Caroline Wiles Portfolio Landscape Architecture selected work 2017-2018
Caroline Wiles Masters degree Landscape Architecture
PROFILE My interest in Landscape Architecture started when working as a nurse with mentally ill patients. During that period, I started to study a module, Outdoor environments for Health and wellbeing. This was an eyeopener in how important the environment especially nature is for our health. So, my journey to change my career path began by studying landscape construction and management. During this degree I got an in-depth plant knowledge, I learnt construction and maintenance of outdoor environments. This degree taught me how to create places for people that will enhance biodiversity, enrich peoples lives and be economically viable. To expand my knowledge and experience I moved to the UK to do my master’s degree in landscape architecture.
WHAT, defines me? Strong interdisciplinary approach Critical thinker Highly motivated and passonate about Landscape Architecture A constant desire to find new inspiration and expand my knowledge Strong plant knowledge
CONTACT wilescaroline@gmail.com +44 780 80 80 36
EDUCATION MA Landscape Architecture 2017-2018 Birmingham City University United Kingdom Conversion Landscape Architecture 2016-2017 Glouchestershire University United Kingdom BSc Landscape Construction and Managment 2013-2016 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden BSc Nursing 2007-2010 Mälardalens University, Sweden
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Undergraduate Landscape architect WSP- Birmingham, United Kingdom 2017- Working on various projects from public realm to highway schemes. Computer drawings and rendering (sections, plan and detail). Landscape construction and management White architects- Uppsala, Sweden 2016, Initially started as intern but was later employed later. Work involved designing planting plans and detailed construction drawings Nurse 2010-2015 Worked as a nurse within the field of substance abuse, mental health and elderly care. Both in Sweden and Norway at various hospitals and care facilities.
SKILLS Software AutoCAD Photoshop InDesign Sketchup Revit Illustrator Language English Swedish Norwegian
Contents
EDGBASTON RESERVOIR & ICKNIELD PORT LOOP, BIRMINGHAM
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URBAN FOOD PARK, BIRMINGHAM
PAGES 14-15
URBAN GREEN HOUSE, AMSTERDAM
PAGES 16-17
CONNAUGH SQUARE, BIRMINGHAM
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Edgbaston Reservoir & Icknield Port Loop Birmingham Year 2017-2018
The idea of abdundant clean water supply penetrates the urban lifestyle. This project seeks to explore the idea of how to reveal the water by: reclaiming greywater recycle rainwater restore the water in the canal
Educational
Enhanced biodiversity
Recreational
Project overview The projects proposal was to addresses the qualities of water infrastructure and seeked to uncover its potential in enriching the experience of urban realm it also explored how we can improve the freshwater quality. The project was an exploration of a water treatment environment as a place of recreation, education and enhanced biodiversity. By applying techniques of biological water treatment, the project seeked to challenge the way water and wastewater is perceived and treated today.
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BCN new main line
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Edgbaston Reservoir
The site Edgbaston Reservoir and Icknield Port Loop is situated to the west of Birmingham City Centre, with close proximity to the city centre. The area has a strong industrial history evidenced by the presence of canals and Edgbaston Reservoir and has a vital function in feeding the canal with water. The Birmingham canals were once the lifeblood of the city and the basis for its growth and development during the industrial era. Now however the canal is hidden away and has lost its former status.
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URBAN WATER USE
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DOMESTIC WASTEWATER
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Could be served with reclaimed greywater
DOMESTIC WATER USE 150 l/d/p in the UK
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Requires potable water
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of energy associated with water supply
Treatment of the water Greywater, from residential and buildings in near location, will be treated through a series of reedbeds systems. The greywater treatment sequence begins where our daily experience of water normally ends: at home. As water from our showers and kitchen taps goes down the drain it is diverted into a sequence of reedbeds. The reclaimed water is seen as a resource, not waste. By making the treatment visible from beginning to end this will serve as educational, recreational and enhance the biodiversity by enriching the green and blue network. The greywater will be reused as secondary water.
The canal water will be treated through a series of reedbeds. The treatment takes place in the Loop, through a sequence of floating vertical treatment wetlands. This will enhance the biodiversity of the area but also allow people to access the canal in a different way. The sequence of cleaning the water in the canal ends with clean water were people can swim. So, the canal will become a resource for biodiversity and recreation.
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Masterplan 1to 1250 at A1
+Leisure centre
+Mixed use +Mixed use +Residential
+Commercial
+Mixed use
+Greywater treatment park
+Commercial +Commercial
+Low density residential
+Residential
+Cultural centre with outdoor space +Low density residential
+Residential +Communtiy orchard +Residential +Indoor swimming pool +Residential
+Outdoor sport facilites
+Part of canal fit for swimming
+Severn Trent Reaserch Centre +Water square
+Water museum +Residential Community allotments+ +Residential
+Trainstation
Masterplan scale 1 to 1250 at A1, showing the bigger area of Icknield Port Loop and Edgbaston Reservoir.
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Visual of the water square with water mirror.
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Masterplan 1 to 500 at A1
The greywater treatment path begins with the settling tank. This is above ground to enable people to experience the whole sequence of water treatment.
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Floating vertical reedbeds for cleaning of the canal
Waterbodies catching and treating rainwater and rainwater runoff, that will end up in the water square.
+ Pedestrian bridge
for the cultural centre, a + Plaza space for markets, streetfood,
+ Boardwalks within the canal
Second stage of the greywater treatment walkway passing through. With dense planting creating an enclosed space. Horizontal sub surface flow wetlands.
sub surface + Horizontal flow wetlands.
art installations
enabliling for people to access the space with the floating reedbeds.
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Cultural centre
Steps leading down to the boardwalk to create a greater sense of enclosure.
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Wildflower medows to enhance the biodiversity
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Boardwalk for accessing the canal to swim
+ Indoor swimming pool
Third stage of the greywater treatment. Horizontal sub surface flow wetlands.
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Raised boardwalk, to give a sense of more exposed space.
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water fit for swimming
Aerated waterplay, uses water from the final stage of the greywater treatment.
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Final stage of the greywater treatment the clean water is emphisised with less planting. Free water surface constructed wetland.
Masterplan scale 1 to 500 at A1, showing the relationship between greywater park and its surrounding.
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The water square
Birdseye view over thre greywater treatment park.
Main axis with avenue of trees that emphasises movement.
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Planting strategy Horizontal axis Avenue of trees that will enhance the horizontal line and creates a visual link across the site. The line is marked by dubbel row of trees The tree planting becomes a vertical marker with trees offering a unique identifiers for directional travel. The choosen trees offers contrast in form, texture and colour. Wild flower meadow bordering the horisontal line gives a visual transition moving across the space, moving from a space with more dense planting, for enriched biodiversity to a more formal planting.
Trifolium pretense
Stachys officinalis
Pyrus calleryana ‘Chanticleer’
Sanguisorba officinalis
Betula pendula ‘Swiss glory’
Gallium verum
Main axis The primary route across the site is the axis. The line is strengthened by a avenue of trees that leads the eye and movement across. The path is marked by a unique species of trees to create a different character and identity moreover act as a way finder. North east of the axis the group of trees create a threshold and marks a transition of space.
Zelkova serrata
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Salix fragilis ‘Bullata’
Greywater treatment park The greywater treatment going through the horizontal line offers both experience and function.
STAGE 1
The different stages of greywater treatment will show in the different planting materials and also the density of the planting will change through the process. Going gradually from dense planting to sparse, from a sense of enclosure to exposure. During the first stages the plants are the main focus, to gradually fade out and the water becomes the main feature.
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STAGE 3
STAGE 4
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Carex pendula
Phragmites australis
Typha angustifolia
Iris pseudocarus
Lemna minor
Pericaria amphibia
Nymphar alba
Mentha aquatica
STAGE 2
STAGE 3
STAGE 4
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Urban greenhouse Amsterdam Year: 2018
Bijlmerbajes, Amsterdam​:This diagram showing the relationship of the canal, railway and the site.
Project overview This project was part of a competition held by Wageningen University and Research in Netherlands. The brief was to design the Ultimate greenhouse. The site was situated in Amsterdam in an old prison. We were a team of students from various background and nationalities took part in this challenge. The aim of our Ultimate Urban Greenhouse design was to create a sustainable, circular, profitable and community-engaging food production system, whilst focusing on the healing and therapeutic properties of certain plants.
Urban strategy
The urban strategy is that the healthy food tower will spread throughout Amsterdam, enhancing the lives for people visiting or living in the city.
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Concept Nature
Health
People
Food
Therapy
Aquaponics
public space Community
public space Community public space Community
Promenade
public space Community Production
public space Community
public space Community
Process Sale
Reuse of the tower More floors
Programme + Community
visitors private / closed
Public programme in the tower
Workers/users circulation
Visitors circulation Lift + Promenade
The skin Wind and sun protection
visitors
visitors open spaces
crops visitor lift
offices workers lifts
The aquaponics are arranged with efficient design and closed facilities.
Diagram of the aquaponics . By using aquaponics we maximise the use of space and create a closed cycle of water and nutrients.
Design of the Tower Picnic area 13 (+ 65,3 m)
Cooking School
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Crops
Restaurant
Tea Garden
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High tech allotments
Flower garden
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Green Library Crops
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Education facilities
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Crops 4 (+ 21,2 m)
Water tanks 3 (+ 13,8 m)
Water tanks
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Offices 1 (+ 3,2 m)
Shops
Street food
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Urban food Park Birmingham Year: 2017
Project overview This project was located in Digbeth, Birmingham, UK. An area that is one of United Kingdoms most deprived, this has a knock-on effect which leads to bad health both mental and physical. Based on research, food and urban agriculture can improve the health of people in deprived areas and help creating a stronger community. The intention with this project was to transform the area into a productive landscape that creates values on several levels. Aims for the design was to create facilities for growing, celebrating, selling and distributing food grown in the area and by urban farmers in the surroundings. To transform the site a place that connects people to food and each other. The proposal included urban farms, social enterprise linked to urban agriculture, farmers markets, indoor and outdoor eateries and innovative food production. Furthermore, areas allocated for allotments, public edible gardens and orchards, community hub with social events and workshops sharing knowledge about food, crops and cooking.
Productive Landscape
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Open Spaces
Social Infrastructure
Productive Land
Work and Education
Recreational spaces Fruit trail Picnic spaces Squares
Allotments Farmers market Food events Outdoor kitchen Orchads Community hub Cycle routes Footpaths
Orchads Growing fields Green houses Vertical farming Rainwater harvesting
Learning hub Innovative food production Fruit trail School allotment Social enterprise
Ecological Landscape
Revitilized River Rea Enhance Biodiversity Creating and blue and green network
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Apple orchard
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Image showing part of the edible trail running through one of the green houses. The edible trail offers healthy foods and acts as a learning tool.
Green house with food production
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+ River Rea Green house with food production
Mixed use with green roofs for food production
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Indoor food market and eateries +
Mixed use with green roofs for food production
+ Market square +
Productive land
+ Social enterprise + Productive land
+ Allotments
New residential
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+ Productive land
+ Existing park Allotments
+ + Pear orchards
+ Community hub + Existing school
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Connaugh Square Birmingham Year: 2018
Project overview This projects aim was to research and analyse detailed design and explore how a concept can be expressed spatially and visually through the selection and design of materials. The concept was to transform Connaugh Square into an Urban Orchard plaza were people are able to meet, enjoy and celebrate food through food markets, picking fresh fruit, vegetables and herbs or stop by the cafe. The Urban Orchard Plaza is one part of enabling people access to healthy and nutritious food and enhancing biodiversity in our cities. My design was based on how to make Connaugh Square into a Urban Orchard plaza that would function during daytime but also how the concept would be taken forward into night time.
Materiality The chosen materials reflect the future, present and past. Past, by choosing material that link back to the industrial heritage of Birmingham and materials that were produced. Present, by finding inspiration from materials and colours that reflect the surrounding areas such as the creative parts of Digbeth. Future, by choosing materials that will reflect on how we can build a more resilient future by creating multifunctional spaces, that offer recreation, food and enhanced biodiversity. Past
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Orchards
Future
Cortensteel planters with edible vegetables, berries and herbs.
Flexible plaza that enbales for f markets and other activities.
Illumination concept The concept behing the illumination on the Connaugh Square is to create a place for people to meet and use after night falls, with influences from rural orchards with the moonlight hitting the tree canopies that creates a pattern on the ground. In contrast with the warm uplit trees and benches. And when looking up is the digital star sky with ever changing intensity depending on time of night. Most intense during midnight. The urban green houses become a landmark within the area with the vibrant colours.
Trees uplit with warm colour temperature Seats uplit with warm colour temperature to create a intimate space.
Trees moon lit, light from above trees creating shadows on ground.
Greenhouses with LED lighting.
Bridge railing with LED as a wayfinder
Star night sky with changing intensity and colur temperature.
Recesed LED strips along river to emphasise the River Rea
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Illumination over the flexible plaza creating a star sky.
Tree uplit by warm colur temperature illumination.
Moonlight illumination creating shadows on ground from canopy.
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