Planting Sectional Views

Hurrah!  Another image added. This time for planting.  Within the site, the chalk has been left barren to allow for ruderal ecology to emerge. Within this, predominately Betula woodlands will be planted with understorey species for coppice and biomass.  The top image shows a view looking north with Malus sp. for food production with the south viewing image to the cliffs below. I still wanted to show the energy of the site and the openness, hence the trees bending in the vortices of the wind, (there will be many) and the kite flying. 

While doing this project, the back of my mind was full of Dungeness and Derek Jarman but on a much greater scale.  I wonder what he would have done with this site in the 21st Century?

Don't ever do a post grad in Landscape Architecture if you want to remain sane.  It drove me mad but now very prepared for the big wide world out there again.

Final masterplan

Finally found a way to upload the final masterplan.  No annotation on this one mind, but at least the picture is there.  Just about to work on some others. The second image shows a section of the hydrology detail area.  I can't seem to do sections without all the background, they just don't look complete.  I know a background is good and GIS Arc scene imported images of my digital model have been the basis for this.  The only thing really missing now for next week is some closer scenes showing more human interaction.  I'm not doing any more construction details...had enough.  If you look closely at the section, you might see some lambs jumping about.  I do like to add a bit of humour and and area of grazing pasture was intended here anyway.  Which reminds me, I have forgotton to add a protective BS Pig proof fence to the lakeside Phragmites australis planting.  Those sheep will have it all away before any water cleansing. 

Slowly getting there.  Still can't make the proper final masterplan upload or the sections and views.
The files are just too big still.  Here are some 3D GIS models of the Masterplan for Eastern Quarry. They are stills taken from the fly through movie.  It's a shame that I rendered in Photoshop and not Cad since the buidlings are 2 dimensional and I cannot extrude.  Back to the file shrinkage to get other work up. 

More New Images

Lakeside water meadow area with betula woodland in the background.  I hope that I can re-use some of these images and will add interactive people for sequenial sketches.  Not entirely sure about the dominance of the background trees.  Will re-visit when other jobs are completed.  The planting strategy illustrations are first completed with watercolour then scanned into photoshop for detail and fine tuning.

As usual trying to up-load other images but I can't seem to make the files small enough.

Work Update on Eastern Quarry

A cropped verson of my 'Final' masterplan.  Still work in progress.  The orange roads have to go and the housing is still not dense enough. This is at a scale of 1:5000 at A1 and cropped so missing the scale bar.  The site is approx 2.5km from East to West.  Back to the drawing board again.

A sketch for the softworks strategy.  The whole planting on the site will take completely natural form.  No formal shapes and the emerging chalk ecology will dominate.  Here we have a chalk meadow grassland with a copse of indiginous trees - likely Carpinus betulus set in the foreground against the backdrop of the lake and dominant chalk cliffs.

Betula woodland will be used for coppice as well as producing a vauable ecology.  Here, the trees are dense with an emerging underplanting of the wild garlic, Allium ursinum.  In order for it to thrive, the trees should be thinned or coppiced to allow light penetration.

Detailed Design

Concept words...creating this has really helped get this part of the project really focused I now have a great plan for the most exciting part of Eastern Quarry.

Plan view of ex. Clinker tanks re-moulded as Leisure hotel and community buildings with green roof and glass walkways which overhang the cliffs. White stemmed Betulas and invisible glass barriers. I need to add glass seating to the edges. Just click on the images for better resolution.

This has been hard works..and I still need to do the detailed construction drawings for this hard landscaping area at Eastern Quarry, (Along with planting plan area and water/landform). I don't expect much sleep this weekend. It bugs me that we get shown the best tool for waterflow and suds systems in GIS today....just so we can present on Monday. Creativity vs engineering? We have to do it all as discussed this morning in GIS session.

On working for the concept for the whole site, the word has always been 'Thrilling'. I picked this up on day one of the course back in mid-January, since the documentation from the original masterplanners suggested that Eastern Quarry was going to be a 'Thrilling' place to live..but their masterplan does not replicate this ideal.

For the Hardworks detail area, I have chosen the original concrete works. I have been thinking about the concept words for a couple of months. It all has to be about making this area of the site edgy, uncomfortable but exciting and unconventional. Somewhere that people might like to visit but might feel a bit apprehensive about doing so. It's all about heights, feeling a little unsafe and in danger and willing youself to push into a more uncomfortable but exciting zone, but then really enjoying it and wanting more.

I have added walkways at height, a mad luge ride along the cliffs, (Not ice, but New Zealand Queenstown style go carts), and re-used the existing conveyors to be controlled via water weighting engineering. Parts of the conveyor routes travel over huge voids in the landscape.

The children's play areas will be all about balance and falling, albeit safely. I have also added a cliff hanging restaurant with a walk on roof. You can only reach it by passing under the luge rideway. This underpass will have a glass roof so the riders can be seen whizzing overhead. This is the transient space. It's all very well having this in my head, but it all has to be drawn at least in draft by Monday am! I am so happy that we have free reign at Uni. It is better than the real world of boring PV panels, (But here, mine are fully glass and transparent), and the biomass plant! Of course I have included these, but it's a good thing we don't have to work to a budget.

Again... the image resolution is useless in order to get these adobe linked visuals posted. They are clear as a bell in real life!

Going Mad and Talking in my Sleep!

Original masterplan
Lamb Chop...Organic shapes and images

My lamb chop! However my mitigated plan is more akin to this but won't upload. My plan has a central axis and node, just like the chop! Also, the Welsh trip made me think that adding sheep pasture here is very important. Sheeps milk is also an asset. I have been working on trees too. White stemmed Betulas are so important here and reflect the character of the chalk cliff site. Populus nigra creates a contrast with Salix alba plantings adjacent to the lakes

It's a shame that every time my own images go through Adobe systems, I can't seem to upload them. Grant....can you help?

Anyway, I am so obsessed with my project that I found it in my Lamb Chop last night. My Husband thinks I have completely lost it. Apparently I was talking quite coherently about specifications in my sleep on Friday night! Talking in my sleep? I must be very careful?