Portfolio Landscape Architect Thomas Annand
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Kuku Beach community farm
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Tactile landscapes
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Christchurch resilience white paper
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Mount Victoria community garden
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Other work
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Education and Skills
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1 Kuku Beach community Farm The Kuku Beach Farm project was looking at alternative land use strategies for low laying dunelands on the east coast of New Zealand, of which predominately is occupied by the harmful agricultural practices inherent to New Zealand’s rural landscape. In conjunction with local Iwi (Maori tribes) and the Victoria University, students and Iwi collaborated to create new and sustainable visions for there land. The Kuku Beach Farm looks to create a sustainable farming practice incorporating permaculture principles to suit the variable land types occurring on site. The disposition of the Iwi’s land creates a patchwork of land plots in the rural landscape, and was in need to create legible and direct links between the plots. Other land surrounding the land in question was still functioning as dairy farms and the like, so thresholds were to provide safe an secure transition from property to property, similar to a cattle stop.
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2 Tactile landscapes This project comprised of a small scale temporary intervention creating new productive urban space in the old redunant urban fabric. Consisiting of simple planters and bird houses. Creating habitat in urban environments for both human, flora, and fauna. The life span of the project could be a catalyst to a wider scale inhabitation as the components are easily transported and configured to numerous locations in a city.
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The Christchurch resilience White paper was undertaken as a group based research paper, of which we analysed problems arisen as a result of the Christchurch earthquakes. The groups investigations revealed implications of the city’s street network. The document focuses on the vulnerabilties of its network, and proposing how its elements might provide better mobility under pressure, and the aim to decrease dependency of elements within the street network on one another. My main focus was looking at the pedestrian and cycle scale network. Development of the street network was aiming to enable greater permeability for all transport modes across the different scales, in order to create less dependancy on arterial routes in moments of civil emergencies.
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Following from the White paper the further development of a neighbourhood scale. The area of focus was to explore a specific network in the Christchurch CBD, where several significant features of the city are situated. However these spaces are all demand huge resources and time for the maintained image. The proposal challenges how we percieve these spaces and develop new and healthy alternatives of landuse management strategies amongst the old and traditional occupation of these sites. Simple design moves like meadow land, swales, and mitigating planting to help mitigate pollutants, while also dramatically reducing the direct and indirect dependency of fossil fuels.
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1. Meadow land and existing program 2. Development key and information 3, Sub irrigated planter/street furniture suite
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1. Streetscape development, plan view 2. Intersection and tram line intergration, plan view 3. Streetscape components: a. rain gardens b. lamp post, hanging plants c. planter/ furniture suite d. large road run off swale
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4 mount victoria community garden Detailed construction drawing suite for the Mount Victoria community garden produced as part of regeneration project of the former Mount Victoria Bowls club. The site situated within the boundaries of the Wellington City town belt. 1.
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5 Other work
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1. Ornamental versus productive growing in NYC 2. Pencil sketch and digital collage 3. Digital sketch
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6 education • Bachelor of Design Major in Landscape Architecture (BDes Hons)
• School of Architecture Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (2008-2011)
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Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, and Illustrater AutoCAD Google Sketch Up Rhino Arc GIS
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