Oliver Barden / Portfolio

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Oliver Barden / Edinburgh College of Art

Portfolio of Works

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Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis 2O11

oliver.barden@gmail.com


Oliver Barden / Edinburgh College of Art oliver.barden@gmail.com

Portfolio of Works

2OO6 - 2O11 LEVEL 5 / Edinburgh College of Art Al Ain Oasis / UAE ‘11 Tempelhof / Berlin ‘1O

LEVEL 4 / Townshend Landscape Architects, London

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LEVEL 3 / The University of Melbourne, Australia

‘O9 Edinburgh College of Art Irwell Valley / Manchester ‘O8

LEVEL 2 /

Edinburgh College of Art ‘O7 - ‘O8

LEVEL 1 /

Edinburgh College of Art ‘O6 - ‘O7



Edinburgh College of Art Al Ain Oasis / UAE

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Al Ain Oasis 2011


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Edinburgh College of Art

TRANSITIONAL STRATEGIES / AL AIN OASIS / UAE

There is an Inventory of Oases which spreads across the world. They show a unique relationship between man and nature, in sustaining their respective cities in inhospitable conditions.

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

This role is changing due to technological advancement, this poses the question of their future role to the modern desert city, Situated 16Okm toward the inland desert from the capital city of Abu Dhabi, Al Ain is known as the garden city, thought of as the most authentic city within the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, it has managed to preserve many attributes of its cultural and natural environment. The unique culture and sense of place intrinsic to Al Ain stems from the natural / cultural / social unit known as the Oasis.

Individual Portfolio

The key role the Oasis has played in the development and still play in the overall character of Al Ain is evident, however the diminishing reliance on the palm in the context of Al Ain as an economic means, has left the Oasis, a cultural jewel, stranded with an unclear purpose and relationship to the surrounding city. The Oasis no longer constitutes the main driver for development and growth.

Al Ain Oasis 2011

The oasis a fundamentally agricultural landscape offers the potential for many other uses; it is the intention of this project to expand the role of the Oasis in the urban setting, creating a framework through which the Oasis can be revived and become an active catalyst for future change in the city itself.



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Al Ain Oasis 2011

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The Oasis is no longer a productive place, the palms have been allowed to take over, the under planting of fruit, salad crops and vegetables beneath the palm trees no longer takes place. There is a series of ancient traditions and practices which if not re initiated could be lost for future generations. Change to the role of the Oasis as a focus of the city has had an impact on the historical and authentic aspects of the Oasis. The main loss has been socially; they were no longer the centre of life and development in the city.

Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis

The falaj system, which was devised to bring water down to the Oases, is not in good health. Water is still crucial to the health of the community, however it is severely constrained. Contamination with pesticides is also a concern.

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Once inside the Oasis, this sense of isolation continues, enforced by high exterior walls. Many of the original walls have been replaced with nontraditional concrete versions.

Edinburgh College of Art

Today the heart of Al Ain, the city’s main Oasis, is isolated from the wider urban realm. The introduction of block morphologies in the 196O’s isolated the Oasis inside of a city block. This geometric layout shut of a dialogue between the Oasis and its urban context.

Oasis Inventory

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENTAL CONTEXT /


PRINCIPLES This project aims to create a set of principles for Oasis treatment which can be applied in a variety of different situations SHADING

Edinburgh College of Art NATURAL VENTILATION

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Built form positioned + cut into strips to channel cool winds

FORM DICTATED BY WALL GEOMETRIES

Individual Portfolio Al Ain Oasis 2011

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF EXISTING HUMIDITY

FILTER ACCESS + VIEWS TO OASIS

PLANTING ISLAMIC COURTYARDS

Principles extended from the oasis. Planting techniques, provide opportunity for buffering of wind, enhancing natural ventilation and cooling ground surfaces.


Design Principles Edinburgh College of Art

Max. height of date palm / + 13.OO m

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis

Max. height of date palm / + 13.OO m

Oasis Level / - 3.OO m The Oasis should dictate the character of its peripheral zones so as to reassert it as the cultural centre of the city and to ensure that it is visible and accessible.

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PUBLIC REALM 10 Market Square / Events platform 11 Main Boulevard + vehicular access 12 Spill Out from Food Hall 13 Souk courtyard 14 Cultural Centre / Museum Gardens 15 Mosque gardens 23

16 Orchard planting 17 Water channels - Passive cooling /

connective tool between Oasis and City

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18 Surface pool 19 Extensions of Oasis character

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GREEN EXTENSIONS 22 Pilot Plots [demonstrate 3-tiered

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23 Oasis Gardens facing the City 24 Planting boulevards to link into

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26 Ramp into Oasis 27 Transition zone between Urban landscape

and Oasis -Break from Palm planting to consolidate the existing symbolic Oasis + differentiate between new additions


URBAN OASIS / This edge highlights well how extensions of the Oasis character into the urban realm and also how contractions can be made into the Oasis form to provide social spaces within it. Edinburgh College of Art

The Oasis has a precedent for dictating urban form at its edges, it was this that I wanted to reinstigate as a tool for reconnecting the city into the Oasis. This project negotiates the space between the Oasis and the city using built form and the extension of the Oasis walls, creating a variable series of Courtyards, alleyways and vegetated public hard spaces that dissolve the mass of the intervention without disturbing its place and form establishing figuration.

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

The form is dictated by its environment and close proximity to the Oasis extending the logic found in the Oasis conditions into the urban realm. Planting techniques, provide opportunity for buffering of wind, enhancing natural ventilation and cooling ground surfaces. The form of this extension is based on the concept of extending the Oasis walls providing a backbone from which the building can rest on. Their alignment is influenced by the wind direction, narrow alleyways filter wind through the courtyard forms.

Individual Portfolio

Three main boulevards maintain visual connections between the city and the Oasis and filter pedestrian movement through to the oasis, whereas the previous souk configuration channelled movement horizontally across it.

Al Ain Oasis 2011


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis

Urban Oasis

WALL PRINCIPLES THE NEW SOUK BECOMES PART OF THE OASIS WALL



Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Open up the Oasis to the community again. Oasis becomes a integrated part of the city infrastructure.

Edinburgh College of Art

Contraction into the Oasis. Creation of public landscapes which take advantage of the qualities intrinsic to the Oasis.

Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis

Oasis Park / Plan

OASIS PARK


URBAN OASIS / Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Individual Portfolio

Al Ain Oasis 2011

OPEN COURTYARD BUILDINGS

Extension of Oasis walls Fragmented Oasis edge


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

PATTERN PERFORATING EDGES Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis Sketch development


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Individual Portfolio

Al Ain Oasis 2011


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis

Oasis Park / Visuals


Edinburgh College of Art

TRANSITION BETWEEN ORIGIN OASIS + NEW EXTENSIONS INTO URBAN REALM / The Oasis offers the city residents and visitors respite from the heat and fulfils the desire for lushness and greenness in the desert environment but at present it is out of reach.

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Contracting a public park into Oasis opens up this resource to the City and ensures that it becomes an integrated part of the citys infrastructure. Currently the height difference of 3 metres between city level and Oasis floor creates a disconnection, aided by the exterior wall, by terracing this edge it creates a transitional edge between the Urban realm and the original Oasis It is intended to simultaneously create a link and platform for interaction with the Oasis as well as clearly defining the boundary between historic / symbolic Oasis and its extension into the urban realm.

Individual Portfolio

This is managed through a break in planting. Whilst the palm has become a urban tree in the city of Al Ain and is utilised in the strategic sense of connecting the Oasis and outer city, this transitional edge is planted with alternative species, to consolidate an original / symbolic Oasis.

Al Ain Oasis 2011 Oasis Level / - 3.OO m

Max. height of date palm / + 13.OO m

Lower level of date palm / + 7.OO m

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Transitional Level / - 2.OO m

City Level / +O.OO m

Edinburgh College of Art

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Al Ain Oasis 2011

BUILD UP

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The diminishing ground water which supplies the Oasis Falaj is a pressing issue, by using plant species such as Olive and Oleander on this edge, they can be irrigated by desalinated water which is being pumped from the coast. Keeping the two types of water separate will still allow the palms to be productive. These details show how this could be achieved.

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Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis

Details


LIGHT TOUCH / The park surfaces [grass, platforms / paths ] have been designed as raised insertions into the original Oasis.

Edinburgh College of Art

This creates a clear definition between Oasis layer and new layers of human intention. The raised platforms also serve a practical role, the palms are irrigated by flooding the plots , raising the walkways and park areas allows constant access and brings visitors into

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Individual Portfolio

ii Concrete base iii Sandstone facing iv Support to sandstone facing

Al Ain Oasis 2011

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Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis

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Transitional Edge

This is punctuated by three key insertions which dovetail the Oasis interior and connect it to key positions in the surrounding urban realm, Each operates towards the different users of the Oasis

Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis

The Easter Edge is envisaged as a soft armature The continuity of the Oasis edge gradually filters into the peripheral spaces and urban form through the deployment of a gradient of open spaces and vegetative surfaces.

Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

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Edinburgh College of Art

AGRICULTURAL ECOLOGIES THAT SHOULD BE PRESENT IN THE OASIS / The Oasis no longer shows the 3 tiers of vegetation which make an Oasis efficient, the palm tree has been allowed to overtake.

Faculty of Landscape Architecture Individual Portfolio

Current condition

Al Ain Oasis 2011

Palm canopy

Palm / understory

Palm / understory / ground cover

Palm ground cover


Carpet

Understory shade

Understory Environment

Protected Edges

Planting ecologies Edinburgh College of Art

Orchard

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis

The soft Eastern Armature extends the logic found in the ecologies of the Oasis and the Falaj system The gradient between Oasis and urban form along this edge, takes cues from the composition of the Oasis itself and the ecologies that are present or should be present.


MURABBAA FORT

Al Ain Oasis 2011 Perimeter Orchards

Oasis Park

Urban form ‘dovetailed’ into Oasis

Transitional ecologies

Desert landscape

Water testing plots

Individual Portfolio Opening up Wadi

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Water gardens

NAQFA HILL

NATIONAL MUSEUM

JEBEL HAFIT

Edinburgh College of Art

TRANSITIONAL OASIS


Plaza

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Future expansion

Oasis Clearing

ROYAL PALACE

Proliferation of Oasis character through use of palm

Pilot plots

SAND DUNES

SOUKS



Edinburgh College of Art Tempelhof / Berlin

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Water mirror

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Urban beach

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Retention water pools

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Pocket swimming pools

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Water channels

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Raised walkway / events stage

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Existing hard standing

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Concrete etching

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Tree blocks

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Landform shard

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Amenity grassland

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Bound gravel entrance platform

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Old railway path

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Concrete boundary path

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Wetland pools

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Green linear park

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Raised matrix of paths + platforms

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Cycling path

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Natural succession forest

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Intensified sports complex

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Boulevard link through cemetery

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Flexible community plots

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Amenity grass strips

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Intensified housing edge

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Fruit trees

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Specimen tree avenues

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Caged hedge boundary

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Beech + birch + pine forest

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Islamic cemetery

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Flexible use entrance platform

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Nodal point

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New mixed use zone

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Frontage space for new building uses

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Transport hub

OLIVER BARDEN MA5 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE TEMPELHOF AIRFIELD


SPILL OUT FOR NEW BUILDING USES

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Design / Strategy / Intervention

Tempelhof Airfield 2010

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This design project focuses on producing a framework which determines the main relationships between Tempelhof Airfield and the surrounding citys open spaces and urban areas, whilst at the same time allowing flexibility for future changes and new uses.

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The garden festival has been utilized as a method to instigate a site wide framework for Tempelhof. Key moves such as the planting structure and the water body has been utilised to delineate separate functional areas. It is acknowledged that not every demand can be foreseen at present; as such flexibility is key to this plan. Keeping the character of Tempelhof, its large open spaces largely intact would allow for future expansion to be introduced seamlessly. The project started from an extensive character analysis of the surrounding neighbourhoods, as Tempelhof had long been an inaccessible island, the surrounding urban areas have developed at different rates, separated spatially and socially from each other, resulting in a disconnected relationship. What was taken from this approach was a major East / West divide. This can be seen by how the park is being used at current. The East portion adjoining Neukollen makes use of the site for everyday amenity, the west is the focus of visitor and destination users. As such this project seeks to diffuse the edge boundaries connecting the park with its surroundings and acknowledge that each neighbouring community might need something different, in terms of programming, from the park. The boundaries of the park are brought in, creating smaller more manageable ‘parks within parks’ one way of achieving this is through utilising the water structure as a site boundary.

Tempelhof Airfield

Tempelhof Airport closed all operations in 2OO8, since then it has been the focus of an international design competition to turn the site into an international park which will also host the 2O17 IGA, Germany’s world horticultural exhibition.

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

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Edinburgh College of Art

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Edinburgh College of Art

APPROACH / Creating environments that respond to the parks immediate urban fringes. Recognizing that each may require something different

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

To break the overriding feeling that Tempelhof is an Island creating by strict boundaries and fencing, the aim is to diffuse these and bring the character of its surroundings inwards towards the park. It is important for Tempelhof to become an integrated part of the Cities green spaces The surfaces at Tempelhof are a major part of its character and clues to its past life as an airfield. The processes of degradation which are happening here create an interesting pattination which has been embraced by its users. I felt it important to add a new layer of design intention onto the park to affect its longevity and programming, however this new layer should sit on top of the existing surfaces,

Design / Strategy / Intervention Tempelhof Airfield 2010

Connections with surrounding green spaces

Diffusing the boundaries

A new layer which does not effect the processes which are taking place now


Flexible use, accommodate spill over from events

Extension of cemetery possible location of new mosque

Extension of urban form linking Neukolln to park

Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis

Framework - extension of existing grid

Approach

FLEXIBILITY /


INTERNATIONAL GARDEN FESTIVAL /

Edinburgh College of Art

The garden festival was a main component of this project and allows the opportunity to create a large-scale framework for the future Tempelhof Park. Tempelhof offers 137ha for the festival. Spatially it is organised around the Western edge to make use of the existing building and so as not to alienate the community of Neukollen who use the park the most on a daily basis.

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

It is imperative to keep the park operating whilst the garden festival is running; the water element forms the main boundary between the two.

Design / Strategy / Intervention Tempelhof Airfield 2010


Hard surfaces & path matrix

Garden Festival Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis

Tree structure as part of the garden festival

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Water pools + land form shards

Edinburgh College of Art

Open amenity grassland

Plots for show gardens

Garden Festival spatial framework

Key moves such as the planting structure and the water body has been utilized to delineate separate functional areas. It is acknowledged that not every demand can be foreseen at present; as such flexibility is key to this plan. Keeping the character of Tempelhof, its large open spaces largely intact would allow for future expansion to happen seamlessly.


Edinburgh College of Art Faculty of Landscape Architecture

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IGA / Visuals / Time Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis Edinburgh College of Art

This linear park serves as a connection between the neighbourhoods surrounding Tempelhof and act as a highly designed green finger cutting through the site. As part of the garden festival there will be a series of show gardens along this space [A + B], post festival the planting will naturalise [B1].

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

GREENING OF ONE RUNWAY /

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Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Design / Strategy / Intervention

Tempelhof Airfield 2010

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Ice skating strip

Water mirror


A graded ‘urban beach’ sits at the beginning of the structure which flows through several level changes resulting in a boggy natural wetland area. This variety of characters offers a lot of ecosystem variety and interaction opportunities from the public.

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Fluctuations

Water Structure Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis

Its use is as storm water retention ponds harvesting rainwater from across the site and also greater area. Overlapping this is the potential for several recreational uses, pocket swimming pools fit within the natural flow of water that is taking place. These pools are walled and do not receive runoff from the site.

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

The water structure is utilised as a site boundary separating the IGA from the remainder of the park and post festival separating event areas from the park

Edinburgh College of Art

WATER STRUCTURE /


POCKET SWIMMING POOLS / Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Design / Strategy / Intervention

Tempelhof Airfield 2010


Pocket Pools Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Each section of this water structure is split into a series of walled compartments at varying heights, retaining water at different rates When low a series of path become accessible, creating a variety of experiences.

Edinburgh College of Art

WATER CAPACITY /


Edinburgh College of Art

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Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Design / Strategy / Intervention

Tempelhof Airfield 2010

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The roof of the building will be used as stadium seating with a view of the stage platform below.


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis

Water Structure / Visuals


INTERIM STAGES Each stage of planting is not indeterminable and each has a character of its own.

FOREST FORM - poplar nigra planted as an interim stage to give instant form to forest 0-5 years

5-15 years

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For example Poplar nigra will be planted from year 1 to give form to the forested areas whilst the beech, birch + pine are allowed to grow. Poplar nigra planted to give structure

Beech and birch take over existing

Pine becomes dominant

Pine forest + foreign species

PINE BEECH AND BIRCH FOREST DEVELOPMENT

Tempelhof Airfield 2010

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Betula Spp. Fagus Sylvatica Pinus Sylvestris

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Betula Spp. Fagus Sylvatica Pinus Sylvestris Foreign Species

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Cherry

Design / Strategy / Intervention

Poplar nigra is fast growing and will give an instant effect. Over a period of 25 years it will have a character of its own, gradually being thinned allowing the other species to take over.

Hazel

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

The overall structure of forest will be planted, however there will be stages within that where a new character is introduced for a period of time

Poplar

Edinburgh College of Art

PLANTING APPROACH /

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Betula Spp. Fagus Sylvatica Pinus Sylvestris Foreign Species

>50 years

Pinus Sylvestris

DEVELOPMENT OF NATURAL SUCCESSION FOREST 0-1 years

Disturbed ground Pioneer forest species Betula Spp. Fagus Sylvatica

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Betula Spp. Fagus Sylvatica Exotic species Hardwood tree species

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Betula Spp. Fagus Sylvatica Exotic species Hardwood tree species

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Planting Approach / Time Transitional Strategies / Al Ain Oasis Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Poplar nigra

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Natural succession forest Enhancing the development of ecosystems that are existing. Natural succession will be activated through disturbance of the ground.

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Edinburgh College of Art

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University of Melbourne / Australia / Berlin

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University of Melbourne

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

Designing the Artful Landscape

Laneways Commission 2009


This project seeks to celebrate these small areas of activity to highlight them and make their presence known. The ideas of temporality and transformation are imperative to this scheme. This installation will move locations over time, highlighting the spaces where it sits, though the application of standard sized weaved panels, as the installation moves more panels will be added, resulting in an accumulation of material over time. The final proposal as a response to the cities laneways, involves the materials reinterpretation in a highly public space within Melbourne, in stark contrast to the hidden laneways where this installation begins. The aim is to highlight the different levels of exposure present in the city and show to a greater public these areas of activity which lie in the unchartered cracks of the city itself.

Designing the Artful Landscape

This proposal focuses on the people who use the laneways at present, mainly workers on their break. Activity occurs here on a level which the greater city does not notice.

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

Working under the laneway commission, this project focuses on the installation of a temporary artwork within a city laneway, the so perceived cracks within the city itself.

University of Melbourne

Melbourne, Australia

Intervention 2009

DESIGNING THE ARTFUL LANDSCAPE /


University of Melbourne

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

Designing the Artful Landscape

Laneways Commission 2009


University of Melbourne

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

Designing the Artful Landscape

Intervention 2009


University of Melbourne

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

Designing the Artful Landscape

Laneways Commission, 2009


University of Melbourne

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

Designing the Artful Landscape

Design sheet 02


University of Melbourne

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

Designing the Artful Landscape

Laneways Commission, 2009


University of Melbourne

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

Designing the Artful Landscape

Workbook


University of Melbourne

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

Designing the Artful Landscape

Workbook


University of Melbourne

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

Designing the Artful Landscape

Workbook


University of Melbourne

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

Designing the Artful Landscape

Laneways Commission, 2009


University of Melbourne

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

Designing the Artful Landscape

Primary studies


University of Melbourne

Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning

Designing the Artful Landscape

Laneways Commission, 2009




Edinburgh College of Art Irwell Valley / Manchester

‘O8

LEVEL 3 /


IRWELL VALLEY / Edinburgh College of Art

Manchester, UK

This project deals with the retrofitting of a series of disused industrial sites situated along the river Irwell.

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

A disused sewage works forms the main focus, it promises to be both the catalyst for and the heart of this new scheme. The structures left there allow an opportunity to engage the public with the processes which take place in such sites and how they can be changed to purify water in an ecologically sound way.

Landscape Reclamation

The project as a whole aims to become a testing ground for new technologies, allowing the community and visitors to the area to visualise the processes that are taking place, to value their purpose as well as their aesthetic.

Irwell Valley 2008


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Landscape Reclamation

Connections


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Landscape Reclamation

Irwell Valley 2008


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Landscape Reclamation

Irwell Valley 2008


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Landscape Reclamation

Irwell Valley 2008


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Landscape Reclamation

Masterplan



Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Landscape Reclamation

Visual


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Landscape Reclamation

Irwell Valley 2008


Irwell Valley 2009 Landscape Reclamation Faculty of Landscape Architecture Edinburgh College of Art

The temporal fluctuations and experiences were key in this project, as was the acknowledgement of an ecological aesthetic. Throughout history different groups have left their marks on the landscape, the evident group being addressed in this project is that of industry, it is important to acknowledge these layers and add to them with a new interpretation of the landscape. This area offers a unique opportunity to capitalise on the relationship between man and nature and how this can be harvested for the production of energy.


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Landscape Reclamation

Irwell Valley 2008


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Landscape Reclamation

Seasonal change


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Landscape Reclamation

Irwell Valley 2008


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Landscape Reclamation

Connections



Edinburgh College of Art

‘O7 / O8

LEVEL 2 /


PILRIG PARK / Edinburgh Edinburgh College of Art

The first step in this project was the realisation that the parks current incarnation was not meeting the needs of its local users or visitors from further afield.

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

This is a park which holds many layers of history relating to the estate house which still sits in its grounds. As such the design derives from this history and seeks to reconnect the estate house to its grounds and re-establish, visually a major axis which connects the park to Arthurs seat a major way finding tool for people within the city of Edinburgh.

Park Design

The main element within the proposal is the reinterpretation of a Physics garden which once sat on the site and formed the basis for the royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. Through this the park will be reprogrammed to fulfil the criteria of a contemporary urban space.

Pilrig Park, 2008


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Park Design

Pilrig Park, Masterplan


Edinburgh College of Art

GRANTON PRIMARY SCHOOL/ Edinburgh

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

The aim in this project was to develop a new atmosphere for child’s play without the need for prescriptive play equipment with designated and lineated areas for this. This was achieved through the manipulation of landform made from both synthetic materials and natural grasses, resulting in an undulating landform, a space which is visually stimulating and engaging for children, both visually and to the other senses.

Design with Architects Granton waterfront Primary School, 2008


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Design with Architects

Granton waterfront Primary School / sketch


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Design with Architects

Granton waterfront Primary School, 2008


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Design with Architects

Granton waterfront Primary School / Model


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Urban Design and Housing

Kirk Newton, 2007


Kirk Newton, 2007 Urban Design and Housing

This housing project sits on a highly visible ridge above the village of Kirk Newton in the outskirts of Edinburgh. The design seeks to minimise the intrusion of this development on the hillside when viewed from the valley below and creates a strong road frontage on its opposite edge. The land has been sculpted so that the houses sit on relative flat ground, trees have been planted densely on the slopes to provide both privacy and wind break. The project uses language derived from the original farm buildings which were on site, of which the main courtyard has been retained Shared surfaces and courtyards are used to create a series of spaces, both on an intimate level, shared by houses in a particular courtyard and on a whole development scale by providing open recreational land and a community orchard, space in which a community can develop.

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Edinburgh

Edinburgh College of Art

KIRKNEWTON/


Edinburgh College of Art Faculty of Landscape Architecture Landscape Planning Faskally Forest, 2007

FASKALLY FOREST/ Pitlochry, Scotland

The focus of this project was the production of a management scheme for Faskally Forest, one which would aid its activity reprogramming. The Forest sits on the River Tummel, my focus was on the activation of this riverfrontage, through the incorporation of structures which would allow people to step out onto the water. These structures would not only frame strategic views but also would act as moorings, fishing spots and habitats for local wildlife by providing a green roof. This green roof would minimise the visual intrusion of these structures when viewed from above.


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Landscape Planning

Faskally Forest, 2007



Edinburgh College of Art Tempelhof / Berlin

‘O6 / O7

LEVEL 1 /


SEQUENTIAL VIEWS / Edinburgh

Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Design / Space / Graphics

Sequential Views, 2006


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

Design / Space / Graphics

Sketchbook, extract, 2006

SKETCHES /

Edinburgh


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

First Year Studies

Print making, 2006


Edinburgh College of Art

Faculty of Landscape Architecture

First Year Studies

Print making, 2006



Oliver James Barden oliver.barden@gmail.com



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