Design Portfolio Jamie, Heung Yan Tam Landscape Designer
JAMIE, HEUNG YAN TAM LANDSCAPE DESIGNER SKILLS
EDUCATION 2018-2020 (On-going) Master of Landscape Architecture The University of Edinburgh, Scotland Modules: MLA Landscape Portfolio 1, Landscape Construction 1: Detailed Design, Landscape Science: Plants, History of Landscape Architecture
Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign AutoCAD SketchUp MS Office
2015-2017 Bachelors of Arts(Honours) in Landscape Architecture University of Gloucestershire, England Honours: Second Class Honours (1st Division)
Windows Movie Maker iMovie Hand Drawing Model Making
Modules: Professional Practice, Cultural Context, Sustainable Technology, Design Projects, Dissertation: Major Research Project
Horticulture
ABOUT ME Name:
Jamie, Heung Yan Tam
Birthday:
16.11.1995
Nationality: Hong Kong Language: English Mandarin Cantonese
AWARDS 2013-2015 2016 Higher Diploma in Landscape Architecture The Bodfan Gruffydd award Hong Kong Design Institute, Hong Kong Award GPA: 2.91
The best level two design portfolio of 2016
Modules: History & Theory, Design Studio, English & Communication, Landscape Visualization, Principle of Landscape, Expanded Design, Graduation Project
2012 ‘Art without Boundary’ Joint School Visual Arts Exhibition 2012 Best Art Work
WORK EXPERIENCE
CONTACT Summer Intern 2014 - Easy Organic Farming, Hong Kong WhatsApp: (+852) 96661995
I have worked in a gardening resources company called Easy Organic Farming during the summer of 2014. I have learned a lot about sustainable farming, gardening, as well as marketing from that company. This experience has inspired me and deepen my interest in landscape architecture.
heungyantam@gmail.com
2017-2018 Gap Year
56 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh,
Before I started my master’s degree, I took a gap year working as a part time in several industries. I spent this period to explore and develop my interest in other fields. I have worked in a hotel’s bakery, a wedding planning firm and a production house. These working experiences are precious, they offered me the opportunity to gain new insight about landscape design from another perspective.
(+44) 07383676503
Scotland, EH39DH Sun Tuen Mun Centre, N.T., Hong Kong
Visual Art Intern 2019 - Saatchi & Saatchi Great Wall Advertising Co., Ltd(盛世長城國際廣告有限公司), Guangzhou China 粵港澳大灣區青年總會: 名城廣州青年機遇實習計劃 This is a new attempt to work in the advertising industry, it brought a wider perspective to my further career. Saatchi & Saatchi is one of the biggest global communications and advertising agency in China, therefore, it’s my honour to work on advertising graphic design for several famous brands, including Dove, Pampers, Doublemint and Skittles.
PERSONAL STATEMENT
I am studying the Master Degree in Landscape Architecture in the University of Edinburgh stems from my deep passion for Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning, Arts and the Built Environment. In the past five years, I have acquired basic knowledge from the courses in Landscape Architecture, in which City and ¬Town Planning, Sustainable Development as well as Policy of Local Planning were some of the subjects that inspired me the most. Urban Design and Planning is always my favorite part of the courses as I like studying the complex interplay of different factors in urban development and space, and how we can improve the city environment. After completing my Higher Diploma course at Hong Kong Design Institute, I continued to study Landscape Architecture at the University of Gloucestershire for the Bachelor Degree from 2015 to 2017. Meanwhile, it was my honour to receive The Bodfan Gruffydd Award: The Best Level Two Design Portfolio of 2016 which was presented to the most outstanding student of the year. The award was a big encouragement to me as it was a recognition of my academic results, performance of projects as well as my positive learning attitude. It was an amazing experience for me to study overseas in terms of both academic and cultural exchange, and it helped me to develop a more open-minded approach to my studies. I believe that the skills and knowledge I have acquired so far are very helpful for me to further my study and work in Landscape Architecture such as skills of communication, researching, design and planning, time management as well as technical use of software. Apart from this, having years of drawing trainings since I was young made me confident in presenting my design work through hand-drawings which can show my concepts and ideas precisely and in a more personal way. It was also a way to show my enthusiasm to the projects.
In 2014, I joined an internship in a farming company in Hong Kong that aims to encourage people to farm at home with different farming methods. My duties included planting, promoting farming products and redesigning the rooftop farm in an industrial building. Since then I love planting as I can learn more about the real situation of planting and gardening, and understand more about vegetable growing, organic farming and the value of encouraging people living in the city to farm. Before I started my master’s degree, I took a gap year working as a part time in several industries. I spent this period to explore and develop my interest in other fields. I have worked in a hotel’s bakery, a wedding planning firm and a production house. In 2019 summer, I worked as a Visual Art Intern in Saatchi & Saatchi in Guangzhou China which is one of the biggest global communications and advertising agency in China. Therefore, it’s my honour to work on advertising graphic design for several famous brands, including Dove, Pampers, Doublemint and Skittles. These working experiences are precious, they offered me the opportunity to gain new insight about landscape design from another perspective. In five years time, I would like to have some real practice in the industry. I also wish to work in different countries to broaden my horizons. In the future, I will keep learning and try to use my knowledge to help improve the urban environment and strike a balance between urban development and natural ecology.
CONTENTS MASTER OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Promenade & Residential Development:
Marine Garden, Edinburgh 2019 Groupmate: Timea Bergant, Sophie Einsiedel, Wong Sheung Gi,Zhe Wang & Eppie Wright
Urban Realm Design in the Old Town Closes:
Chalmer’s Residential Community, Edinburgh 2018
BA IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Garden Design:
The Butterfly and Dragonfly’s Garden 2015 Urban Landscape Design - Major Research Project:
Avon Island Park, Bath 2017
Site Analysis of Portobello Land Use Craigentinny Golf Course Holyrood Park
Traffic Circulation Site Area Bus Stop
M eadows Yard Local Nature Reserve
Green Area
Figgate Park Rosefield Park Brighton Park
Movement Routes Entrance of the Site
Greenspace Site Area Green Areas on Site
Facilities
Green Area Directly next to Site
Site Area Primary Road
Facilities
Main Road (A Road)
Supermarket
Secondary Road (B Road)
ATM
Minor Road
Pub/Bar
Residential
Cafe
Craigtinny Bus Depot
Restaurant
Industrial Strip of Car Manufacturers
Takeaway Restaurant Doctors
The Edinburgh Dog and Cat Home Meadows Yard Local Nature Rserve
Waste Recycling Centre
Craigtinny Golf Course
Road A199
Site Area
City School of Motor Cycling
North British Railway
Higher flood potential from rivers
Retail
Portobello Promednade
Flooding
Higher flood potential from the sea
Church School Post Office
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Character Assessment
Street Type 1 Street Types (streets with the view toward the sea) (Morton Street) Facade feature: residences with front yard facing streets Road width: 12m, avilible for 4 cars pass, 2 pedestrain paths. Experience: suitble scale for walking, front yard adds interests to waking experience.
Sunlight & Shadow Diagram
Street Type 2 (Bath Street) Facade feature: 4-5 storys high. Road width: 10m, avilible for 3 cars pass, 2 pedestrain paths. Experience: detailed facade make the street intimate.
toward the sea)
1 StreetStreet TypeType 1, Morton Street
Street Type 1 (Morton Street) Facade feature: residences with front yard facing streets Road width: 12m, avilible for 4 cars pass, 2 pedestrain paths. Experience: suitble scale for walking, front yard adds interests to waking experience.
Street Type 2 (Bath Street) Facade feature: 4-5 storys high. Road width: 10m, avilible for 3 cars pass, 2 pedestrain paths. Experience: detailed facade make the street intimate.
Street Type 2, Bath Street
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Site Area Street Type 2
Street Type 1 (Morton Street)
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Street Type 3
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Street Type 4 (Beach Lane) Facade feature: 2 storys residences with front yard facing streets. Road width: 8m, avilible for 4 cars pass, 2 pedestrain paths. Experience: vision is quite open because of low density buildings and school playground.
Road width: 5m, avilible for 2 cars pass or 1 pedestrain paths and 1 car. Experience: vision is limited, walking experience is relatively boring.
Street Type 5 (John Street Lane West) Facade feature: bare building walls and front yard walls or fences facing streets. Road width: 5m, avilible for 2 cars pass or 1 pedestrain paths and 1 car. Experience: vision is limited, walking experience is relatively boring.
History of Portobello The site has become isolated from the town of Portobello as it sits between rail tracks, roads and coastline. A sluice and then the Meadow Yardi idling tracks have separated the site from Craigentinny, a landscape of wet meadows that has grown into a residential area of Edinburgh. The natural beauty of Holyrood Park extensa as far up as the Figgate Burn Park, where a former clay pit now forms a serene pond. From then on, the river - like the site - is channeled through concrete and industry out to sea. The portobello promenade and high street and promenade that cradle the old town deflate into a thorough-fare and a concrete sea wall, leaving the site even more cut off. Urban growth around Portobello and neighboring villages has been shaped fundamentally by the extensive railroad network that developed in the area during the 19th century. It accommodated the export of large volumes of clay “Portobello Bricks“ and ceramics manufactured in Portobello until the early 20th century. Figgate Burn Park still features a former clay pit as an extensive pond. A waterfront promenade and Portobello High Street frame the towns historic part, both continuing north towards Leith.
Before the 18th century the area known as Figgate Muir was covered by the moorland used as a grazing by monks coming from Holyrood Abbey. George Hamilton decided to build the first cottage in 1742. Twenty years later BAron William Mure purchased the land around Portobello to start the clay excavation, this created a new major market in Edinburgh with 3 million bricks produced annually. The population grew steadily around the industries and in the residential middle-class areas towards Joppa in 1833 Portobello became an independent burgh with its own elected council. Portobello reigned as Scotland‘s premier seaside resort from the late 19th century and the era of cheap public transport. Trams brough folk from Edinburgh and trains brought holidaymakers in thousands especially from Glasgow during the Fair to enjoy the beach, the fun fair and the entertainments. Portobello Pier was unique in Scotland for as well as being a pleasure pier with a concert pavilion.
Increasing connectivity between land and sea, blurring the built and natural environment together in one harmonious landscape.
Regeneration of Portobello’s past glories as a bathing centre in the form of fresh and saltwater pools along the promenade.
Recreational section of the promenade with extended viewing platforms and playground facilities.
Strategy and Design Concept
Green and Blue
Th e site is spatially framed by a continuation of Portobello High Street and the Protobello Promenade. It is therefore pre-destined to follow the example of the Old Town of Portobello by becoming a vibrant and prosperous community and neighbourhood, tightly attuned to the unique beauty of its physical landscape. e siteConcept is located at a key interface between Strategy and Th Design the dense residential area of Craigentinny and the beautiful sandy beaches of Portobello. It therefore has the unique potential to bridge barriers of the past and enable connection and access to the sea for thousands of homes. Using the existing e site is spatially framedconnect by a continuation Portobello Street and the Park and railtrack as a linear park and wildlife corridor, this design schemeThaims to further the ofsite withHigh Figgate Burn Protobello Promenade. It is therefore pre-destined to follow the example of the Craigentinny Golf Course. the Old Town of Portobello by becoming a vibrant and prosperous community and neighbourhood, tightly attuned to the unique beauty of its physical Access to green and blue spaces lies at the heart of the design concept. arebetween focused onresidential pedestrians and landscape. The siteAccess is located at routes a key interface the dense cyclists in order to encourage active engagement with the beautiful landscape surrounding the site. At the centre of the area of Craigentinny and the beautiful sandy beaches of Portobello. It therefore has the unique potential to bridge barriers of the past and enable connection development lies a hybrid mix of fl ats, shops and public spaces along the new High Street aimed at nurturing a diverse and and access to theand sea for thousands of homes. Using the existing railtrack sustainable community. Th e housing units break down into smaller blocks single family homes towards the edges of the as a linear park and wildlife corridor, this design scheme aims to further site, creating a smooth transition into the neighbouring residentialconnect areas. the site with Figgate Burn Park and the Craigentinny Golf Course.
Accessibility Pedestrian
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Access to green and blue spaces lies at the heart of the design concept. Access routes are focused on pedestrians and cyclists in order to encourage active engagement with the beautiful landscape surrounding the site. At the centre of theArrival development lies a hybrid mix of flats, shops and public spaces along the new High Street aimed at nurturing a diverse and sustainable community. The housing units break down into smaller blocks and single family homes towards the edges of the site, creating a smooth transition into the neighbouring residential areas.
Green & blue connections
Cars Pedestrian and cycles Private paths
Circulation
Private space Shared spaces Public space
Single family homes Blocks of flats Flats (can be converted into commercial spaces) Public buildings and flexible spaces
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Public and private spaces
Urban Sustainable Drainage System & Flood Prevention Rainwater Drainage System Layers
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Chosen Study area - Existing Conditions Old Town is the heart of Edinburgh in Scotland. The city has long been a centre of education, particularly in the fields of medicine, Scots law, literature, the sciences and engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Therefore, there is a certain proportion of land use for the university and student accommodation. It is also the second largest financial centre in the United Kingdom (after London) and the city's historical and cultural attractions have made it the United Kingdom's second most popular tourist destination, attracting over one million overseas visitors each year. Therefore, there are a large proportion of land use taking by the tourism which included tourist attractions, hotels, shops and restaurants. The land uses of the surroundings are mainly retails and restaurants, there are also use of hotels, churches as well as two tourist attraction, Scottish Storytelling Centre and Museum of Childhood. The surroundings have two Churches, which are Old St Paul’s Scottish Episcopal Church (constructed 19th century) and Trinity Apse (reconstructed in the 1872).
Access & Circulation
Context – Identity (Tourist)
Chosen Study Area Existing Pedestrian Path
Chosen Study Area
Waverley Station
Existing Pedestrian Path
Bus Stop
Hotel
Pedestrian Route from Waverley Station
Mix Use of Restaurants & Retails
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Tourist Attractions
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Existing Site – Plan The chosen site located on Jeffrey Street, which is near North Bridge and Waverley Station. This is an area for the tourists and visitors arriving the Old Town in Edinburgh. The existing site includes hotel building, Jury’s Inn, and an underused greenspace (which is enclosed by the walls) where has five closes linking to Royal Mile.
Context – Identity (Greenspace)
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There are several reasons that the existing site has high potential to redevelop as an open space. P.1. Location is easy to access, which has the closes connecting to the Royal Mile and not far from the tourist attractions. P.2. Calton Hill provides a good view from the site, it would attract people to come and enjoy the view P.3. The site is closed to the North Bridge and Waverley Station, it could be a first impression of the Old Town. P.4 There is an underused greenspace in the site, it provides trees, vegetations as well as ecology for the following design.
Constraints of the Chosen Study area After the site analysis and concerns, there are several constraints of designing the chosen site. C.1. Level changing, the land of the site is a slop, not a flat surface, Therefore, during the following design process, it needs to manage the level difference and improve the disable access. C.2. The site is surrounding by buildings so a half of the site is shaded so the choice of the vegetation should be careful.
Existing Site – Section
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History – Fresh Food Market
Market in Edinburgh
Before the railway came into the drained valley of the Nor’ Loch part of the ground below the North Bridge was used for the city’s markets. The market was on the market street, which was closed to the chosen study area.
There are several markets in Edinburgh, which are opening in the weekend. The design of The Food & Flea Market inspired me to have hardwood to be my market store material, which looks good and the color can fit in the old town.
Leith Market Dock Place
Stockbridge Market
Reducing the use of tourists
The Food & Flea Market Having a bigger land for the following design
Having a better view from North Bridge
It doesn’t have a habit or community, which is just for people staying a short time
Edinburgh Farmers Market
Potterrow Dome Market
Grassmarket Market Eddie's Seafood Market
Providing residential housing for people living in Edinburgh
Jury’s Inn The proposed plan is to demolish the Jury’s Inn building to have a bigger land to design an open space with the closes linking to the Royal Mile. Refer to our group strategy work, the topic is Rebalance, which aims to have more uses for residents of Edinburgh and reduce the use for tourists. Therefore, after demolished the hotel building, the design aims to provide several residential houses for people living in Edinburgh and solving the housing issue in Edinburgh. One more reason is that the Jury’s Inn is quite tall and wide, seven stories, which blocks the view to Arthur’s Seat from the North Bridge. The proposed design aims to provide a better view from the North Bridge to the proposed design and Arthur’s Seat, as a reception and giving a good first impression of the Old Town. It would also focus on the level changing and improving the access specially the disable access connecting the Jeffery Street, Royal Mile and the proposed open space.
Context – Identity (The Arches)
The Arches,E Market Street There are exciting things going on in Edinburgh, such as the newly renovated Waverley Arches below Jeffrey Street that are a part of the huge £150 million New Waverley development that aims to create a bustling new quarter in Edinburgh’s Old Town.
Design Process
Precedents Study: Market Design
Precedents Study: Terraced Landscape - Ramp & Stairs
Rotterdam Market Hall, Netherlands Rotterdam Market Hall is a sustainable combination of food, leisure, living and parking, fully integrated to celebrate and enhance the synergetic possibilities of the different functions. This is a good example to combine the market and residential apartments.
Baltic Station Market, Estonia Baltic Station Market is a unique market in Estonia, which includes nearly 300 traders on three floors. On the underground floor, there is a supermarket, a sports club, and various services. On the ground floor, there is a large hall for fish and meat, a street for vegetables, and a versatile street food area with nearly 20 dining options.
Precedents Study: Contemporary architecture in the Old Town -National Museums Scotland -Scottish Storytelling Centre
Precedents Study: Terraced Landscape - Seating Area
Urban Realm Design in the Old Town Closes:
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How can we create an inclusive public space as a transition point between New Nown and Old Town? Design Objective: Obj 1. Designing spaces for social interaction Obj 2. Emulating Old Town Character Obj 3. Emulating New Town Character Obj 4. Accessible and Safe
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Market Stalls
Design Principle:
Hot Food Market With Tables and Seating Area
Obj 1. Creating space for market, performance, seating area Obj 2. Narrow footpaths, proportion of spaces and using for materials Obj 3. Wider footpaths, giving clear direction to the pedestrians and simple shapes of the buildings Obj 4. Providing a completed ramp network between Jeffery Street and High Street for disable access and reopens the closes for everyone to walk through
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Terraced Landscape Proposed Design – Perspective Drawings
Design Analysis Demolishing Jury’s Inn & Providing residential Houses
Increasing the use of residents Reducing the use of tourists
1.Pedestrian path & direction 2.Materials & texture (Existing site)
Group Strategy: Rebalance
New Town’s character Old Town’s character
Proposed Design
Design Principle
Precedent Studies
Function
Market Design Market
Access: Ramp & Steps
Contemporary architecture in the Old Town
Searing areas
Improving the accessibility
The Use of Existing Materials for the Proposed Design There is an enclosed wall surrounding the private green space.
Proposed Design – Section
Using the materials to construct the proposed planters
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Garden Design:
The Butterfly and Dragonfly’s Garden 2015 Chaumont-sur-Loire International Garden Festival Spanning a wide array of fields and central to the major challenges we face for our future, the garden today is an extraordinary place of deliberation, innovation and experimentation.Ecological research, scientific and technical investigations of all types observe, fertilise and reinvent this ever changing world. Permaculture, transgenesis, biocontrol, aquaponics, hydroponics, green chemistry, phytoremediation, vertical farms, synergistic vegetable plots … this is just some of the action packing this amazing adventure of the living world, where experimentation, prospecting and discovery combine tradition, ecology and technological progress – without losing sight of the humanistic dimension or of poetic imagination for all that. Whether they go hand in hand with the adventure of “incredible edibles”, “intelligent seeds”, spectacular multi-grafted fruit trees, or with the chlorophyllous fluorescence of plants, modern-day gardens have a thousand-and-one reasons to enchant and astonish us. The gardens of this 25th edition of the Festival should therefore surprise us as they set out to tell this extraordinary plant odyssey of the 21st century with all the creative imagination and fantasy that have always reigned at Chaumont-sur-Loire. The 25th International Garden Festival will thus be showcasing gardens that address the great questions of our time, such as climate change, rising sea levels, “floating gardens” and the link between habitat and gardens. Once again the gardens at Chaumont-sur-Loire will captivate you with the inventions and proposals of a new generation of landscapers.
Insect Sculpture These are large sculptures to take the form of insects, which allow visitors to view and admire the structure of insects. Meanwhile, they are seating area for the visitor to relax.
Seating area
Dragonfly Footbridge This is a footbridge formed as a dragonfly, which mixed the ideas of insects viewing and the large insect sculptures. The whole image would be like a huge dragonfly landing on the garden.
Main Elements -Pond for Dragonflies to Live and Rest -Dragonfly-shaped Footbridge
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-Food-plants for Butterflies Pattern The pattern of butterfly’s wing forms the pond, footpaths and planting areas.
1st Draft Plan
Footbridge The footbridge is connecting the entrance and the centre of the garden. Before the visitors arrive the central area, the atmosphere would be mysterious and giving a room for visitor to imagine that what is going to happen.
2nd Draft Plan
-Educational Information of the Insects
3nd Draft Plan Concept Insects make up the majority population of the animal kingdom. These incredible creatures provide food for the ecosystem as they are the bottom of the food chain. However, people seldom appreciate their beauty. If people take time to learn more about insects, they would find them incredibly intriguing. Therefore, my design is a contemporary garden for butterflies and dragonflies, and visitors can relax and have fun with these insects. While they visit the garden, they can learn a lot more about butterflies and dragonflies through an interesting way. Moreover, it provides a nice platform for insect watching, especially dragonflies. On top of that, this garden keeps an ecosystem between the insects and plants, which could maintain a balance in ecology.
Butterfly &
Dragonfly Garden The Dragonfly-shaped Footbridge This footbridge is the main character in the garden, it is created a shape of five different species of dragonfly. Then, the visitor can know them through an interesting channel, it could attract people to find out more detail about dragonfly. On the footbridge, there are pattern of Small Pincertail, Ruddy Darter and Large Red Damselfly’s wing as paving; it is pattern of Banded Agrion’s wing as a glass sculpture; and the structure of Common Blue Damselfly’s antenna, head, compound eyes, thorax and legs as the central part of this bridge, also its abdomen was developed with a slide at the end of the footbridge.
The Details of Butterflies In the butterfly food-plant area, there are 42 species of butterfly model near the food-plants, which had written their name on their wings. Then, when the visitor see the real butterflies, they could know their name through those models.
Providing Detail through An Interesting Channel Many people do not want to read the information boards during visiting a garden. It is very boring way to give information to the visitor, so The Butterfly and Dragonfly’s Garden provided some different and interesting channel that the visitor know more about the insects. In the setting area near the pond, there are noted the explanations of dragonflies on the timber. During appreciating dragonflies, the visitor could find their details on the seat.
The Ladders & Slide The visitor can walk on the footbridge through the slope or climb up through the ladders. Meanwhile, the shape of Common Blue Damselfly’s abdomen was developed with a slide at the end of the footbridge, which is not just for children, it is for everyone to play. These elements provide more interaction between visitors and the design.
Major Research Project:
Urban Landscape Design
Avon Island Park
Location Weston Island Weston Island is an island between the River Avon and Weston Cut (a Canal), which is located in the west of Bath. The current use of this island is as one of FirstUK’s bus depots and a car parking space, also the west of the site is Weston Lock on the canal, which attracts people to visit. Moreover, there is Bristol and Bath Railway Path right next to the proposed site, the path is an attractive leisure path and an important wildlife corridor.
As you see on the map, the proposed site is a distance of 1.8 miles from the city centre, which is a 30 minutes’ walk for the pedestrian. The main surroundings of Weston Island are residential land. Newbridge’s amenities include Oldfield Park Train Station, bus stops, churches, schools, post offices, a playground, a local clinic, and a number of shops. In addition, the surroundings are lots of private green spaces such as backyards and garden, but there is not enough public leisure open land for those residents.
Weston Lock is situated in the north-west of the proposed site, which is between Bath Lock and Kelston Lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal. Weston Cut is a man-made channel for the boats to pass through Weston Lock, which was constructed between 1724 and 1727.
City Centre Location in relation to local area
Fig 1.0d Weston Lock
Newbridge Ward
Weston Lock
Twerton Ward
Twerton Sluice Gates
Overhead view of the site and surrounding neighbourhood
Final Design
Visualisations
Bird Viewing Zone
Outdoor Cafe
Shallow Water Fountain Square
Reception of YHA
Allotments Mountain Biking Trail
RIV ER A VON
Picnic Area
Insect Viewing Zone
RIVER AVON Youth Hostels Association (YHA) Car Park
Local Park
Visitor Welcome Centre
(Sunday Market)
(includes a local community hub, art galleries with studios, an art shop, a bike shop, a restaurant and a cafe)
Introduction Avon Island Park is a mixed-use recreation park located on the River Avon in the west of Bath. The development provides a variety of recreation facilities, which can be classed into two parts: campsites for visitors; and a local park with community hub for local people. When developed the park would consist of a number of elements: bird and insect viewing, spaces for barbecues and picnics, Youth Hostels Association(YHA), camping, a visitor welcome centre (includes a local community hub, art galleries with studios, an art shop, a bike shop and a coffee shop), allotments for the community hub’s members, playground, mountain biking trail and a fishing place. The targets of Avon Island Park are the local community in the west of Bath and visitors from the outside. The park is located in the River Avon in the west of Bath, between Twerton riverside and Newbridge riverside. The site is mainly surrounded by the residential land of Twerton ward and Newbridge ward, which both lack formal green space for recreation. Therefore, Avon Island Park would be not only an access for pedestrians to cross the river, but would also comprise a local park and a community hub for local residents’ leisure. Along the Newbridge riverside there is the Bristol and Bath Railway Path running through, so the park could be a relaxing stop for cyclists who have cycled a long way.
Play Facility
(Roundabouts & Swings)
On the island there would be are several kinds of indoor and outdoor activities, which are suitable for everyone to have fun and relax, it is a great leisure space for the public. Moreover, a trip to visit and stay in Avon Island Park would not be costly, so visitors from another city could come and visit during the weekend, and the local residents would come for a walk after lunch. It would become a place for family gatherings, dating, camping, fishing, thinking and so on. Ultramc
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Timber Decking
Timber Boardwalk
Sand
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5400
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3400
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River Avon
Footpath
Biking Trail
Biking Trail
Planter
Footpath
20000
Pond
This section covers footpath, biking trail with different materials, pond and the River Avon in Insect Viewing Zone.
8100
Planter
35000
River Avon
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Bird Viewing Zone In Avon Island Park, there are a bird viewing and insect viewing zones respectively, but these zones are not just for viewing, it also giving new habitat to the environment in the island and surroundings. Bird viewing zone, in the west of the park, there would be Alder, Dogwood, Elder, Holly etc. attracting the birds living here. Insect viewing zone, in the east of the park, there would be Black Bent, False Brome, Wild Mignonette and so on. Moreover, there are ponds with water plants for the insects especially dragonflies. There are three forest hides in the bird viewing zone and one in the insect experience zone. Visualisation 1 shows one of the forest hides in the bird zone. Within the forest hide there is information about the bird and plant species in view. This would provide an educational space for visitors viewing birds quietly.
Shallow Water Fountain Square Visualisation shows the view of the shallow water fountain square in the local park, visitors could have fun in the fountain square, it also provides benches for relaxing near the fountain and for parents to watch their children play.
Bird’s-eye View of Avon Island Park This figure illustrates the general development of the east of Avon Island Park, especially showing the relationship between the visitor welcome centre, local park and mountain biking trail. Moreover, there is a section under the drawing, which provides a clear dimension for understanding the layout and size of Avon Island Park. It also shows the building of the visitor welcome centre; the architecture style is industrial because in the history, there were mills and industrial uses in this island.
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Roundabouts Visualisation shows the roundabouts in the local park, which are unusual and interesting roundabouts. The special feature of these roundabouts is that they move at the same time, due to three gear wheels linking them together.
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River Avon
Timber Decking
Footpath
Planter
2200
Planter
10000
Footpath
Footpath Planter
River Avon
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