Postgraduate LA Portfolio_2016

Ryan Bailey

Postgraduate Landscape Architecture Portfolio

Leeds School of Art, Architecture and Design

Leeds Beckett University

2014 - 2016

I consider myself to be a highly motivated individual with a keen interest in design, producing creative, challenging and technically resolved designs.

This approach to my work has been influenced through my educational background, having focused on small scale design prior to commencing my BA and MA degrees in Landscape Architecture.

My experiences at this early stage in my career have provided me with a wealth of knowledge, having worked on schemes including; public realm regeneration, Quarry restoration, residential developments, green infrastructure surveys, ground condition surveys and campus designs during my Year-out at LUC, London and on my Masters degree course.

Whilst studying I have been an important member of the university, teaching AutoCAD and Adobe suite classes to Landscape Architecture students at various levels of their studies. These lessons have been integral to their study and understanding of the design process. The lessons provide both a basic and more detailed understanding of different software available and how these design tools can be used when developing designs and presenting ideas.

I am looking to gain employment within a multidisciplinary Landscape Architecture practice, hoping to become a valuable member of the team able to contribute to the production of sensitive, sustainable and functional designs solutions.

Ryan M G Bailey

n b t e a United Kingdom

49 Aruba, Gotts Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS12 1DW

06.03.1992 07930586679 rmgbla@gmail.com

Education

MA Landscape Architecture // Pg Dip - Distinction

Leeds Beckett University School of Art Architecture and Design

Cities Alive - Discovering the connection of Amsterdam Noord

Post-Industrial Rehabilitation - Springfields Country Park

Professional Studies - Introduction into the professional contracts

Personal Focus Studio - Leeds Walk-able Cities Framework Strategy

BA Landscape Architecture // First class honours degree

Leeds Beckett University School of Art Architecture and Design

Design and Community Project - Woodbridge Estate Re-development

York City Beautiful - Contemporary City Park

Art and Design Foundation // Merit

Bucks New University

Provided me with a well-rounded experience into the Arts

Contemporary explorations using mixed media

Personal focus towards 3D - Design and the early stages of Landscape

Btec 3-Dimensional Design // Distinction, Distinction, Merit

Amersham and Wycombe College

Development and Understanding of small scale objects and spaces

Furniture design and construction

Small scale spaces and exhibition design explorations

A brief overview of education, experiences and awards

2014 // Asset Skills Bursary - An award of £1000 for Design and Community project team Achievements

2016 // Landscape Institute Postgraduate award in recognition of outstanding project work

2013// Certificate of Recognition - 2nd Year BA Hons Landscape Architecture

Employment

AutoCAD and Adobe Suite Teaching and Support School of Art Architecture and Design Leeds Beckett University

Teaching classes of 1st and 2nd year Landscape Architecture students ranging from 6 to 24 pupils.

Providing a basic overview and more detailed lessons into the Adobe suite, AutoCAD and Sketch-Up

Lessons included; Photomontages, visualisation techniques, Basic overview of AutoCAD and commands and sketch design to CAD through to more detailed design drawings.

Year out Landscape Architect London (Land Use Consultants) LUC

This provided me with a rewarding and invaluable experience within a multidisciplinary consultancy. Throughout the year I developed my skills and knowledge as a designer, working alongside Landscape Architects, Landscape Managers, Planners and Ecologists.

Phoebes Landscapes

Catford, London Landscape Garden Construction

Summer work experience enhancing my construction knowledge and attending client meetings. Gardens on a range of scales from small intimate gardens to large scale gardens.

University Masters

Year Out Experience

University Undergraduate

Cities Alive

Establishing Amsterdam Noord

Major Design

Springfields Quarry Rehabilitation

Marlowe Road

A mixed tenure housing development - Walthamstow, London

Rochester Residential Development

New outline masterplan for waterside housing development

Acton

Residential Development Detailing

Hart GI Audit

Green infrastructure audit of the county of Hart

Hyde Park Ground Condition Survey Events Space Ground Condition Surveys

York Civic Park

AMSTERDAM NOORD

Bridging the north and south divide

The cities alive brief focused on the regeneration of the north of Amsterdam and possible connections to the city centre in the south. Amsterdam noord is segregated from the city centre by the expansive river IJ with frequent ferry trips transporting commuters across from the city.

This project established new bridge connections along the north shore of Amsterdam, whilst integrating green infrastructure into existing and proposed developments in the north.

The Overhoeks masterplan achieves high quality residential and working environments alongside the river IJ with green infrastructure at the forefront of all design decisions. This design thinking provides the development with attractive and friendly communities enveloped in high quality pedestrian friendly green spaces.

overhoeks masterplan

Providing high quality residential developments

Hand-drawn residential street and courtyard concepts

Hand-drawn residential concept development

residential development

Integrating green spaces and transport connectivity

The residential design has been developed with the creation of high quality pedestrian friendly networks in mind. The connection of the Buiksloterkanaal in the north-west with the river IJ in the south-west achieves this design thinking through a main pedestrian boulevard which promotes amenity value through its rich and vibrant green spaces and interspersed public and private courtyards. The intersecting tram route offers sustainable door to door connections along the north shore of Amsterdam, running from east to west.

live work neighbourhoods

Promoting a green living and working environment

The buildings have been designed in a way which allows maximum pedestrian permeability to the waters edge. This achieves a rich hierarchy of spaces running alongside the canal and office blocks. Smaller courtyards provide intimate spaces which are set back from the canals edge. This green space provides a pedestrian only waterside connection to the northern tip of the site.

The buildings feature a mix of green and brown roofscapes which improve the sites sustainability and amenity value for the residents and workers, whilst building height relationships have been designed to reduce the buildings dominance within the landscape.

Ground Floor Working Environment Floors Above Provide Living Accommodation

1. Maximum urban volume

2. Pedestrian and vehicle priority

3. Pedestrian access to the waterfront

4. Human scale, open space and parking

5. Finalised building heights

Seating to Granite Upstand

Granite Paving Strips - Dark

Granite Paving - Light

Specimen Trees and Seating

Self Binding Gravel and Tree Grove

Large Recliner Benches

Stepped Level Change

Canal

Green Roof

Quarry progression

A post industrial quarry rehabilitation programme springfields country park

The proposed rehabilitation scheme for Springfields Farm Quarry redefines the way councils approach the reclamation of quarries.

The design builds itself around the quarries ever evolving landscape, laying the foundations for the application of a progressive restoration scheme. The restoration scheme plans to progressively integrate people and nature with the quarry throughout it’s working life through 6 phases. This application exploites the quarries day to day activities and dominant features, drawing people into the park, unearthing the concealed landscape within it’s boundaries.

GREENING THE

BROWNFIELDS

Shelter

Landfill Cell 2

Landfill Cell 3

Quarry Basin Basin Bank

Amenity Grassland

Lower Wetlands

Upper Wetlands

Coppice Grove

Shelter Planting

Planting

Entrance Walk

Discovery Deck

Visitor Centre

Mounds Way

Swale Strip

Meadow Link

Dipple Extension

Landfill Cell 1

The ‘Springfields Country Park’ proposal aims to reinvigorate the working quarry based on it’s four main principals of;

country park masterplan

Quarry rehabilitation programme

1. Creating a new country park within Beaconsfield, serving the growing population and wider communities.

2. Employing a succinct phasing scheme to introduce the park to visitors at an earlier stage in the quarries planned lifespan.

3. Creating ecologically rich habitats for the safe establishment of nature within the quarry.

4. Providing an innovative and educational restoration scheme which captures the publics attention, attracting visitors to the park.

retained buildings and structures

Enhanced industrial environments reference the sites former use

The Country Park proposals employ an enhancement strategy which re-uses existing buildings and structures, restoring, re-cladding and re-purposing them for assimilation within the parkland setting. The buildings and structures will retain much of their existing character, allowing the retention of the quarries industrial past, administering a new lease of life.

The main quarry building and silos will form the main focal point of the park, creating a point of reference for visitors, but also a notable insight into the landscapes past environment. The building itself will be renovated and expanded, creating opportunities for the visitor centre which will be home to an information point, the quarries educational transformation exhibition, gallery spaces and a cafe and eatery.

The existing secondary structures on-site will see the transformation from quarry machinery to observation towers with integrated play spaces.

Views strategy and technical resolution observation

observation platform

Technical detailing

OP2 (Observation Platform 2) has been the focus for the decking exploration within the technical resolution and aims to showcase how it’s form and function can be achieved through construction, suitably chosen materials and engaging design detailing.

Cor-ten steel balustrade detailinformation plaques

Cor-ten steel balustrade detailViewing window

site sections - upper wetlands to mounds way

Level change exploration and retaining features

Waste mounds way paths

Gabion basket retaining seating

coppice walk

Sequential biennial coppicing management

Sequential biennial coppicing management regime employing a 12 year rotation cycle around a primary and secondary ride system.

Primary rides - also providing main path routes

Secondary rides - Informal paths

Year of cutting

Indicative non-coppice areas comprising multi-stem and standard trees

Marginal/Aquatic Planting

Multi-stem walk

Tree Planting

Species (Latin Name)

Betula Pendula

Betula Pendula

Betula utilis jacquemontii

Betula utilis jacquemontii

Betula utilis jacquemontii

Corylus Avellana

Corylus Avellana

Corylus Avellana

Castanea Sativa

Castanea Sativa

Understory Planting

Species

(Latin Name)

Anemone nemorosa

Allium ursinum

Brachypodium sylvaticum

Dryopteris filix-mas

Euphorbia amygdaloides robbiae

Hyacinthoides non-scripta

Luzula sylvatica ‘Marginata’

Luzula pilosa

Polystichum setiferum

Woodland

Species (Common Name)

Silver Birch

Silver Birch

Himalayan Birch

Himalayan Birch

Himalayan Birch

Hazel

Hazel

Hazel

Sweet Chestnut

Sweet Chestnut

Fully furnished: Rootballed

Fully furnished feather: bareroot

Fully furnished: Rootballed

Fully furnished: Rootballed

Multi Stemmed: Rootballed

Multi Stemmed: Rootballed

Multi Stemmed: Rootballed

Feather: Bareroot

Transplant 1+1: Bareroot

Whip: 1 break

Species (Common Name) Specification

Wood anemone

Wild Garlic

Wood brome

Male fern

Mrs Robb’s Bonnet

Bluebell

Great

Hairy wood-rush

Soft shield fern

- 2.5m Min.

- 0.8m Min.

Ultimate - 0.3-0.9m

- 1.5 x 1.0m

- 0.5 x 0.5m

Ultimate - 0.5 x 0.5m

- 0.3m

- 0.5 x 1.5m Ultimate - 1.5 x 1.0m

Birch Buffer

Coppice

ecological buffer zones

Safe areas for habitats to thrive away from human interaction

The ‘ecological buffer zones’ have been designed into the parkland as ‘safe areas’ for wildlife. These are areas not intended for any anthropogenic use, but are instead reserved for the preservation of plants and nature. Fig C shows the indicative location of this area within the retained quarry areas. This diagrams depicts how the ‘ecological buffer zones’ are intended to function and how they will be integrated into the parkland.

Within the retained quarrying area main pathways have been provided to encourage human interaction within the landscape (fig B), however, these do not encroach on the quarries edge allowing the creation of a ‘buffer zone’. Informal pathways have been designed to encourage user exploration away from the buffer zones.

Fig A - Schematic Diagram showing ecological buffer zone and decking walkway

Fig B - Decking walkway route character

Fig C - Schematic Diagram showing ecological buffer zone in quarry area

ecological habitat creation

Retain existing quarry setting

Through the feasibility study and research carried out for the site it was found that Sand Martins are popular inhabitants of quarries and sightings have already been made at Springfields Farm Quarry. It was therefore imperative that Sand Martins nests were to be catered for in the design of the country park and that their habitats were not designed out.

This has been achieved through artificially created nests within the quarries banks encouraging wildlife, creating suitable and stable habitats for the Sand Martin colonies.

Location Plan

Nest detail

1:100 Section - Typical quarry sand bank with Sand Martin nests installed

Nesting Season

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

marlowe road

Mixed residential housing, Walthamstow, London

Programme

A new development in the north-east of London, providing a mixed tenure residential scheme comprising shared streets, an integrated public plaza with ground floor amenities such as shops and a cafe and a play area to the south.

Responsibilities

Throughout this project I assisted on site visits, client and community member meetings, site analysis, masterplan drawings, renderings and planning details which all fed into the Design and Access report.

The masterplan

Mixed tenure residential and public realm

Plan view - Totem signage and bollards

Section - Totem signage

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

Under bridge connection to

Roman wall conserved/enhanced

Arches cafe and terrace

Vintage point

Acorn wharf screen planting

M.U.G.A

Land art

Active arches - arches

Castle

Hotel

Hotel,

Proposed

Creative uses

New

New

Historic

Natural

Wetlands/attenuation

Furrell’s view

Boardwalk

Entrance

Undercroft

ROCHESTER RIVERSIDE

A waterside development comprising 1500 new dwellings

Programme

Outline planning masterplan for a mixed tenure development of roughly 1500 new dwellings in a waterside location just north of Maidstone on the east coast of England.

Responsibilities

This project required a fast turnaround for the provision of a landscape masterplan and rendering which was required for an outline planning application for the development. The landscape consisted of both private and public open spaces which are characterised by the sites riverside setting, creek formations and industrial character.

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

acton phase 7

Acton phase 7 residential detailing

Programme

Acton Phase 7 forms an area of a much larger housing development in West London. The housing development encompasses mixed tenure housing with high quality public spaces.

Responsibilities

Within this project I was involved in the process of compiling drawings which would feed into a Stage E construction detailing package. Within the detailing for this site I looked into the construction of the ‘play mounds’ through the use of reclaimed railway sleepers (left) and various paving build-ups across the development (below),

HART GI AUDIT

A green infrastructure audit for the district of Hart

Programme

Hart green infrastructure audit saw the assessment of all it’s open green spaces and areas of recreation.

Responsibilities

This project saw the assessment of over 200 green spaces within the District of Hart. Using the form below myself and my colleague visited the District for 6 days and assessed these open spaces based on the principals set out in the forms below. Within this time we quickly built up

York civic park

Flood alleviation parkland

York civic park envisaged a new park within the city located at the historic monument of Cliffords Tower.

York is susceptible to yearly floods from the rivers bursting their banks and the parks positioning at the confluence of the River Ouse and Foss meant that the park had to be capable of dealing with frequent flooding. Design solutions included a series of wetlands and a skatepark basin that was capable of storing flood water.

1 : 150 scale axonometric drawing

Granite Paving Specified sizes

GRA921 Black granite flamed texture

Bespoke Seating element

Granite setts

100 x 100 x 200

GRA903 mid grey granite flamed texture

activating the waters edge

Designing for human interaction with the waters edge

Bespoke Seating element

Granite setts

100 x 100 x 200

GRA903 mid grey granite flamed texture

Granite Paving

GRA921 Black granite flamed texture

1 : 50 scale section