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Katie - with my apologies :)

on September 30, 2021

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Location: Cheltenham, UK

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Roberto Burle Marx - KLCC Park

An influential and ground-breaking landscape architect, KLCC Park is supposedly the final piece designed by Roberto Burle Marx. Providing greenery to the space around the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, he designed the area to ‘leave the world a little more sensitive and a little more educated to the importance of nature.’ The genius of this design in my opinion is the juxtaposition of the site in the first place. The Petronas Towers, for a period the largest buildings in the world, and surrounded by skyscrapers for miles, could very easily have been filled in with built form and more office blocks and facilities. Instead this creates an area of tranquillity and peace in the financial and business centre of one of the busiest cities on the planet. The KLCC Park is a perfect example of ‘the workers’ escape’, giving visitors the opportunity to enjoy and interact with nature, water (through the wading pool) and wildlife during their down time .

AD5604 - Barnwood Park Submission - January '22

Having started the academic year with no previous experience of using Photoshop, InDesign or AutoCAD, I'm genuinely really proud of the work below, and pleased to share how far my skills have progressed in such a short period of time. Starting with an initial DigiMap of the site with some existing contours, I have created a Topography, Vegetation and Hydrology Strategy for amendments to the area, to try and create something which the public and wildlife can engage with, and an area which can be an educational and biodiverse asset to Gloucester and the surrounding area. By redesigning the retention ponds and making them a focal point of the vegetation as well as the hydrology, I feel that I have managed to create a far more visually stimulating site that what currently exists. due to only planting native species in the plan, biodiversity and ecological balance has been maintained. I'll admit to it being a little rough around the edges in places, and perhaps some details missing ...

Walkway design using SketchUp

An in-progress SketchUp model of the boardwalk I'm creating for the Barnwood Park redesign submission at the end of my first year of the conversion masters. This is a gravity assisted design, not relying upon the shear strength of bolts or timber slots, with each element carefully integrated into the next. The cut pile ends, to which the uprights are attached, support the beams, the beams support the bearers, and the bearers support the boards. Try saying that five times quickly. Once completed, I will export to CAD for annotation, which will then make up part of my AD5604 submission.

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Katie - with my apologies :)

First post - 5 minute sketch

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