Landscape Visions

E - Apple Espalier H - Scorched Sculpture  Both Painswick Rococo Gardens

Martha Schwartz describes herself as landscape architect and artist, using design as a means of strengthening public spaces and urban space's resilience, adaption and mitigation of climate change. Her works are evocative, sharp and surprising.  Fengming Mountain Park is one such design, which uses funky linear elements on the ground plan and has sculptural features along a mountain walk, the extreme gradient of which has been overcome by design of a long winding mountain walk to ensure accessibility for all. The vivid elements, sharp design forms and vibrant orange arrangements juxtaposition against a curiously constant white sky.  As artist, designer and architect, and with a memorable approach to design and consultation in the public realm, she places herself at the forefront of the developing modern green urban world.  Image: Plan of Fengming Mountain Park, Sichuan Province China. From book 30/30 Landscape Architecture

  Herbert Dreiseitl is of significant interest to me, having lived with and experienced many of his landscape interventions during my time in Singapore. Bishan-Ang Mo Kio Park is a classic example of his work, seemlessly combining city infrastructure, ecosystem services, and social place, the former a constant threat to the latter two in tiny Singapore. Formly a massive culvert and storm drain system, through the Active Beautiful Clean Waters initiative the area was redesign to create a sinous accessible landscape. One that could be used for play, recreation and retreat, whilst resilient enough to cope with and carry the extreme rainfall and storm water typical of Singapore when needed, the residue remediate through the ecosystem services designed in to replace harsh lifeless  infrastructure. The beauty comes with the fact that one wouldn't know this had been done, essential utility hidden within sympathetic landscape design, a subtle gift for people and their families.  ...

S I I - 'Scorched Snowdrop' - Painswick Rococo Gardens S - Red House folley, Painswick Rococo gardens. (I believe it reads something like 'go my friends and seek diversity/originality/something special'. Maybe it matters more how I read it to myself than it's true meaning???) 

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I had some feelings about North Place and Cheltenham that I couldn't express and I don't know what they mean yet and I had to paint them. It came about after some site analysis work. I know exactly why I've painted everything on the page but I don't know 'why' as a whole, yet. 

Playing with the 'granduer' and aspiration style that North Place could be designed to based on some places I've recently visited. Also a first attempt with water colours this week (inspired after seeing Luke's sketchbook work in class).  Really enjoy the quick application of colour which suits a quick sketching style.  Gardens by the Bay, Singapore Azabudai Hills, Tokyo DDP, Seoul EWHA Women's Uni, Seoul

  Line drawings, working towards a simpler and clearer drawing style like Grant W Reid. Successful to some degree and confidence with thicker penline is useful, but still scratchy and not consistently crisp like Ried.  -Brother's garden, concept develop sketch -Tenryu-Ji, Kyoto -LA Louvre foyer

  O Y O -Horse girdle ornament, Dagfields, Crewe. Y - London Plane along Grand Union Canal, Market Drayton a  b  c  d  e  f  g  h  i  j  k  l  m  n   O   p  q  r  s  t  u  v  w  x   Y   z

  Wk 1 –  Professional  Practise   Turenscape Chinese company, with ‘Tu’ meaning earth and ‘Ren’ as man, therefore ‘Turen’ as facilitators of acts between humans, spirit, and nature. To quantify this philosophy, Turenscape have produced 600 projects in 200 cities, won the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) award 14 times, and 7 ‘World’s Best Landscape’ awards. Turenscape are renowed for their ‘Sponge City’ approach to landscape architecture. Much of the work is addressing environmental hydrology issues caused by city expansion and encroachment over the previous century. As many cities begin as riparian this is a common global issue. Degraded urbanized space is regenerated as ecosystem services whilst remaining sustainably developable and acting as engageable public amenity. The company is impressive in that it is capable of researching and planning at the macro-scale, for instance, developing sponge city solutions for the entirety of Beijing city. Image:...