Literature Landscape
Site Revealing - Analysis
Investigating History
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Urban Analysis
As a post-Industrial landscape, it has been heavily intervened by human through mining activites in the past. However, it does not hold a close relationship from the nearest town, Dunbar. There is a 'crack' between residents in Dunbar and their interaction with their available land resources.
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Physical Properties
Climate conditions of the site. (Above) (Image Courtesy to Stina's Group)
DIfferent landforms and habitats recorded through the camera.
'Cracks' can be seen all over the world, in real life and in history. It is what makes the world diverse because they generate different conditions for organisms to survive in. This concept came to my mind as I was researching about the history of the site. There were a lot of processes that involves 'digging' and 'cracking' the different layers including Tectonic Plates movement, Glacial retreat and changing sea levels. Referring back to the site, we physically sees a lot of 'cracks' in different scales too. It can be seen in drier parts of soil, it could be a fence built by human to prevent access, or as large as how different habitats and landforms lie within our site boundary. 5
Biodiversity
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Artistic Response - Video
We broke a piece of rock into few pieces and asked three people to try combining them back into its original form. However, no matter how hard they all tried, there are parts that are lost in the process of breaking it, making the cracks persist after they completed the challenge. This is metaphor of what we thought of the site.
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Revealing - Design Concept Context of 'Cracks'
On a macro scale, 'Cracks' are: - Threshold between habitats, land ownership, layers of landscape that are touched or left untouched.
On a smaller scale, 'Cracks' are: Inspired by this concept, I am treating these - Focal Access that brings or takes away people's cracks, of what makes the landscape fragmented, attention from the site; through a series of intervention in attempt to - Flows of both human and natural stream moving improve it, not limited to 'blending', 'retaining' within the landscape; and 'creating'. - Different patches of soil containing different levels of nutrients, creating a micro-habitat within one big landscape mosaic.
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Graphic Representation of 'Cracks' Visual Barriers - Sight obstructed Physical Barriers - No Access
Physical and Visual Cracks - Access, Threshold and focal point Analysis in context of my design
Cracks Treatment - Actions not limted to creating new cracks, retaining, blending and demolishing cracks
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Design
Concept Plan
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Masterplan - Proposed Design
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Sections Trails in detail
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Succession & Establishment
First year after Commission: Landform Engineering to the proposed Contour Design; Removing Balancing Ponds and installing Tilitng weir; Draining all freshwater required while building islands.
Second year: The water comes back. Islands and mudflats are now monitor if it achieves the desired outcome; Pioneer species and nutrients recharging plants are planted onto the Woodland Trail and Corridor
Fifth year: Park can now gone live. Amenity grass, wildflower meadow and most of the habitats are now stabilised and enhanced. Sculptures are pregressively installed into the park and exhibition spaces are now open. Trees are still relatively young and does not provide much canopy, but it offers a different experience in 10 years.
15 years: Trees start to grow into maturity. Annual maintenance on wildflower meadow and islands. Maintenance on amenti ygrass every half a year. Appearance of birds are now under constant monitor by the Reception centre of the park.
Third year: Islands and mudflat stabilised, as plants start to thrive, concrete floors are installed onto the corresponding location; Foundation for buildings are now prepared and architectural structures are ready to be built.
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Major Spaital Framework Entrance
SPatial Framework Viewing Platform
Free Roam Park
Nature Reserve
Enclosed Corridor
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Sptial Framework Break Down Entrance
Viewing Platform Woodland Trail
Quick Access
Landform Trail
Water Experience
Seasonal Mudflats and Islands
Viewing Platform
Wildflower Meadow
Enclosed Corridor
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Site - Existing Contours
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Site - Proposed Contours
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Encounters - Woodland Trails The Sounds of the Trees - Robert Frost THE SOUND OF THE TREES I WONDER about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place? We suffer them by the day Till we lose all measure of pace, And fixity in our joys, And acquire a listening air. They are that that talks of going But never gets away; And that talks no less for knowing, As it grows wiser and older, That now it means to stay. My feet tug at the floor And my head sways to my shoulder Sometimes when I watch trees sway, From the window or the door. I shall set forth for somewhere, I shall make the reckless choice Some day when they are in voice And tossing so as to scare The white clouds over them on. I shall have less to say, But I shall be gone.
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Encounters - Viewing Platform (Before Woodland Corridor) The Echoing Green - William Blake THE ECHOING GREEN The sun does arise, And make happy the skies; The merry bells ring To welcome the Spring; The skylark and thrush, The birds of the bush, Sing louder around To the bells' cheerful sound; While our sports shall be seen On the echoing Green. Old John, with white hair, Does laugh away care, Sitting under the oak, Among the old folk. They laugh at our play, And soon they all say, ''Such, such were the joys When we all - girls and boys In our youth-time were seen On the echoing Green.'' Till the little ones, weary, No more can be merry: The sun does descend, And our sports have an end. Round the laps of their mothers Many sisters and brothers, Like birds in their nest, Are ready for rest, And sport no more seen On the darkening green.
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Encounters - Woodland Corridor Exit The Wasteland V. - What the Thunder Said - T. S. Eliot V. WHAT THE THUNDER SAID (Excerpt) Here is no water but only rock Rock and no water and the sandy road The road winding above among the mountains Which are mountains of rock without water If there were water we should stop and drink Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think Sweat is dry and feet are in the sand If there were only water amongst the rock Dead mountain mouth of carious teeth that cannot spit ... If there were water And no rock If there were rock And also water And water A spring A pool among the rock If there were the sound of water only Not the cicada And dry grass singing But sound of water over a rock Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop But there is no water ... Over endless plains, stumbling in cracked earth Ringed by the flat horizon only What is the city over the mountains Cracks and reforms and bursts in the violet air ... In this decayed hole among the mountains In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing Over the tumbled graves, about the chapel There is the empty chapel, only the wind's home. It has no windows, and the door swings, ... In a flash of lightning. Then a damp gust Bringing rain ... Then spoke the thunder ... I sat upon the shore Fishing, with the arid plain behind me Shall I at least set my lands in order? 22
Image Courtesy to Leao Pang
Ecology and Habitats
Types of Habitat in the Existing Site [Subtitles]
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Types of Habitat in the Proposed Site
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Flora and Fauna - Mudflats/Islands [Subtitles]
Through the addition of islands, I hope to create a better environment for wading birds and seasonal birds to avoid being hunted. Also, I hopt to introduce Terns onto the landscape to increase the biodiversity value as they resideon shallow stone islands. There are two types of islands proposed in this
Image Courtesy to Leao Pang
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Vegetation Succession - Mudflats/ Islands
Species List: Species Name Common Name Achillea millefolium Yarrow Achillea ptarmica Sneezewort Betony Betonica officinalis Centaurea nigra Common Knapweed Filipendula ulmaria Meadowsweet Galium verum Lady's Bedstraw Geum rivale Water Avens Leucanthemum vulgare Oxeye Daisy Lotus pedunculatus Greater Birdsfoot Trefoil Plantago lanceolata Ribwort Plantain Primula veris Cowslip Prunella vulgaris Selfheal Ranunculus acris Meadow Buttercup Rhinanthus minor Yellow Rattle Rumex acetosa Common Sorrel Sanguisorba officinalis Great Burnet Silene flos-cuculi - (Lychnis flos- Ragged Robin cuculi) Vicia cracca Tufted Vetch
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Flora and Fauna - Rough Grassland
Plant Species List: - Coltsfoot - Black meddick - Ribort plantain - Burdock - White clover - Broad-leaved willow herb - Hedge parsley - Wild parsnip - Cox foot - Smooth catsear - Prickly lettuce - Rose boy willow herb - Black knapweed - Field scabious - Creeping thistle - Sphagnum moss - Meadow foxtail - Smooth sow thistle - Perennial ryegrass - Broad leaved dock - Scentless may weed - Changing forget me not - Narrow leaved dock - Common vetch - White dead nettle - Creeping buttercup - Common bird's foot trefoil - Kidney vetch - Common restharrow - Selfheal - Lady's bedstraw - Lucerne - Hawkweed sp. - Cowslip - Yellow rattle - Red clover - Creeping cinquefoil - Orache sp.
Image Courtesy to Leao Pang
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Flora and Fauna - Oak /Birch Woodland
Image Courtesy to Leao Pang
Plant species to be planted onto the new woodlands are not limited to the below species: o Canopy Shrubs/Under-canopy Groundcover Alnus incana Ilex aquifolium Holcus mollis 'Albovariegatus' Betula pubescens Crataegus monogyna Deschampsia flexuosa 'Tatra Gold' Betula pendula Cornus kousa 'Summer Fun' Rubus fruticose Quercus robur Cornus sanguinea Pteridium aquilinum* Quercus ilex Prunus spinosa (* = Pioneer species only) Fraxinus excelsior Corylus ayellana
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Flora and Fauna - Wildflower Meadow [Subtitles]
Plant Species List: Achillea millefolium Yarrow Anthyllis vulneraria Kidney Vetch Centaurea nigra Common Knapweed Centaurea scabiosa Greater Knapweed Clinopodium vulgare Wild Basil Daucus carota Wild Carrot Galium verum Lady's Bedstraw Knautia arvensis Field Scabious Leontodon hispidus Rough Hawkbit Leucanthemum vulgare Oxeye Daisy Lotus corniculatus Birdsfoot Trefoil Onobrychis viciifolia Sainfoin Origanum vulgare Wild Marjoram Plantago media Hoary Plantain P o t e r i u m s a n g u i s o r b a - Salad Burnet (Sanguisorba minor) Primula veris Cowslip Prunella vulgaris Selfheal Ranunculus acris Meadow Buttercup Reseda lutea Wild Mignonette Scabiosa columbaria Small Scabious Briza media Quaking Grass (w) Cynosurus cristatus Crested Dogstail Festuca ovina Sheep's Fescue (w) Festuca rubra Red Fescue (w) Koeleria macrantha Crested Hair-grass (w) Phleum bertolonii Smaller Cat's-tail (w) Trisetum flavescens
Yellow Oat-grass (w)
Image Courtesy to Leao Pang
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Flora and Fauna - Traditional Amenity Grass
A similar succession time and process as the mudflat plantations required for the traditional amenity grass. (Above)
Plant Species for the traditional amenity grass habitat includes: - Slender Creeping Red Fescue - Chewings Fescue - Strong Creeping Red Fescue - Hard Fescue - Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass - Brown Top Bent - Birds Foot Trefoil - Wild White Clover
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Supplementary Information Line only Contour Plan
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