Landscape Portfolio

Acknowledgment of the Country

I acknowledge the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders, past and present, and their communities, as the traditional custodians of the lands, waters and skies we meet on today, that of the Bidjigal People. Sovereignty has never been ceded.

I value their continuing connection to this landscape. I respect the sharing of values, language, customs and knowledge of the Australian landscape with us. Their generosity allows us all to become better landscape architects and contribute to the stewardship of this land.

Shum Hiu Lam,

Phone: 0423 402 306

Personal Statement

My interest in landscape architecture arises when the urban environment in my home country in Hong Kong was reflected as I moved in Vancouver in 2008. I had the opportunity to appreciate the power of the natural environment every day. The experience has embarked me to the journey in studying my Bachelor degree in Landscape Studies in The University of Hong Kong.

During my exchange in 2017 at the University of New South Wales, the landscape design studio looked at the Canterbury Park Racecourse. It would be very interesting to see the similarities and receive feedback in parallel to the Royal Randwick Racecourse project. Although the Canterbury Park Racecourse studio project has investigated at a bigger design scale, master planning, it would be very insightful to understand the change and process leading to the final design of the Royal Randwick Racecourse in the context of its location of the city and how the redevelopment has enhanced a new character for the neighbourhood.

Only within these 4 years, I have witnessed how Sydney has transformed into a completely vibrant and unique environment with all the new developments and landscape changes. All the wonderful designs in Australia have affirmed the importance of landscape architects. With all the ambitious government plans and goals, it would be a tremendous time to continue working closely in landscape architecture to realize all the great values for the city. I believe I can make a positive contribution and create spaces that bridge social connections, bring comfort for users, and stimulate experience and memory.

I enjoy working in a team in both school and work environment. I am a strong team player, having cross-cultural skills, I have excellent communication techniques and I would always make sure that the team has a mutual understanding of the tasks. I am also very observant, organized, and I pay a lot of attention to details.

I believe in the storytelling power of landscape designs, and I aspire to provide a quality space for people through landscape work. I see landscape architecture to integrate outdoor spatial design with aesthetic values and functional needs.

Skills Audit

Sections showing how the roads, public spaces and planting areas are distributed.

Water Sensitive Cities

New Energy in Salt Pan Creek

The site is located in the middle of Stacey Street, between Verbena Avenue and the Daphne Avenue, with an open stormwater drain located within the area. In the Salt Pan Creek Catchments Floodplain Risk Management Study and Plan Report, it has outlined that some residents would prefer to enclose the drain to avoid littering and its unpleasant view. The idea has been rejected due to the forecast of a significant 100 years flood, in which the situation would be worsen if the drain is covered.

This project harnesses the opportunity to define new strategies for flood mitigation. By reducing 6 traffic lanes in to 4, the river is allowed to occupy more space, transforming the structure of the area.

Master

Diagram showing the design strategies

The design provides connections towards the meandering the river. New cycling paths are established. Through daylighting the river, Salt Pan Creek is reverted to its natural form. 3 entry points are given to residents to enter the public space, placed 50m apart from each other. Footbridges are designed at 25m interval for visitors to closely interact with the river. To minimize cost and maximize the usage of the public space, a few seating areas are designed for visitors use, while these areas are floodable during huge rain events, mitigating flood events.

Regional map showing the site context in Salt Pan Creek

Plan showing the final design

A. Perspective showing the new cycle

B. Perspective showing the entrance of the public space

C. Perspective showing the public space on dry

C. Perspective showing the public space on wet

Using water as resources, the river provides a quality, open and accessible public space in the neighbourhood, changing the residents perceptions on the river, in the hope of bringing new energy to the community. Two planting palette distributed in various planting zones, mixed with evergreen and flower blossom at different seasons. All plants are suitable for bioretention. Materials are also chosen carefully to realize a sustainable landscape design.

Perspectives comparing the site before and after the design has been implemented

Planting Palettes

1 2 3 New Energy in Salt Pan Creek

Time Location Course Project Type

Perspectives showing night time and the day time of the garden.

December 2022

Giarre, Italy

Landscape Outreach Studio Teamwork

The Cycle of Life: From Lava Flows to Lemon Tree

The Garden of Plants

The Cycle of Life: From Lava Flows to Lemon Tree

The project is part of the international garden design competition Radicepura Garden Festival. Working in a group of five, we were challenged to design a garden in Radicepura Park to celebrate biodiversity, nature and the Mediterranean anthropic landscape. Located in Giarre, Italy, the Radicepura Park is surrounded by Mount Etna and the Ionian Sea, our design ‘The Cycle of Life’ embrace the unique characteristic of the environment and encourage the public to interact with the garden.

*Materiality diagram, concept diagram, sections, and planting research are carried out by the author; other sections prepared by team members.

Eruptions of Mount Etna generated the spectacular landscape of Sicily that Sicilians have modelled and transformed for thousands of years. Our projects wants to celebrate the cycle of life that arises from lava flows and the landscape that it is generated by the interactions of plants and human habitat. Lava giving the fertile soil and the symbolic Sicilian lemons are the embodiment of death and rebirth.

The gradual transition of pavement between gravel and bricks represents the transition of landscapes from disorder to order, and vice versa.

Detail plan of the Cycle of Life Garden and location of various themes and materials used.

Material palette showing the cost and quantity of materials.

Legend

1

Entrance

Pioneer Garden

The Cycle of Life: From Lava Flows to Lemon Tree

MATERIALITY

Recycled Basalt Paving Basalt Gravel

Cost: €23/m2

Area: 8.8m2

Cost: €0,3/m2

Area: 22.8m2

Cactus Garden

Cultivation Garden

Perspective locations

2 3 P 2

Basalt Rock Wooden Vine Trellis

Cost: €26/m2

Area: 7m2

Cost: €23,5/1

Quantity: 12

Steel Frame Glass tubes

Cost: €500/1

Quantity: 1

Solar LED Paving light

Cost: €38/1

Quantity: 17

Cost: €0,65/1

Quantity: 120

Solar LED String light

Cost: €52/1

Quantity: 1

Solar LED Uplight

Cost: €10/1

Quantity: 23

2175 Euro

Total Cost

The interaction of lava and humans as transformed by plants is represented by the Möbius strip in the garden. Eruption and cultivation form an endless cycle of life regeneration that passes through the relentlessness action of pioneering plants.

Collage showing the concept of the Cycle of Life garden.

Zoning diagram of the garden.

Section showing the various planting used in various zones of the garden, also in relation to visitors’ height.

Lemon Products

Zoning diagram

Seed Bank

Möbius band

Pioneer Species

The Cycle of Life: From Lava Flows to Lemon Tree

Half of the garden displays pioneering plants growing vigorously and wildly from the gravel, as to represent the ecological progressions of plants after eruption. On the other side, various plants are cultivated in a geometrical pattern as in man-made terraced orchards.

In the middle of the garden hanging glass tubes slowly release seeds of native Sicilians’ plants, such as lemon, olive spreading them around. They will germinate during the existence of the garden. This process simulate the interaction of humans and nature in the cultural landscape of Sicily.

Zoom in details are also presented to show the construction details of the garden.

To manifest our idea and celebrate biodiversity, plantings are chosen to reveal the character of each planting design zone. Each plants are selected from the plants catalogue with consideration of their climatic zone and their appearance in terms of color and texture, creating a poetic garden.

Section A-A’ Section B-B’

Sections

PIONEER PLANTS

WOODEN VINE TRELLIS

SEED BANK

+ + TERRACED GARDEN CACTUS GARDEN

May 2023

Rockdale Wetland Corridor, Sydney

Masters Capstone 1

Photo collage showing the carbon sequestration process.

Photo collage showing the context of the Rockdale Wetland Corridor.

Low Carbon Landscape: Instituting Environmental Restorative Carbon Sequestration at Sans Souci

The Rockdale Wetland Corridor is an 8km area that spans twelve suburbs in the Bayside Council LGA. The northern part of the corridor is mostly man-made, while the southern part contains some natural areas mixed with recreated wetlands and open spaces.

Rockdale Wetland Corridor currently offers few benefits and has little to no relationship to the community. This research study explains design principles to maximise carbon sequestration at the Rockdale Wetland Corridor through blue carbon ecosystem to ease the negative results of climate change by lowering carbon emission.

Rockdale Wetland Corridor

Sans Souci is chosen to be the site location due to its complex and rich biology and environment. Located towards the southern end of the site in Rockdale Wetland Corridor, the site is surrounded with water, blessed with a narrow beach area. It is also a popular family location during the weekend.

Scott Park: Recently renovated and upgraded area. Water channel is naturalized, however, not welcoming interaction with the visitors. Poor structural vegetation diversity. Vegetations is scattered.

Riverside Drive Playground: Standardized playground repeated throughout the corridor. It is not exciting, no educational value and does not encourage children to interact with nature.

Sandringham Bay: The entire corridor feels very enclosed and confined. As we approached the end of the corridor, the waterfront provides a lot of openness and contrast in comparison to the dull wetland corridor.

Situated at one of the best vantage points, St. George Sailing Club draws a lot of visitors to the site during the weekend. The Sailing Club structure increased habitat complexity and diversity in presenting submerged hard surfaces for animal and plant fouling organism to attach to and create colonies.

The presence of endangered vegetation communities (1) Seagrass, (2) Salt Marsh, in the area should be restored and expanded, meanwhile this provides a great opportunity for landscape designers to improve the community understanding for low carbon.

The site is prone to sea level rise, Every 200mm rise in sea level will result in landward movement of 3-5m of the tidal planes.

Diagram showing the programs in the site.

Axonometric diagram showing the context of Sans Souci.

The implementation of carbon sequestration from the nurturing and restoration of blue carbon ecosystems represent the scientific and governmental consensus across different levels of policy-making.

On a global level, the United Nations initiatives provide the principles on the highest level, applicable across disciplines. On the national level, improvement of resilience amidst the changing climate has become a policy highlight, with carbon sequestration within the toolbox for decarbonisation. On the state level, strategic planning plans and directives support the development of good quality green spaces to achieve sustainable and healthy environments, coinciding with objectives for restoring carbon ecosystems.

To maximise carbon sequestration, good design restore vital habitat and ecosystem functions, facilitate the landscape in becoming a carbon neutral environment. Prioritising low carbon landscape construction, good design uses native and adapted species, durable and long life-cycle materials to enable a self-regenerative and low carbon footprint landscape. To increase public literacy in low carbon landscape, good design promotes opportunities to understand, share and act in low carbon landscape practice.

Diagram showing the implementation of carbon sequestration from the nurturing and restoration of blue carbon ecosystems represent the scientific and governmental consensus across different levels of policy-making.

Diagram showing the design strategies for each design principle.

1. Maximise Carbon

2. Prioritise Low Carbon

3. Increase Public

Carbon Landscape Construction

Literacy in Low Carbon Landscapes

Perspectives showing the scenarios for the three different design principles.

Time Location

Perspectives showing the slow transition of the four lanes from an urban forest to cultural shrubs, then shopping area and finally a leisure area.

May 2022

Tweed Heads, NSW

Realm

Tweed Grove: The New Community Room for

Tweed Heads Public Realm

Tweed Grove: The New Community Room for All

The Tweed Mall, one of the largest shopping centre at the NSW-QLD border was sold in 2016 for redevelopment . With the evolving needs of the community, this studio explores scenarios for the transformation renovation. The main goal is to integrate open spaces and public domains between the buildings. With the rebranded name Tweed Grove, the design aims to create a new image and promote the mall as a tourist destination of the area.

*Site analysis photo diagrams, concept plan and renderings are drawn by author; other sections prepared by team members.

Jack Evans Boat Harbour

Ebenezer Park

Tweed River

Greenmount Beach

St. Joseph’s Parish

Jack Chard Park

Tweed Heads Public School

St.Joseph’s Primary School

The Tweed Hospital

Tweed Heads Library

St.Cuthberts Anglican Church

Tweed Grove

Tweed Grove

Tweed Grove sits on the site of the former Tweed Mall Shopping Centre. It has been a casual mall for the nearby residences for shopping. The mall however did not have a very good urban connections. Coupled with the absent of an urban plaza in the area, the Tweed Grove Mall is positioned to introduce a new urban typology.

The Tweed Grove Mall is ambition to provide a new experience for the neighbourhood with landscape, food, art and culture. Tweed Grove aims to realign and converge the city, becoming a landmark of the neighbourhood.

Tweed Grove: The New Community Room for All

Aerial photo showing site context and main programs in the neighbourhood

Photo showing existing challenges within the site. The current mall has a poor shop frontage hence street pedestrians are not attracted to walk into the mall.

To activate the mall and allow Tweed Grove to be a gathering hub of the neighbourhood, multiple programs are included in the open space design. Located in the centre of the mall, a flexible open designed in the hope to hold various multi-cultural events to attract the neighbour to visit the mall.

Bringing in nature from the Jack Evans Boat Harbour, our design shows a gradual transition from to an urban plaza. Extending from the central plaza area, the mall is connected to the Wharf Street lanes within the commercial buildings, each provide visitors a different experience as they enter

Careful material selection enhances the naturalistic design of the project. Most of the materials are and stone, in order to make the whole plaza look harmonious and natural.

Diagram showing future use and potential visitors.

Plan showing the design and program of the open space within the mall.

BAY STREET

Jack Evans Boat Harbour

multiple open space is mall. from a forest Street with 3 the mall.

are wood

Jack Evans Boat Harbour Park

Bicycle Lane

Bay Street Sunken Plaza

Bioswale

Bay Street Dining Area

Bike Parking

Urban Forest

Shrub Area

Wood Seating with Tree Planters

Outdoor Dining Area

Playground

Flexible Open Space

Step Seating & Sloped Lawn

Picnic Table and Benches Covered Dinning Tents

Tweed Grove: The New Community Room for All Supermarket

7.5m

1/750@A3

The Tweed Grove mall open space have also implemented design details to address policy frameworks. Working closely with the Greener Place and Better Placed frameworks, the multifunctionality and ecological values are maximised in the design.

Native plantation has been used for the urban forest to promote biodiversity. A variety of trees and shrubs have been planted in layers to amplify the ecosystem services.

Appropriate built form with the open space help defines the public domain, contributes to the character of Tweed Head. The accessible space acts to enhance the community’s lifestyle, promoting safety, healthy, comfort and well-being for all.

Perspective showing native plantations in the design.

Diagram showing various programs within the Tweed Grove mall and the connections to the local streets.

Perspective showing the playarea in the mall.

Tweed Grove: The New Community Room for All

Blow up plan showing the new promenade and streetscape Canterbury in Sydney

Master Plan for Canterbury North Recapture Cooks’ River: Canterbury’s new destination

Canterbury is a suburb located southwest of the Sydney central business district. In 2016, Sydney Metro has decided to open a station in the area, leading to increasing development and population growth. It is expected that current social services such as schools, childcare and public spaces will be insufficient for the future residents, hence, the project aims to provide the town a new master plan that provides a comprehensive vision.

Through understanding of both the natural and urban conditions of the town, a master plan and a detail design of a public space is developed to reconnect Canterbury’s residents to the Cooks River.

Canterbury is gifted with the Cooks River where people used to have a strong relationship with it before the construction of the racecourse. The redevelopment of the area therefore gives an opportunity to provide not only a large gathering open space but also the past connections between the residence and the river.

Three key principles are therefore incorporated in the new master plan: 1. Improve the river front accessibility and connectivity; 2. Enhance quality and the quantity of green space; 3. Activate the riverfront

The area along the river is designed as a trail, preserving some of the vegetations and transition from a naturalistic forest to a man-made promenade.

Regional map showing Canterbury in Sydney

Diagram showing the existing landuse within Canterbury North

Diagram showing the landuse of the new Canterbury master plan

Block size plan

Street priority plan

Diagram showing the progression of building heights

Diagram showing the new land use

SUBURB MAP

WALKWAY

1. IRONPARK FOREST

3.

2. MANGROVES

4. PROMENADE

Recapture Cooks’ River: Canterbury’s new destination

Focusing on the design of the promenade, I observed that art and cultural centres are far away from Canterbury and absent at the surrounding neighbourhood.

Four principles are developed for the design. They are 1. Provide multifunctional use public space; 2. Nature conservation, protection and enhancement; 3. Integrate urban management system; 4. Provide pedestrian safety

Detail plan of the promenade next to the Cook’s River

Section showing the transition from the street to the promenade

Recapture Cooks’ River: Canterbury’s new destination

Recapture Cooks’ River: Canterbury’s new destination

Design Process Drawings

Build Form Response: Shadow Analysis

APRIL 26TH

Below are shadow analysis diagram use to understand building design in relation to the open space. In the design, the dining spaces are located at places that receive maximum shade from built form. Plants are also planted where they are able to receive a good amount of sunlight in a day. Heat during the noon time in the large open central area is controlled by introducing a forest and canopy trees.

03:00 pm

Isometric View Of Built Form Scenario

9:00am March 21th

03:00 pm

Isometric View Of Built Form Scenario

9:00am July 21th

Shum Hiu Lam, Haylie

Phone: 0423 402 306

Email: haylieshum@gmail.com

As a passionate designer of the urban environment, I hope to provide a quality space for all to get away from the hustle city of life. I had the opportunities to be engaged in public and private projects at all scale. Outside of office, I always enjoy brewing a good cup of coffee!

Education and Qualification

2021 - Ongoing

2014 - 2018

2010 - 2014

2008 - 2010

Scholarship

2017 Jul-Nov

Master of Landscape Architecture, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

Bachelor of Arts in Landscape Studies, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

International Baccalaureate Diploma Program, Island School, Hong Kong.

Prince of Wales Secondary, Vancouver, Canada.

C.V. Starr Scholarship

HKU Worldwide Exchange Award.

Work Experience

2023 - Ongoing

Design Assistant, Student Internship, Urbis Pty Ltd., Sydney.

• Research and develop design strategies for landscape projects.

2021 - 2023

Student Internship, Research Assistant (Part-Time), Division of Landscape Architecture, The University of Hong Kong.

• Constructing a database on Hong Kong’s fascinating diversity of trees and plants.

• Social Media Co-curator @hkudladigitalarboretum.

2019 - 2021

Assistant Landscape Designer, Adrian L. Norman Limited, Hong Kong.

• Assist in the development of project design, production of presentation and tender drawings. Worked closely with Project Managers in Qianhai (Shenzhen), Huawei QingOu in Shanghai.

• Coordinated with clients, suppliers and consultants, and attended regular design meetings.

• Lead role of project management for Shouson Hill Luxury Residential project in Hong Kong.

2018 - 2019

Teaching Assistant, Division of Landscape Architecture, The University of Hong Kong.

• Coordinate teaching activities, prepare teaching materials, and assist in tutorials.

• Coordinated APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscape International Conference 2018.

• Future Directions: HK Public Housing Development Public Engagement Exhibition.

• Social Media Co-curator, Annual Yearbook Editor @hkulandscape.

2016

Tree Survey Assistant - Summer Internship, Wah On Garden Landscaping Limited, Hong Kong.

• Prepare tree inspection reports.

Professional Memberships and Engagement

AILA Student Membership

Class of 2023 Student Representative, MLA, The University of New South Wales. Actively provide student feedback and discuss proposed changes to the strategic direction of teaching.

Water urbanism - Summer Workshop, HKU, in collaboration with Chang’An City Council. Landscape infrastructure planning for Chang’An Township, China.