MONTAGUE DOOLEY
Selected works 2022-present
EDUCATION
September 2021October 2024
September 2018June 2021
August 2017June 2018
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Swedish univeristy of agricultureal science. MA landscape architecture
Swedish univeristy of agricultural science. BA landscape design & engineering
Bromma community collage. Introductional design & arts program
MONTAGUE DOOLEY
BORN ON 29TH MAY 1998 I AM A STUDYING LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT AND DESIGNER. I HAVE PREVIOUSLY INTERNED AT DESIGN FIRMS IN ENGLAND AND COPENHAGEN. I AM A PLANTSMAN THROUGH AND THROUGH AND MY FOCUS AS A DESIGNER IS ON SITE SPECIFIC, ECOLOGICAL DESIGN.
1:1 LANDSKAB INTERNSHIP
Febuary 2024
July 2024
Six month internship at a landscape architecture office of 20+ architects in Copenhagen. Experience in working with international competitions, conceptual designs and large scale urban design.
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD EXCHANGE
September 2022
January 2023
Autumn semester at The university of Sheffield studying courses in ecological masterplanning, sustainable housing development and LVIA with GIS. Studying under tutors such as Nigel Dunnet and James Simpson.
TOM STUART-SMITH LTD INTERN
August 2019 August 2019
One week at Tom Stuart-smiths deisgn office in London working on a sensory planing scheme for a school for the disabled as well as planting lists for the Hepworth Wakefield garden. I gained valueable insight into the structure of smaller design firms.
TANIA COMPTON DESIGN LTD
INTERN June 2019 August 2019
Two months internship with garden designer and plantswoman Tania Compton. With a team of three we visited clients and worked on planting and maintaining gardens, as well as making budget documents and solving problems on the fly.
INTERNSHIP 1:1 LANDSKAB
Urban planning, competitions, conceptual design, landscape design
Febuary - July 2024
In the spring of 2024, I spent 6 months as an intern at Copenhagen based landscape office 1:1 Landskab. The office specializes in revitalizing urban areas and local ecological solutions. During my time at the office, I worked on multiple international projects across different stages, instilling the urban planning principals Copenhagen has been made famous for: From conceptual designs and competitions to detailed work. For a competition in Lage, west Germany we worked on strategies to revitalize a central promenade with recycled brick paving as well as how to capture, store and reuse day water in plantings. For a large project in Riga, Lavia, I worked in multiple stages developing a new waterfront and housing area in an old industrial area. Designing residential courtyards, public parks and squares. I also worked with several cultural projects, exploring designs for historically significant areas.
KVARNBY GÅRD
Garden design, ecological design 2024Private project
Project located in the famous agricultural landscape of Österlen on the southeastern coast of Sweden. The project consists of a conceptual plan for the restoration and renovation of a house and barns typical of the area, as well as developing a garden that melds with the rolling surroundings while also providing a variety of uses: Creating private spaces for Airbnb rentals, repurposing part of the barns into a greenhouse, production gardens for the owners ice cream business, subtle solutions to minimize wind across the site, introducing biodiversity as well as developing a beautiful garden in the courtyard for the owners who are avid gardeners.
Agricultural
Polycarbonate
Production garden
Rental apartment
Orchard
Meadow
Grass path
roof
land
Elevation A-a 1 : 50 0 1 5
1. Gravel 2-8
Geotextile layer
Rubble/landfill
Existing soil
Sand 0-8, compacted
Gabions, stone-fill from courtyard excess 2. 3.
Section D-d (mm) 1 : 10
1. Existing and relocated cobbles
Sand 0-8
Existing
The initially overgrown courtyard was cleared, revealing the original cobbles underneath. Unfortunately, many areas of the cobble are in bad shape, planting borders are planned around these areas and the dug cobbles will be repurposed to fill gabions that define the large back terrace, as well as repair parts of the cobble that will remain as paths and squares within the courtyard. Planting in the courtyard also addresses different spatial uses by screening and creating rooms while also referring to the building’s heritage as a farm.
Elevation
A C S
Briza media ‘Limouzi’
80% Euphorbia cyparissias ‘Fens Ruby’
20% Hylotelephium ‘Bertram Anderson’
Aster x hervyi
Phlomis purpurea
50% Ech inacea pallida - Planted in groups of 3
50% Digitalis ferruginea - Planted in groups of 3
Geranium ‘Brookside’
Amsonia hubrichtii
70% Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’
30% Salvia o cinalis
Calamintha nepeta ‘Blue Cloud’
50% Stipa arundinacea
50% Sporolobus heterolepis
Romneya coulteri
Tamarix ramosissima
Managing planting on such a large scale, a module method was applied. Here, compatible plant species were selected and placed on a 3,5m x 60cm module. This module was then tiled within the borders, creating a mosaic that appears both randomised and subtly patterned. Plants were selected that enhanced and expressed the particularities of the site; the species composition focuses on softness that will catch and move in the breeze that is ever present on site, mimicking the fields that surround the house. Four larger Yoshino cher-
ry trees have been planted for screening, structural interest and to help place the planting within the scale of the courtyard. Below them, smaller shrub species such as Tamarix have been planted for further screening and soft texture to contrast the surrounding buildings. In the first three years of initial planting, borders will be heavily mulched and sown with annual seeds collected locally to boost flowering while planted perennials establish.
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Briza media ‘Limouzi’
Sporolobus heterolepis
Aster x hervyi
Stipa arundinacea
Euphorbia cyparissias ‘Fens Ruby’
Phlomis purpurea
Calamintha nepeta ‘Blue’
Geranium ‘Brookside’
Digitalis ferruginea subsp. ferruginea
Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’
Salvia officinalis
Romneya coulteri
Amsonia Hubrichtii
Echinacea pallida
Tamarix ramosissima
Hylotelephium ‘Bertram Anderson’
REWILDING MAGNA
Landscape design, ecological masterplanning
Autumn exchange semester 2022
Masters course
Tutor: Nigel Dunett
Course on ecological design and master planning led by Nigel Dunnett. The project focused on reworking and developing a park connected to Magna science adventure centre, a colossal, repurposed steel plant in Sheffield, UK. The course included case studies and field visits to brownfield sites and other remediation projects, as well as hands on design workshops to inform a masterplan design proposal for the site.
During a field visit I documented the dy¬namic experiences of journeying and arriving through different sites. This dy¬namic was the basis of the approach to shaping Magna landscape park, creating areas visitors are led through, linking to areas of interest that visitors can experi¬ence freely.
The science centre offers a hands-on interactive experience of the historical steel industry. My concept was to continue this interactive experience out into the park to be, focusing on a playful bodily sensory experience of nature. This was achieved by responding to the sites varied conditions to create a variation of nature types, as well as including different subtle interactive sculptures such as rain drums that amplify the sound and pattern of rainfall, or a playground made of willow saplings that grows and teaches permaculture principles.
Documenting Travel and arrival dynamics from fieldtrip.
Applying travel/arrival dynamics to site to inform movement and initial layout sketch.
A - a New carpark featuring daywater solutions and meadows, shaped by recycled asphalt and concrete found on site.
Concrete, parking and walkway
Reused asphalt and conrete dome Trees
Dry meadow
Lowered rainbed planting Asphalt
Concrete step and wall
B - b Elevation plan showing willow playground leading into lowline stream.
Magna Forest floor Trees
Willow play area Gravel path Wooden deck
Existing stream Stepping stones Willow domes
THE ROW PHILADELPHIA
Urban planning, Sustainable housing, landscaping
Autumn exchange semester 2022
Masters course
Tutor: James Simpson
Studio course on planning strategies for sustainable housing led by James Simpson. The project focused on developing a new residential neighbourhood at an industrial plot on the outskirts of Sheffield, UK. The course was comprised of intensive studio sessions. The project development was divided into three parts: Firstly, visiting the site and identifying strengths and weaknesses of the site, then formulating a literature-based vision for the site. The second stage, informed by our vision, focused on exploring different site layouts and developing one in more detail. Lastly, the focus of the course was to focus on different public/private thresholds in a smaller area, exploring different layouts and discussing how this affected the resident’s behaviour. My project focused on creating a convenient and mixed neighbourhood while maximising accessibility to the big river Don running alongside the site.
Documenting challenges and opportunities after initial site visit.
Final layout drawn out.
Sketching possible layouts and spatial relations.
Movement studies on detailed site layout.
Design iterations managing public park and private courtyard threshold
SUD rill limits access and manages stormwater. Large openess into courtyard
Tree and shrub planting creates better screening into courtyard
Step down into park reduces movement speed and walls off couryard
Axo showing housefront interaction with main road and pocket park
Elevation plan showing public/private thresholds in smaller selected area
Large steps leading down into site double as seating, divided by planters.
Existing brick pattern and gleditsia trees continue into site to borrow view.
MÖLLAN POCKET PARK
Environmental psychology, landscape deisgn
Autumn 2021
Masters course
Tutor: Caroline HägerHäll
MA course on environmental psychology. Excerpt from individual essay exploring how small pocket sites in dense urban areas could be repurposed to pocket parks. Research into restorative environments was conducted to study what physical properties of a site made it restorative, informing a design concept for a small pocket park central Malmö.
Inspiration and concept sketch iterations
Hedge
The main challenge for the sites restorative likelihood is its exposure to its surroundings. The sound and view of traffic dominates the site, and the site is visually very open to the streets along side it. Nordh (2010) observed that traffic had a major negative impact on perceived restoration in an environment. Surrounding buildings perceived attractiveness also has an impact to restoration likelihood (Nordh 2010). A solution to these issues is to create a barrier between the road and the site, as well as covering the powerhouse facade with Ivy (Hedera helix). By planting hedging along the eastern side of the site, sight of traffic can be minimized. Doing so also serves to enclose the space and separate it visually from its surroundings, an important element for the restorative quality of a site. The feeling of entering a new world when entering a new spaceis also important for a site’s restor-
ative quality (Kaplan & Kaplan 1989 as sited by Nordh 2010). A way of achieving this on site is lowering the topography and creating steps visitors can sit and observe from (see waterside steps precedent at Sodra Forstadsgatan on page 3). As previously cited, Hägerhäll et al (2009) states that design techniques can be employed to make space seem visually larger that it is. A method of doing so is to borrow surrounding elements and incorporating them into the design. The surrounding square is dominated by Honey Locust trees, and a similar species can be used inside the site to elongate the view.
- Excerpt, fulltext available on request.
Power building covered with climbers.
and border block view of traffic.
Elevation of finished site layout
CERAMICS
Since 2017 I have periodically been working with ceramics. It is an opportunity for me to gain design experience in other fields than architecture. Here I have designed a series of flower vases based on Tulipieres from the Dutch Tulpenmanie of the 1700s with forms inspired by the brutalist architecture movement of the mid-1900s. Importance has been placed on sculptural value when not in use as well as being easy to use, filling a space with minimal effort.
h 60 cm
w 22 cm
T600
Large vase
Stoneware Sky blue glaze
Future series
Series for an upcoming exhibition for interiour design company Beleco for Stockholm design week 2025
h 40 cm
w 18 cm
T400
Medium vase
Earthenware transparent turquoise glaze
h 20 cm
w 8 cm
Small vase Stoneware Transparent glaze
h 31 cm
w 20 cm
T310
Small vase Stoneware Opaque white glaze