Portfolio of Hà (Amelia) Lâm by Ha Lam

ha.lam.23@ucl.ac.uk

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CV | HÀ (AMELIA) LÂM

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Email: halamthungoc2699@gmail.com

UCL Email: ha.lam.23@ucl.ac.uk

Mobile: (+44)7424091705

As a Landscape Architect, I have been involved in many professional projects that related to urban planning, renovation of a historical landscape area, and tourism. What I always aim for is to preserve the natural landscape, environment, and habitats for the lands we touch. The ideal and the love for nature that I found during my time of working with my Senior Landscape Architect co-workers and studying for my Master Degree at UCL are some of my motivations to pursue this path.

Education

University College London - The Barlett School of Architecture | Landscape Architecture MA

University of Architecture Ho Chi Minh City - Graduated with Distinction in Landscape Architecture | Five Years Full Time Program

Participated in The Autumn Show 2024 with Studio 7 | The Bartlett School of Architecture.

Won LDA Design Bursary 2023: Turning gown towards town.

Won runner-up prize in The Selection Contest for “Ideas of General Planning for Ho Chi Minh City until 2040, with a vision to 2060”.

Merit Award winner of FUTUREARCE PRIZE 2022 : “Touch of Change”

Won Sustainable Idea Award in UNESCO UNITWIN 2021 Summer Design Camp.

Won honourable mention in the first international design competition “Future city: Smart design for post pandemic world” held by Institute of Smart City and Management in September 2020.

Volunteered at ICAPPS 2018: Strategies and Solutions to Smart City development.

Experience

Intern at LDA Design (October 2024)

Landscape Architecture Writer (2024 - current)

Junior Landscape Architect at DE-SO Asia (August, 2022 - May 2023)

Took part in Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture projects - FPT Software Campus; Da Lat Thai Phien Flower Village; Institute Of Landscape And Architecture; Ocean Lagi Retreat Resort

Designed an urban planning scheme that is chosen by the clients and province people commitee. The project will make impact to the province tourism and local financial benefits.

Intern at DE-SO Asia (April - May, 2022)

Assisted in the Historical Landscape Project - Truong Son Cemetery

Assisted in the Tourism Project - Bai Hom Luxury Eco Resort

Technical Proficiency

Autocad

Sketchup

Lumion

Rhino

Grasshopper

Photoshop

Indesign

Illustrator

Revit

Skillset

Site Analysis and Research

Concept Creative Design

Visual Communication

Architectural Drawings

Language

Vietnamese - Native English - Fluent (IELTS Score - 7.5)

Individual work

Teamwork

Photography

Painting

ACADEMIC COMPETITIONS

Living with heatWater and Fire Territory

Term 2 Project | Landscape Architecture MA

Page 3 - 16

The tale to Walk Through Puddles

Term 1 Project | Landscape Architecture MA

Page 17 - 24

Page 25 - 28

Da Lat Thai Phien Flower Village FPT Software Campus

Page 29 - 30

Institute Of Landscape And Architecture PROFESSIONAL

Page 31 - 32

Bursary 2023 | Turning gown towards town - “THE RED THREAD”

Page 33 - 34

Page 35 FUTURARC Prize 2022 | Reinterpretation“TOUCH OF CHANGE”

Page 36 Landscape Spaces Along Saigon Riverside - DÒNG CHUYỂN SẮC

PERSONAL PROJECTS

A Study of London Alleys - Photography

Page 37 - 38

LIVING WITH HEATWATER AND FIRE TERRITORY

Saddleworth Moor, an ancient peatland known for its natural and unique beauty, suffered extensive damage from a devastating wildfire in 2018. The fire was driven by global warming, which triggered climate change and extreme weather, including a heatwave during the hottest week of summer 2018. This spike in temperature raised soil heat levels, leading to a significant decline in sphagnum moss. Another wildfire is anticipated in the foreseeable future.

Wildfire Date Map

25/06/2018

26/06/2018

27/06/2018

28/06/2018

29/06/2018

Moderate - Low Severity Zone High Severity Zone Low Severity Zone

Unburned Zone Moderate - High Severity Zone

Hypotriorchis

Eriophorum angustifolium Eriophorum vaginatum

Calluna vulgaris

Numenius

Metrioptera brachyptera

Myrica gale

Rubus chamaemorus

Lagopus lagopus scotica

Vaccinium myrtillus

Peatland - Blanket Bog Habitats

Peatland were formed by centuries of human and natural activities. It is a waterlogged areas with special soil made by decayed organic materials. Sphagnum moss is a key species of peatland. It can store a large amount of water and grows slowly throughout the year. The lower part of Sphagnum moss will die and accumulate into peat.

The wildfire in Saddleworth Moor happened by a process of global warming causing climate change then extreme weather, which is the heatwave on the hottest week in summer 2018. The rise in temperature in the soil leads to a mass decline in sphagnum moss. The moss is the main heat coverage of the soil by its ability to hold a large amount of water. Without it, the peats dried up, releasing the carbon dioxide that they stored over the last centuries and also methane from decayed vegetations.

Drosera

Gallinago gallinago

Empetrum nigrum

Sphagnum Moss

Peat Moss

Orthetrum coerulescens

Gyrinidae (Plecoptera) larvae

Zygoptera

Ephemeroptera

Feedback Loop

The feedback loop is created by the ongoing process of global warming leads to climate change. The declined in sphagnum mosses dried up the peat, making it vulnerable to extreme weather and human’s activites. In the foreseeable future, there are going to be more and more wildfires occur on the peatland of Saddleworth Moor.

(100 years formation) 6cm (200 years of storing CO2)

Dry Peat

Exposed Peat

PROJECT AIMS

With the continuous process of global warming, the wildfire is expected to occur again in the foreseeable future. That brought out the aims of the project in order to “live with heat”: Restore, Reintroduce, and Resillience

Reintroduce

CONSERVATION BOUNDARY

Fire in Saddleworth Moor is the dominated element once it rises, and the affected areas expanded as other areas shrink back. So to fight against fire, water is used as the arch rival element. In order to ensure more sensitive treatment of the peatland, the boundaries of wildfire-affected areas are mapped and grouped by severity. Each area will feature different types of hydraulic structures. All of them are connected by the points of existing and proposed interventions, creating maintenance routes which will be later switched into visitor tracks, directing them out of the intervention areas and lower the risk of deliberate fire.

Legends:

High Fire Risk area

Medium Fire Risk area

Low Fire Risk area

Conservation pathway

Intervention network

Existing intervention

Proposed intervention

Pathway

Chew Resevoir

ChewRoad

Hyaline Cells

As the study of hydraulic structures took place, the project seeks for a more natural landscape using those structures.

Sphagnum moss is famous for its ability to hold water. The Chlorophyllose cells are used to photosynthesizes. The Hyaline cells are the dead cells. these cells work like a bubble with small pores for water to go in and store in there.

Inspired by this, if apply into the project, this structure can help rewetting the peatland. The Sphagnum rafts can be placed on the pools to prevent evaporation.

Sphagnum moss leaf

Source: Deviant Art (No date)

Chlorophyllose cell Photosynthesizes

Hyaline cell pore Allows water in/out

Sphagnum moss cellular structure

Source: Author’s own

Sphagnum sp.

Source: plingfactory (No date)

Hyaline cell Dies at maturity to hold water, helpful bacteria

Illustrated Sphagnum moss cellular structure

Source: Author’s own

Sphagnum Moss

DETAIL MASTERPLAN

Animals’ fire shelters (moderate fire risk area)

The Hyaline Cells Long Boardwalk

Visitors’s Booth

Animals’ fire shelters (high fire risk area)

Visitors’ shelter

Stone Dams

Heather Bale with Coconut Coir Dams

The peatland program is organized according to areas with varying degrees of fire damage. Establishing walking routes and shelters can facilitate management access and, in the long term, help prevent visitors from disrupting restoration efforts.

Heather Bale with coconut coir dams and Boardwalk

Stone Dam and Boardwalk

Animals’ Fire Shelters

Visitor’s Information Booth

Visitor’s Shelter

The Hyaline Cells Long Boardwalk (Moderate fire risk area)

In this illustration, the hydraulic structures are heather bales wrapped in coconut coir, designed to mimic the shape of hyaline cells. The site will feature a tailored planting strategy that includes sphagnum moss rafts, Cotton Grasses, Berries, and Cross-leaved Heath. With the calculation using Cut and Fill in Grasshopper, the maximum volume of water the intervention can hold estimated to be 114.160 litres. Each of the pools will have the different volume as in the water volume map below.

The Hyaline Cells Hydraulic Structures Module

Oval shapes sphagnum raft for easy movement in the water basins.

Cellular Structures Dams

Dams are thinner in this place with the distance of 5-12 metres between dams in steep gullies. The type of dam is peat dam.

Waterlogged areas

Design Proposal

Common Cotton Grass is planted at the sides and bottom of the gullies to slow down the water current and prevent peat erosion.

Bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus)

Crowberry (Empetrum nigrum)

Common Cotton Grass (Eriophorum angustifolium)

Cloudberry (Rubus chamaemorus)

Bilberry, Crowberry, and Cloudberry are planted on the top of the peat or slope as they are clip root plants that can help stabilise the peat.

Sphagnum Moss beads will be spreaded everywhere on the peatland. Sphagnum Moss itself is also planted on the Rafts and brought to areas where coverage is lost.

Cross-leaved Heath (Erica

Cross-leaved Heath can be planted everywhere on the peatland.

tetralix)

Sphagnum Moss Rafts

Sphagnum Moss Beads

Hare’s Tails Grass is planted on the sides top of the the wettest area prevent erosion.

Cotton planted sides or the peat in area to erosion.

Hare’s Tails Cotton Grass (Eriophorum vaginatum)

Phasing

Phase 1: The first phase of the project is soil reprofiling. The peat will be reprofiled where there are erosion into 30o-45o slope.

Year 0 - 2

Phase 2: The second phase is grip, gulllies and large dry up areas blocking. The dams will play a role as barriers to slow down the water current, reducing peat loss, and create small water basins as waterlogged areas on the peatland.

Year 0 - 2

Phase 3: The third phase is moss planting. Using the sphagnum raft technique and place them floating on the waterlogged basins created in the second phase. The rafts will work like a cover to prevent water to evaporate from the basins. The design is inspired by the cellular structure of hyaline cells in sphagnum moss.

Year 2 - 4

Phase 4: In this phase, the sphagnum mosses planted on the basins are ready to be harvested and easily transported to other exposed peat areas to plant. With the issue of accessability on the peatland areas. Planting moss directly on the peatland will reduce the cost of transportation.

Year 4 - 7

Phase 5: The last phase is the peat build up in the basins and the waterlogged areas turn into bogs. The mires will continue to develop. The process of fully restoring the waterlogged environment may take centuries.

Year 7 + n

Soil Reprofile Detail

Project Conclusion

To conclude, the restoration project seeks to repair the peatland, reintroduce humans and wildlife in more sustainable ways, offer educational programs for visitors, and build resilience to withstand future crises. The strategy centers on the concept of boundaries: identifying vulnerable areas by following wildfire perimeters and expanding water surface boundaries to combat wildfires, using hydraulic structures to capture water. This approach could potentially rewet the peatland, create firebreaks, and provide habitats for various species to thrive. Finally, the project supports the local long-term peatland management plan, introducing innovative ideas and perspectives for managing the peatland.

THE TALE TO WALK THROUGH PUDDLES

Briefly about the site

Convoys Wharf is located in the south bank of the River Thames in Deptford, with 41,91 hectares in size, and includes a small 1.3 hectares historical park named Sayes Court. From Sayes Court Park to the River Thames, the area provides opportunities for leisure and recreation along the waterfront.

The ways to get to Deptford are through the well-connected rail, bus, and riverbus networks to central London. However, there are no riverbus station in Convoys Wharf. Perhaps, by having another station in the area between two riverbus station - Greenwich Pier and Greenland Surrey Quays Pier, it can become a future attraction and create a riverside walking path.

With a rich and diverse heritage deeply rooted in maritime and industrial history, efforts to conserve historic landmarks, educate the community, and celebrate its past through cultural events and public art will help maintain a strong connection to its history while fostering continued growth and revitalization.

Convoys WharfSayes Court Park Deptford Dockyard

Museum of London Docklands Brunel Museum

Deptford Park

Deptford Station

Deptford Creek

National Maritime Museum

Greenwich Park

Cutty Sark

Convoys Wharf

Sayes Court Park

RELOCATION

URBAN PLANNING PROPOSAL

Level changed buildings

Remove buildings

The urban proposal of Convoys Wharf is to remove some of the highrise building, and move some of them to the central area, creating an main axis to the Olympia Building. Some of the buildings will increase the height, and some will reduce.

URBAN PLANNING PROPOSAL CLIMATE ANALYSIS

Wind that carries water

Urban heat wind

Evaporation

The strategy in this proposal is the wind. The wind comes mainly from the South-West direction, going through the greeneries of the park, taking up the evaporation from the wetland area, then cool down Convoys Wharf area, and possibly cool down the urban area across the river.

MASTERPLAN

Sayes Court Park

Wet top soil with plenty of organic matters, including worms, compost, and live sprout.

Lower soil with a bit of organic matters and rocks.

Bottom soil with a lot more rocks and shells from the

-> Dark colour rich can store more CO2 bon sink, less erosion, for planting.

Dry top soil with vegetation roots and rocks.

Bottom soil with rocks from the

-> Light colour soil with ic matters, lower possibility storing CO2, and a high of erosion.

Sayes Court Park

Convoys Wharf

The Riverbank

Surface with dry wood, leaves, moss and mushroom.

river, less organic matters.

river and construction site.

Geology with river deposit, sand, shells, and polished stones.

-> Constantly changing that is affected by ment of water current.

The soil analysis gave me the information of the soil pH. The analysis brought out the idea of using rainwater puddles with plants and trees surrounding the puddles to enhance organic matter. The rainwater can create a natural pH neutralisation due to being often slightly acidic. This is caused by dissolved carbon dioxide, which forms carbonic acid. When rainwater sits on alkaline soil, the slight acidity can gradually neutralize the soil’s alkalinity, especially over repeated rainfall and puddling cycles. If there is organic matter around or in the puddles, the water encourages microbial activity, which can further acidify the soil. This can restore the alkaline soil from post industrial site like Convoys Wharf.

Sayes Court Park

The Grove

Puddles garden

Maple garden

The Meadow

The Olympic Building

The Cold Breeze Sayes Court Park

The Grove

The Maple Warm

The Puddles

The Open Meadow

The Shelter

FPT SOFTWARE CAMPUS

QUY HOA, QUY NHON, BINH DINH

The campus locates at the new high-tech and educational urban area: Quy Hoa, south of Quy Nhon city. Planning as the new innovative hub for FPT solfware employees and freshers, the campus must represent its globally-recognized environment, high standard facilities, symbolic FPT identity as well as sustainbility and strength the corporate strategy of FPT: “Respect-Innovation-Exemparity - Multicutural experience”

THE LANDSCAPE INSIDE

In particular, building a smart campus in a tropical environment is one of the key elements. The flexible integration of exchanges and rapid internal movements (between blocks and buildings) is highly promoted via the internal centralized axis. Meanwhile, the existing landscape assets are preserved and took advantage of: groves, streams and standing rock, by organizing buildings to accept the most proximity to green landscape and natural resources.

DA LAT THAI PHIEN FLOWER VILLAGE

THAI PHIEN VILLAGE, DA LAT, LAM DONG

Thai Phien is the oldest agricultural area of Da Lat; has a natural area of 1229 ha, of which agricultural land is 436 ha, distributed around the residential area of the ward. Thai Phien agricultural area currently has about 260 hectares of greenhouses specializing in the production of flowers. Thai Phien’s cut flower products are favored by the market because of their variety of types, richness in colors, quality assurance, etc.

The first strategy is to create and develop an identity image of Hoa Thai Phien village Changing agricultural farming methods: Gradually changing the greenhouse farming space in urban areas, restoring natural landscapes and developing tourism economy The second strategy: Bringing forest spaces into urban areas destination with a rich natural landscape, where annual festival activities take place in combination with the culture of the traditional flower village.

INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURE

NHO VILLAGE, LANG NHOT LAKE, NHA TRANG, CAM RANH

Located in suburban of Nha Trang city, around the Lang Nhot lake, this is a rare place that retains the wild nature and has great potential for tourism.

Oriented to become the first landscape architecture teaching and experiment center in Vietnam, combining highclass accommodation for learners, by minimizing the impact on the existing natural landscape and takes Lang Nhot Lake as the center, the buildings are built with low density, facing the lake and are almost invisible from the main road.

With the natural landscape of mountains and lakes, exploiting the view direction is essential. The architectural works are placed on the hillside embracing the terrain, creating a layered view, so that in any area, visitors can admire this poetic and charming landscape.

Brewers Lane, Richmond. Church Court, Richmond.

Church Court, Richmond.

Peto Place, NW1 Ramillies Street.

Brewers Lane, Richmond.

One New Change Shopping Centre to St. Paul’s Cathedral.

Compton Place, WC1H.

Pilgrim Street, EC4V Laurence Pountney Lane.