ADAM STARKEY
PORTFOLIO
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
CONTENTS
Past Design Projects
1. About Me........................................................................................................................................................................02 1.1. Landscape Architecture Resume..................................................................................................................................03
2016
2. Work Experience............................................................................................................................................................04 2.1. Gensler, UK....................................................................................................................................................................06
2015
2. Post-graduate Projects.................................................................................................................................................10 2.1. Special Design Project - Park Hill Redevelopment........................................................................................................12
2014
3. Overseas Work Experience...........................................................................................................................................16 3.1. Homy International Design Ltd - Guangzhou, China.....................................................................................................18
2013
4. Undergraduate Projects ...............................................................................................................................................22 4.1. Integrated Design Project, Year 3................................................................................................................................24 4.2. Detailed Design Project, Year 3...................................................................................................................................26 4.3. Conceptual Design, Year 2...........................................................................................................................................32 4.4. Social Aspects, Year 2..................................................................................................................................................34
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A - Geography A - Science A - History A - English Literature B - Fine Art B - Mathematics B - Advanced Science B - Design and Technology
Professional Skills
2:1 BA Hons Landscape Architecture with Town and Regional Planning (2010 - 2013) The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
B - Geography C - Human Biology C - Fine Art B - History (A1 Level)
GCSE Grades
MLA Landscape Architecture (2014 - 2015) The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
A - Level Grades
Academic Studies
Computer Graphic Software Advanced in Autocad, Adobe Photoshop/InDesign/Illustrator & Google Sketchup Creative Skills Hand Drawing/Sketching, Painting, Model Construction Languages English (Native Language) Chinese Mandarin (Beginner, since 2012) Personal Interests Travelling, photography, music production, piano, nature & conservation
About Me Born: January 12 1992 Nationality: British Hometown: Chesterfield, United Kingdom Current Location: London, United Kingdom Email Address: a.starkeylandscape@gmail.com Phone Number: 07837855919 Linked In Profile: uk.linkedin.com/pub/adam-starkey/6b/880/289/ Issuu Profile: http://issuu.com/adamstarkeylandscapearchitect
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Work Experience
Employment in the UK
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Gensler London
Start Date: 3rd August 2015 Finish Date: 7th April 2016 Founded in 1965 Gensler is a multi-disciplinary global firm with 46 locations around the world, specialising mainly in interior, architecture and landscape design. It currently ranks 1st in the Top 300 Architecture firms and serves more than 3,500 active clients throughout a wide range of industries. My role as a landscape architect assistant was to contribute in the schematic and detailed masterplanning design stages. Tasks included the drawing and rendering of illustrative masterplans (Autocad, photoshop), visualisations (photoshop, sketchup) and producing diagrams, design booklets and presentations for clients (Illustrator, indesign).
During my time at Gensler I worked as part of a highly-skilled team on a variety of projects within the UK, mainland Europe and the middle-east. With an environment of vast design experience with a global context my time at Gensler was highly motivating and rewarding.
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The first project I was involved in was a 17.5 hectare 5 star resort in Croatia, in which I was given the task to produce a set of plans and visualisations to be presented to the client. For the strategic design stage a 1:500 Illustrative masterplan was produced, followed by multiple detailed design plans for the various villa typologies and open spaces. The floor plans for each villa were developed by a team of architects consecutively with the landscape using Autocad and the finished plans were rendered in photoshop. A key focus of the project was to retain and embrace the site’s unique culture and ecology, which needed to be presented in a clear and visually interesting way. Therefore I was appointed to create a full 3D model of the site in sketchup from which the design was developed to relate to the extreme topographical nature of the area. Using the model, I selected some key areas which I developed using photoshop to create a series of 3D sections.
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This masterplan for a project in Saudi Arabia integrates a range of uses - including serviced apartments, commercial office space, social, restaurants and cafes, various retail experiences, hotels, health facilities, and cultural buildings; all linked together by a cohesive landscape and public realm framework that responds to the various character areas of the site and individual building requirements, whilst articulating a strong identity for the district. Throughout the project I was assigned tasks both in detailed design and visual presentation. As part of a small team of landscape architects I developed a series of drawings for the proposed interior sky-gardens in two of the 40-storey residential towers. The design for the Sky-Gardens responds to the branding for the individual residences. Building A (bottom left) exhibits a sophisticated and refined aesthetic with a rich palette of stylish materials, darker elements, polished concrete and tactile surfaces. The layout is established around a series of rooms with interlinking pathways that are framed by trellis-like structures of luxurious materials. Regionally-adapted trees and shrubs were selected and positioned to enhance the high quality residential spaces. For building B (bottom right) the approach is a more modern, contemporary style suited to the needs of the younger generation at which the market is targeted. The palette of materials is fresh, light and dynamic within an angular spatial arrangement that aims to enhance the feeling of movement within and throughout the social spaces. A diverse palette of colourful, hardy succulents with a variety of shapes and forms are specified.
Artist’s impression of building A sky-gardens based on my rendered plan
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Artist’s impression of building B sky-gardens based on my rendered plan
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Post - Graduate Study
The University of Sheffield
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Special Design Project
Park Hill Re-development, Sheffield
Located in Sheffield, UK, the Park Hill flats were a pioneering remodelling of 20th century city living, replacing dilapidated back-to-back slums with ultramodern Streets in the Sky’.
The development however has since experienced a long period of deterioration and deprivation, tarnishing its once utopian image. This is a result of the shared nature of social housing projects in which the private residential blocks bear no relation to the landscape, overlooking the need to cater for a sense of community ownership with the surrounding landscape; resulting in vast areas of unregulated space where social deterioration and antisocial behaviour thrive.
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Park Hill’s image will be reinvented as a contemporary community hub, facilitating the present need for public recreational space whilst retaining the site’s unique Combined with modern sustainable
social heritage.
landscape design this scheme will re-invigorate and restore this once highly respected landmark as a place of innovation and local pride.
Reinventing Park Hill as a successful social housing scheme will require fixing the faults of the past development by facilitating the needs of the new community; through
provision of private space and communal security, mixed with areas of public recreational space for facilitating the wider public attracted by the new variety of businesses and services brought by the redevelopment.
Park Hill will be renovated to preserve
the past, modernised for the present and safeguarded for the future.
Design Aims & Objectives
Enhance connectivity and encourage greater access
Develop and utilise the vast green space to facilitate the needs of the public and the new community
Retain and enrich the historical significance of the 1950s development
Develop and enhance interaction between the high rise apartments and surrounding green space Rebuild a positive public opinion of the site, reclaiming Park Hill’s status as an iconic local landmark
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Spatial Strategy Public Open space: focused on the west-facing slope towards the city centre. Vast expanses of leisure spaces capitalise on desirable views over Sheffield, visually connecting with the surrounding urban context. Semi-public leisure space: located within the central courtyards in areas of full sun for public and community leisure, with areas of informal seating for social meetings and casual gatherings. Shared residential space: Facilitating the adjacent apartment blocks with a joint defensible communal garden, where residents can socialise and use for everyday needs whilst regulating activity and enforcing communal safety in the area. Private ground floor space: Sub-divided garden spaces allocated to each apartment for personal use connected by a bordering pathway, reflecting the arrangement of terraced housing familiar in nearby residential estates.
Circulation Strategy Greater connection with the city centre: reconfigured main entrance for greater visibility and public perception, connected with an extension of the Gold route paving for improved pedestrian linkage Main pedestrian flow focused towards the grand entrance created by the apartment facades, leading users through the public realm to the business courtyard and diverting excessive flow away from communal and private areas. Circulation from the main entrance and business realm leads to the end point of the museum platform, hosting grand views over the city skyline Wider site access points by the train station linked via circulation through the public realm. Public pathways branch off into niche walkways into private residential areas, discouraging excessive entry from the wider public
Vegetation Strategy Dividing hedge borders: creating sub-divisions between private ground floor gardens, creating an enclosed space for personal use. Bioswale vegetation: aquatic plant species growing in swales fed with surface run-off from apartment roofs and surrounding paved areas. Forming a threshold between the communal spaces and private gardens, whilst creating a soft screen for enclosure and privacy. Containment vegetation borders: dividing and defining the communal and private realm, discouraging access from the wider public. Screening vegetation borders: Separating the communal/residential space from the public realm, freeing the surrounding green space to the public whilst enclosing the private needs of the community. Wild hillside vegetation: structured in dense pockets for shaping/framing desirable views, whilst softening the impact of the building facades over the city
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Overseas Work Experience
Guangzhou, China
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HOMY INTERNATIONAL DESIGN
Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China
Start Date: 10th November 2013 Finish Date: 7th May 2014 The Company Homy specialises in the design and construction of both public and commercial projects throughout China.
My Experience I was given the opportunity to work with the company as an international intern to work with senior designers on a range of projects, meeting with clients for design proposals and attending official meetings and construction sites. During this time I gained a wealth of experience through working with a professional team, combined with immeasurable experience of life and working in a foreign environment.
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The main project I assisted in was a site of mixed commercial and residential use. I was given the task of rendering the sketched masterplan and producing a series of visualisations to be presented to the client.
I was then given the task of designing the details for a large water feature (design shown left) . This was followed by producing a 3d model and visualisations (shown right) along with construction drawings.
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Undergraduate Study
The University of Sheffield
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Integrated Design Project
Castlegate Regeneration, Sheffield - Year 3
Project Details The integrated design project involved the developing of proposals for Castlegate - an area of urban regeneration - from the initial planning strategies through to detailed design, planting and construction. This required the application of knowledge and skills acquired throughout the degree, and to further develop a more detailed appreciation of issues relating to urban design. The key theme of issues identified in the site survey was Isolation, seen through:
• Isolation of the River Don, responsible for historically/culturally and environmentally shaping the site • Isolation of the site’s Rich Heritage from surrounding areas of celebrated importance, such as Victoria Quays the Wicker. • Isolation of the Social vibrancy and Diversity, which has been cut off from the public realm by hostile mid-20th century development.
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Design Aims and Objectives • Re-invent the site as a centre for Social Activity and Diversity; Create a series of spaces with varying degrees of enclosure and scale, to accommodate numerous social activities • Re-establish the River Don as a working heritage asset; Open up the landscape towards the river confluence, allowing the urban realm to unfold towards the river edge through the landscape, allowing the landscape and it’s users to once again embrace the river edge. • Re-merge the site with the surrounding Historic Context; Use circulation and landform to create a series of links; re-connecting the site to the surrounding historic context: The City Centre, the Wicker, Victoria Quays
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Integrated Design Project
Detailed Design Stage - Year 3
Project Details Once a masterplan of the whole site had been developed, it was then required to develop a detailed design proposal for a selected area of the design. Within this area further consideration was given to both the qualities of hard and soft landscape, to be expressed through a range of visual methods to investigate and communicate the finer qualities of the design.
Design Vision Upon arrival users are met with a bold array of fragmented sheltering structures, casting alluring shadows onto the site passage; concealing small areas of seating hosting views through the cocealing woodland and out towards the river. The landscape greets the river via an amphitheatre-like structure leading users down to the river and sheaf through a compelling integration of steps, stepped seating, viewing platforms and a ramp for the convenient access of wheelchair and pushchair users.
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Following the detailed design stage a series of construction details were produced through autoCAD and 3D sketchup modelling. The material palette chosen for this design have been carefully selected, in order to be both simple to construct and fully legible. A limited set of bold materials have been carefully selected for creating the desired cohesive and clean-finished effect; with a varety of finishes and forms used as tools for effective functionality, to indicate different spacial typologies and shape the user experience. The proposed materials were selected to work well with one another and the surrounding landscape, in order to form a fluid and dynamic singularity which directs focus to and embraces the river edge.
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Conceptual Design Project
The CIQ, Sheffield - Year 2
Project Details Set in the cultural industries quarter of Sheffield, this project aimed to orientate a wide-scale strategic planning, master planning and detailed designing process around a key central concept; taking note of the unique cultural and heritage assets of the site with substantial depth and clarity, therefore composing a more holistic spatial strategy with greater coverage and sensitivity to the site’s qualities.
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Design Vision This design aimed to discover a new and refreshing angle for approaching restoration and adaptation of historic identity, retaining the rich heritage of previous site uses whilst allowing the landscape to grow and adapt to modern life.
Reconstituted industrial materials such as bricks and steel girders make up the hard landscape of the site, retaining the historic materialistic quality of the space in contrast with introduced vegetation acting to soften and accentuate the post-industrial maturity of the area.
Vegetation also provides an underlying symbolic message of ‘rebirth’ and ‘New Life’ in the area, with alluring spring blooms of groundcover Crocus and arching Cherry Blossom, painting colour and life onto the water surface with a shower of white petals.
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Social Aspects Design
Manor House Sheltered Housing - Year 2
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For this project we were allocated sites with specific user requirements, based on special needs and circumstances. The site I was allocated was Manor House, a sheltered housing development for people inretirement, all of whom are affected with a form of disability which require special care.
Physical Benefits - Encourage Healthy Activities • Elongated Pathway: For encouraging lengthy walking exercises, leading users back to the building entrance • Gardening: Light activity for gentle exercise and well-being
Sensory Experience/ Psychological Benefits • Vegetation (Visual/Scent): Improve views from windows and within the space -Variety of scents, combined with colour for a multiple sensual experience • Wildlife (Sound): Bees and birds to establish a natural setting • Activity: Catering for a variety of needs such as socialising, for improving quality of life
Catering for Disabilities • Paving: Flat materials to lower risk of falls • Wheelchairs/Walking Frames: Wide paths and greater space for wheelchairs to settle in seating areas • Bespoke Furniture: Raised planters to avoid crouching to floor level.
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ADAM STARKEY
PORTFOLIO
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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Thank You Adam Starkey MLA Landscape Architecture (2014 - 2015) The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. 2:1 BA Hons Landscape Architecture with Town and Regional Planning (2010 - 2013) The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. Contact Details Email Address: a.starkeylandscape@gmail.com Phone Number: 07837855919
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