MER MLA PORTFOLIO
mark ernest radford - Master of Landscape Architecture Victoria University of Wellington School of Architecture and Design L’ecole Nationale SupÊrieure de la Nature et du Paysage - Blois
October - 2014 18 Colombo Street Wellington 6021 New Zealand Mark.E.Radford@gmail.com
2014
Master of Landscape Architecture Current Working Thesis Waikanae Town Centre -
2013 La promenade de L’Anse de Landroanec -
Inter nsh ip - Age nc e R ADAR Stains, Paris Calais, North France -
2012
Bachelor of Architectural Studies Major in Landscape Architecture Pipitea Precent Construction Project -
2010
Wellington Carillon Project -
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Ecology
Diversity
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Ecology
Identity
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Community People
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Opotiki
Cromwell
Hanmer Springs
Waikanae
Economic Importance: 01 - Old Town Centre 02 - New Town Centre 03 - Supermarket 04 - Military Residential Land 05 - Military Commercial Land 06 - Accommodation
Economic Importance: 01 - Old Town Centre 02 - New Town Centre 03 - Supermarket 04 - Crop/Orchard 05 - Accommodation 06 - Retail
Economic Importance: 01 - Queen Marry Hospital 02 - Thermal Pools & Spa 03 - Supermarket 04 - Heritage Hotel 05 - Accommodation 06 - Retail
Community Amenities: 07 - Christen Church 08 - Anglican Church 10 - Golf Course 11 - Primary School 13 - Public Space 14 - Recreation Area 15 - Medical Centre
Community Amenities: 07 - Christen Church 08 - Anglican Church 10 - Golf Course 11 - Primary School 13 - Public Space 14 - Recreation Area 15 - Medical Centre
Landscape Qualities 16 - Waioeka River 17 - Otara River 18 - Otara Harbour
Landscape Qualities 16 - Clutha River 17 - Kawanau River 18 - Lake Dunsten
Community Amenities: 07 - Christen Church 08 - Anglican Church 09 - Protestant Church 10 - Golf Course 11 - Primary School 12 - Kindergarten 13 - Public Space 14 - Recreation Area 15 - Medical Centre
Scale: 1:15,000
Economic Importance Low Significant Community Amenities Low Post Office Police Station
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Landscape Qualities 17 - Waikanae River 18 - Waimeha River 19 - Kawakahai Lagoon
Scale: 1:10,000
Scale: 1:20,000
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Legend Economic Importance Low Significant Community Amenities Low Post Office Police Station Land for Generation of Electricity
Community Amenities: 07 - Train Station 08 - Church 10 - Golf Course 11 - Primary School 13 - Public Space 14 - Recreation Area 15 - Medical Centre 16 - Hemi Matenga Memorial Park
Landscape Qualities 16 - Sanitorium
Scale: 1:15,000
Legend
Economic Importance: 01 - Waikanae Beach 02 - Waikanae Town Centre 03 - Parata Township 04 - Mahara Mall 05 - Crop/Orchard 06 - Railway
High High
Economic Importance Low Significant Community Amenities Low Post Office Police Station
High High
Legend Economic Importance Low Significant Community Amenities Low Post Office Police Station
High High
Current Thesis Abstract This thesis focuses on the rural community of Waikanae that is currently heavily reliant on State Highway One running from Wellington to Levin. Cutting directly through the town centre, it defines the town centre and sustains a soon to be dwindling economy. A new expressway will divert this main thoroughfare west of the township, creating a deep scar in the cultural heart of the community. Design proposes to relocate the town centre along the Waikanae River which, although an important amenity for the community, has till now been profoundly neglected. The proposal addresses the river’s edge. It uses the river to connect amenities and draws on agricultural processes to create new industries, thereby reviving the cultural heart of the beautiful coastal township of Waikanae. In illustrating how one can identify the loss of cultural heart in a rural setting such as Waikanae develops a methodology in how this urban design theory can rejuvenate the populations that suffer from a industry, sense of community and landscape qualities is of grave importance today on the Kapiti Coast and in wider New Zealand.
Town Centre Initial Hunch Victoria University of Wellington
centre creates an urban framework of integrated waterways that filtrates the vegetation while creating linkages throughout the district. This hunch asks the question;
River Buffer Recreation and Forestry & Biodiversity
Urban Agriculture
Market Space/ Public Space
Streetscape
Town Centre and Intensified Residential
Proposed Main Road
Proposed Hunch Condition Intensified Residential
What if the town relied on the river not the road for its sustenance?
Ecological Corridor
The existing town centre relies heavily on the traffic from State Highway One to create a its streetscape and to creates lack a of ‘welcoming’ into the township. The division created by the highway and railway, lack of identity, and internalised mall structure are very influential. The intensified town
Town Centre and Intensified Residential
Streetscape
River Buffer Recreation and Biodiversity
WAIKANAE RIVER
Public Services and Recreation
Secondary Road
Vegetation Buffer
Train Station/ Car Parking Railway Railway
State Highway One
Streetscape
Light Retail
Internalised Town Centre
Light Retail
Residential Cul-de-sac
Existing Condition
Agricultural Campground Integration of Agricultural Systems
The idea of the ‘products of the
region are a reflection on the quality of the landscape’ and
bringing the community together by actually touching the landscape then using that to create an economy. Perhaps in practice it is not very strong financially viable at first or the conventional approach, however this is a concept that
ties together the landscape to the community while intensifying the connection to our agricultural systems and the impacts we have. What if tourism became more than just an economic driver and actually gave back to the landscape and community?
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Waikanae Masterplan
Scale 1:2500 @A2
La Promenade de L’Anse de Landroanec
L’ecole Nationale SupÊrieure de la Nature et de Paysage - Blois ENSNP is a landscape engineering school located in Central France that is renowned for its pragmatic approach to nature and the landscape. This project was based on man-made lake by Mur-deBretagne, which is a site of national
significance. The project focused on how to treat a site that currently contains limited design problems insofar the design conceptualized a site sensitive approaches that favored minimal consilient design strategies.
Central Point
Boardwalk
Retained Path
Viewport Split Leveled Path
Elevated Pathway
Destination
Existing Pathway
The Central Point A- a
Section A-a,
Scale 1: 250@A3
Section B-b,
Scale 1: 200@A3
Section C-c,
Scale 1: 250@A3
B-b
The Viewport
C-c
The Destination
Agence RADAR Paysage Internship - 3 Months - Paris
Directors Sabrina Hiridjee and Laurence Camel (from École nationale Supérieure d’architecture de Versailles) established Agence RADAR landscape architecture in 2011. Located in the North of Paris, the agence has a passion for innovative and hybrid solutions in achieving their vision of the
landscape. This vision integrates the landscape within the built environment, while placing a emphasis on the relationships between the scientific and artistic, social and subjective, and most important is the real and the imaginary.
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Calais Campground Located in the North most port of France, this design (completed in assosiation with Laurence Camel) caters for travelers traveling from France to England. The final design conept dirved from a process relating directly from to the context of the site and the limitiation specified in the brief.
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Bachelor of Architectural Studies
Majoring in Landscape Architecture My understanding of landscape architecture was initiated through Victoria University of Wellington. Over this three year period of my undergraduate degree, the school of architecture taught many crucial skills in architecture, urban design and most importly landscape architecture.
This reinforced confidence in this field of knowledge and created a holistic understanding of the landscape and the landscape ecology. VUW places a strong emphasis on resilience design, communication, integration with architects/interior architects and engineers.
Pipitea Precinct
Detailed Design & Construction
This scheme accommodates for the increase in people while emphasising a playful and integrated design that incorporates all types of transport. This was done through the use of fluid pathways over the entire site to pull together the main destinations in the surrounding area and making the present unoccupied concourse into an eventful and lively atmosphere.
Zone A
Pipitea Concorde Masterplan
Pathway Section
Railing Detail
I-beam to Collum Detail
Subtle Level Detail
S2
Iron Sheet Roof
S2
Wooden Beams
S1
Steel I-Beams
Handrailing
Wooden Decking
S1
Zone A - Detailed Plan FE - Aa
FE - Aa
Front Elevational Perspective
Steel I-Beam Structure
Wellington Carillon
Hand Drawn Media Exploration
Upon entering the first year of architectural studies, it become important to understand the importance of communicating a design through physical media. This project was a interpretation of different scale shifts between the Carillon and the body.