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Amy Sweeting MA, MEng Urban Design Selected works
AMY SWEETING
07736349154 a.sweeting.1991@gmail.com 31-01-1991
PHILOSOPHY I believe that as urban designers we must understand the dynamicity of today’s cities; challenging dogma to create projects that relate and respond to the human experience. I believe that directly engaging with the public is essential to delivering responsive environments that relate to the unique requirements of different communities. My educational background that combines the arts and sciences has given me an understanding of the technical and social aspects of urban design, and I am looking to rethink urbanity within a forward thinking, collaborative design practice.
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E D U C AT I O N
2014-2015: OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY MA Urban Design Expected Result: Distinction Co-President of the Society of Urban Design Students (SUDS) 2009-2013: LEEDS UNIVERSITY MEng, BEng Architectural Engineering (2:1) 2007-2009: Bedford Modern School A-Levels: Geography (B), Physics (B), Maths (B) AS-Levels: Fine Art (A)
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SKILLS
EXPERIENCE
InDesign Google SketchUp Photoshop MS Office Illustrator AutoCAD Revit Architecture PremierePro SYSTEMSLINK | Bedford, England June - September 2013, 2012, 2011 | Technical Assistant • • •
Creating web-tutorials for the company’s energy management software. Redesigning company website. General administration.
WILLMOTT DIXON | Leeds, England June 2012 | Voluntary Placement •
Overseeing the refurbishment of a major city car park, applying my theoretical knowledge of the design and maintenance of construction materials to a practical environment.
INTERESTS
Running | Piano | Painting | Photography | Exhibitions | Tennis | Travelling
REFERENCES
Available upon request
DESIGN
The brief for this individual project called for the design of a residential neighbourhood in west-end Oxford.This detailed design phase followed a group project that delivered a generic masterplan for the wider area.The aim of my design was to create a diverse and vibrant development that would celebrate the social life of the street. I applied plot-based urbanism throughout the site, improving visual diversity and allowing for personal expression. The street has been designed to prioritise pedestrians, with the introduction of a home-zome, on-street parking and variation in building line working to reduce traffic speed and volume. Terraced housing, mews and maisonettes were incorporated into the masterplan, enabling individuals, couples and families of a variety of sizes to reside here; this also creates the opportunity for residents to upsize or downsize within the neighbourhood.
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Residential Development 04
Oxpens, Oxford
1/ SITE IDENTIFICATION
2/ GROUP MASTERPLAN
3/ DETAILED DESIGN
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M A S T E R PL A N
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D EV E L O P M E NT
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LA N D U S E The brief for this individual studio project was to design a high density development on a brownfield site in Birmingham. Prior to this project, I produced a report that explored the use of urban design in delivering ‘creative environments’; stimulating people’s minds and facilitating creative endeavours within the local community. I developed a design framework, shown on page 23, to aid in the delivery of creative environments. This framework was utilised throuhgout the development of the masterplan for this site. I designed a series of public spaces throughout the site, including a courtyard amphitheatre, elevated gardens, a public square and outdoor sports park. This creates a sequence of sensory experiences, aiding in the stimulation of creative thinking. The variation in spaces also supports a wide range of activities, from more intimate events to large scale celebrations.
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BUILDING H
ICKNIELD PORT SQUARE
SPORTS PARK
K EY P U B L
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H E I G H T (storeys)
T R A F F I C R E ST R I CT I O N S
ROOF GARDENS
DESIGN High Density Development (800ppHa) I C S P A C ES
Icknield Port Loop, Birmingham
R O O F GA R D E N S Concept Development 11
M OV I E
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ruct the United n the city being h were Africandy overflowing nning decisions idents actually TEMPORARY URBANISM their vision of d would ensure Research Project d middle class. e heightened to My thesis explored the role ms beginning in of temporary urbanism in the mental activity regeneration of sites to create cohesions than responsive environments. Detroit was selected as the primary case These programs study, and was analysed in terms of rder to develop its planning history (see timeline) o were seen as and how the failure of centralized bat the issue of planning has seen temporary easy access to initiatives flourish throughout the e city for work city . y’s desperation The research ultimately produced o maintain their
a set of guidance, developed to aid professional designers and community members in the This masterplan inception and development of smaller scale, temporary initiatives. An outline wth as opposed of the guidance produced can be seen overleaf, and the full report is available for download here.
Figure 4.05: Timeline illustrating the major planning decisions made by the authorities at time of unprecedented social and economic chan
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POPULATION WHITE AFRICAN -AMERICAN SOCIAL ECONOMIC
“NO SINGLE GOVERNMENTAL ACTIVITY HAS DONE MORE TO DISPERSE, DISORAGNISE AND DISCOURAGE NEIGHBOURHOOD COHESIONS THAN HAS URBAN REDEVELOPMENT” - Detroit Urban League Official
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KEY TYPOLOGIES
D I S R U PT
O C CA S I O N
S U B ST IT UT E
F R E E L OA D
FREE-FL
Protest, squatting, activism
Carnivals, markets, one-off events
Stand-in for a permanent function
Exploitation of longer term uses by operating adjacent to them.
Scheme that m sites in respon arising opportu
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moves nse to unities
EXPERIMEN T
R EV IT A L I S E
C O HA B ITAT E
Testing new land uses, architectural styles, materials.
Reactivation of vacant store fronts or underused streets.
Co-existence of temporary and permanent uses.
C O N S O L I DAT E Transformation of temporary projects into longer term uses.
TEMPORARY URBANISM: THE PROCESS.
SOCIAL
1/ PIONEER
2/ FUND
3/ USE AVAILABLE RESOURCES
4/ APPLY FRAMEWORK
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DESIGN: LEISURE CENTRE Architectural Engineering Final Project
The undulating canopy supported by glulam
columns creates an external forum that offsets the sharp form of the two central buildings. The glass frontage of the circular forum creates view lines between the three structures that the leisure centre is comprised of, maintaining a strong relationship between the buildings whilst creating an active frontage that ensures the public space is always under passive surveillance.
This project explored how urban design can be used to stimulate creative thinking in dense environments. Public realm theories were explored and analysed to develop a design framework: assisting designers with the development of ‘creative environments’.
PERMEABIITY
FRAMING T
S P AT I A L A Federation Squa
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THE SPACE
SOCIAL AND CREATIVE GROWTH
A N A LY S I S are, Melbourne
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D E S I G N F RA M EW O R K C R E AT IV E E NV I R O N M E NT S
KE Y
S E N S O RY M A P P I N G MELBOURNE
TOUCH SOUND SMELL
SIGHT
TASTE
This sensory map was constructed for a research paper that explored the value of sensory design in creating experiential environments. Many of today’s cities have been expanded far beyond the human scale, disregarding the non-visual senses as unimportant in comparison to the dominant sense of sight. For truly inclusive architecture the olfactory, tactile, aural, kinaesthetic and gustatory senses must all be considered and the natural process of synaesthesia allowed for.
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S I T E A N A LY S I S 800m This site analysis was carried out as part of a group exercise to develop a residential and commercial masterplan in Oxford. The site’s location, key access points and road hierachy were analysed, informing the placement of different land uses on the site. This also allowed the flow of traffic through the development to be established and connected into the existing street network.
City Centre Site
PROXIMITY TO CITY CENTRE
KEY ACCESS POINTS
SPACE SYNTAX
EXISTING LAND USE
Retail/ Mixed Use
Residential
Education
Council Offices
Industrial
Leisure
Train Station
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SKET
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CHES
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P H O T O G R A P HY
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AMY SWEETING 07736349154 a.sweeting.1991@gmail.com