ANGELA HIRD LANDSC APE PORTFOLIO 2017
MA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 2015 - 2017 BA TOWN PLANNING 2011 - 2014
EXPERIENCE 2016 - Present
2015 - 2016
MA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: YEAR 2 (SLU, SWEDEN + UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD)
I am an enthusiastic, hardworking and friendly individual who has a passion Landscape Architecture and all creative design. I have been fortunate enough to have recently returned from studying at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, where I explored its forestry and restorative landscape experiments and visited high profile landscape projects within Malmo, Stockholm and over the bridge in Copenhagen.
Resowing Walker Walker, Newcastle Upon Tyne
4-9
Internship: Green Estate Manor Parks, Sheffield
10 - 11
Harbour Transformation Nyhamnen, Malmo, Sweden
12 - 13
MA LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE: YEAR ONE (UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD) Landscape Urbanism Silver Forest Ring Park, Sheffield
14 - 17
Ecological Design Sheaf Square, Sheffield
18 - 19
2014 - 2015 YEAR OUT PLACEMENT Assistant Development Planner Fairhurst, Newcastle Assistant Landscape Architect Fairhurst, Newcastle
2011 - 2014 BA TOWN PLANNING (NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY)
RE-SOWING WALKER
LOCATION
STRATEGIES
Walker District, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Towards coast
My final university project provides an urban regeneration strategy for the deprived district of Walker, which struggles with a declining population, unemployment + food poverty. The project aims to provide a redefined greenspace framework, to tackle community multiple deprivation issues through urban agriculture. This will slowly transform Walker into a self-sufficient, resilient urban village, with a renewed collective identity surrounding food. The strategy combines top down infrastructure whilst encouraging bottom up projects to build a resilient community incrementally.
Byker Newcastle Quayside
WALKER
PRODUCTIVITY
CONNECTIVITY
HOUSING
Re-allocate vacant space for productive use e.g. food production
Re-link Walker to key destinations + people together i.e. integrated sustainable transport
Infill housing will incorporate productivity + connectivity
Productive Greenways
Densification: Communal Space
Urban
NCR 72
Rural
8.72%
Vacant land for production
Vacant Land [297,050M2 ]
30m2
Empower
Community Spine
Self Sufficiency
PROCESS [Won ARES Design Prize for Excellence in Landscape Design 2017] Key Skills: Greenspace Functionality and Typology Assessment, Masterplanning, Illustrator, Photoshop, CAD. Plant Catalysing Seeds
+ incentivise food production + top down infrastructure
Seeds Activate + Grow
+ food production grows + greenways: networks grow
Seeds Spread
+ new self initiated food growing sites + new housing includes food narrative
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Towards Coast 10 km
Metro 1 km
STRATEGIC PLAN: PRODUCTIVE WALKER
BYKER ESTATE
COMMUNITY SPINE Newcastle Quayside
ST PETER’S MARINA
New Local Centre
INDUSTRIAL PARK
KEY Fruit + Nut Orchard RIVER TYNE
Community Corridor Allotment: tool shed + seating High/ Medium yield fruit + veg production Food Trade + Education Homezones: Streets 400m from green space Potential bottom up food space Housing (Year 20 +) Mixed Use Development (Year 10 +)
DESIGN SITE 10M
50M Reduced from 1:5000 @ A1
BB
WALKER RIVERSIDE SUB-SITE
Community Plots Commercial Plots
|B
As housing demand grows, land will be released for development. The housing and revitalised riverside park will combine daily life with urban agriculture, providing infrastructure and production plots, inspiring self-sufficient living city wide.
Mixed Use Sheltered Housing Family Housing / Flats Green Roof Courtyards
[A ]
Shared Surface
EXISTING SITE CONDITION
Irrigation Channel + Water Tank Boardwalk: Water
EX - RAIL BRIDGE + CYCLEWAY
POTTERY BANK [historic road]
AA SERIES OF INLETS [historical boat slipways, stone walls]
Fruit Orchard
[B ] CC
SERIES OF TERRACES [grassed ex-industry + tree belts] [Monotonous experience]
Production + Sports
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RIVER T YNE A 10m
50m
Reduced from 1:1000 @ A1
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DD
P R ODU C T ION VISI T OR ’ S C EN T R E
CONCEPT: PRODUCTIVE TERRACES GE
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EVOLVING TERRACES
Year 0 Planting improves soil quality.
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Year 10 Terraced production.
Terracing will organise production + built form, maximising sun capture from south facing banks. Inspired by vernacular agricultural terraces, geometric forms structure plots which users design individually.
Year 20 + Housing reuses irrigation channels and terracing for domestic production.
SECTION A-AA: PRODUCTIVE PARK
HWL LWL
Commercial Plot
Viewing Platform
Field Maze + Seating
Exploratory Trail
WALKER RIVERSIDE: SECTIONS
Private Garden Main Road
Water Capture
Communal Garden N
Section B-BB Food Trade Square: Flexible events space enclosed by retail ground floor
Section C-CC Kitchen Garden Courtyard: Built form maximises sun capture
National Cycle Route Park Irrigation Channels
Food Growing Plots Temporary Ponds
Housing Grey Water
Section E-EE Urban - Park Threshold: Retention Ponds mark park entrance, welcoming Walker residents + NCR visitors.
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[A] Community Hub
[B] Productive Terrace Greenway
INTERNSHIP: GREEN ESTATE
MANOR FIELDS PARK: ENTRANCE IMPROVEMENTS
Manor Parks, Sheffield Role: Assistant Landscape Architect My main role was to undertake the redesign of pocket parks within Manor, Sheffield. This involved concept and masterplan design, to detailed design and implementation; costings and sourcing suppliers for play equipment. This role has expanded my understanding of landscape maintenance and design implementation, through working to small budgets and a maintenance led design approach. Key Tasks: • Wrote report offering design and maintenance recommendations for entrances of Manor Fields Park, which has successfully gained funding. • Detailed design and implementation of pocket parks, including providing costings and sourcing suppliers for play equipment. Key Skills: Site Analysis, Photoshop, Visualisation, Construction, Costings.
Park Entrance
CAD, Swale Extension
Proposed Swale Wall
MANOR POCKET PARK DESIGN CONCEPT
Toddler Fenced Play
3 core play areas will be interlinked with a weaving natural play trail, encouraging movement through the park. Tree and hedge belts will define the play areas and provide a sense of adventure down the sloped topography. In contrast, the terraced play areas with retaining walls offer pause points with shelter, seating and activity. The metal, linear and block robust forms of the play equipment areas will juxtapose the adjoining natural and flowing shapes of the wood and stone trail. Perennial meadow planting with neat grass edges will add texture and colour, offering a natural buffer from the main road, informal play opportunities and a welcoming entrance to the park.
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Teen/ Junior Play area
7
7
H AR BO
FRET SON
MAIN ENTRANCE
ROA D
1 embankment Slide Existing Slide, Regraded Mound, Grass Matting + Play Boulders
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Shared Play area
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[3] TEEN PlAY AREA
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MEADOW DRIFTS 2 embankment ramp 7+ years, £913 - HAGS
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[2] INCluSIVE PlAY AREA
NATuRAl TRAIl
[1] TODDlER FENCED PlAY
SECONDARY ENTRANCE
CLE THE CIR
Toddler Fenced Play
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5 3
4
3 little climbing net 1.2m 3+ years, £650 - HAGS
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6
2
CONCEPT SkETCh: ThE WEDgE
4 Traverse Wall 1+ years, £743- HAGS
new welcome aRea with bench
RetRofit embankment Slide + GRaSS mattinG
+ meadow
naTural Play Trail 5 rope Walk 7+ years, £550 - HAGS
key FeatureTree (acer campestre)
Meadow with neat mown edge
Wet Pour Safety Surface
Wooden retaining wall with boulder seat features
Multi Stem (Betula Pendula)
rough grass with bulbs asphalt
Play Equipment with grass matting
Steps and Boulder Features, with Gravel Surface
Shrub
Picnic Bench/ Bench
repainted Fencing
butteRfly Roundabout + wet PouR Safety SuRface 6 Roundabout Butterfly 4 – 10 years, £987 - Sutcliffe Play
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Wood/ boulder features: stepping stones, log ramp, Source: own wood stock
Shared Play
Junior/Teen Play
VISuAlISATION: TODDlER FENCED PlAY Drawing Title: Wedge Pocket Park Concept & Visualisation Manor Oaks Farmhouse 389 Manor Lane Sheffield S2 1UL
Project Title: The Wedge Pocket Park
Drawn By: AH
Date: 10.04.17
Checked By: AF
Date: 10.04.17
DWG No:
Rev
Drawing Scale: 1:1000 at A3
Drawing Title: Wedge Pocket Park Masterplan & Play Equipment Manor Oaks Farmhouse 389 Manor Lane Sheffield S2 1UL
8 Olympic Swing Basket + 2 Seat 2+ years, £3,095 - HAGS
9 Balance Beam 6 – 16 year, £882 - Sutcliffe Play
10 Multi-Purpose Fitness Frame 14+ years, £2,999 – HAGS
Project Title: The Wedge Pocket Park
Drawn By: AH
Date: 10.04.17
Checked By: AF
Date: 10.04.17
DWG No:
Rev
Drawing Scale: 1:500 at A3
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STORMWATER CANAL
HARBOUR TRANSFORMATION
FLOATABLE HOUSES
STORMWATER RILL + COMMUNITY SEA PRODUCTION
SEA SPACE
LARGE SCALE SEA PRODUCTION
Nyhamnen, Malmo, Sweden This project challenged my ideas on the role and tools of Landscape Architect’s. Critical of current economic models, the project developed a test site for ‘the next economy’, requiring urban transformation which was resource saving, environmentally friendly and democratically orientated. As a group we created a 100 year ‘plan-guide’ for the ex-harbour site, Nyhamnen. The project balances top down ‘direction’ to catalyse development with a democratic ‘process’ which leads to user generated landscape and state assisted self-governance. Key Skills: Film Making, Animation, Sculpture, Critical Thinking,Visualisation.
+3m Storm Event CUT
CUT
CUT
CUT
+66cm New Sea level
LOCATION: MALMO
CLOSED PRODUCTION LOOP
PLAN GUIDE PROCESS Scan Me! For timeline animation
BALTIC SEA
MALMO
PLAN GUIDE SCENARIOS Catalyst Current (Y0 – 5)
Experimental Current (Y5 – 10)
Currents on Land (Y10 – 50)
Clean Water Currents (Y50 – 100) STORMWATER CANAL
Predicted Currents (Y100 +)
FLOATABLE HOUSES
STORMWATER RILL + COMMUNITY SEA PRODUCTION
SEA SPACE
LARGE SCALE SEA PRODUCTION
+3m Storm Event CUT
[Reconnect To Malmo] [Sea Interaction]
[Inspire & Educate] [Land Colonisation from Water] [Try Everything] [Free Rent:Water Values]
CUT
[Controlled Flooding] [Closed Production Loop]
CUT
CUT
+66cm New Sea level
[Mosaic Landscape] [Living on Water] 13
LANDSCAPE URBANISM + DETAILED DESIGN Silver Forest Ring Park, Sheffield Central to this group project was using trees provide a new park at Sheffield’s ring road. We explored how trees can re-prioritise pedestrians, provide new identity and permeate the road barrier.The proposal weaves together 3 distinctive woodland types to unify fragmented roadside spaces. ‘Edible groves’ at key nodes provide meeting spaces, allowing for recreation in a vehicle dominated landscape. Key Skills: CAD, Photoshop, Visualisation, Detailed Construction. CONCEPT: ‘FOREST OF RIBBONS’
PLAN: SURFACING & RIBBON BENCH Deep grey granite setts (240x160x100mm). Rough split face finish. Deep grey granite setts (240x160x100mm). Flame textured. Cast in situ concrete with light grey aggregate. Strength class C30/37. Sandblast finish. 500mm expansion joints. Meadow (Matted vegetation roll). Blister texture concrete paving slabs with light grey aggregate (400x400x100mm). Hot Rolled Asphalt (HRA 30/14 F Surf 40/60). Bioswale planted area.
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DETAILED DESIGN: RIBBON BENCH (1:40) Cedar timber square block (70 x 70mm). Cast in situ concrete with light grey aggregate (ST(C20/25). Compacted course sand bedding layer (500mm), Class M. Ballast base course 0/45 (300mm) Joining steel Strip (10mm). Hot dip galvanized. Flat-headed countersunk wood screws (40mm).
Charred Cedar timber durable + turns silver over time
Anchor with counter sunk head, zink plated (dowel length 100mm). Deep grey granite setts (240x160x100mm). Rough split face finish.
SECTION A-AA
SECTION B-BB
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ECOLOGICAL DESIGN Sheaf Square, Sheffield This project applied concepts of ‘ecological urbanism’, including ecological vegetation design and low intervention management. The proposal balances ecological function against human uses and water management, within the cultural context of Sheaf Square. Key Skills:AutoCAD, Photoshop, Google SketchUp, Model making, Illustrator, Masterplanning, Construction and Planting design.
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LIMATE ISL C A
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CONCEPT: ‘URBAN ISLAND OASIS’
K EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
Caltha palustris 6 Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' 5
ECOLOCIAL PLANTING DESIGN
Buddleja 'Lochinch' 1
Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' 5
Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' 5
Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' 5
Phlomis Russeliana 6 Stipa tenuissima 4
Cornus alba 'sibirica' 21 Acer rubrum 1
Liriope muscari 'Monroe White' 17
Betula utilis var. jacquemonti 'Doorenbos' 1 Molinia Caerula 8
Iris 'White Flag' 18
Stipa tenuissima 6 Papaver rhoeas 9 Echinops bannaticus 'Taplow Blue' 7
Buddleja 'Lochinch' 1
Achillea filipendulina 'Cloth of Gold' 5 Leucanthemum vulgare 3
Persicaria amplexicaulis 'Firetail' 1' Caltha palustris 6 Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' 5
Section A-AA @ 1:50 Month of July. Formal urban streetscape - natural calming riverside. Journey into nature: 'Urban Pioneer' native planting will complement the industrial river channel heritage feature of the derelict brownfield site. Repeating long grasses and specimen trees define otherwise natural 'self seeded' planting styles. PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
e of the derelict brownfield
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
LOCATION
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' 5 Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' 5 Betula utilis var. jacquemonti 'Doorenbos' 1 Liriope muscari 'Monroe White' 17
SECTION A-AA: Month of July. Formal urban streetscape to natural calming riverside. 19
PRO