'The Hub', Sugar House Island

Professional Project

Southern tip of Planit London's 26 acre flagship project 'Sugar House Island'. Public waterfront space, rain gardens, and activated frontage all work to create a year round destination point for East London.

Working as master planners and landscape architects for all public realm in Sugar House Island, I was part of a team working with Vastint to develop this mixed use, East London based scheme to planning.

I was in part responsible for design development, visualisation, detailed drawing package, and modelling.

The Hub is a new piece of public realm that has to answer to the necessity of highquality open space in East London, bettering pedestrian connectivity across the Grand Union Canal and River Lee. There is a response to its immediate heritagerich surroundings through materiality and view finding. An open centre of flexible space is punctuated with rills that feed an adjoining rain garden. Naturalistic tree planting along the west border channels views south, towards the grade 1 listed Three Mills complex.

Clear successions of spatial qualities inform programming and use to create a free flowing space that can integrate seamlessly into its wider London context.

Battersea Park Road, Battersea

Professional Project

Accompanying landscape to the social housing fulfilment of Battersea Park. Rich and varied planting design was one of the key design tools used to create a respite from tough surroundings.

Rendered masterplan 1:500@A1 (Vectorworks, Photoshop)

Working with FBM architects, this scheme was taken from bid to Stage 3.

As part of a team, I was responsible for initial bid, concept and design development, visualisation, and planting design.

Planting was at the heart of this scheme, directly contrasting a context devoid of natural landscape. Successions of planting typologies are used to frame views and entrances, shelter spill-out and play, and inject colour, texture, and depth into a shared public space. Aside from dedicated 'wild' space, planting characters are designed to distil essences of natural landscape and amplify their key characteristics, better lending itself to matching the intensity of a surrounding mega city.