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The Kuku Beach Farm project was looking at alternative land use strategies for low laying dunelands on the east coast of New Zealand, of which predominately is occupied by the harmful agricultural practices inherent to New Zealand’s rural landscape. In conjunction with local Iwi (Maori tribes) and the Victoria University, students and Iwi collaborated to create new and sustainable visions for there land. The Kuku Beach Farm looks to create a sustainable farming practice incorporating permaculture principles to suit the variable land types occurring on site. The disposition of the Iwi’s land creates a patchwork of land plots in the rural landscape, and was in need to create legible and direct links between the plots. Other land surrounding the land in question was still functioning as dairy farms and the like, so thresholds were to provide safe an secure transition from property to property, similar to a cattle stop.
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This project comprised of a small scale temporary intervention creating new productive urban space in the old redunant urban fabric. Consisiting of simple planters and bird houses. Creating habitat in urban environments for both human, flora, and fauna. The life span of the project could be a catalyst to a wider scale inhabitation as the components are easily transported and configured to numerous locations in a city.
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B The Christchurch resilience White paper was undertaken as a group based research paper, of which we analysed problems arisen as a result of the Christchurch earthquakes. The groups investigations revealed implications of the city’s street network. The document focuses on the vulnerabilties of its network, and proposing how its elements might provide better mobility under pressure, and the aim to decrease dependency of elements within the street network on one another. My main focus was looking at the pedestrian and cycle scale network. Development of the street network was aiming to enable greater permeability for all transport modes across the different scales, in order to create less dependancy on arterial routes in moments of civil emergencies.
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Christchurch like many other cities around New Zealand and the western world ave been victim of there own preoccupied perceptions of beauty and what is erceived as natural and beneficial. The problem with these cities is becomng more apparent when attention is brought forward regarding pressing issues f how we occupy and use space within our cities. Looking at Christchurch in articular the Avon river, Hagley park, and the encompassed streets it repreents much of our adopted planting and programing practice, brought with the British Empire. The quintessential English landscape, mass planting of exotic pecies, vast lawns, and nature strips, offering very little in means of productivy and demanding great inputs to maintain there existence.
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When events such as the Canterbury earthquakes present themselves we need to ask and question the performance of our spaces, the everyday space, can they exist and confront the mono functioning current programs that inhabit the streets, our parks, and public spaces. Many residents in Christchurch see a potential for the creation of community gardens and greater focus in urban agriculture as food is obviously a necessity for life, and when adversary is faced, how can we supplement and decrease our reliance on commercial food networks.
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Following from the White paper the further development of a neighbourhood scale. The area of focus was to explore a specific network in the Christchurch CBD, where several significant features of the city are situated. However these spaces are all demand huge resources and time for the maintained image. The proposal challenges how we percieve these spaces and develop new and healthy alternatives of landuse management strategies amongst the old and traditional occupation of these sites. Simple design moves like meadow land, swales, and mitigating planting to help mitigate pollutants, while also dramatically reducing the direct and indirect dependency of fossil fuels. n di e il energy use d p n of fertilisers a
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• Food forest planting amongst current exotic planting palette. • Mitigating planting palette reducing storm water runoff into the avon. • Reducing Lawn cover.
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• Wild meadows using native and exotic edible plant species. • Food forest planting amongst current exotic planting palette. • All programs to coexist with the current sport and recreational programs. • Reducing use of fossil fueled machinery for maintenance, reducing lawn cover where appropriate.
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• Vacant lots present beneficial occupation in the interim to be used as community gardens. • Establishing community and commercial cooperation to a more sustainable occupation of the sites. • Creation of a planter suite which responds and challenges generic street furniture and planters. • Begins life in vacant lots as a catalyst to the community gardens creation. • Redesigning streetscapes to enable a significant change in street occupation and function, • Mitigating and retention of water runoff. • Challenging preconceived convention of the ‘street’. • Planters to then inhabit after vacant lots rebuild.
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Detailed construction drawing suite for the Mount Victoria community garden produced as part of regeneration project of the former Mount Victoria Bowls club. The site situated within the boundaries of the Wellington City town belt. Town Belt entrance
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NYC sidewalk vegetation map. decrotative and productivity
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NYC sidewalk vegetation typology
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NYC sidewalk vegetation typology
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Bachelor of Design Major in Landscape Architecture (BDes Hons) School of Architecture Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (2008-2011)
Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, and Illustrater. AutoCAD. Google Sketch Up. Rhino. ArrGIS.
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