DAVID JOHN FERRA RI Landscape Architecture Portfolio + Curriculum Vitae
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About myself. I am determined to expand my knowledge from my studies and studio projects by gaining industry experience within landscape architecture. I will contribute effectively to any team and use the knowledge and experience of my peers to challenge and expand my professional self. From my studies at Victoria University of Wellington, I gained a level of confidence and insight into my own abilities. This has allowed me to tackle difficult tasks with an open mind and persistence. I am aware of the importance of asking for help if I feel out of my depth or outside of my own knowledge boundaries, as theses conversations help me to grow as a person and as a professional. The following work displayed in this portfolio is a selection from my masters thesis, studio based projects, and personal collection of photography. I aimed to incorporate new ideas and methods within each project to achieve the best outcome for the design brief. From the public park down the road to the urban design of a city, landscape architecture is a part of everyday life. It encompasses both the intimate scale and metropolitan scales in order to manipulate and enhance the way we engage with our surroundings. Bringing to life these intimate experiences for people has been a passion of mine since starting my studies. I hope you enjoy my work. David
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Ta b l e o f C o n t e n t s
pg 4 | Curriculum Vitae
University Projects pg 6 | Re.Structure - Final Year Masters Thesis - 2015 pg 14 | Intimate Landscapes: Lake Waiorongomai - 2013 pg 18 | River Public Life: Enriching Diversity - 2013 pg 22 | The Industrial Spine - Construction detailing - 2012
pg 28 | Model making pg 29 | Photography
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DAVI D JO H N F E R R AR I
Victoria University of Wellington Master of Landscape Architecture
email | david.ferrari@outlook.co.nz address | Wellington, New Zealand contact | +64 27 3236593
About m e.
d.o.b | 24/07/1991
Ed u ca ti on a l Qu a l i f i ca ti o n s.
I completed my final year at Victoria University of Wellington in March 2016, which entailed completing my Master of Landscape Architecture thesis. From my studies, I gained a level of confidence and insight into my own abilities. This has allowed me to tackle difficult tasks with an open mind and persistence. I am aware of the importance of asking for help if I feel out of my depth or outside of my own knowledge boundaries, as these conversations help me to grow as a person and as a professional. I have had success both academically and with sport and I use the skills gained from these to shape who I want to be as a person. My interests outside of work includes playing a variety of sports, mainly basketball both socially and more competitively with leagues in Wellington, and having a hit around on the golf course. I enjoy the outdoors, particularly landscape photography and trying to get into astrophotography when I get the chance to head out of the city. I also enjoy listening to music as well as writing lyrics. I maintain a blog where I write about anything and everything of interest, mainly to do with my experiences or what is on my mind. Family is a big part of my life where I like to spend a good amount of time with them as well as sharing a few beers with friends and colleagues after a long week. I am involved with a charity organization called Kids Camps New Zealand (KCNZ) which is aimed at providing week long fun and adventurous camps for under privileged children, and those that have come from situations of neglect, abuse, and difficult circumstances. I have been doing this for 2 years now and it is incredibly rewarding when you can see how much of an impact you can make on these kid’s lives. I’d like to think I am a very approachable person who gets along with every type of person. I like to challenge myself every day to grow and learn as much as I can.
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Master of Landscape Architecture Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
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Bachelor of Architectural Studies, Landscape Architecture Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand
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NCEA Level 3 | St Bernard’s College Lower Hutt, New Zealand
S k i l l s a n d Attr i b u tes. • • • • • • • • • • •
Great attention to detail Diligently work independently and part of a team Ability to show initiative and thinking outside the box Ability to learn new systems quickly Excellent time management skills Flexible with working environments and departments Customer management experience Ability to build strong relationships with peers and clients Ability to absorb constructive criticism/feedback Project Coordination and Delivery Atlassian Accredited Sales, Marketing, and Operations Professional.
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Soft w are Pr ofic ienc ies .
Profe s s ional E x per ience . May 2016 - July 2017
Sales Administrator and Project Coordinator TechTime Initiative Group Limited Sales and Invoicing, Marketing, Office administration, Client liaison, Licensing, Service Desk management/operator, internal and external Business Improvements, Project liaison, Account management.
January 2016 - Present
Landscape Architecture Consultant Shaik & Ferrari Landscape Architectural Services (S&F LAS) Founder of S&F LAS to provide pro-bono landscape architectural services for clients and volunteer organisations. Completed work for the Assistance Dogs New Zealand Trust.
2014 - 2015
Landscape Architecture Tutor Victoria University of Wellington Tutor for Landscape Architecture students in first and second year design courses. Guest Critic for Third and Fourth year Landscape Architecture students.
Master ’s T hesis My Master’s Thesis can be seen here: https://issuu.com/davidferrari/docs/restructure_vuw_mla_thesis_david_fe
Refe re nces Academic, Employment, and Character references are available upon request.
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Re.Structure. finding the synergetic relationships between functioning urban ports, trapped landscapes, and public life. Master of Landscape Architecture Victoria University of Wellington
The s i s A b s t ra c t
In many countries around the world, contemporary urban ports have a major economical, infrastructural, and dominant presence along strategic waterfront edges. In terms of public life, these industrial private entities disconnect themselves from their parent city due to the interaction between a number of factors, namely; topography, orientation, positioning, port typology, the safety and functionality of ports, urban planning, and the effects on the natural ecology. The changing nature of how a city utilizes their waterfront questions whether urban ports have a role within the heart of the city. The potential to restructure port areas and their surrounding spaces that have been effected by development leads to the creation of dynamic public life entities. With these large infrastructural entities, the areas surrounding the boundaries are compromised and are trapped in a confusion of development and derelict design. Trapped landscapes often have detrimental effects on natural environments. This negative impact can be seen in the urban fabric of the city, and in the public well-being and life of the occupants of those spaces. This thesis investigates urban areas trapped by functioning port infrastructure, specifically the area known as the Quay Park Quarter, situated in Auckland, New Zealand. The Ports of Auckland Ltd (POAL), directly north of the area, imposes a dominating, privatised and industrial statement to contribute to the nature of this trapped landscape. The Quay Park Quarter includes heritage sites, railway infrastructure, and ad-hoc developments, some of which were initially intended to rejuvenate the area. This thesis aims to address the privatised issues surrounding the contemporary urban port by challenging the role and incorporation of public life as a means to restructure such areas. This thesis argues that active port areas can be reconfigured, restructured and reimagined in ways in which to utilize public life along active waterfront networks. This thesis will also argue that this utilization of public life can actively change the way in which trapped landscapes can be restructured for the future. By considering the ecological impact, the city’s growth and surrounding developed areas, positive changes can be made at multiple scales within the city context. This thesis proposes that this can be investigated through observing three interrelated scales to discover city systems and functions, the intimate, neighbourhood and metropolitan. The intimate scale involves the interactions with one’s self in the environment that surrounds them, as well as the composition of all things to create public life. This creates a sense of locality for being in the environment. Because of the port’s impact on this urban area as well as its external and internal functions, the neighbourhood scale addresses the reconfiguration and restructuring of the port infrastructure that has impacted this trapped urban area. The metropolitan scale involves how the public life network fits within the context of the city, through the means of landscape infrastructural components. The collaboration of these three scales allows for an interchange between what the human can experience in addition to the systematic functionality of the city. This offers unique insight beyond the master planning of such urban areas to actively engage with life on the ground. The reconfiguration and restructuring aspects of these areas allow for a variety of resolutions to both actively engage with public life within industrial areas and facilitate the release of trapped landscapes back into the surrounding context of these areas.
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Wetland sizes vs catchment size experiments
Axonometric exploration of site conditions and factors
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Reclamation History
Reclamation Datum Lines
1860 - 1879 19 years
1860 - 1879 19 years
1880 - 1888 8 years
1880 - 1888 8 years
1889 - 1919 30 years 1889 - 1919 30 years 1920 - 1937 17 years
1938 - 1972 34 years
1920 - 1937 17 years
1973 - 2014 41 years
1938 - 1972 34 years
1973 - 2014 41 years
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Axonometric view of the evolving waterfront.
Historic Coastline versus the evolving waterfront datum lines and influences.
1940 Aerial with Present Day overlay showing the rail infrastructure in the then Industrial Quay Park Quarter.
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Current Linear Infrastructure analysis in key areas on site.
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Masterplan of Quay Park Precinct
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Section Aa - relationship between Vector Arena (white), cycleway, raised structure with proposed apartments/offices/retail buildings integrated with port storage and functions.
Section Bb - relationship between the new inlet boulevard, raised public space platform integrated with new residential/office/retail space. The port uses the space underneath the structure for permanent storage use and port transportation (railway).
Detail view Section Bb - relationship between the open public space placed on the structure with retail/ office/residential buildings.
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Perspective view looking out towards Devonport and Rongitoto Island in the background.
Perspective view of the wetland/recreational area with the stadium and port in the background.
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Intimate Landscapes. Lake Waiorongomai Kapiti Coast District, Wellington
D e s i g n Challen g e , S tat emen t, & c on c e p t
The rural landscape of the West coast of the North Island holds within it an incredible power to shape our views of the landscape and its belonging. Lake Waiorongomai is a place that was once thriving on this character, this intimacy, this experience. As designers we are challenged to push the boundaries of our experience within the realm, this site in particular is much the same. The character still remains within the area, a belief, a hope, a will for the natural landscape to gain the intimate connection to its people like it once was. This area was used by the local iwi for adventure, fishing, eeling, and duck shooting. The quiet and rural landscape was the perfect location for the teaching and education of these maori traditions and values for whanau. “Discovering the true intimacy of the landscape through ecological restoration, experience of place and perception, and the manipulation of light and shadow to enhance this intangible experience” The idea of an intimate moment to me as a designer, are spaces in a place of interaction with your personal bodily senses. The heightening of these senses are the key drivers to create a moment within the space, of sublime and the sublime sensation to a person experiencing it. The moment at which a person knows that they are experiencing this sensation is when your own heightened senses are manipulating your thoughts and shifting your focus to the space and beyond. This also focuses a required ‘vision’ of the site/ place/space you are in, what role you play, and where you are in body and in mind. The intangible intimacy within a landscape is developed through natural processes and natural occurrences in nature itself. That in turn, with the combination of our bodily senses, is where the tangible intimacy lies from a design perspective. This intimacy is where the site itself lacks through the misuse and abuse the lake, and subsequently the stream, from the surrounding pastoral lands of farming. This encroachment of farmland is evident within the water quality, scattered and damaged natural wetlands, and drained areas of the lake and stream itself. Within the misuse and abuse a natural willingness that we often find within the realm of landscape is the will to fight back. This action is discovered through the remnant wetlands counter-acting the damaged done to it by cattle, and farming over the years. It is within these actions and sensations that this developing idea of intimate landscapes started to formulate. Scattered across the site in strategic locations around the lake displayed remnants of duck shooting huts, eeling equipment, and floating plastic ducks. The duck hooting huts or “Mai Mai” as it is called in Te Reo, displayed this history of education, intimacy, and camouflage. The design looks into reinventing the traditional Mai Mai to reflect the intimate experiences on site, to enhance the education and teaching of this maori tradition, and to inhabit the landscape sequentially.
Site Plan of Lake Waiorongomai, Otaki
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Hierarchical relationship between intimacy and journey through the site from lake to sea
Moments of intimacy within the rural landscape
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Plan view of a Mai Mai. In the Maori culture, the Mai Mai is a means to seek and create a union between two identities, the hunter and the bird. These spaces are of intimacy, growth and education.
Plan view of the longitudinal intimate structure with gathering spaces. The intention for the intimacy to be enhanced while the ecology of the site will grow and take over the structure.
Section view of the intimate driven Mai Mai hut - designed to highlight these intimate moments among the landscape as well as encourage the local iwi to use and educate their whanau.
Section view of the longitudinal intimate structure - this structure placed more emphasis on enhancing the intimate moments and gathering spaces for teachings, allowing light and shadow manipulations
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Perspective view of the Mai Mai hut positioned in the rural setting.
Perspective view of sequential Mai Mai enhancing the manipulation of light and shadows, positioned in the rural setting.
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Enriching Diversity. HUTT River Lower Hut t, Wellington
A m b i t ion s and e x e c u t ion
Enriching Diversity within the Hutt River corridor and Hutt Valley as a whole is what fueled this line of work. The ambitions were to increase biodiversity within the river corridor and extend this to the external fabric of the city, to utilize the concept of patch and corridor system for this biodiversity and as a means to engage the public within the river corridor. The Patch and Corridor system allowed the consideration for wetland systems to be at the forefront to drive this biodiversity growth within the river corridor, utlilising swale systems, ephemeral landscapes, and estuary systems. These suggestions can also be used as a means to engage the public to such well-designed areas to start to revitalize the public life of the city. This was to be achieved through nodal neighbourhood systems, diversity of use, intensification of housing in areas that offered incredible amenity value to the city and river itself. Current conditions of the Hutt Valley and it’s river determined that there was numerous underlying conditions that was halting the growth of the city, namely the way in which the city had planned it’s zones for various buildings and functions and the stop banks providing flood protection to the city, cutting off the incredible river to the public. In parts, the river corridor was too narrow and the river level in a storm would breach the stopbanks causing damage and safety concerns for the city. This project takes a look at the CBD to better engage the public with the river corridor, making use of the existing stopbanks and creating inner city housing/office/retail spaces along the corridor. This project also addresses the desire to convert the industrial precinct area of Seaview to engage with the panoramic views at the river mouth and creating a destination in itself. This is achieved through mixed developments, and ecological improvements to the area.
Experiential & Topographical “Reach” Map The Hutt River and corresponding city, has a unique and varying experiential and topographical element that allows people to interact with. The River in this instance is divided into both experiential reaches and topographical reaches involving the way in which the river flows through the City. Each reach is where the landscape allowed a shift to occur, in both experience and or the way in which the river behaved whether it was meandering or fast-flowing
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PATCH & CORRIDOR DIAGRAM Showing the relationship between potential corridor movements and current movements within the area as well as outlining potential destination points in terms of patches.
Aerial view of the existing Hutt Valley CBD with the river flowing through.
PATCH & CORRIDOR DIAGRAM Showing the relationship between potential corridor movements and current movements within the area as well as outlining potential destination points in terms of patches. Aerial view of the existing Hutt Valley industrial precinct in Seaview.
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Detail Plan - Hutt Valley CBD site
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Detail Plan - Hutt Valley industrial precinct (Seaview)
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The Industrial Spine. Centreport, Wellington waterfront Wellington
D e s i g n I n t en t
From the complexities of the Pipitea Precinct site, I was quite intrigued with the aspect that the industrial activity and spaces possessed, and the restrictions around them with denial of public access. An aesthetic is held within the industrial site, that of corrosion, structural form, rust, steel, dense materiality, airiness, and the qualities associated with the inaccessibility of a private zone; urges to explore, and uneasy feeling of not allowing to be there. In order to explore these sensations within the area, a creation of a journey formulated. The wedging between the publicly accessible and the privatized zone intrigued the occupant within the area of the Centreport. The Port area itself held those industrial qualities that I was intrigued with. The site, with this idea in mind, has the opportunity to ‘Reveal and Conceal’ the Port (or private area) in the sense of its raw materiality and visibility, and permeability of the Port area itself, whilst maintaining a welcoming publicly accessible threshold or ‘spine’ through the two areas. This again is set up with direction, existing form, texture, corrosion, edges, node points and pathways. The structural forms created within this industrial spine, reflect heavy with in the intent of seeking the industrial quality of the space. This is achieved through exploration of heights, form, materiality and shape the journey takes in terms of its form. Keeping existing elements within the port itself, acts like a catalyst on the design, placing emphasis of what the space is currently and what it will most likely be for the future. Materially, the industrial spine takes direct use of its immediate context, with elements such as steel, timber, concrete, and oxidising materials. Exposing construction techniques and materials add to the industrial aesthetic within the space. This places more emphasis on the idea of ‘reveal and conceal’ within the industrial qualities of the space. This is explored through the steel gantry structures, and how they have been developed through construction detailing.
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Lighting Plan
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Material Plan
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Construction Plan CONSTRUCTION PLAN
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STEEL GANTRY PART PLAN AND SECTIONS
Detail Plan and Section drawings
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STEEL GANTRY DETAIL DRAWINGS
Construction detail drawings and anotation
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Photography and Models
The models displayed below were created by abstracting the harmony’s and melodies of a song as part of communicating design triggers within the landscape. Photography, for me, creates a sense of release from the world we live in, capturing the now, and reflecting on the past from where we have come from. I particularly enjoy extracting the essence of the captured image by exploring these through black and white shots.
Abstracting harmony through sequence modeling
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Samples of personal works
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