and the physical topography allowed the landscape to be seen in a new light. Smaller microsites within the larger site area became apparent, each with its own characteristic features , represented in this model through a composite projection of historical, ecological and notional mappings onto the existing topography.

This composite model became the ‘base plan’ for the next, interventional stage of the project.

physical model of value topography, 1:2000

site in winter

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fieldwork paths

Fieldwork

analysis points

value topography over physical topography

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A Value Topography

“And I know what else you’re thinking, Wars,wars, wars.

But even between them there are pauses.

Attention! People are evil.

At ease! People are good.

At attention we produce wastelands.

At ease by the sweat of our brows we build houses, and quickly inhabit them.”

Wislawa Szymborska, Here

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Fieldwork

The most compelling feature of the site was the co-existence of the banal and the provocative. Allotments existed adjacent to the Nazi labour camp, a limestone quarry still housed remnants of the set from the film Schindler’s List, ecological succession was taking over the site everywhere except right in the middle, where a waterworks held sway.

This tension between the banal and the provocative became the core concept for the intervention on site.

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Out of Place

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Memorial

22 Hec.

Krakow, Poland

Memorial Using the words of Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska as a starting point, the project involved a strategic plan for the regeneration of this historic landscape and its integration with areas of local importance such as the Liban Quarry, Krakus Mound and the surrounding allotments.

This was achieved by deliberately creating a contrast between the camp site and adjacent areas through the use of unexpected planting formations, introducing new housing and abstract landforms that evoke past artefacts such as the labour camp fence.

Circulation

Views

Landmarks

Site Geometry

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Out of Place

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View A

Memorial

Three elements from the Nazi Labour Camp are evoked in the design of the new memorial landscape; The prisoners’ barracks, flattened in 1944 when the Nazi’s retreated, are excavated and re-interpreted as a series of low rubble mounds where invasive plant species will eventually flourish.

The camp fence is also traced and re-interpreted as a landform in the shape of an inverted foundation pit which encircles the memorial landscape, demarcating its extent.

The camp’s service roads are partially recreated as accesible, walkable areas of mown grass where the are not yet inhabited by trees.

Existing trees are prioritised over each of the three recreated elements of the site, with the aim of suggesting that regardless of the horrors seen by a place, it is possible for a society to move on without completely erasing the past from it’s memory.

View B

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Out of Place

Section C

Section B

Section A

Section C Detail

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Memorial

“Someone, broom in hand, still recalls the way it was.

Someone else listens and nods with unsevered head.

But already there are those nearby starting to mill about who will find it dull.�

Wislawa Szymborska, The End & The Beginning

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Out of Place

Section B Detail

“...in the grass that has overgrown the causes and the effects, someone will be stretched out, blade of grass in his mouth, gazing at the clouds.�

Wislawa Szymborska, The End & The Beginning

Section A Detail

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Memorial

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(in)Stead

Park Design

Linear Park(Drover’s Trail), Year 5 The site for the new housing is adjacent to the Almondell Country Park outside Edinburgh. The design keeps in mind the ecological inevitability of a native woodland in the absence of human intervention, and the attempt is to manifest this inevitability in the final design by not assuming a “clean slate” on site i.e. to invert the clean slate by assuming the existence of native woodland and subsequently clearing this hypothetical woodland to make space for the incoming community.

Site Plan

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30 Acres

Edinburgh, Scotland

5 4a

5

3 3 4a

Park Design

Linear Park(Drover’s Trail), Year 30

Concept Section

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(in) Stead

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Park Design From the cutting out of paths along Drover’s trail a linear, intertwining network of paths, trees, lawns and water bodies is developed. The path moving along pre-existing contours independent of other systems, passing through trees, lawns and shrub.

The interaction of the existing topography, the ecological certainty of a native-tree woodland and the prioritization of semi-open spaces over windswept fields mean that the majority of the park is woodland. Only the paths for movement and open fields in strategic locations are completely open to sky.

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Crag Terrace

Detail Design

1200 sqm

Edinburgh, Scotland

The design intervention at St.Margaret’s Loch was generated by combining the “Crag & Tail” geological formation found nearby and the ridge & furrow farming practiced on the slopes of the adjacent hill. This combination leads to the adoption of jagged-edges for the shelter and for the thresholds between ground & water, turf & ground. The final installation serves as both shelter and artefact, space and sculpture.

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Detail Design

Concept Sketch

Site

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Crag Terrace

Sketch Design

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Detail Design

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Crag Terrace

Bench Detail

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Study Model

Detail Design

section through shelter & jetty

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Interlace

Urban Design

45 Hectare

Aviemore, Scotland

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3

connections

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River Spey

2 5

6

Buildings 1

site plan

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New Parks

Urban Design

Section-East/West

Section Detail-East/West High Street, Biodiversity Park & River Spey

Section -North/South High Street, Square & Railway Station

Section-North/South

The town of Aviemore is re-imagined as a series of pre-existing and introduced “strips�, each with its own unique character, intertwining and allowing for the peaceful co-existence of a variety of different human & natural activities . These strips are, namely: 1. The River Spey 2.The Spey Biodiversity Park (Introduced) 3. The Scottish Railway Line & Station 4. The High Street( Densified ) 5.The Caledonian Forest Trail (Introduced) 6. Housing (Introduced) These five linear elements are connected by a looping street that bookends the high street. This allows visitors to access hotels, lodges, cultural activities and parking located along it while simultaeneously releasing some pressure off the high street, which is designed as a barrier free shared surface that uses buildings & as a device for traffic calming.

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Interlace Wo r k i n g M o d e l

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Urban Design

Main Square

Main Access Road

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The Surround

Housing

The main question in the design of 50 houses in Cairngorms National Park was where and how to build. The desire for a minimum footprint was prioritized and the design process was broken down into three acts; siting, plotting and placemaking.

siting

plotting

placemaking The land to the north-east of the site, located between the mound on the east and the pine/birch forest on the north and west sides seemed like a secure, protected area where people would naturally want to settle.

The existing mound and the forest combine to make sure that the highway is out of sight though still easily accesible

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2.8 Hectare

Cairngorms, Scotland

Housing

Site Plan

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Surround

Streetscape (Day)

Streetscape (Night)

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Housing

Study Model

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East Gate Cafe

Site Plan

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Planting Design

350 sq.m

Edinburgh,Scotland

Planting Design

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HornWay

Urban Regeneration 24 Hectares Hamburg, Germany

WashingtonAlee Multi-modal Transit & Leisure

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Urban Regeneration

Connectivity

Continous Facades

Courtyard Morphology

Horn is all right. There is no shortage of green spaces, amenities or infrastructure. Thebuildings are in decent condition and there is a mix of house types, ranging from apartments and towers to allotments.

There are trees everywhere; some, like along Wederstrasse, very old.

The connectivity of roads is efficient with not many dead ends and the two U-Bahn stations are capable of linking residents very quickly to the wider metropolitan region.

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HornWay However, our research led us to the conclusion that there is a lack of coherence to the urban landscape that is Horn.

While the entire area is nice, it is never great, as the competition brief suggested it could become.

No element, landscape or otherwise, ties the discrete elements of the Horn landscape together in a way that would attract residents, visitors and help them identify Horn as unique. We hope to achieve this by creating green networks ,increasing enclosure, e n c o u r a g i n g thoroughfare and facilitating play in three phases over a period of 20 years, we hope to keep Horn green but in a more legible, effective way. Our proposals attempt to make Horn a pedestrian friendly, medium density mixeduse area that retains its quiet neighbourhoods while evolving a more diversified, vibrant public domain centred on HornWay, the dedicated multimodal transit corridor introduced along WashingtonAlee.

Water Pools

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Phasing

Seating

Urban Regeneration

Linear Park & Play Area

WashingtonAlee Bicycle Parking and Planting

Bicycle Parking

Gardens

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Tagesreste A Garden for Kazuo Ishiguro

Theme Garden

900 sq.m

St.Andrews, Scotland

Site Plan

This design for the SLANT international garden design competition is inspired by the works of Kazuo Ishiguro, especially his interpretation of memory. The garden attempts to create symmetry within an assymetric site through the use of two paths, one made out of smooth concrete and the other paved with rough hewn granite. The elliptical paths maximize the area for movement within the site and create spaces through their intersection that are used for a reflecting pool, a high Taxus Baccata hedge and a glass sculpture.

The glass pyramid shows visitors things they could never see directly. It is representative of the prism through which we see our past. It reveals the sky above and the sea beside, it showsr reflections of things hidden to view, ever changing both in time and space .

As one walks along the paths, so does the planting. Lady’s Bedstraw is used with a background of the purple moor grass, with the red of the Cornus Sericea partially hidden behind the gold of the moor grass.

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Theme Garden

First Prize

Slant International Garden Design Competition 2013

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Tagesreste

Spring Visualization

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Theme Garden

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Past Forward

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Urban Design

20 acres

Salt Lake City, USA

Integration of DICE and Planting

Urban Design

Site Axonometric showing location of DICE

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HornWay

By extruding the grid at certain strategic points we propose the formation of cubes, collectively providing a digital, connecting hub for a culturally rich city. The cubes serve several purposes and are critical in bringing the streetscape down to a scale that people can better relate to and interact with.

We invite the curation of these cubes by the local community. The cubes have been designed in shape and configuration to be curated and informed by the activities of the surrounding diverse arts and business centers.

Past Forward imagines a future for the interstitial spaces of blocks 69-70 of Salt Lake City where infrastructure, mobility, information and beauty will co-habit to create an urban domain that is dynamic and flexible, yet is rooted physically in the past form of the city; reflecting it and adjusting it to suit contemporary and future ways of living.

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Urban Design

The grid structure of Salt Lake City is both a limiting factor and a liberator. It limits fluidity at the pedestrian scale, while liberating large spaces from the intrusion of vehicles. For the interstitial spaces of blocks 69-70, we structure the streetscape based on the strength of the existing- by scaling down the city grid to suit pedestrian movement and superimposing this on the site to create a fabric that is flexible due to the small size of its units. This new 2mx2m “matrix� helps disband the traditional principles of street layout and functionality, with different squares being used differently.

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Winter Huddle

Streetscape

8000 sq.m

Glasgow, UK

Glasgow has a history of ships, heavy industry, steel, smog and tenement housing. In contrast to its industrial past, the city is famous today for its vibrant art and music culture. Buchanan Street in Glasgow’s city centre is our chosen site. Buchanan street is a densely populated pedestrian shopping street throughout the year. However, it is not well adapted for winter weather . The themes of our intervention are movement, huddling and illumination, illustrated in the concept video by skating, penguins and fire.

There are several obstacles to pedestrian movement in the form of scattered street furniture. To avoid clutter and enable fluid movement we integrated these components into a single unit, inviting congregation. In a winter climate these huddles connote warmth, comfort and society whilst breaking the street down to a human scale.

Our proposal, thus, is for a fluid streetscape that allows citizens to celebrate the winter season.

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Streetscape

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