Christopher Chippendale Portfolio of Works 2011-2014
Christopher Chippendale Portfolio of Works 2011 - 2014
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Landscape Design
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Welcome... Portfolio of Works Chris Chippendale - About Chris - Design Philosophy
Design Competitions - Bridging The Gap - Royal Docks, London
Design Projects - An Edible Landscape - Writtle College, Essex - Centralising the Community - Finsbury Park, London - A View Through Water - Writtle College, Essex - Curved and Contained - Thurrock, Essex
Construction Detailing - Terraced Educational Garden, Writtle College
Built Projects - Informal Fish Pond - Redhill, Surrey - Bog Garden - Redhill, Surrey - Contemporary Grass Garden - Redhill, Surrey - Garden Clearance and Revival - Reigate, Surrey
Design Profile
Chris Chippendale
Landscape Design
About Chris... Chris Chippendale is an up and coming, aspiring designer with a focus on garden design and landscape architecture.
Chris is in the final stages of the completion of a BSc (Hons) in Landscape and Garden Design at Writtle College, Essex. The course has provided the skills and knowledge base to cover a broad range of disciplines within the landscape industry and has developed a passion for all stages of the design process.
Landscape and gardens have always been a keen interest of Chris starting with simple design and build projects in his garden, some of which can be seen under the Built Projects section. This stemmed an interest in many areas of design particularly in relation to specialised landscape features and planting design that have further developed through work in the landscaping and maintenance sectors of the industry. The participation within these elements of landscape built the foundation for Chris to pursue a career in the industry, a passion that has further been realised through his studying and continuing participation in projects connected to the landscape.
Chris’s skills range across a number of disciplines and include good leadership and teamwork together with an independency for learning that can be thoughtfully considered in terms of its application and use in landscape situations. Chris also prides himself on doing the best he can for any task with the ambition to exceed clients’ expectations and establish a benchmark high quality.
It is these skills that this portfolio aims to illustrate together with the progression of Chris as a designer from past designs to recent projects.
Design Philosophy... As a designer I strongly believe the measure of a successful design relies not only on form but the sense of place that a design expresses, and its value to the local community. Contextually focused design promotes an ownership and respect towards a landscape, in turn securing its lasting legacy and sustainability. It is this connection to local environment that embeds meaning and depth into landscapes and link considerations of context, program and form into a coherent and legible design. Through past community volunteering it has become obvious to me that simple program such as tree planting creates a bond between nature, design and people. It is this unique connection to landscape that my designs aim to promote through the inclusion of contemporary design layers involving community groups that set the scene for future landscape activities. Whilst as a designer I like to make bold moves in a landscape I feel these have to be justified according to the context and style of the site, whether it be topography, architecture, community or phenomena. It is these bold moves and contextual considerations that lead the way for the creation of considered landscapes that push contemporary design in a new and sustainable way. Communities are the users of spaces and therefore have a vital role in the design process; commonly being strong leaders in the creation of program and form in a way others can’t express. I believe the acceptance of a design by a community is the test of its validity. Any landscape can be classed as aesthetically pleasing and contemporary but it is the designer’s role to push the definition of successful design to question the sustainability and value and meaning of a landscape to its local area and community. Only when a design successfully addresses all aspects of contemporary form, program and community value do I feel it can be classed as a success. It is this validation of landscapes that I strongly believe is important in distinguishing a space and a place.
Landscape Design
Design Competitions
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Bridging The Gap, Royal Docks
Bridging The Gap Royal Docks, London This project was focused around the Landscape Institute’s Ideas competition for the Royal Docks, London. The design was briefed to create a conceptual idea focused around a social hub that would provide jobs, services and entertainment whilst maintaining sustainable design principles.
Emirates Airline
The design focused on the western end of the Royal Victoria Dock and drew inspiration from the natural wave forms of the water to create a gestural floating village between the Emirates Airlines and the ExCel Centre, bridging the gap between the dock’s past and future. This featured a central floating plaza lined with cafes, shops and restaurants to create an active hub at the centre of the docks. The design also incorporates a range of filtering wetlands, a marina, as well as a designated watersports zone to activate both the land and water.
The Crystal
Activity Program Diagram of the Design
Design Masterplan
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ExCel Exhibition Centre B
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Central Plaza A
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Millennium Mills B
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The gestural nature of the waves was translated through a series of sweeping, curved and reclining boardwalks, buildings and plantings. This aimed to create a futuristic landscape that in turn would replenish the social and busy atmosphere of the docks since its closure in the 1980’s. The design caters for many of the current and future social, economic and environmental pressures acting on the docks. This has led to the focus of job provision, water filtration, economic and social regeneration, directly influencing the Docklands context. However, the conceptual thinking of this design also provides solutions for the wider city environment in terms of floating villages and their potential in the future as solutions to population growth, flooding and urban squeeze.
1 The Gateway Experience
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The Aerial Gesture
‘The gestural form of sweeping waves bridge the void between land and water, past and future’
Section AA - The Marina The gestural forms of waves led to a series of sweeping elevation changes across the site. These rise from the depth of the docks to create a range of social, retail and entertainment spaces echoing the curves of the waves and rippling wake of the past industrial cargo ships.
Section BB - The Sweeping forms and Central Plaza
3 The Central Plaza - A New Social and Retail Hub
The design exposes the user to a series of design experiences centered around a central floating plaza. This provides a retail hub as well as improving the access and connectedness of the docks through a large marina, floating boardwalks and bridges strengthening the connection between land, people, nature and water.
Landscape Design
Design Projects
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An Edible Landscape, Writtle College
An Edible Landscape Writtle College, Essex Writtle College is a land based education centre catering for both further and higher education students. The campus is located within a 220 hectare estate in the heart of the Essex countryside with close connections to the city of Chelmsford. The project was centered around the college Student Union’s bid for a green campus grant. This outlined a brief for a campus that had a sustainable focus benefiting both environmental and social as well as potential economic possibilities for the college. As the adjacent plan illustrates the design was located in the central quadrant of the Main Campus and explored the idea of an educational edible landscape.
Circulation Diagram
The design uses a range of landscape grading to create a series of geometric architectural forms within the quadrant. These provide added aesthetic whilst providing structural productive features, allowing the college to develop sustainable enterprises such as growing schemes and the development of educational programs with a new industry leading example of contemporary urban agriculture in the UK.
Design Zoning
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Central Edible Quadrant Sunken Cafe and Social Hub Architectural Edible Forms
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Seasonal Wheat Planting’s Herb Scented Strip
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Above illustrates the sunken seating area created outside the college restaurant. This provides a social gathering point that can be used for informal seating, events and conferences. This is surrounded by expansive views of the productive edible landscape with edible forms rising up between swathes of wheat and avenues of Prunus ‘Royal Burgundy’.
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Section AA
Section BB The design drew together formal, educational, sustainable and economic values to create a unique, industry leading landscape within the enclosed quadrant micro climate. Influenced by the design and practices of Charles Jencks, Villandry and Schumacher College in Devon, triangular forms elevate the ground plane to provide maximum aesthetic and productive use of the space. These create divisions in the landscape giving rise to pocket areas, ideal for socialising and intimate study spaces illustrated in the section elevations above.
3D Modelling -
The adjacent 3D model allows the design to be visualised in its wider main campus setting. This was created using Google SketchUp and rendered using a V-Ray rendering plug in.
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A The Sunken Seating and Restaurant Area - The sunken seating area creates a seamless
link between The Garden Room Restaurant and landscape. Fresh food can be grown and supplied to the restaurant from the expansive landscape beyond. Seasonal plantings provide a bold and structural aesthetic to the landscape, particularly through the use of wheat and contrasting vegetables such as chard.
B The Social Courtyard - This illustrates a typical scene that could be seen outside the main
building and the college’s Student Union office. This uses corten steel raised planters filled with informal planting linked to the wider storm water systems. This provides opportunities for rain garden planting as well as innovative planting using edible flowers such as Calendula and Nasturtiums.
Landscape Design
Design Projects
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Centralising the Community, Finsbury Park
Centralising The Community Finsbury Park, London Finsbury Park is an urban park at the confluence of the Hackney, Haringey and Islington boroughs. The park covers an area of 45 hectares providing a valued green space amongst the densely populated urban context. The park is well connected and provides a hub for sports, socialising, recreation and seasonal music festivals. The design was commissioned by Furtherfield Gallery and Haringey Council to produce a series of potential design ideas for new areas that establish stronger links between the gallery and park whilst building upon its 2006 restoration.
A The Waterside Stepped Seating and
Boating House
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The design, shown here built upon a wider group masterplan that focused upon the key ideas of social hubs to connect the gallery and boroughs as well as linking areas of biodiversity with extensive tree and meadow planting. The design shown here illustrates a proposal for the central plaza within the park. This aimed to celebrate the park’s unique features and interconnect them to form strong visual and social links between the cafe, Victorian boating lake and Furtherfield Gallery.
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8 Furtherfield Gallery and Exhibition Space 9 Sculptural Planting Feature
Park Cafe Shaded Cafe Seating
10 Wildflower Meadow
Natural Play Area
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5 Stepped Seating to Waters Edge 6 Central Plaza Entertainment Space 7 Boating House and Deck
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The Central Plaza Design Proposal Plan
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The design modifies the access routes in and around the park to create the central plaza and Furtherfield Gallery as a destination. Trees surround the plaza creating a sense of seclusion and surprise upon arrival into the space. The landscape then widens to allow wide areas of entertainment and socialising with clear sight lines linking the parks key features. The boating lake was opened up and a new safety buffer created using sculptural wooden structures and marginal planting shown in the adjacent visualisations. This creates increased habitats for wildlife as well as promoting interaction with the waters edge through the incorporation of new pathways and boating facilities.
B Furtherfield Gallery Exhibition Space - Surrounding Furtherfield Gallery a range of exhibition
rooms were created for the display of artworks and hosting of events. The above visualisation illustrates a potential idea for the display of the digital artworks produced by Furtherfield’s artists. The space provides a flexible solution for the gallery that frames it in the landscape whilst connecting it to the wider plaza.
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C The Sculptural Planting Feature Bordering
the Waters Edge and Connecting Pathway
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Section AA - The Park Cafe, Stepped Seating and Boating Lake
D The Shaded Seating Area - The pleached trees provide a dappled restaurant seating area surrounding the cafe
framing the boating lake and activities of the central plaza. It is obvious from this visualisation that clear sight and access lines have been established across the plaza, uniting all elements of the park in a central social hub.
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Furtherfield Gallery is framed using the parks existing London Plane trees to create a visual sight line with the plaza. The paths naturally lead the user to the gallery creating connections, in turn increasing the gallery’s awareness, involvement and interaction with the surrounding park landscape and community.
Since the completion of this design project Haringey Council has begun to draw up future plans to develop the park with a number of these ideas included within the wider masterplan. The designs were also exhibited within the park for the community to see in November 2013.
E A New Connection Between the Gallery, Community and Park
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Landscape Design
Design Projects
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A View Through Water, Writtle College
A View Through Water Writtle College, Essex This project was centered around the Student Bar Garden of Writtle College. The client required a modern and contemporary design that would cater for large social events such as the college’s annual Summer Ball. This requires a flexible space that is low maintenance with large areas of open hard landscaping together with new access to the brook bounding the site. The design was led by the inclusion of water and how the concept of viewing could be incorporated into the landscape. This led to a covered seating area that was framed using rills of water between the roofing features.
A Student Social Courtyard -
The new design connects both the bar and FE Games Room through a series of social spaces. These use raised planters and built in seating to provide a durable and flexible space.
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From these a large expanse of hard landscape was used as a flexible space for the erection of a marquee and social space for the Student Union’s events, typically drawing around 200 people. This is framed using raised planters and has been expanded to link the adjoining Further Education Games Room. The design then moves to a more informal setting with large expanses of grass and a lower deck, following the relocation of the minibuses to a new holding facility on campus.
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7 8 Grassed Seating 9 Informal Planting Water Rill and Jets 10 Pleached Hedge 11 River Deck
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Main Social Space Student Social Courtyard Sunken Sports Room Water Rills & Plunge Pools Outdoor Bar
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Design Proposal Plan
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The key feature of the design are the large walls of water moving from the roof canopy into the raised plunge pools. These use the drama of water to provide a unique view that adds sound, aesthetic and impact to the area that can also be powered sustainably through the use of harvested rain water. This space provides an all weather social hub complete with outdoor bar, BBQ and social seating.
B The Covered Seating Area and Walls of Water
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The design incorporates a number of intimate seating areas including a sunken area for the viewing of sports and a secluded riverside deck both surrounded by informal planting of grasses and perennials. The adjacent visualisations were created using a mixture of hand drawing, SketchUp and Pro Marker pens in order to create a graphic that expresses the mood and use of the space.
C Sunken Sports Room Seating
D The Secluded Riverside Deck
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Landscape Design
Design Projects
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Curved and Contained, Thurrock
Curved and Contained Thurrock, Essex This domestic project was located in Grays, Thurrock and involved the design of a garden for a unique style of house. The house was newly built and followed a New Zealand design style contrasting to its local context. The client’s specified a contemporary garden for entertainment and relaxing as well as easy access to the garage and parking of two cars on the driveway to the house.
The design adopted a curved and contained concept which can be seen on the plan below with the movement from a curved front garden to the contained geometric shapes to the rear of the house. The design features a large water feature and entertainment deck, complimented by a secluded seating area and garden pod.
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Large water feature and rill Floating granite stepping stones Lawn and stepping stones Entertainment deck level with floor of house
7 Large sliding glass doors 8 Courtyard space with raised planters 9 10 11 12
Large front porch and step Large resin bound driveway Bounding front hedge and planting Concealed bin store
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Section AA Showing the Framing of the House Using Plants
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A View From the Rear of the House onto the Entertainment Deck
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The design used mass planting to add structure and screening to the design. The front garden used planting to frame and soften the house and its harsh architectural forms. The planting acts as a buffer within the garden to distinguish the areas between parking and the front path. Screening was also a key issue raised by the client, although it was important not to limit the level of light and space available. In order to overcome this a series of pleached hedges were used along the garden boundaries. These added height and structure to the garden as shown in the visualisation below.
B Front Garden Visualisation
C Visualisation Showing the Expansive Water Feature and Floating Stepping Stones
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Axonometric Projection of the Front and Back Garden Illustrating the Curved and Contained Concept and Minimalist Design
The garden also used a series of vistas viewing either towards or away from the house. This is particularly obvious with the garden pod which uses the length of the garden and stepping stones to extend the view and depth of the space as shown in the adjacent perspective. This creates intrigue and interest to the landscape, similar to the methods used in the Frederick Gibberd Garden, Harlow.
D The Garden Pod Creates Framed
Vistas Through the Garden
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Landscape Design
Construction Detailing
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Terraced Educational Garden, Writtle College
Terraced Educational Garden Writtle College, Essex The project required a terraced educational garden to complement the newly built information building by the reservoir at Writtle College. This had to be all weather access, use natural materials and terraced to allow the inclusion of retaining structures, steps and ramps. The project covers the key elements of construction including : - Site Grading and Levels - Cut and Fill - Hard Landscape Plan - Setting Out Plan - Construction Detailing - Planting Plan and Schedule
Design Proposal and Level Plan
The Site
Cut and Fill
In order to calculate the average subsoil cut and fill across the site the average end method of calculation was adopted due to the geometric nature of the design. A depth of 200mm of topsoil was removed from the site prior to the creation of the adjacent site sections and calculations below.
Cut and Fill Calculations
Cut and Fill Sections
Cut - Orange
Fill - Blue
Hard Landscape Plan
The design uses a range of materials to create a durable, all weather landscape that has a good aesthetic and is accessible for all user abilities. The terraces are retained using oak sleeper walls to blend with the surrounding landscape and planting. Permeable materials are used combined with graded falls across the site as shown on the spot heights to direct water to a wider drainage system and planting beds.
Construction Detailing
1 20mm T hook steel rod with hardwood plug 7 200mm compacted MOT type 1 2 240x115x2400mm hardwood oak sleepers 8 500x500x250mm hunched hydraulic in staggered pattern 3 Zinc galvanised connecting brackets
concrete foundations 9 150mm compacted MOT type 1
4 Aggregate backfill & geo-textile filter perforated drainage pipe 5 100mm
10 25x100x2000mm Western Red Cedar grooved decking planks
6 220x550mm concrete foundation at 1:2:4 11 20mm coach bolt & 40mm washer mix ratio (OPC : sharp sand : ballast) 12 300x300x225mm pre cast concrete block with embedded zinc connecting bracket
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Sleeper Retaining Wall Detail
Protruding Decking Detail Over Water
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Coarse aggregate backfill Well compacted subsoil 150x150mm Western Red Cedar post 150x50x2000mm tanalised pine timber frame
17 Zinc galvanised bracket set into pre cast concrete block connected using coach bolts
18 Stainless steel handrails with reinforced glass panels
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3D Frame Support and Fixing Details
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3D Decking Frame Detail
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Sleeper Staircase Construction Detail
1 50mm full bed of mortar at 1:4 mix (OPC:sharp sand) 2 Marshalls natural slate Dark Jade paving laid in a random pattern - sizes 900x600, 600x600 & 600x300mm 3 150mm well compacted MOT type 1
4 70mm depth Breedon Golden Amber 0-12mm self
binding gravel 5 300x115x115mm concrete foundation at 1:2:4 mix (OPC:sharp sand:ballast) 6 Seasoned hardwood oak plug
7 100mm compacted MOT type 1 8 240x115x2400mm seasoned oak sleepers laid on edge 9 20mm zinc galvanised steel rod with T bar end gridded channel drain on hunched 300x 10 100mm 175mm concrete foundation and 100mm MOT type 1 11 Well compacted subsoil
12 180mm compacted MOT type 1
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Post and Rail Fencing Detail 1 60x60x2100mm seasoned oak cross rails with notched ends 2 Finished soil height 3 575x500x500mm concrete footing to a 1:2:4 mix (OPC:sharp sand:ballast)
4 Well compacted subsoil 5 100mm compacted MOT type 1 6 65mm soil layer from top of footing to finished level to allow plant growth
7 20mm zinc galvanised round headed coach bolts fastened through posts
8 100x100x1800mm seasoned and pressure treated oak posts
Zoomed Post and Beam Securing Joint
Planting Plan Planting Bed 2
Planting Bed 1
Planting Bed 3
Planting Bed 2
Planting Bed 1 Height : Spread (cm)
Spacing Between Centers (cm)
Quantity
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Achillea milliefolium ‘Cersie Queen’
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Calendula officinalis Fiesta Gitana Group
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Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’
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Hosta ‘Aristocat’
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Kniphofia rooperi
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Lobelia ‘Queen Victoria’
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Millium effusum ‘Aureum’
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Rudbeckia fulgida var. sullivanti ‘Goldsturm’
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Stipa tennuissima
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Name Trees Hammelis x intermedia ‘Jelena’ Shrubs Sarcococca confusa
The design uses architectural plantings that provide structure and colour for all seasons of the year. The raised planters use ornamental plant varieties whereas the marginal planting shown in the contextual planting plan uses native wetland varieties. This provides a range of educational resources as well as attracting a range of insect and bird species.
Herbaceous
Plant Schedule For Planting Bed One
Landscape Design
Design & Build
Built Projects, Surrey
Informal Fish Pond Redhill, Surrey The site was originally grassed with a number of dispersed woody shrubs. This was cleared to create a new pond to relocate the client’s current fish stock. This shows the first phase of the project involving the design and construction of the pond and borders. The project, completed in 2008, involved the installation of a 9000 litre pond together with filter system, pump and cascade.
The margins of the pond were clad using natural Yorkshire walling stone leading to a collection of slate surrounding the cascade. Mature marginal plants were also added to provide structure, oxygen and surface coverage to the pond. The final stage of this project will involve the installation of a natural slate patio. This will border the pond in an overhanging staggered pattern creating an appearance that the paving is hanging over the water.
Contemporary Contrasting Planting Combinations A Cascade was Used to Create Sound and Movement to the Were Used Along the Margins of the Pond Pond Complimenting the Natural Slate Stone Edging
Bog Garden Redhill, Surrey This project involved the creation of a large bog garden linking an existing nature pond and the large fish pond shown in the previous project. The image below shows the site prior to construction. In order to prepare the site a large tree was removed, a timber retaining wall was constructed and the soil excavated, lined and re-filled.
The planting design focused on seasonal colour and structure. The main structure of the scheme is achieved through the inclusion of a large Gunnera with a tiered herbaceous under-storey with the use of Lobelia, Hostas, Crocosmia and Astilbes.
The Bog Garden After Construction and Completion
The Area Before Construction
The Border 2 Years After Completion
Contemporary Grass Garden Redhill, Surrey The aim of this design and build project was to transform the existing barren and dark corner shown below into an interesting and highly aesthetic garden feature.
The construction of this project involved extensive concrete clearance, soil improvement and the erection of a bamboo screen to provide a backdrop to the planting.
Due to the poor and dry soil conditions within this area of the garden it was decided that grasses would be an ideal planting strategy to create a dynamic planting feature.
The grasses provide structure, texture and colour to the scheme, complemented by the underlying granite chippings creating an eye-catching display.
One Year After Completion
The Site Before the Design and Construction
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Contemporary Planting Combinations Were Used to Add Seasonal Colour
Garden Clearance & Revival Reigate, Surrey These images illustrate a number of border and a garden rejuvenation projects. Prior to the work the adjacent (right) garden was overgrown with tree saplings and scrub. The work undertaken included a new set of stairs, new surfacing, border clearance and the erection of a new bounding fence.
The images to the left of this page illustrate a border regeneration project undertaken in a similar area where issues of perennial weeds and plant rejuvenation had to be overcome.
New Steps and Surfacing was Added to Revive the Garden Overgrown Border Before Clearance
The Border After Clearance
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The Garden Showing the New Fence and Cleared Borders
Landscape Design
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