Annabel Danson, Sample Portfolio

THE TWEED Project Site: Longman, Inverness, Scotland.

Project type: Reclamation of a former landfill

Inverness and the Highlands

The Inner Moray Firth

Munroes

Hills

Glens

Forests

Hills

Meadows

Forests

Fields

Meadows

The Black Isle

Fields River Ness Loch Ness River Ness

Moray Firth Sandbanks

Moray Firth Sandbanks

Brewery Distillery

Towns Villages

Nursery Farms

Analysis

Growth patterns

Tower; facing the city centre

Tower; facing the firth

Festival Theatre Project Site: Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Project type: Urban square redevelopment

Working model

Massive Wood seating 500 x 520 mm

Section towards Nichols street, Wintertime

Section as seen from the Festival Theatre, Summertime

Plantingbox with plastic liner 500 x 500 mm

Festival Theatre by night

NEW CAMERON SQUARE Project Site: Cameron square, Fort William, Scotland.

Project type: Urban regeneration

“Woodland�

Urban square

27 m

12.5 m Early anlysis-sketch of the space surrounding the square

High St

8.5 m

Open Market square

4 m

Reduced A82

4 m

Loch Linnhe

0 m

200 m long 27 m from top to bottom

Aims

Strategy

* Create a distinct spacial character and a connectedness, despite the size, shape and the different levels of the site * Create spaces that serve different purposes and potentially opens up for different experiences, within the unity of the space as a whole

* Use plants, surface materials and the difference in as a whole * Use density to make diverse spaces

level to create a repetitive theme for the space

Upper part of the square; seen from High st

Bottom part of the square; facing Loch Linnhe

POWER GARDEN Project Site: Hydroelectrical tunnel in Tokke, Telemark, Norway.

Project type: 1 week speculative workshop

The Tokke Dam

Atmosphere

Powergrid

Tunnel

Samples of tunnel environment

The ferns are leviated on a textile platform, exposed to artificial light.

Underneath the roots of the plants grow freely and are exposed, creating an organic stalactite ceiling.

The canopy of the tree provides the ferns with an environment they can thrive in, and the trunk that streches down to the floor of the tunnel is an ornamental feature within the soft, mosscovered floor.

Luminescent fungi, lichen and moss covers the walls and surface of the dark tunnel, graudually building up a layer of earth that provides a foundation for other plants.

Spores already exist within the tunnel environment.

THE POWER GARDEN

A spore is a reproductive structure that is adapted for dispersal and surviving for extended periods of time in unfavourable conditions.

Spores form part of the life cycles of many bacteria, plants, algae and fungi...There are spores that have been found that are 40 million years old...they´re very hardened to radiation.

Algae and lichens are the first spores that settle in a hardy environment, and as the moss gradually grows a layer of topsoil increases, creating a foundation for more advanced and demanding plant material.

Ferns are also spores, but unlike the other spores they have roots, and are therefore considered more advanced.

Amblopsidae and krill live in symbiosis in the pool, fed by water from the dam. When the pool overflows the water trickles down to feed the plants and the moss covered floor with mositure.

The luminocity of the krill are activated by the movement of the amblyopsiadae, more popularly known as cavefish.

Proposed design for tunnel section

The garden in the tunnel is dependant on artificial light, CO2, heat and nutriant systems.

The artificial input depends on the energy production in the facility, which fluxuates with the availability of water in the dams.

The lushness of the garden will therefore reflect the quantity of electrical production in the facility at all given times. The plants thus function as a sort of �prod-ometer�.

When the hydroelectrical plant in the future might not be producing energy any more, there will be a good foundation of earth and nutrients, and the natural slope of the tunnel will provide water, and the shafts leading up to the surface of the mountain can be opened to provide natural light to the lightdependant section of the powergarden.

Hopefully, the plants have by this point adapted to the coditions of the tunnel, and they can survive on their own without the artificial system, that made it possible for them to flourish in the establishing phase.

Annabel Danson Ekeberglia 17a 1356 Bekkestua Tlf:+47 99772412 Email:annabel.danson@gmail.com