LAUREN DUTTON

Landscape Architecture Portfolio

As a third year Landscape Architecture student at the University of Gloucestershire, I am always working towards bettering my skills, knowledge and connections so that I can become the best version of myself and to ensure that every project proposal I design, benefits the environment and local community.

Coming from the Black Country (Stourbridge), where I live on the rural urban fringe, it has unconsciously given me a strong interest in blending ‘the green’ into our cities. This interest has increased over the last few months as I have been writing and finishing my dissertation on the sustainable retrofit of urban green infrastructure. Exploring how you would implement this through both policy and design approaches has boosted my passion for my chosen career.

I will be furthering this passion through a Masters Course at the University of Gloucestershire, where I will learn planning, design and management in more depth.

Alongside this, I have interests in becoming a Chartered member of the Landscape Institute and future aspiration of becoming a Project Landscape Architect, engaging with clients and wider industry teams.

Observation sketches of people in Landscape and Nature growing over a building

Place making talk at Design West - March 2022

Furnitecture Concept and Form Development

“Landscape architecture to me is my way of aesthetically rating the locations I have experienced, the more plants the better. Being in nature, whether walking my dog back home or experiencing it through a window in a city, makes me feel content. To put this back into the world via design is one of the main reasons why I wanted to become a Landscape Architect.”

Skills

• Hand Rendering

• Knowledge in BIM and the wider construction industry

• Project Management

• Team Working, leadership and Collaboration

• AutoCAD, Keyscape, Enscape

• Twin Motion, Sketch Up

• Abode creative cloud (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign)

• Researching

• Surveying

• Conceptual diagramming

• Written Communication and Public speaking

• Clientele Engagement

• Pro-activeness

• Coppicing, Pollarding,

• Model making

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