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The closure of Ditton Brook provides the oppurtunity for repurposing under utilised hydrological systems.

Interrupting the flow of Ditton Brook provides the opportunity for managed riparian wetlands downstream from the dam, which enhance habitat creation + provide a link to the River Mersey.

Water is redirected in to a constructed reed bed system. This provides a clean water resource which forms the basis for the repurposing of the brownfield test site to an ecologically and anthropocentrically diverse system.

REDIRECT + REPURPOSE

Retrofit green roof + green wall infrastructures within Ditton Brook catchment area

Establish bio-swale network as an overlay to existing infrastructure within Ditton Brook catchment area

Diversify agricultural productivity; agroforestry, forest garden + biofuel within Ditton Brook catchment area

Re-vegetation through shelterbelts, woodlands, wetlands within Ditton Brook catchment area

Heterogeneous landscapes

WATERSHED PRESERVATION d s cC a p eT V iIs uO a l ANs s e s s F meU nt N C T I O N F U N C T I O N F LUa nN E D G E C O L O N I S E C O M U N I T Y T Y P O L O G Y F O R M F U N C T I O N P R O C E S S S T A B A L I S E C O L O N I S E E X C A V A T E F I L L P I O N E E R RECHARGE

PHYTOREMEDIATION

OCCUPATION

HABITAT

POPULATE

NOMAD

SUBSISTENCE

OCCUPY

ADAPT

LIVELIHOOD

HETEROGENEITY

FLOW +CAPTURE

RESEARCH

MARKET

SHELTER

HABITAT

UTILISE

RECONTOUR

RELEASE

RECREATION

FARM

LANDFORM

RETENTION

SUCCESSION

RESHAPE

IDENTIFY GROUNDWATER NETWORKS

EXPAND CAPACITY

Existing typologies

POTENTIAL

RECYCLE FIDDLERS FERRY

REFORM

RESHAPE

REMAKE

Existing typologies

ECOSYSTEM PROTOTYPE

Existing typologies

Landscape Design + Detail H Y D R O L O G Y / TO P O G R A P H Y / V E G E TAT I O N

Landscape Design

MA Landscape Architecture RURBAN Exhibition Board

IMPRINT

Hydrology is an unimagined element on the location; constrained, isolated, hidden and disposed of. The test site has the opportunity to be reprogrammed through hydrological changes - Ditton Brook release, Hale Bank angling ponds integration, groundwater, waste water and run-off capture to act as an innovator for RURBAN habitation and productivity.

REPROGRAMME R H S Ta t t o n F l o w e r S h o w Design Competition

Palace View Gardens Design Competition

Electronic Publication

PORTFOLIO S A M P L E R MARCUS FISHER

The following documents are extracts of desktop study, site survey and analysis and a wider landscape context analysis of a former caravan park situated between the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales National Parks, England. The documents are used as evidence in support of a written Landscape Visual Impact Assessment. The site is to be developed into a head office for a sustainable motorway service station company. The building as shown below in the architects visualisation and associated grounds and gardens shown in the landscape structure plan were subject to a Landscape Visual Assessment to support an appeal due to the sensitivity of the surrounding area to the development. My involvement in this project was from initial concept design, full site survey and analysis and the written LVA document. The project has received planning permission and is scheduled to commence construction later this year.

M O D E L

P R O C E S S I N G

S T R U C T U R E

Landscape Analysis

Landscape Design + Detail CONCEPTUAL DETAIL DESIGN

The following documents are extracts from MA Landscape Architecture detail design module. The documents show the working out of levels to create a wetland park between two large bunds, detail design drawings of a concrete platform for viewing and seating, a pergola, a raised walkway and a seasonal wetland path accesbile only at times of low hydrological activity.

A S S E S S

.4m

10.5m

11.0m

All sectional data to commence from +8.0m AOD

The following documents are extracts from a large scale single-dwelling residential project I have taken from ceonception, through planning and to the detail design . The dwelling is nearing completion and landscape works are set to commence in August 2019.

WALKWAY CONSTRUCTION

TOPOGRAPHY RURBAN: LEVELS

W O R K I N G D E TA I L D E S I G N

11.5m

15.0 13.0

.5m

12.0m

10.5

12.5m + 12.0m

G Section showing proposed bund extension 1:200

13.0m

13.5m

G 12.1

10.5

300mm Prepared sub-base

+ 10.5m

+ 10.5m Reformed bund

14.0m

12.0

Reformed bund

14.5m

10.5

15.0m

Section showing proposed bund extension, elevated walkway + secondary entrance platform 1:200

EE C

13.0m

10.8

150mm C30 Polished concrete formwork with A142 mild steel reinforcing mesh (max 50mm cover)

12.2 11.0

Section showing elevated walkway 1: 10

10.5

Section showing proposed elevated walkway 1:200

100mm Dia. Land drain set in gravel for drainage

C30 Polished concrete formwork

5mm Damp proof membrane

Drainage gravel

+ 10.5m 1000x400mm C30 polished concrete retaining wall with T20 reinforcement bars, with 150x700mm concrete pad reinforcement foundation

B 14.0 13.0 10.5

Prepared sub-grade

D E S I G N

10.5

A142 mild steel reinforcing mesh

Section showing proposed shaping of bund, elevated walkway + seasonal ground excavation 1:200

+ 13.0m 14.6

13.5

T20 Streel reinforcement bars

13.0

10.5

+ 12.8m

10.5

Section showing proposed shaping of bund, retaining wall, elevated walkway + seasonal ground excavation 1:200

+ 10.5m

13.8

14.4 13.0 12.8

12.8

+ 12.0m

10.5

BB BB

Section showing proposed shaping of bund, elevated walkway + entrance platform 1:200 + 12.0m

11.8

W A L K W A Y P L AT F O R M

+ 12.5m

12.8

13.0

12.5

12.0

north

10.5

Section showing proposed entrance platform 1:200

1:200 @A1

V I E W I N G PLATFORM CONSTRUCTION: DETAIL 150mm C30 Polished concrete formwork

5mm Damp proof membrane

Core10 steel footing

100x200mm A142 mild steel reinforcing mesh (max 50mm cover)

150mm C30 Polished concrete formwork with A142 mild steel reinforcing mesh (max 50mm cover)

PLATFORM CONSTRUCTION

300mm

300x160x160mm Perforated guttering recess in concrete formwork. Drains to bund. Acts as edge indicator.

3x20mm T20 steel reinfrocement bars 5x20mm Anti-slip groove in concrete

27.7m 1:27 Gradient

2.7m 1:14 Gradient

Prepared sub-base

2m 2000x500mm C30 polished concrete retaining wall with A142 mild steel reinforcing mesh

1:10 Grad ient Hale Bank Road

Exisiting Ground

300mm prepared sub-base

150mm C30 Polished concrete formwork with A142 mild steel reinforcing mesh (max 50mm cover) + T20 steel reinfrocement bars at connection areas

Section showing entrance platfrom 1:50

5mm Damp proof membrane

MODEL

+ 13.0m

300mm Prepared sub-grade, with 5mm damp proof membrane

Exisiting Ground

Elevated walkway connection

33.9m P+

00 P + 8.0 00 + 9.0 ToW

300mm Prepared sub-base

P+

+ 13.0m P+

9.2 +

P+

P + 9.475

7.6

P + 9.525

P + 9.475

P + 9.525

300mm Prepared sub-grade, with 5mm damp proof membrane

9.10

Drainage

FFL + 9.700

Proposed Ground Levels 9.0

P + 11.000

P + 9.250

P + 9.200

150mm C30 Polished concrete formwork with A142 mild steel reinforcing mesh (max 50mm cover) + T20 steel reinfrocement bars at connection areas

P+

North elevation showing entrance platfrom 1:100

9.300

Exisiting Ground

+ 10.5m

+ 12.8m

0 .65 0 +7 0 P + 9.0 W

P + 7.30 0 ToW + 8.00

. 9m

P + 9.475

9.465

9.400 P + 9.500

Exisiting Ground

Section showing polished concrete retaining wall and guttering at the northern edge of the entrance platform 1:10

SPECIFY

700x300mm C30 concrete reinforcement pad foundation

Section showing polished concrete formwork + connection where platform leads to seasonal path 1: 5

+ 13.0m

D1 - Stainless Steel Slot Drain Within Reclaimed Yorkstone Sett Threshold C30 Polished concrete formwork

C30 Polished concrete formwork

FFL + 9.700

D2 - Stainless Steel Slot Drain Within Paving P+

D3 - Driveway Gully

P+

9.4

9.350

P+

.60

FFL + 9.700

P+

9.6

P + 9.670

9.5

P + 9.6

P + 9.600

D6 - Land Drain P + 9.650

P + 9.8

P + 9.65

P+

9.350 P+ 9.350 P+

00 13.2

P+

L FF

+ 9.3

00 P + 9.3

9.4

FFL

D5 - Gravel Mat

A142 mild steel reinforcing mesh

P + 9.670

0 .55 10

P + 10.800 P+

T20 Streel reinforcement bars

+ 12.0m

P + 9.5

10.5

T20 Streel reinforcement bars

P + 9.670

+ 12.0m

P+

D4 - Gravel Soak Away

Prepared sub-grade

A142 mild steel reinforcing mesh

P + 9.670

9.2

P + 9.670

Prepared sub-grade

9.2

P+

P + 9.670

+ 12.5m

P+

9.3

P+

10.6

0 .70 10

.0 11

.90

P+

P + 10

.750

Plan showing entrance platfrom 1:1250

Isometric showing entrance platform 1:100

PERGOLA

2 x 15mm toughned glass sheets sitting on 50x50mm rubberized compression pads attached to steel through beam

12.2m 12m

P+

11.0

P + 12

13.2

P + 10.000

.500

P+

PERGOLA CONSTRUCTION: DETAIL

PERGOLA CONSTRUCTION

P+

9.8

P + 10.800

.000

11 P+

50x50mm rubber compression clasp bolted to steel through beam and upright to fix glass in place

P+

HEB 190 cantilever core10 steel I-beam welded through upright

Wall to Oak Deck Detail Decking to be built to Manchester Decking Company Specification Section Detail - Scale 1:10 3.5m

Stone coping 60x700mm 4m

S4 - Reclaimed Yorkstone Sett Driveway Section Detail - Scale 1:10 K2 Concrete haunch laid on 125mm depth MOT Type 1 compacted sub base

Flush reclaimed Yorkstone setts with 10mm mortar joints

12.0

P1 - Reclaimed Yorkstone Paving Section Detail - Scale 1:10 Reclaimed Yorkstone flags (sawn) random sizes/courses laid on 25mm 6:1 sand/cement with 100mm compacted Type 1 MOT laid on well consolidated ground. Joints between flags 3mm wide and pointed by brushing in a dry 4:1sand/cement mortar mix.

HEB 200 core10 Steel I- Beam upright

600mm Laid to falls

Oak deck fixed to joists with brass screws

Section showing cantilever I-Beam connection 1:10

C20P Concrete haunching laid wet

Plan showing pergola construction 1:20 HEB 190 cantilever core10 steel I-beam welded through upright

2 x 15mm toughned glass sheets sitting on 50x50mm rubberized compression pads attached to steel through beam

C20P Concrete infill to wall

20mm steel spar connecting spire and glass at 83 Â° angle

Concrete block work wall

20mm Core 10 steel I-beam

Cut stone block walls

Oak deck

20mm steel spar welded to steel spire. connecting spire and glass at 83 Â° angle for structural support, 50x300m core10 steel spire welded to I-Beam with 160x160mm steel baseplate

S4- Flush Reclaimed Yorkstone Sett Driveway and Drainage Channel Section - Scale 1:10 Concrete foundation laid to MOT Type 1 compacted sub base to engineers specification

150mm

Triple run reclaimed yorkstone sett with 10mm pointing gap. laid at slight angle to create drainage channel

engineers specification S3

P1 - Reclaimed Yorkstone Paving Plan Detail - Scale 1:10

50x300m core10 steel spire welded to I-Beam with 160x160mm steel baseplate Core 10 steel I-beam

HEB 200 core10 Steel I- Beam upright. Full penetration butt welded to baseplate all round

100mm depth of MOT type 1 compacted sub-base

Toughned glass

100mm width DPC membrane below each joist Ruberrised glass compression pads Toughned glass

HEB 200 core10 Steel I- Beam upright

Made ground level behind seating area previously specified

3x2 20mm Dia. Grade 8 galvanized steel full threaded Anchor bolts,

Other core 10 steel components

400x300x20mm steel baseplate 30mm Non-shrink lean mix grout bedding space

C30 concrete foundation

700x700mm C30 concrete pad foundations

Elevation showing pergola construction 1:20

Isometric showing pergola construction 1:10

Section showing glass spar deatil 1: 2.5

C20P Concrete haunching laid wet

C20P Concrete foundation to wall

D E TA I L

S4 - Flush Reclaimed Yorkstone Sett Driveway and Drainage Channel Plan - Scale 1:20

Paving Flags

C O N S T R U C T I O N Two courses laid parallel to kerb

Cut edge to bitmac

Setts laid in courses from side to side of drive

Threshold

T R A N S F O R M AT I O N

22 x 100 x 1000/1300mm Treated timber boards screwed to timber posts

100 x 100 x 2400mm Treated timber post. 600mm to sit in ground

Various climbing plants to grow inside/ outside/ around timber columns offering year round colour and texture Lighting within columns to point upwards and outwards, permeating through the climbers offering fragmented streams of light across the garden

1.1250

Timber Planting Column: Isometric Diagram 1: 10 @ A1

1.0000

0.8800

1.8800

Landscape Layout 1: 25 @ A1

1.8800

1.1313

Boundary Fence 1.8800

KEY & NOTES

1.7950

7ft Boards (94 x19mm) Cut between 1.1250m + 1.0000m sections 7ft Boards (94 x19mm) Cut between 0.8800m (Door) + 1.313m sections 7ft Boards (94 x19mm) cut to 1.8800m sections Total No. of 7ft boards = 101 Additional 5 no for sleeper bench coping Total = 106 12ft Boards (94 x19mm) Cut to appropriate lengths as shown (Back section of fence to fall 170mm short but hidden in Ivy, fillet with off-cuts if neccessary) Total No. of 12ft boards = 54 0.5962

0.9000

1.8500

Interior Street Side Fence

Exterior Street Side Fence

Plan view 2.4296 2.1336

2.9980

Side Elevation

3.0980

Front/Back Elevation 2.4296

KEY & NOTES 7ft Boards (138 x25mm) No cut needed

2.3296

Total No. of 7ft boards = 19 12ft Boards (138 x25mm) Cut as per detail

Western Red Cedar deck 138 x 25mm with 10mm shadow gaps 50mm overhangs

Total No. of 12ft boards = 8

4no 100x200x1800 Tanalized Timber Sleepers cut to correct length (1541mm) to sit in between brickwork and stableblock paving edge

16no 94x19x470 Western Red Cedar fence panels screwed to timber sleepers with 5mm shadow gap

Western Red Cedar Fence Panels. 10mm overhang at front. Front panels to be sanded down to create soft edge Timber Sleepers

3no Timber Battens bolted horizontally to timber upright battens for sturctural support. 2 no bolts per batten.

8no (4 per end) 94x19x470 Western Red Cedar fence panels to create side fascia

Timber upright battens

End slats to have 20mm overhang to accomodate end fascia

Section

Timber horizontal battens Bolts

Section

3no Timber Battens bolted upright to timber sleepers for sturctural support. 2 no bolts per batten.

1.5790 0.4700

0.4190

Front/Back Elevation

Plan

Client Mr and |Mrs Smyth

BWL 1:???@A1 1:500@A1

PROJECT TITLE.

ProjectHouse Brook Title

CLIENT.

Stage Design

DWG TITLE.

Drawing Title Masterplan

DWG NO.

Timber boards to be arranged in an irregaular pattern of 50/100/150/200 mm spacings

T: 0161 946 0808 E: design@barneswalker.co.uk W: www.barneswalker.co.uk

Drawing Number M1747.22A

Single orange (or colour of choice) band wrapping around timber structure offering contrast in colour

DATE.

DRAWN BY.

CHECKED BY.

Timber structure to be painted/stained to match the dark grey of the windows on the house

BWL

REVISIONS.

Timber Planting Column: Front/Back Elevation scale 1: 20 @ A1

SCALE.

Timber Planting Column: Side Elevation scale 1: 20 @ A1

07.2016 00.2018

100mm depth Type 1 MOT

Back Boundary Fence

SURFACE

ÂŠ This drawing, the graphics and the landscape works and ideas depicted therein remains the copyright of Barnes Walker Limited and may not be used, copied in whole or part, or amended without prior written consent. Figured dimensions to be followed in preference to scaled and all dimensions are to be checked on site and in the event of any discrepancy refer to Barnes Walker Limited.

Concrete around post

Earth

WORK STAGE.

Unit 6 Longley Lane Northenden, Manchester M22 4WT

The following documents display the progression of a small scale residential garden I have designed. Initially the garden was designed to be a diverse social and leisure space in which the clients could relax away from the noise and business of the nearby main road. After several consultations the garden was re-designed to accommodate all of the above, but also to be used as a private parking place. Due to a lack of budget and the availability of an off site parking space nearby, the design has now evolved and provides a functional space for the clients initial request with a focus on the use of low cost materials used in a creative way to define spaces, maximise social function and provide enclosure. The garden was selected as a finalist in the 2018 Northern Design Awards.

BARNES WALKER

DESIGN EVOLUTION

BESPOKE DETAILING

Landscape Design

PLANT

Side Elevation

RURBAN Pioneers

Establishing networks + facilities

Landscape as a productive system #1

Landscape as a productive system #2

OPERATE

Steep Edge

Soft Edge

Shallow Edge

Seasonal Edge

Multiple Edge

Overflow Edge

Protected Edge

Ductile Edge

Constructed Edge

To reuse the hydrological system, the profile of the edge is an important factor in determining the function and the relationship with biocentric systems and the depth of water required for certain anthropocentric activities.

COLONISE

Multiple Edge

Steep Edge

Soft Edge

Shallow Edge Seasonal Edge

Overflow Edge

Protected Edge Constructed Edge Ductile Edge

Resurfaced topography

Clean water is released progressively across the site, testing the sites capacity to absorb water and build a relationship with existing groundwater. As areas reach field capacity they will flood creating variable depths of water.

The RURBAN Data Net is a multi-layered microclimatic/ visual/hydrological monitoring system which will be established prior to the release of hydrological potential from Ditton Brook into the Rurban landscape. The data net will collect information and wirelessly relay it to an assimilation and logging center, in order to inform future design decisions on site, monitor vegetation and habitat conditions and create interactive information for immediate users of the landscape.

This is a time based operation and is progressive and sequential, testing the sites capacity to hold water at different depths and in different time scales. For example, existing flashes and ponds will develop a deep water profile aided by carefully organised excavation to potentially extend their surface. Other areas will contain a mosaic of different water levels in space and time guided by micro topographical conditions.

Data net

Deep water

Preparation

Deep - shallow water

Deep - shallow - seasonal water

MEASURE + RESURFACE Dit

ton

Bro

Bla

Time

Test Site

ter

fro

Dit

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ton

Clean water to site

are

Redirecting the flow of Ditton Brook

Riparian wetland succession

Area of black water retrieval

The closure of Ditton Brook provides the oppurtunity for repurposing under utilised hydrological systems.

Interrupting the flow of Ditton Brook provides the opportunity for managed riparian wetlands downstream from the dam, which enhance habitat creation + provide a link to the River Mersey.

Reed bed filtration system

Function

REDIRECT + REPURPOSE

Retrofit green roof + green wall infrastructures within Ditton Brook catchment area

Establish bio-swale network as an overlay to existing infrastructure within Ditton Brook catchment area

Diversify agricultural productivity; agroforestry, forest garden + biofuel within Ditton Brook catchment area

Re-vegetation through shelterbelts, woodlands, wetlands within Ditton Brook catchment area

Heterogeneous landscapes

WATERSHED PRESERVATION

F U N C T I O N F U N C T I O N F U N C T I O N E D G E C O L O N I S E C O M U N I T Y T Y P O L O G Y F O R M F U N C T I O N P R O C E S S S T A B A L I S E C O L O N I S E E X C A V A T E F I L L P I O N E E R RECHARGE

PHYTOREMEDIATION

OCCUPATION

HABITAT

POPULATE

NOMAD

SUBSISTENCE

OCCUPY

ADAPT

FLOW +CAPTURE

RESEARCH

MARKET

SHELTER

HABITAT

UTILISE

RECONTOUR

RELEASE

RECREATION

FARM

LANDFORM

HETEROGENEITY

LIVELIHOOD

RETENTION

SUCCESSION

RESHAPE

IDENTIFY GROUNDWATER NETWORKS

EXPAND CAPACITY

Existing typologies

POTENTIAL

RECYCLE FIDDLERS FERRY

Existing typologies

REFORM

RESHAPE

REMAKE

ECOSYSTEM PROTOTYPE

Existing typologies

H Y D R O L O G Y / TO P O G R A P H Y / V E G E TAT I O N

IMPRINT Hydrology is an unimagined element on the location; constrained, isolated, hidden and disposed of. The test site has the opportunity to be reprogrammed through hydrological changes - Ditton Brook release, Hale Bank angling ponds integration, groundwater, waste water and run-off capture to act as an innovator for RURBAN habitation and productivity.

REPROGRAMME

PLAY

The number of gardens selected is flexible and will be dependent on detail costings and availability of further sponsorship and volunteers to implement the design. We envisage the key gardens as Discovery

The objective is to create a fantasy space, appropriate to the idea of a garden in the air. This garden will surprise and delight as a metaphor for the figurative elements of land, sea and sky and the horizons that divide them. These interfaces provide the potential for f lexible spaces defined by the robustness of coastal vegetation, with the emphasis on architectural form, colour and seasonal change.

Sails: Maintaining protected views, the sails lift the horizontality of the space to emphasise light and shade through the changing cloudscape of the extensive horizons. The sails will be supported on posts encased in concrete in the centre of the gabion structures

Transfers: Attached to all glass areas in the lift/ stair tower, the transfers of the sea evoke a magical transition from the real world and emphasise the â&#x20AC;&#x153;coastalâ&#x20AC;? theme of the space

Groynes: Taking inspiration from beach structures to control erosion, these elements are placed to define spaces, which can accommodate vegetation and micro places for sunbathing and philosophysing. Constructed of robust timbers and with a charred finish, they are carefully crafted and contain suprising jewels

Planting: Key architectural coastal plants (referencing the work of Derek Jarman) to add a fantasy form, texture and seasonal colour to the garden

Gabions: Forming a geometric zig zag in removed sections of paving, they are collated as a metaphor for a sand dune. Faced with rammed earth or stacked with scallop shells from Brixham and with a suitable coping and base, they can be used for sitting, tables or planted up with coastal planting

THE LONELY SEA AND THE SKY.

MA Landscape Architecture Dissertation

https://issuu.com/marcusfisher1991/docs/marcus_fisher_-_15108529_-_disserta

MA Landscape Architecture Vegetation Studies Blog http://mmulandarch.wixsite.com/vegetation-phenology

Manchester School of Art Landscape Architecture Blog https://www.realm-msa.com/