Sarah FoquéPGDip Landscape Architecture

MFA Art, Space and Nature

CURRICULUM VITEA

CONTACT & PERSONAL DETAILSE-mail: sarahfoque@gmail.comMobile: 07917061537

Date of Birth: 10/05/1984 Martial status: unmarried

Nationality: BelgianI have a full drivers license

Website: www.sarahfoque.com

EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS:10/2010 - to date Pathway to Chartership, Landscape Institute09/2008-06/2009: PGDip Landscape Architecture, Distinction, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK10/2006-06/2008: MFA Art, Space and Nature, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK04/2008: 'Cityscapers: By the Throat', International design studio with Dr. Goodwin, Edinburgh, UK09/2002-06/2005: Ba Landscape Architecture, Horteco, Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel, Vilvoorde, Belgium

01/2004-05/2004: Erasmus-student Landscape Architecture, Greenwich University, London, UK09/2002-06/2003: Part-time Sculpture classes, Academie voor schone kunsten, Mechelen, Belgium

WORK EXPERIENCE:10/2010 - to date: Freelance Landscape Architect for Standerwick Land Design

Responsible for the landscape design of several urban regeneration schemes in the East of London08-09/2010: Freelance Landscape Architect for Philip Nixon Design, London

Preparation of tender package: Technical details and specification09/2009-06/2010: Landscape Architect for the Council of Haarlemmermeer, Netherlands

Master planning, Urban design, Community consultation, Park design, Tree replacement schemes, play area, Land- scape advisor on new development projects and regeneration projects

09/2005-09/2008: Landscape Architect for Derek Cater Associates, Edinburgh, UK Master planning, Business parks, Historic restorations, Housing Schemes, Park design, planting schemes

05/2008: Competition entry Thu Thiem International Design Competition, office of Dr. Tung Pho Duc, Hanoi, Vietnam

07/2005-08/2005: Consultant for the National Trust for Scotland, Edinburgh, UK

02/2005-05/2005: Landscape Architecture Internship at the National Trust for Scotland, Edinburgh, UK

AWARDS & COMPETITIONS:04/2011 Selected for the 2011 Chaumont-sur-Loire Garden Festival 'Happy Biodiversity', Garden to be completed in April 201107/2009 LDA Design Prize for Excellence in Landscape Design for my PGDip-project

COMPUTER SKILLS:MS office: MS Word, MS Access, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS PowerPointDrawing: AutoCAD, Microstation, GIS, Bryce, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketchup, Indesign, Rhino (basic)

LANGUAGES:Dutch: Native speaker English: Fluent

French: IntermediateGerman: Basic

ART:Aside from being a practicing landscape architect, I am also active as an artist with exhibitions in London, Edinburgh, Stuttgart, Slovenia, The Hague and Chicago. Within my instal-lations I investigate the ephemeral relationship between people and their surroundings. Furthermore, they are based on my interest in anthropology and cartography. You can see some of my art works and landscape projects on www.sarahfoque.com

REFERENCES:Stan van der LaanProjectmanager, OVR, Gemeente Haarlemmermeers.vd.laan@haarlemmermeer.nl

Fleure GethingCourse Leader PGDip Landscape Architecture at Leeds Metf.gething@leedsmet.ac.uk

DEVONS ESTATE -Urban Regeneration Scheme,

East London Devons Estate is an urban regeneration scheme in East London. I was involved in the development of the master plan, the landscape design and the liaising with client and architects.

The design incorporates a new commnunity hub (pi-azza) linked to a central green space, which is made accessible and useable by the new design, a new treatment to the frontage of Devons Road, the main route through Devons Estate, and a new pedestrian connection between Devons Estate and Crossway Estate. The design aims to improve pedestrian con-nectivity within Devons Estate and with its wider environment, by reducing car access and increasing pedestrian walkways, and provide new and improved useable green spaces for the community.

SHOPS

Limscott Green - Central green

space

Existing Play area - public

space for local teenagers

Local piazza

Main route through Devons Estate - appearance to match it's function

Raised green space - appearance and access to be improved

Main vehicular route

local vehicular route

New Car parking arrangment

New and/or improved pe-destrian connections

New and/or improved public space for the whole commu-nity

New and/or improved Semi-private green space fo-cussed on use by the people living in the sur-rounding housing block

New and/or improved Semi-private network of green courtyards with parking on the periphery focussed on use by the people living in the surrounding housing block

EXISTING SITUATION

STRATEGIC MASTER PLAN

NEW FRONTAGE FOR DEVONS ROAD

PIAZZA LIMSCOTT GREEN DEVONS ROAD

THE NEW COMMUNITY HUB: PIAZZA AND LIMSCOTT GREEN

Piazza incorporating a flexible open area available for community events, planters and art benches. The design is based on a free flow of movement, retaining all possible desire lines.

The design for Limscott Green consists of a central open green (a flexible space which can be used for various activities), a toddler play area in the South-West corner of the green and art Pergola (incorporating lace fence as seen on the new frontage of Devons Road) as a quiet contemplation space. The edge of the green provides colour with peren-nial planting and forms a buffer for the housing with hedge, shrubs and soft mounding. The design also incorporates pedestrian routes, which increase the con-nectivity of the area.

To hall and community centre

To community hub

To existing MUGA

To shops

Calcium reactorto control Ph of water,

aim is a Ph of 7.6. Controlled by a timer

Waterbasin with pond pump controlled by a timer,

works twice daily creating an event like the tides of

the sea

Valve open when pump off to drain water away from salt marsh

Planters with salt marsh plants made out of coconut liner and chicken wire. At the base of the planter is a layer of gravel for drainaige purposes, on top of the gravel sits a mixture of topsoil, sand and existing soil separated from the gravel by geotextile

Calcium reactoron bringing the Ph of

the water upto 7.6

pump on, emptying waterbasin

Valve closed when pump on

Planters with salt marsh plants made out of coconut liner and chicken wire. At the base of the planter is a layer of gravel for drainaige purposes, on top of the gravel sits a mixture of topsoil, sand and existing soil separated from the gravel by geotextile

ELEVATIONS SHOWING THE WORKINGS OF THE WATER FEATURE

LE JARDIN DES MAREES -Chaumont-sur-Loire Garden

Festival 2011,Accepted Entry

With this project I tried to tell the story of the seas, a story which might be lost for future genera-tions. The seas form an essential element of life on earth. It produces the majority of oxygen in the earth's atmosphere, it absorbs CO2 from the at-mosphere and it houses millions of species, many of which we count as part of our food supply.

Today it is also under major threat by over-fishing, climate change, acidification and pollution. As most of this wonderful world is hiddenunder water we don't realise the impact of our ac-tions and what we are about to loose if we don't change our behaviour.

This project aims to celebrate the diversity in this hidden world and the relationships it has with the dry land. The garden design shows 4 images of 4 types of environments in order to represent their relationships and to highlight the importance of the sea in the chain of life. Central in the garden is a salt-water water feature, showing the colourful hid-den under-water world taking inspiration of reefs, sea-anenomes, shells and many more mysterious sea creatures. This water feature links to a salt-marsh area, which will flood twice daily by the water of water feature, showing the relationship between sea and land. Along the side of water feature and salt-marsh are the dunes, another environment linking sea and land and which is closely connected to the faith of the seas. Finally the backdrop of the water feature is formed by the large luscious leave plants, representing the hinterland. By placing them in the background, it shows the relationship of dependence of life on earth on the seas.

Will be completed April 2011.

Salt water water feature with artist impressions of sea anemones, coral and other sea creatures. This water feature will overflow twice daily, like the tides of the sea

Existing hedge

Decking area with seat, made of untreated pine sleepers, for contemplation and play

Playful dune area with wavy dune grasses and swaying in the wind perennials, evoking a sense of play

1.2m wide path of shelly sand with an untreated pine sleeper edge

Large leaved plants, repre-senting the hinterland and forming a backdrop for the

water feature

Salt water pond, lined with PVC-liner and edged with untreated pine sleepers

Trees, creating a transpar-ent enclosure to the water

feature

Overflows, allowing water from water feature into the

salt marsh

Salt marsh, forming a carpet of bands of colours, like an

abstract painting.The planting is placed in planters made of chicken

wire and coconut liner, representing the natural

build up of sedimentation and planting salt marshes

Salt marsh grasses, forming tufts giving the salt marsh

some more interest

Overflow channels, allowing the overflowing water to spread amongst the salt-

marsh plants and resembles the natural structure of a

saltmarsh with its many natural canals

Location for water basin, pump (to create tidal floods)

and calcium reactor (to control the Ph of the water)

Sea’s area with salt water pond and water feature

Salt marsh area with planting zones covering lower to upper marsh

Playful Dunes area with dune grasses and perennialsHinterland area consisting of plants with large lucious green leaves

Salt water water feature forming the focus of the gardenSalt marsh area functioning as an abstract painting of lines to be viewd from decking area

Playful Dunes area enhancing the path axis and drawing people into the garden

Hinterland area creating a perfect backdrop for the water feature

Contemplation space created by transparent enclosure due to trees

Path axisSUBMITTED PLAN FOR THE CHAUMONT-SUR-LOIRE GARDEN FESTIVAL2011

VISUALISATION OF GARDENTO BE COMPLETED IN APRIL 2011

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BUSSINESSPARK

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BUURT 4Achterkanten

Local ammenities

Park zone

Water

Comfirmed new buildings:* Housing * Nursery

Childrens' farm to be maintained

Dense woodland to be opened up

Main slow traffic routes (cyclists and pedestrians)

Main car traffic routes

Necessary neighbourhood connecti-ons to be established /improved

Interesting buildings to be maintained

Need for a new architectural frontage

ANALYSIS OF EXISTINGS SITUATION

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PROGRAMME OF DEMANDS -

Framework for the Quatrebrass area, Badhoe-vedorp, Haarlemmermeer,

Netherlands

Due to the relocation of the A9, a large stretch of land running through Badhoevedorp

will be freed up for re-development. This required a re-envisioning of certain areas

within Badhoevedorp. As part of larger plan-ning team I helped to create a new framework and landscape vision for one of these areas,

named Quatrebrass.

The Quatrebrass area will include an expanded public park, new

street lanes, development of the old A9 ribbon into a green con-nector throughout Badhoevedorp

and the new residential areas. The Programme of Demands does not only locate these new develop-ments, but also subscribes their character/identity and how they should connect to the existing

surroundings. The Programme of Demands will be used as plan-ning regulation for the design

and construction of this area by developers

New residential areas

Park

Water

New water way

Architectural accent with matching public realm to mark the entrances into the park

New public buildings housing functions like school, village hall

Children's farm to be maintained

Tennis courts and handball fields

Car park

Building free zone

Green ribbon, to replace the A9 and to help re-connect the different village areas

Green connections

New tree lanes to match in with exisitng village character

Large scale green connection

Pedestrian & cyclist's routes

Main car routes

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CONCEPT - FRAMEWORK QUATREBRAS

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Existing water to be retained

Existing open green space

Park with permeable edges

The green ribbon, to repalce A9 to help re-connect the different areas of the village

Building free zone

Green buffer

New waterways

Future open water

Wavy tree lanes to match the existing North-South tree lines, which run throughout the village

Large scale green connection

Small scale green connection

WATER AND GREEN STRATEGYDE RINGVAART

New residential areas

Green ribbon, to replace the A9 and to help re-connect the dif-ferent village areas

Pedestrian & cyclist's routes

Locally important car routes

New bus route

TRAFFIC STRATEGY

New residential areas continuing the venacular of large single standing houses

Park

Living at the park, frontages facing the park

Local amenities set as buildings in the park

Frontages facing the tree lined streets

Green ribbon, to replace the A9 and to help re-connect the diffe-rent village areas

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RESIDENTIAL ZONES

VIEW OF THE GREEN RIBBON NEXT TO THE TENNIS COURTS

Green buffer between the Green Ribbon and the Tennis Courts, 10m wide

Cycle path and foot path set in 30m wide park strip (Green Ribbon)

15m wide water way to replace A9 and to compensate for the increase in hard

surface

Semi-private garden strip

ANALYSIS

Main view Sport’s area

Play area Entrance

Green linear connection Cycle path

Green wall Flexibel open green space

Perennial garden Monotenous coppiced woodland

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Cycle path Footpath Visually open lane Varied and ecologicallyinteresting woodland

Swamp area

Perennial garden

FRAMEWORK

Open tree entrance Opened views/visual connections

Sports field

Boardwalk

The new hub/heart

Tree group

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OVERBOS NEIGHBOURHOOD PARK -

Park Regeneration Project

This project entailed the regeneration of the main neighbourhood park in Overbos, Hoofddorp. Within this project I was responsible for the design , fundraising (together with the project manager) and the community consul-tation process (together with the area manager). The first phase of this project will be excecuted in autumn this year. The park was constructed with the surrounding neighbourhood in the 1970's. Since then the park has received very little attention; This has given rise to various problems: disconnection between neighbourhood & park, feels unsafe due to dense planting; the park is no longer experienced as a place to stay and it has lost its heart.Altough it has some problems the park also has some strong points: it is close to local ammenities, it has an already established planting, which gives structure; it is on a much used cycling route and it has water in and around it.

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The design of the park entails the following elements:

0. The hub of the park - a new point of attraction aimed at keeping people in the park located on the intersec-tion of important routes through the park1. Open tree squares - highlight the entrances and reconnect park and neighbourhood2. Ecological play forest - offers storm water storage for the area and an outdoor class room for the neighbouring schools3. Flexible open space - for diverse usage4. Main water chamber - a landmark feature with new floating planting beds and wooden decking and seating to improve the connection with the water 5. Second water chamber - will be opened up to reconnect water, park & neighbourhood6. The chamber zone - will gain new pathways to connect park and neighbourhood. This will open up the cham-bers without losing intimacy

Wooden planks, grooved, 2400mmx150mmx50mm

Oak support beam, at 600mm intervals

150mmx300mmx2000mm

Wooden planks attached with screws150mmx300mmx2000mm

600mm

Oak crossbeam, 200mmx200mmx1900mm

Oak Posts, 200mmx200mmx2000mmGravel base, 200mmx300mmx300mm

concrete, 300mmx400mmx2100mm

Neoprene, 1.2mm

Concrete infilling

Lanes and pathways are created or opened up to improve safety. The path network is simplified to im-prove the logic of the park and the pathways will be re-surfaced to create a difference between resting places and routes.

THE ECOLOGICAL PLAY FOREST

ROLLING DESIGN, what occurs in a hot spot / metastasis

Community Site

EVENTSDesigner,Planner or

ArtistDESIGN

RESEARCH

Sense of Place

SUSTAINABILITY

STEPPED PROCESS

SurroundingsCo

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Constant momentum

Positive effect

Greater integration

Better connectivity

Increasedvibrancy

Endlessprocess

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT THROUGHOUT

Activate

AIM: Delivering a succesful place for the community, which will function as a plat-

form for social interaction & To root site into community

, ROLLING DESIGN AT QUEEN SQUARE -

Major Design Project PGdip, Leeds Met, Leeds, 2009

For my major design project I chose Queen Square, an under used public space in the centre of

Leeds, and its wider surroundings.

Rolling design is a new approach towards urban design and landscape architecture. It combines

events/program with gradual design interventions in order to improve and re-ignite a site as a true

public space. A true public space being a space where people dwell and interact with one another.

In addition to this the positive effect of this re-ignition will spread beyond the site boundaries opening the door for new rolling design locations.

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STRATEGIC MASTER PLAN - WIDER CONTEXT

High value green space Little London, highrise social housing in green setting Community hotspot

Cultural hotspots

Landmark New high value public space with green elements Mixer court

New sustainable retail buildings affiliated with Leeds Met

New sustainable Leeds Met buildings

New sustainable office and retail buildings

Re-dressed Woodhouse Car park

New Arena

Existing other public green spaces

SUDS area

Access to Leeds Uni

New arena with

underground parking

Little London

Millenium Square

Town Hall

Civic Hall

Broadcast-ing Place

Rose Bowl

Art Gal-lery

Merion Centre

Leeds Met Civic

Blenheim Square

Blenheim Primary School

Bus lane

Improved green main pedestrian route/connector

Other improved/new key green pedestrian routes/connectors

Start of rolling design process

Community catchment area

Queen Square

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GREEN & WATER STRATEGY - PROPOSED

High value green space Hard landscaped area New building with green roof

Existing building with new green roof

New building with solar panels on roof

Mutant Garden (vertical green struc-tures attached to buildings)

Major tree lined roads with Porous Foot- and Cyclepath and asphalt road

Minor green routes which include trees and/or perenials

Water run-off collection tanks to collect water from hard surfacing

Existing other public green spaces

Retention pond

Community green spaces to be devel-oped in the future

Community catchment area

Access to Leeds Uni Little London

Millenium Square

Town Hall

Civic Hall

Art Gallery

Merion Centre

Leeds Met Civic

Blenheim Square

Blenheim Primary School

New arena with

underground parking

“Transforming the city by reclaimation of grey areas to green”

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HIERARCHY & CHARACTERISTICS OF HOTSPOTS - PROPOSED

High value green space New high value public space with green elements Queen Square - Contemporary onramental garden with a cafe and community services linked to Leeds Met in the buildings surrounding it (CDCL). The garden will be man-aged by a gardening youth programme set-up by CDCL

New Broadcasting Place - Leeds Hub for Visual Arts: Mainly hard landscaping with potential mutant gardens

Arena Square - Leeds Hub for entertainment with bars, restaurants, ... Muttant garden style planting

Little London Park - Will have an adaptable master plan and will be organically developped with the community. It will contain sports facilities and retention pond. This park will not be designed within this project

Rose Bowl Square - Car park transformed in high quality outdoor space encompassing outdoor space for restaurant, flexible seating and kiosk

Future potential hotspots

Community Catchment Area

New arena with underground

parking

Little London

Millenium Square

Town Hall

Civic Hall

Art Gallery

Merion Centre

Leeds Met Civic

Blenheim Primary School

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Queens Court - Flexible, Mainly hard landscaping Open space connection between different Leeds Met buildings with seating and active frontages

Queens Court Gardens - Quiet garden space behind new Leeds Met building containing Student Union, Student Ser-vices and Financial ServicesThe garden will hold a botanical collection of perenials for educational purposes and will be managed by a gardening youth programme set-up by CDCL

Campus Square - Flexible, Mainly hard landscaping, can be used for markets; Shops on the Queen Square edge

The project incorporated a research stage or feasibility study, a master planning stage and detail design. Within the master planning stage I started to develop a time line, which showed the implementation of events and gradual design changes in relation to time. This highlighted the positive chain-reaction rolling design could cause and how it

could spread through a city.

PHASE 1: 2009-2011

PHASE 2: 2012-2015

PHASE 3: 2016-2020

PHASE 4: 2021-2025 THE MASTER PLAN: PHASE 5: 2026-FUTURE

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Key

View to be created or enhanced

Major pedestrian routes to be developed as connectors

Road improvements to reduce car impact and to integrate Queen Square into the wider city Fabric

Phase 1:Events focused on raising awarenessPhysical changes to re-integrate Queen Square in the wider city fabric

EVENTS

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Rolling design continues

2010

Phase 3:Continuation of regular events and occa-sional events, by now Queen Square has a solid year round callendar of events and is enjoyed by locals of all walks of lifeChange of functions within terraced houses

Key

School Public Health & Community Care, Education related courses and Community services

Main Leeds Met Reception Area with Café

Active frontages

2014 - 2016

Phase 2:Creation of regular events to draw in regular visitors, such as a market and continue to raise awareness of Queen SquarePhysical changes to the inner green space and give Queen Square a focus

Key

Transform inner green space

Focus

2012

In the detail design stage the various steps in the time-line for phase 1 were further elaborated on. The design interventions were based on the

concept of 'Green City of the Future' and included the following: the use of perennials wherever possible, mutant gardens and digital gardens to create

a contemporary green city.

QUEEN SQUARE AT THE END OF THE ROLLING DESIGN PROCESS

THE TIME LINE

PLANTING OF PRODUCTION FOREST

5 years: Thining of forest and planting of shrub layer

7 years: Planting of herb layer

33 years: Mature production forest

AGROFORESTRY IN THE FOREST OF MERODE -

Sustainable Rural Landscape Study

This university project focused on an agricultural area next to the Forest of Merode. The land was mainly used for the

cultivation of corn as a crop to feed cattle. The growth of corn is very unsustainable and creates a bland landscape with very little views of the surrounding landscape. This project aimed to

create a new agricultural system which combined agricultural profit with sustainability and landscape experience.

Through research I discovered agroforestry, a method that com-bines agriculture with forestry. This combination led to a system in which the farmer has a short term crop eg. wheat and a long

term crop eg. wood. This method has many advantages: less pollution of groundwater, green connections, spread of income

for the farmer, a more varied landscape and protection against erosion. I used the tree lines of agroforestry as a design tool

to gradually transform and shape the landscape.

For example, on both sides the river I placed rows of poplar. The poplars protect the land against erosion and prevent

pollution of the water with fertiliser. On the other hand it made the inaccessible river into a landmark to be viewed

from the whole area. As a crop the poplars can be used for paper production

GRADUAL TRANSFORMATION

PHASE 5

PHASE 1

PHASE 2

PHASE 3

PHASE 4

Sarah Foque25 Huberd HouseManciple StreetSE1 4DNLondon

07917061537Sarahfoque@gmail.comwww.sarahfoque.com