PortfolioA COLLECTION OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS

LISA BURGE

Year 1: Garden Design Year 2: Residential Design Year 2: Imagined Cities Year 2: St. Patricks Square

Year 1: Garden DesignAN INVESTIGATION INTO CONTEXTUAL PROCESSES

The focus of this Garden Design assignment was to ex-plore the transferral of site analysis and operational

information into site design. Thinking about the urban pro-cesses in the wider context of this small residential garden was essential to the design process. By investigating the

slope were discovered.

was centred around vegetation in relation to slope as well

the water run-off from the road which tended to settle at the base of the site. To address the sites bog issue at its base

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open deck for entertaining and fruit trees as well as a veg-

A mixture of planting was utilised across the site to address the differing water saturation levels of the site. On higher ground native revegetation planting was implemented while more wet-tolerant planting was implemented on lower ground.

-ral process is demonstrated within the design with square-edged paving as well as a square jetty and small pond; and the natural revegetation processes of the planting.

This design allowed the embracing of nature as the process

succession as well as many other ecological processes

Year 2: Residential DesignMODELLING A HOUSE IN CAD

Using CAD the purpose of this assignment was to model a familiar property including both hard and soft land-

scaping. The construction of the house and garage on the property helped to give the site a sense of human scale and a realism.

-ate a convincing model to which people can relate. The overall purpose of the assignment was to develop a pre-sentation which would sell the property through a realistic approach.

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both the house and the garage.

The mesh of the site includes both a slight hill as well as a slight valley in front of and behind the house respectively. This was created after the main framework of the house was implemented. The landscaping includes both the hard landscape of patio and path areas and the driveway as well as numerous soft landscape features surrounding the house.

Once the construction part of the assignment was complete -

ple to create realistic rendered view points of the property.

rendering) were all created to present further information concerning the property.

Year 2: Imagined CitiesMODELLING AT THE LARGEST SCALE

This assignment involved designing a city based on the -

on high pilings and that houses were to be constructed of bamboo and zinc. Many platforms and balconies placed at various heights were described as well as the city being held up by stilts which cross one another. Hanging side-walks linking the buildings of the city which have ladder ac-cess were also required within the prose.

poles.

-eral buildings and groups of houses which were then trans-formed into modules. This allowed for the easy replication of buildings throughout the model.

The textures utilised within the building stage of the imag-

the prose. Use of ladders allowed the wide implementation of platforms and balconies which effectively illustrated the citizens way of life.

-dered views were set up around the model. These were

edges and places of people interaction.

realistic effect.

Year 2: St. Patricks SquareA PROJECT BASED ON A STONE OPERATION

This studio project involved developing operational strate-gies, based on the study of stone. Part of the design brief

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was a key demand of the design brief. This meant looking

(including site history) to determine vegetation use, people

cultural hubs in close proximity. In the other extreme, design-ing with regards to scale meant creating detailed designs, right down to bollards, seats, joins and materials. I chose erosion as my site !stone" operation and began to design with this dissolving, wearing away, crumbling and corroding op-eration in mind. Taking into consideration the popularity of the square (especially during lunchtime), I wanted to create a space which engaged people in the operation I was dealing

eroding channels and gorges into the square, utilising straight lines, to connect with the urban environment and to create an

interactive urban space, where people stepped over gaps, or hopped into channels to walk on different levels. Because of

at the edge of this square, I also incorporated water into my design. I started to think about wave erosion and the tides, which gave me ideas about having islands and walkways in the gorged-out square. I placed these to allow for easy ac-cess across the site from all main entrances, and increased the engaging nature of the design by implementing water at different levels across the site and at different times of the day. This resembled the tides of the sea, where, at !high tide"

could be found in only one pool. This produced opportunities for stepping-stones, engaging with water and becoming ma-rooned on an island. Materials and vegetation choices also

-trate manuka, corten bands and tumbled brick and limestone which erode, bleed and dissolve.