daniel young prodanyoung@hotmail.com 07800766212
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01 urban green 02 design + community 03 forestry planning 04 landscape character assessment 05 back to front 06 sketching 07 photography
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urban green
‘Leeds urban food web’ The site for the urban green project is the old Tetley Brewery on the south bank of the River Aire which runs through Leeds. The brewery buildings on site have mostly been demolished and it is currently being used as a temporary carpark. The Tetley building remains as it is listed, and there are plans for that to become an art gallery. Heavy industry is in decline due to advances in technology and the south bank of Leeds is renowned for being very industrial and lacking in green space. A lot of these industries have closed down and are creating large areas of wasted land which otherwise could be used for recreation, therefore this site is a prime area for an urban green park.
site analysis + concept development
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
1. road and rail access into the site 2. situation to the city 3. large flat site 4. converging routeways
1. surrounded by busy roads 2. limited existing vegetation 3. industrial area 4. Granary Wharf and Clarence Dock seen as failed developments
Opportunities:
Challenges:
1. surrounded by residential areas 2. site heritage 3. new HS2 railway station 4. relocation of Asda home office 5. connecting surrounding areas
1. surrounding and on site listed buildings 2. busy roads 3. brownfield site 4. planning permission 5. maintaining a constant attraction for the public
connectivity city escape urban food educational
masterplan ‘to create a multi-functional, interactive urban green space where users can learn and enjoy the benefits of natural food produce’ Character areas: open lawn area enclosed with trees looking out onto river urban food zone; city allotments and green structures that promote and demonstrate fruit and vegetable growing in urban dwellings waterside bars, restaurants and cafes that use and sell the fresh food produce from the urban food zone childrens play and educational zone with a tree top walk and play equipement that encourages natural play while the current listed buildings have been redeveloped into educational classrooms
Tetley art gallery and sculpture garden, accompanied with an amphitheatre
a place to exercise, stroll, lounge about and get away from the city
a taste of the park
detailed design ‘urban food zone’ The detailed design has been concentrated in the nodal point of the park, the ‘urban food zone’ between the Salem church and the Tetley building. Within this area are two green structures which are linked up by the raised walkways from the other areas of the urban park. Within the courtyard of this area, are a number of planters on raised decking for the public to help themselves to the produce within them as they pass through on their way to and from work. Crab apple trees line the walkways in the courtyard, bringing seasonal colour and fruit. The Salem church building will be transformed into an educational centre which will promote the importance of healthy living, diet and the benefits of growing your own fruit and vegetables. The staff of this centre will also be involved in maintaining the ‘urban food zone’, but the public and the surrounding community are more than welcome to get involved. Between the two green structures lies a pond, which has steps down to the water, where people can sit, enjoy and relax on the waters edge. This would be a great place to meet with friends for a catch up or lunchtime break. The two green structures lie in the heart of the park and are linked from all areas by either straight, direct ground level pathways or the curved raised walkways. These green structures serve a similar purpose to the Salem church building, as they are promoting urban food growing. The structures concentrate more on exhibiting differing ways on space saving, vertical growing, and using recycled materials to produce fresh food.
detailed area cross section
model making
construction
Grey Scoutmoor Yorkstone land strip paving 300x300x50mm
In-situ concrete slabs with reinforcement bars 2000x3000x100mm, ne brushstrokes nishing Precast concrete planting trough
Silver Grey Granite Plank, 200xrandom lengthsx50mm
Bonded anchor for uncracked concrete
L-shaped stainless steel Lintel with 4x25mm holes for connection to precast concrete pillar
Bottom layer 25mm gravel, top layer 25mm pool substrate
Precast concrete with reinforcement bars, 300mm depth laid on compacted hardcore
Grey Scoutmoor Yorkstone block 1200x600x300mm
Grey Scoutmoor Yorkstone, 600xrandom lengthsx63mm
planting
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design + community
Intially working as a team we had the task to re-design the playground for Moor Allerton Hall Primary School. In order to design the best playground we needed to know the children, teachers and parents ideas. Therefore we created a consultation day at the school to collect the relevant information. We got in contact with SNUG play equipement, who let us borrow their safe, easy to use equipement. This allowed us to observe the children and see how they play and what activities they enjoyed the most. We also created an indoor workshop for the children, where they could draw out there favourite play experience. After these activities we spoke to the teachers and parents.
playground design “I would like to create a playground where children can engage with the natural environment through outdoor education. The children will be allowed to experience natural play, which encourages problem solving, sharing, social skills, the development of motor skills and coordination. These life skills are crucial for the development of a growing child. My design incorporates the idea of zoning for different activities and areas. The playground is split up into two areas, educational and play. The play area is then broken down into activity zones, the quiet zone, climbing and balancing zone, sand pit and den building zone and the grass mounds with tunnels zone. These zones allow children to practice those crucial life skills. The play zone has been created so that teachers and staff can see the children at all times. The educational zone includes an outdoor classroom, wildlife pond and a wildlife zone where children can build bug houses and learn about habitats. Some of the features within the educational area are natural, such as the log seating in a semi circle”.
“imagination is more important than knowledge” “play is the highest form of research” Albert Einstein
playground features
team work: d+c exhibition
Once we had our individual designs for the playground, we collaberated all our ideas and designs with the team to come up with an overall masterplan. This is the design that featured in the design and community exhibition, and alongside it was a portfolio of all our individual work and ideas and a model which was used towards putting a bid in for funding the playground redevelopment.
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forestry planning
The vision for Torver Common is to bring it to life through retaining a sense of nature by protecting and increasing wildlife and vegetation, knowledge and education of children and adults of woodland wildlife and vegetation, which can be taught by professional staff. There will be an opportunity for long and short walks, water sport activities such as canoeing, sailing and taking a boat ride on Coniston Water.
Woodland trees
Heathland shrubs
Woodland after 50 years
Woodland after 25 years
Woodland after 10 years
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landscape character assessment
Desk Study
Landscape Assessment Character Area 4: Floodplain Historic transport routes run through a lively area. The railway lines run through a linear corridor through the centre of the valley, enclosed by trees. The canal flows along the base of the floodplain surrounded by large, open, grazing fields and mixed woodland providing a view with a mixture of textures that is broken up by electricity pylons.
Character Area 6: Ancient Farmland Open, undulating mixed farmland. Regular and tidy, historical field pattern. Well maintained grassland used for grazing that is surrounded by mixed woodland (Calverley Wood) but is also exposed and vast. Aesthetically the land is monchrome, bland and uninspiring.
Making Judgements - Evaluation
Visual
Ecological
Historical/Cultural
Overall Character Values
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back to front Urban housing, generally, has no back garden and limited space for growing fruit and vegetables at home, therefore ‘Back to Front’ is a scheme that educates and promotes growing within front yard or garden space rather than the back garden. A group of us were given the task to come up with designs for a variety of housing types within urban areas, such as, Victorian Terraced housing and Semi-dectached housing. The housing type that I studied was 1930’s Art Deco housing, as shown on the left. Throughout the designs I have tried to keep in theme with the Art Deco style, which began during the booming 1920’s. This created a spirit of frivolity, luxury and a sense of freedom and hopefulness. Art Deco was stylised by geometric decorative elements and vertically oriented design. One garden is for vertical climbing plants, such as tomato vines, peas and small fruit trees. The other is for a more high yielding garden with a greater planting surface area.
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sketching
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photography
land art
daniel young
prodanyoung@hotmail.com 07800766212