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FIRA LANDSCAPE INTERNSHIP
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St Barnabas Concept and Visualisations
In the summer of 2022, I undertook a two week summer work experience placement with Fira Landscape. Within the first week, I was tasked to look at the site of St Barnabas’ church in Erdington, Birmingham. The site had started to decline as the graves were tightly packed and as they were built from the early 1800’s to the mid 1900’s, they had started to subside. The client wanted to backfill them and create an accessible site where people can come and use it area. They also wanted the site to still be for memory and link to the past to honour the graves below.
My design is to the left and on the next page, the concept is how DNA connects us. I chose to translate this into the design by the intertwining, central pathway and by regenerating the graves stones as paving stones.
Another task that I helped with was the updating of RDD for a planting project. This is where I learned more about the plants and they’re preferred conditions. I had to research into the preferred soil, sun, shade conditions and the flowering season of 14 trees and 35 shrubs.
Planting RDD
St Barnabas Final Design - fully annotated
Scale: 1:500 @ A1
