LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (1st Class Honours)
University of New South Wales
Brook
Latham
CONTENTS
CONTEXT & DESIGN PROCESS
STUDIOS
Angus, Towards Ecocentrism
Site Planning - Landscape Performance and Site Design
Wast-Ed Space
Site Planning - Landscape Systems and Performance
Moored of the Rings
Design Detail: Resolution and Representation
The Heart and Coal of Cockatoo Island
Birds of a Feather, Feed Together
GROUP WORK
Urban and Regional Design
Hydden Park
Spectacle & Collapse - Design Competition
Design
Process
Westmead Precinct 22-23 26-27 12-13 10-11 4-5 20-21 Landscape Design and Documentation 14-15 Oscillate Design with a Complex Program 16-17
Design Fundamentals
Scales 18-19
and Design 28-30 24-25 6-9
Graduation Studio
A Path to Reconciliation
Shifting
Plants
Routes of Regeneration
Iwouldliketobeginbyacknowledging thetraditionalcustodiansoftheCountry wheremylandscapestudioswere basedandacknowledgeElderspastand present.Werespecttheirvaluesand knowledgeoftheAustralianlandscape andthankthemforsharing.Asa LandscapeArchitect,Irecognisemy fundamentalroleinadvocatingforthe engagement,design,andplanningwith Countryatallscales.
Landscape architecture gives me the opportunity to combine my interests in design and the environment to have a positive impact on people and their relationship with the natural environment.
As a graduate, I am looking forward to a lifetime of influencing the landscapes of urban, regional, and rural communities. Design offers me the ability to create memories and experiences for all through planning sustainable landscapes which provides habitat for animals and resilience to future climate events.
My university studies have allowed me to explore the power which landscapes have in shaping society, instigating change and being a catalyst for a better future.
I welcome the challenge to be part of a profession which seeks to provide diverse solutions to the ever-evolving problems faced by our world.
Contact Phone: Email: 0456643429 latham.m.brook@gmail.com Latham Brook
Experience Education Achievements Student Research Assistant Student Landscape Architecture Design Assistant Certificate II Horticulture Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (1st Class Honours) TAFE University of New South Wales UNSW Urbis WAM - High Distinction The Faculty of Built Environment Dean’s Merit List: 2020 The Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture Dean’s List: 2021 & 2022 The Tract Consultants Portfolio Prize Student Work Published in GND Super-studio Exhibition & Dezeen Lawn Care Worker Grasshopper Lawn Care Landscape Architecture - Consultant Urbis
1936 1998 1938 2016 1969 1960 1942 1840 1788 USED AT CHERNOBYL TO REMOVE CONTAMINATED SOILS LEGALISATION OF HEMP PRODUCTION IN AUSTRALIA UNDER LICENSE HEMP INFESTATION - 30KM2 ALONG THE HUNTER RIVER DISCOVERED HEMP GROWN IN USA FOR WORLD WAR II SIR JOSEPH BANKS DIRECTED HEMP SEEDS TO BE BROUGHT ON THE FIRST FLEET HEMP GROWN IN HUNTER VALLEY TO MAKE SAILS FOR ENGLISH SHIPS AMERICAN PUBLIC SCARE CAMPAIGN ‘REEFER MADNESS’ INFLUENCE AUSTRALIAN PERCEPTION 9 YEARS TO ERADICATE FROM HUNTER VALLEY HEMP OUTLAWED IN AUSTRALIA, PIONEERED BY JOH BJELKEPETERSEN 2900 BC 1600s 1775 1776 1779 HEMP CULTIVATED AND USED MEDICINALLY IN CHINA TRADITIONALLY GROWN FOR ITS FIBRE AND UTILISED IN MAKING ROPE AND SAILS FOR SHIPS AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR. AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE. BRITISH LOSE THEIR HEMP AND TIMBER SUPPLY BRITISH HOUSE OF COMMONS DISCUSS THE POTENTIAL OF AUSTRALIA FOR A COLONY GRAZING INTENSE AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES GRASS CLIPPINGS FOOD WASTE PLANT MATERIAL STICKS & BRANCHES COMPOST SILT FOOD WASTE GREEN WASTE TRAIN LINES COAL MINES Powaikaliko Grow COMPOST CATALYST 1.1 PHASE
SILT SYNERGIST 1.1 SPOIL GROUNDS 3km SILT BUILD-UP GREEN WASTE COLLECTION COLLECT Bowamaliko HUNTER VALLEY - LAND USE ANALYSIS SILT BASE FOR COMPOST CONVERT Ngarabangaliko SILT COLLECTION COLLECT Bowamaliko
INFRASTRUCTURE:
COAL MINES HEMP & THE HUNTER: TIMELINE NEWCASTLE MUSWELLBROOK MAITLAND SINGLETON NEWCASTLE MUSWELLBROOK MAITLAND SINGLETON COMPOST LAYER PROVIDING BACTERIA & MYCORRHIZAE TO ASSIST DEGRADE OR DETOXIFY CONTAMINANTS DEEP ROOT STRUCTURE OF HEMP ENCOURAGES AERATION & DISPERSES ORGANIC MATTER WHILST DRAWING UP HEAVY METALS HEMP CAN BE HARVESTED TO BE CONVERTED INTO PRODUCTS
STUDIOS
1
EXISTING
TRAIN-LINES AND
PHASE 2
CARING FOR COUNTRY
ROUTES OF REGENERATION
Location:
Carrington, Newcastle & Hunter Valley, Australia
Project Brief:Design:
Coal mining has transformed the Hunter Valley and Port of Newcastle, however the shift towards renewable energies creates an uncertain future for these contaminated landscapes and their communities. This strategy proposes a transitional route from an extractive to regenerative industry through repurposing existing infrastructure and employing the remediation of coal mines with Hemp to provide a new economic model and identity for Newcastle.
An entire workforce was abandoned when the BHP Steelworks factory closed in 1999, signalling a severe decline in Australian manufacturing and industry. On the 140+ hectares of the former site, this legacy also left behind a toxicity that is at risk of permeating into the delicate ecology of the Hunter River system from rising sea levels.
Skills Developed:
STUDIO 4th Year 2022 7
GRADUATION
LEAD ZINC Canals Clay Capping Contamination drawn out through Ground water NICKEL CHROMIUM MAGNESIUM Karaakalumaliko Heal
CATALYST 2.1
BHP: EXISTING SITE CONDITIONS PLACE OF CLAY ampowaba
BHP: STAGE 1 - CUT GRASS SEED PLACE Meriwa
BHP: STAGE 2 - HEAL FLOWERING PLACE Paamaikaan
BHP: EXISTING EDGE CONDITION BHP: STAGE 1 - RAISE BHP: STAGE 2 - GROW ORIGINALLY ZONED FOR BOTANICAL GARDEN 5L OF WATER FILTERED PER OYSTER OYSTER ABSORBING HEAVY METALS
BHP: STAGE 3 - REMEMBER SWAMPY PLACE Yelalong
OYSTER
(Pirita) DOCKS
ONEBYGAMBA
RAIL CORRIDOR: EXISTING A QUIET PLACE Pitalba
EXISTING SITE CONDITIONS
ONEBYGAMBA PLACE OF CLAY Tampowaba
RAIL CORRIDOR: STAGE 1 - CUT NARROW PLACE Pantei
ONEBYGAMBA GRASS SEED PLACE Meriwa
RAIL CORRIDOR: STAGE 2 - WAIT PLACE TO RELAX Ngaalngaabaa
FLOATING DOCK 2.0: MULUNBINBA Place of the Sea fern
ONEBYGAMBA FLOWERING PLACE
RAIL CORRIDOR: STAGE 3 - HEAL SHALLOW PLACE Wotaraba
ONEBYGAMBA SWAMPY PLACE
SEA LEVEL RISE: 0.4m 0.8m 1.2m 1.6m 2m
SEA LEVEL RISE SYNERGIST 2.2
ONEBYGAMBA BHP STEEL WORKS
Paamaikaan
CONTAINMENTS ENTERING SOIL LANDSCAPE BALLASTLANDFILL CLAY CAPPING CONTAMINANTS DRAWN OUT THROUGH RISING SEA LEVELS REMEDIATION MOUNDS WITH COMPOST SHEET OYSTER FILTRATION SYSTEM PORT EXPANSION PHYTO-REMEDIATION RISING SEA LEVELS WETLAND CREATION FROM SEA LEVEL RISE BOTANICAL PHYTO-REMEDIATION MEMORIAL GARDEN RISING SEA LEVELS
Yelalong
SELF
ROUTES OF REGENERATION
OYSTERS TO LIME & HEMP FROM MINES
HEMP - CARBON ANALYSIS
Compost and Hemp will phyto-remediate mining sites, whilst oysters filter toxins entering the Harbour from the former Newcastle steelworks. The remediation of the steelworks site includes a botanical memorial for the people who lost their lives working at BHP. The raising of rail-lines in the port will allow operations to continue in rising sea levels and provide residents access to the foreshore. Serving as a mechanism to witness climate change and understand the localised ramifications, a visual reminder for the preparation of inundation. The lime derived from oysters and carbon stored in Hemp can be converted into Hempcrete, offering a new identity for Newcastle to evolve from the former Steel City to the Regenerative City. Areas at risk of rising sea levels could relocate with this new regenerative building material.
The legacy produced by the closure of the steelworks left a community betrayed and empty handed. As coal phases out, will history repeat itself with our regional mining communities or do we have a chance to regenerate a new course for the future. ‘Routes of Regeneration’ aims to challenge preconceived beliefs of Hemp and reorientate its narrative back to its roots as a regenerative crop. As we face the climate crisis together, we need to radicalise our approach, remove stigma, and strengthen our community roots.
GRADUATION STUDIO 3rd Year 2021 9
HEMPCRETE HURD LIME OYSTERS HEMP
CATALYST 3.1 HURD FIBRE HURD & FIBRE SEPARATE Toloong Toloong REDUCED COST ON MATERIALITY (HEMPCRETE) CLIMATE REFUGEES (SEA LEVEL RISE) CARBON STORED IN HEMPCRETE (110KG OF CO2 PER M Nupaliko Learn PHASE
PORT KEMBLA PORT WARATAH GLADSTONE HAY POINT ABOTT POINT LEADERSHIP & EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES LAND HANDOVER LEGAL PROTECTION (PATENTS)
CARRINGTON
3
SYNERGIST 3.2 = 896,000 - 1,680,000 TONNES OF CARBON SEQUESTERED = $89,600,000134,400,000 REVENUE GENERATED HEMP 8-15 TONNES OF CO PER HECTARE OF CULTIVATION FOREST 2-6 TONNES OF CO PER HECTARE PER YEAR DEPENDING ON CLIMATIC REGION AND TYPE OF TREE AUSTRALIAN DOLLARS - SOURCE: DPI 56,000 HECTARES OF MINES DUE TO CLOSE BY 2030 8-15 TONNES PER HECTARE OF CULTIVATION 160 DAYS PER CULTIVATION 2 HARVESTS PER YEAR X 1 YEAR = 56,000 X (8-15) X 2 HARVESTS PER YEAR TONNES PER HECTARES HECTARES OF MINES 56,000 X ($800-1200) X 2 HECTARES OF MINES PER HECTARE HARVESTS PER YEAR OYSTERS 441 KG CO2-EQ PER TONNE OF OYSTERS HARVESTED SPACE FOR INDIGENOUS SELF DETERMINATION GIVE BACK Ngupaiyiko CARRINGTON AS A CATALYST
DETERMINATION
“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we
decorate time”
Current Residential
Residential
Prospect
Prospect
Existing Spectacle
Hydden Park
Location: Hyde Park, Sydney, Australia
Project Brief:
- Present a landscape perspective in its existing form, spectacle, and one from collapse.
Design:
Beneath Hyde Park, are abandoned railway tunnels. Marcel De Roo and I entered ‘Hydden Park’ into AILA’s student design competition. The deserted tunnels have a unique history as they were converted to air raid shelters during World War II. We wanted to create a spectacle beneath the city, where users can experience an oscillation between light and dark, warmth and cold. The underground tunnels can support agriculture and above ground in Hyde Park, people can experience locally grown food in the markets. In the darker parts of the tunnel, glow worms light up the ceiling as people enjoy drinks from the restaurants and bars. The collapse focuses on the increase in global temperature and the repercussions of urban heat on our parks. Due to the increase in intensity and duration of heatwaves, Sydneysider’s resort to Hydden Park for shelter. The once former air raid shelter is now being used by citizens as a refuge from the heat.
Skills Developed:
29 Collapse
SPECTACLE AND COLLAPSE
Latham Brook
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