Oliver Barden / Edinburgh College of Art
Portfolio of Works
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Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis 2O11
oliver.barden@gmail.com
Oliver Barden / Edinburgh College of Art oliver.barden@gmail.com
Portfolio of Works
2OO6 - 2O11 LEVEL 5 / Edinburgh College of Art Al Ain Oasis / UAE ‘11 Tempelhof / Berlin ‘1O
LEVEL 4 / Townshend Landscape Architects, London
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LEVEL 3 / The University of Melbourne, Australia
‘O9 Edinburgh College of Art Irwell Valley / Manchester ‘O8
LEVEL 2 /
Edinburgh College of Art ‘O7 - ‘O8
LEVEL 1 /
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TRANSITIONAL STRATEGIES / AL AIN OASIS / UAE
There is an Inventory of Oases which spreads across the world. They show a unique relationship between man and nature, in sustaining their respective cities in inhospitable conditions.
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
This role is changing due to technological advancement, this poses the question of their future role to the modern desert city, Situated 16Okm toward the inland desert from the capital city of Abu Dhabi, Al Ain is known as the garden city, thought of as the most authentic city within the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, it has managed to preserve many attributes of its cultural and natural environment. The unique culture and sense of place intrinsic to Al Ain stems from the natural / cultural / social unit known as the Oasis.
Individual Portfolio
The key role the Oasis has played in the development and still play in the overall character of Al Ain is evident, however the diminishing reliance on the palm in the context of Al Ain as an economic means, has left the Oasis, a cultural jewel, stranded with an unclear purpose and relationship to the surrounding city. The Oasis no longer constitutes the main driver for development and growth.
Al Ain Oasis 2011
The oasis a fundamentally agricultural landscape offers the potential for many other uses; it is the intention of this project to expand the role of the Oasis in the urban setting, creating a framework through which the Oasis can be revived and become an active catalyst for future change in the city itself.
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The Oasis is no longer a productive place, the palms have been allowed to take over, the under planting of fruit, salad crops and vegetables beneath the palm trees no longer takes place. There is a series of ancient traditions and practices which if not re initiated could be lost for future generations. Change to the role of the Oasis as a focus of the city has had an impact on the historical and authentic aspects of the Oasis. The main loss has been socially; they were no longer the centre of life and development in the city.
Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis
The falaj system, which was devised to bring water down to the Oases, is not in good health. Water is still crucial to the health of the community, however it is severely constrained. Contamination with pesticides is also a concern.
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Once inside the Oasis, this sense of isolation continues, enforced by high exterior walls. Many of the original walls have been replaced with nontraditional concrete versions.
Edinburgh College of Art
Today the heart of Al Ain, the city’s main Oasis, is isolated from the wider urban realm. The introduction of block morphologies in the 196O’s isolated the Oasis inside of a city block. This geometric layout shut of a dialogue between the Oasis and its urban context.
Oasis Inventory
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENTAL CONTEXT /
PRINCIPLES This project aims to create a set of principles for Oasis treatment which can be applied in a variety of different situations SHADING
Edinburgh College of Art NATURAL VENTILATION
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Built form positioned + cut into strips to channel cool winds
FORM DICTATED BY WALL GEOMETRIES
Individual Portfolio Al Ain Oasis 2011
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF EXISTING HUMIDITY
FILTER ACCESS + VIEWS TO OASIS
PLANTING ISLAMIC COURTYARDS
Principles extended from the oasis. Planting techniques, provide opportunity for buffering of wind, enhancing natural ventilation and cooling ground surfaces.
Design Principles Edinburgh College of Art
Max. height of date palm / + 13.OO m
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Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis
Max. height of date palm / + 13.OO m
Oasis Level / - 3.OO m The Oasis should dictate the character of its peripheral zones so as to reassert it as the cultural centre of the city and to ensure that it is visible and accessible.
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PUBLIC REALM 10 Market Square / Events platform 11 Main Boulevard + vehicular access 12 Spill Out from Food Hall 13 Souk courtyard 14 Cultural Centre / Museum Gardens 15 Mosque gardens 23
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GREEN EXTENSIONS 22 Pilot Plots [demonstrate 3-tiered
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and Oasis -Break from Palm planting to consolidate the existing symbolic Oasis + differentiate between new additions
URBAN OASIS / This edge highlights well how extensions of the Oasis character into the urban realm and also how contractions can be made into the Oasis form to provide social spaces within it. Edinburgh College of Art
The Oasis has a precedent for dictating urban form at its edges, it was this that I wanted to reinstigate as a tool for reconnecting the city into the Oasis. This project negotiates the space between the Oasis and the city using built form and the extension of the Oasis walls, creating a variable series of Courtyards, alleyways and vegetated public hard spaces that dissolve the mass of the intervention without disturbing its place and form establishing figuration.
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
The form is dictated by its environment and close proximity to the Oasis extending the logic found in the Oasis conditions into the urban realm. Planting techniques, provide opportunity for buffering of wind, enhancing natural ventilation and cooling ground surfaces. The form of this extension is based on the concept of extending the Oasis walls providing a backbone from which the building can rest on. Their alignment is influenced by the wind direction, narrow alleyways filter wind through the courtyard forms.
Individual Portfolio
Three main boulevards maintain visual connections between the city and the Oasis and filter pedestrian movement through to the oasis, whereas the previous souk configuration channelled movement horizontally across it.
Al Ain Oasis 2011
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis
Urban Oasis
WALL PRINCIPLES THE NEW SOUK BECOMES PART OF THE OASIS WALL
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Open up the Oasis to the community again. Oasis becomes a integrated part of the city infrastructure.
Edinburgh College of Art
Contraction into the Oasis. Creation of public landscapes which take advantage of the qualities intrinsic to the Oasis.
Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis
Oasis Park / Plan
OASIS PARK
URBAN OASIS / Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Individual Portfolio
Al Ain Oasis 2011
OPEN COURTYARD BUILDINGS
Extension of Oasis walls Fragmented Oasis edge
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PATTERN PERFORATING EDGES Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis Sketch development
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Individual Portfolio
Al Ain Oasis 2011
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Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis
Oasis Park / Visuals
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TRANSITION BETWEEN ORIGIN OASIS + NEW EXTENSIONS INTO URBAN REALM / The Oasis offers the city residents and visitors respite from the heat and fulfils the desire for lushness and greenness in the desert environment but at present it is out of reach.
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Contracting a public park into Oasis opens up this resource to the City and ensures that it becomes an integrated part of the citys infrastructure. Currently the height difference of 3 metres between city level and Oasis floor creates a disconnection, aided by the exterior wall, by terracing this edge it creates a transitional edge between the Urban realm and the original Oasis It is intended to simultaneously create a link and platform for interaction with the Oasis as well as clearly defining the boundary between historic / symbolic Oasis and its extension into the urban realm.
Individual Portfolio
This is managed through a break in planting. Whilst the palm has become a urban tree in the city of Al Ain and is utilised in the strategic sense of connecting the Oasis and outer city, this transitional edge is planted with alternative species, to consolidate an original / symbolic Oasis.
Al Ain Oasis 2011 Oasis Level / - 3.OO m
Max. height of date palm / + 13.OO m
Lower level of date palm / + 7.OO m
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The diminishing ground water which supplies the Oasis Falaj is a pressing issue, by using plant species such as Olive and Oleander on this edge, they can be irrigated by desalinated water which is being pumped from the coast. Keeping the two types of water separate will still allow the palms to be productive. These details show how this could be achieved.
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LIGHT TOUCH / The park surfaces [grass, platforms / paths ] have been designed as raised insertions into the original Oasis.
Edinburgh College of Art
This creates a clear definition between Oasis layer and new layers of human intention. The raised platforms also serve a practical role, the palms are irrigated by flooding the plots , raising the walkways and park areas allows constant access and brings visitors into
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This is punctuated by three key insertions which dovetail the Oasis interior and connect it to key positions in the surrounding urban realm, Each operates towards the different users of the Oasis
Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis
The Easter Edge is envisaged as a soft armature The continuity of the Oasis edge gradually filters into the peripheral spaces and urban form through the deployment of a gradient of open spaces and vegetative surfaces.
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AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGIES THAT SHOULD BE PRESENT IN THE OASIS / The Oasis no longer shows the 3 tiers of vegetation which make an Oasis efficient, the palm tree has been allowed to overtake.
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Current condition
Al Ain Oasis 2011
Palm canopy
Palm / understory
Palm / understory / ground cover
Palm ground cover
Carpet
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Understory Environment
Protected Edges
Planting ecologies Edinburgh College of Art
Orchard
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis
The soft Eastern Armature extends the logic found in the ecologies of the Oasis and the Falaj system The gradient between Oasis and urban form along this edge, takes cues from the composition of the Oasis itself and the ecologies that are present or should be present.
MURABBAA FORT
Al Ain Oasis 2011 Perimeter Orchards
Oasis Park
Urban form ‘dovetailed’ into Oasis
Transitional ecologies
Desert landscape
Water testing plots
Individual Portfolio Opening up Wadi
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Water gardens
NAQFA HILL
NATIONAL MUSEUM
JEBEL HAFIT
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TRANSITIONAL OASIS
Plaza
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Future expansion
Oasis Clearing
ROYAL PALACE
Proliferation of Oasis character through use of palm
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Retention water pools
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Pocket swimming pools
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Water channels
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Concrete etching
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Tree blocks
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Landform shard
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Amenity grassland
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Bound gravel entrance platform
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Old railway path
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Concrete boundary path
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Wetland pools
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Green linear park
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Raised matrix of paths + platforms
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Cycling path
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Natural succession forest
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Intensified sports complex
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Boulevard link through cemetery
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Flexible community plots
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Intensified housing edge
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Fruit trees
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Specimen tree avenues
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Caged hedge boundary
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Beech + birch + pine forest
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Islamic cemetery
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OLIVER BARDEN MA5 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE TEMPELHOF AIRFIELD
SPILL OUT FOR NEW BUILDING USES
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Design / Strategy / Intervention
Tempelhof Airfield 2010
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This design project focuses on producing a framework which determines the main relationships between Tempelhof Airfield and the surrounding citys open spaces and urban areas, whilst at the same time allowing flexibility for future changes and new uses.
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The garden festival has been utilized as a method to instigate a site wide framework for Tempelhof. Key moves such as the planting structure and the water body has been utilised to delineate separate functional areas. It is acknowledged that not every demand can be foreseen at present; as such flexibility is key to this plan. Keeping the character of Tempelhof, its large open spaces largely intact would allow for future expansion to be introduced seamlessly. The project started from an extensive character analysis of the surrounding neighbourhoods, as Tempelhof had long been an inaccessible island, the surrounding urban areas have developed at different rates, separated spatially and socially from each other, resulting in a disconnected relationship. What was taken from this approach was a major East / West divide. This can be seen by how the park is being used at current. The East portion adjoining Neukollen makes use of the site for everyday amenity, the west is the focus of visitor and destination users. As such this project seeks to diffuse the edge boundaries connecting the park with its surroundings and acknowledge that each neighbouring community might need something different, in terms of programming, from the park. The boundaries of the park are brought in, creating smaller more manageable ‘parks within parks’ one way of achieving this is through utilising the water structure as a site boundary.
Tempelhof Airfield
Tempelhof Airport closed all operations in 2OO8, since then it has been the focus of an international design competition to turn the site into an international park which will also host the 2O17 IGA, Germany’s world horticultural exhibition.
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APPROACH / Creating environments that respond to the parks immediate urban fringes. Recognizing that each may require something different
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
To break the overriding feeling that Tempelhof is an Island creating by strict boundaries and fencing, the aim is to diffuse these and bring the character of its surroundings inwards towards the park. It is important for Tempelhof to become an integrated part of the Cities green spaces The surfaces at Tempelhof are a major part of its character and clues to its past life as an airfield. The processes of degradation which are happening here create an interesting pattination which has been embraced by its users. I felt it important to add a new layer of design intention onto the park to affect its longevity and programming, however this new layer should sit on top of the existing surfaces,
Design / Strategy / Intervention Tempelhof Airfield 2010
Connections with surrounding green spaces
Diffusing the boundaries
A new layer which does not effect the processes which are taking place now
Flexible use, accommodate spill over from events
Extension of cemetery possible location of new mosque
Extension of urban form linking Neukolln to park
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis
Framework - extension of existing grid
Approach
FLEXIBILITY /
INTERNATIONAL GARDEN FESTIVAL /
Edinburgh College of Art
The garden festival was a main component of this project and allows the opportunity to create a large-scale framework for the future Tempelhof Park. Tempelhof offers 137ha for the festival. Spatially it is organised around the Western edge to make use of the existing building and so as not to alienate the community of Neukollen who use the park the most on a daily basis.
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
It is imperative to keep the park operating whilst the garden festival is running; the water element forms the main boundary between the two.
Design / Strategy / Intervention Tempelhof Airfield 2010
Hard surfaces & path matrix
Garden Festival Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis
Tree structure as part of the garden festival
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Water pools + land form shards
Edinburgh College of Art
Open amenity grassland
Plots for show gardens
Garden Festival spatial framework
Key moves such as the planting structure and the water body has been utilized to delineate separate functional areas. It is acknowledged that not every demand can be foreseen at present; as such flexibility is key to this plan. Keeping the character of Tempelhof, its large open spaces largely intact would allow for future expansion to happen seamlessly.
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IGA / Visuals / Time Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis Edinburgh College of Art
This linear park serves as a connection between the neighbourhoods surrounding Tempelhof and act as a highly designed green finger cutting through the site. As part of the garden festival there will be a series of show gardens along this space [A + B], post festival the planting will naturalise [B1].
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
GREENING OF ONE RUNWAY /
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Ice skating strip
Water mirror
A graded ‘urban beach’ sits at the beginning of the structure which flows through several level changes resulting in a boggy natural wetland area. This variety of characters offers a lot of ecosystem variety and interaction opportunities from the public.
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Water Structure Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis
Its use is as storm water retention ponds harvesting rainwater from across the site and also greater area. Overlapping this is the potential for several recreational uses, pocket swimming pools fit within the natural flow of water that is taking place. These pools are walled and do not receive runoff from the site.
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
The water structure is utilised as a site boundary separating the IGA from the remainder of the park and post festival separating event areas from the park
Edinburgh College of Art
WATER STRUCTURE /
POCKET SWIMMING POOLS / Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Design / Strategy / Intervention
Tempelhof Airfield 2010
Pocket Pools Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Each section of this water structure is split into a series of walled compartments at varying heights, retaining water at different rates When low a series of path become accessible, creating a variety of experiences.
Edinburgh College of Art
WATER CAPACITY /
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Tempelhof Airfield 2010
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The roof of the building will be used as stadium seating with a view of the stage platform below.
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis
Water Structure / Visuals
INTERIM STAGES Each stage of planting is not indeterminable and each has a character of its own.
FOREST FORM - poplar nigra planted as an interim stage to give instant form to forest 0-5 years
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For example Poplar nigra will be planted from year 1 to give form to the forested areas whilst the beech, birch + pine are allowed to grow. Poplar nigra planted to give structure
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Pine forest + foreign species
PINE BEECH AND BIRCH FOREST DEVELOPMENT
Tempelhof Airfield 2010
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Betula Spp. Fagus Sylvatica Pinus Sylvestris Foreign Species
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Design / Strategy / Intervention
Poplar nigra is fast growing and will give an instant effect. Over a period of 25 years it will have a character of its own, gradually being thinned allowing the other species to take over.
Hazel
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
The overall structure of forest will be planted, however there will be stages within that where a new character is introduced for a period of time
Poplar
Edinburgh College of Art
PLANTING APPROACH /
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Betula Spp. Fagus Sylvatica Pinus Sylvestris Foreign Species
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DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL SUCCESSION FOREST 0-1 years
Disturbed ground Pioneer forest species Betula Spp. Fagus Sylvatica
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Betula Spp. Fagus Sylvatica Exotic species Hardwood tree species
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Natural succession forest Enhancing the development of ecosystems that are existing. Natural succession will be activated through disturbance of the ground.
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University of Melbourne / Australia / Berlin
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University of Melbourne
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Designing the Artful Landscape
Laneways Commission 2009
This project seeks to celebrate these small areas of activity to highlight them and make their presence known. The ideas of temporality and transformation are imperative to this scheme. This installation will move locations over time, highlighting the spaces where it sits, though the application of standard sized weaved panels, as the installation moves more panels will be added, resulting in an accumulation of material over time. The final proposal as a response to the cities laneways, involves the materials reinterpretation in a highly public space within Melbourne, in stark contrast to the hidden laneways where this installation begins. The aim is to highlight the different levels of exposure present in the city and show to a greater public these areas of activity which lie in the unchartered cracks of the city itself.
Designing the Artful Landscape
This proposal focuses on the people who use the laneways at present, mainly workers on their break. Activity occurs here on a level which the greater city does not notice.
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Working under the laneway commission, this project focuses on the installation of a temporary artwork within a city laneway, the so perceived cracks within the city itself.
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
Intervention 2009
DESIGNING THE ARTFUL LANDSCAPE /
University of Melbourne
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Designing the Artful Landscape
Laneways Commission 2009
University of Melbourne
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Designing the Artful Landscape
Intervention 2009
University of Melbourne
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Designing the Artful Landscape
Laneways Commission, 2009
University of Melbourne
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Designing the Artful Landscape
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University of Melbourne
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Designing the Artful Landscape
Laneways Commission, 2009
University of Melbourne
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Designing the Artful Landscape
Workbook
University of Melbourne
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Designing the Artful Landscape
Workbook
University of Melbourne
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Designing the Artful Landscape
Workbook
University of Melbourne
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Designing the Artful Landscape
Laneways Commission, 2009
University of Melbourne
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Designing the Artful Landscape
Primary studies
University of Melbourne
Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Designing the Artful Landscape
Laneways Commission, 2009
Edinburgh College of Art Irwell Valley / Manchester
‘O8
LEVEL 3 /
IRWELL VALLEY / Edinburgh College of Art
Manchester, UK
This project deals with the retrofitting of a series of disused industrial sites situated along the river Irwell.
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
A disused sewage works forms the main focus, it promises to be both the catalyst for and the heart of this new scheme. The structures left there allow an opportunity to engage the public with the processes which take place in such sites and how they can be changed to purify water in an ecologically sound way.
Landscape Reclamation
The project as a whole aims to become a testing ground for new technologies, allowing the community and visitors to the area to visualise the processes that are taking place, to value their purpose as well as their aesthetic.
Irwell Valley 2008
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Landscape Reclamation
Connections
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Landscape Reclamation
Irwell Valley 2008
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Landscape Reclamation
Irwell Valley 2008
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Landscape Reclamation
Irwell Valley 2008
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Landscape Reclamation
Masterplan
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Landscape Reclamation
Visual
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Landscape Reclamation
Irwell Valley 2008
Irwell Valley 2009 Landscape Reclamation Faculty of Landscape Architecture Edinburgh College of Art
The temporal fluctuations and experiences were key in this project, as was the acknowledgement of an ecological aesthetic. Throughout history different groups have left their marks on the landscape, the evident group being addressed in this project is that of industry, it is important to acknowledge these layers and add to them with a new interpretation of the landscape. This area offers a unique opportunity to capitalise on the relationship between man and nature and how this can be harvested for the production of energy.
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Landscape Reclamation
Irwell Valley 2008
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Landscape Reclamation
Seasonal change
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Landscape Reclamation
Irwell Valley 2008
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Landscape Reclamation
Connections
Edinburgh College of Art
‘O7 / O8
LEVEL 2 /
PILRIG PARK / Edinburgh Edinburgh College of Art
The first step in this project was the realisation that the parks current incarnation was not meeting the needs of its local users or visitors from further afield.
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
This is a park which holds many layers of history relating to the estate house which still sits in its grounds. As such the design derives from this history and seeks to reconnect the estate house to its grounds and re-establish, visually a major axis which connects the park to Arthurs seat a major way finding tool for people within the city of Edinburgh.
Park Design
The main element within the proposal is the reinterpretation of a Physics garden which once sat on the site and formed the basis for the royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. Through this the park will be reprogrammed to fulfil the criteria of a contemporary urban space.
Pilrig Park, 2008
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Park Design
Pilrig Park, Masterplan
Edinburgh College of Art
GRANTON PRIMARY SCHOOL/ Edinburgh
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
The aim in this project was to develop a new atmosphere for child’s play without the need for prescriptive play equipment with designated and lineated areas for this. This was achieved through the manipulation of landform made from both synthetic materials and natural grasses, resulting in an undulating landform, a space which is visually stimulating and engaging for children, both visually and to the other senses.
Design with Architects Granton waterfront Primary School, 2008
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Design with Architects
Granton waterfront Primary School / sketch
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Design with Architects
Granton waterfront Primary School, 2008
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Design with Architects
Granton waterfront Primary School / Model
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Urban Design and Housing
Kirk Newton, 2007
Kirk Newton, 2007 Urban Design and Housing
This housing project sits on a highly visible ridge above the village of Kirk Newton in the outskirts of Edinburgh. The design seeks to minimise the intrusion of this development on the hillside when viewed from the valley below and creates a strong road frontage on its opposite edge. The land has been sculpted so that the houses sit on relative flat ground, trees have been planted densely on the slopes to provide both privacy and wind break. The project uses language derived from the original farm buildings which were on site, of which the main courtyard has been retained Shared surfaces and courtyards are used to create a series of spaces, both on an intimate level, shared by houses in a particular courtyard and on a whole development scale by providing open recreational land and a community orchard, space in which a community can develop.
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Edinburgh
Edinburgh College of Art
KIRKNEWTON/
Edinburgh College of Art Faculty of Landscape Architecture Landscape Planning Faskally Forest, 2007
FASKALLY FOREST/ Pitlochry, Scotland
The focus of this project was the production of a management scheme for Faskally Forest, one which would aid its activity reprogramming. The Forest sits on the River Tummel, my focus was on the activation of this riverfrontage, through the incorporation of structures which would allow people to step out onto the water. These structures would not only frame strategic views but also would act as moorings, fishing spots and habitats for local wildlife by providing a green roof. This green roof would minimise the visual intrusion of these structures when viewed from above.
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Landscape Planning
Faskally Forest, 2007
Edinburgh College of Art Tempelhof / Berlin
‘O6 / O7
LEVEL 1 /
SEQUENTIAL VIEWS / Edinburgh
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Design / Space / Graphics
Sequential Views, 2006
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
Design / Space / Graphics
Sketchbook, extract, 2006
SKETCHES /
Edinburgh
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
First Year Studies
Print making, 2006
Edinburgh College of Art
Faculty of Landscape Architecture
First Year Studies
Print making, 2006
Oliver James Barden oliver.barden@gmail.com