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on November 04, 2021

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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 .

Russell Page - Villa Silvio Pellico

Russell Page – Villa Silvio Pellico The first thing which strikes me about Villa Silvio Pellico is the symmetry, which instantly reminded me of a trip to India, where I particularly enjoyed the Mughal Gardens of the Taj Mahal. Page was a designer who drew inspiration from historic English, European and Arabian garden styles, and you can certainly see those classical inspirations in this design in Northern Italy. Page commonly used standing water as part of his designs as seen above, however water was not intended to be the focus of his gardens – he believed the real sculptures were trees and flowers, arranged to reflect the unpredictability of nature. Perhaps this goes against the classical inspirations, but in context of post-war Europe (WWII dealt a huge blow to public and private gardens across Europe, with most landowners gardens falling into disrepair) his work falls somewhere between traditional and innovative, between classical and naturalistic. A Snap from our trip to t...

Section Line - Photoshop & AutoCAD

I'm genuinely pleased with the progress I am making from a digital perspective as part of this course, and the below is (in my opinion) a relatively professional looking section line, including multiple different styles of media to represent my plan for part of Barnwood Park. Having created the section line in AutoCAD, I then used a simply layering technique in Photoshop to place multiple different layers of vegetation, as well as my proposed café and facilities, people, a walkway and water to the design.

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