Landscape. is Ham House Surrey (slide show of images).......

Landscape. is Ham House Surrey

I visited Ham House in Surrey which is just down the road from Kingston Upon Thames. I visited Ham House On the 27th December 2005, it was on record to this date the coldest day of the year and on record. I cant even think of any way in describing how chilly this day was, or the past fewe days after that!. Anyway i have already posted about Ham House, but it is such a tranquil place and shows of with true beauty at this time of year that i have put together a slide show of it................................

Landscape. is Drawing development and recording of Materials......

A project i carried out around Knights park consisted of working in a group and recording the qualities of the material styles. I have recorded this by gathering rubbings of the surfaces of materialds and also scale drawings of the objects that are on the site. Enjoy..........................























Rubbing of the brick work materail.






















Scale drawing of the paving.

















Map showing the surrounding areas of where are site was.




















Map showing from a questionaire where people travel into kingston on a day to day basis.
















Information and photos on the site.




















Sketches and quick diagrams done of the site.

















Sketches of Teddington Lock.

Landscape. is Drawing development and recording of Materials......

A project i carried out around Knights park consisted of working in a group and recording the qualities of the material styles. I have recorded this by gathering rubbings of the surfaces of materialds and also scale drawings of the objects that are on the site. Enjoy..........................

Landscape. is The River Thames from Kew Peir to Greenwich

Ok so in December of 2005 we all went on a boat journey (known as a sea voyage of discovery by some), down the River Thames. We started by gathering in a large motly crew by Kew peir, and then started are journey down the Mighty River Thames. It was brilliant to see how the city develops and changes with its high rise sky scapers as you progress more and more into the beutiful city of London. The only down side with the trip was that on the way back the tide was so low which it normally is at this time of the year that it added on an extra two hours of going back down the Thames at a record 5mph i would say. Just fantastic haha!. Enjoy the slide show though........

Landscape.is Materials in an Urbanised Area......

Right, well while carrying out the reserch on Teddington Lock, i did close ups on looking at materiall qulities and also on how they have been designed to use the most appropiate ways of creating barriers and useful signs in an area where they could quite easily get vandalised. As the images will show i have looked at the main barriers used around the weir and lock, and also streching into the main urbanisation of the town.........................................

























Close up showing the way the barrier has been constructed.

















The metal barrier used as a barrier from letting the general public gain access to the Lock.





















Close up of the stairs.





















showing one of the boys on the side of the Lock.

Landscape. is marking out areas and measuring...........

Another project from the first year and this one was involving working in a group of four and selecting an area around Kingston University (Knights Park), and doing scale models and drawings on the site ranging from a scale of 1:1, 1:100, 1:1000 and so on. This was a great way of using my drawing skills again from studying fine art National Diploma at Reading Colledge before studying Landscape Architecture. We used red string to mark out the area, and i took some close up images and did some drawing materaillas on the site. ....................................................




























The red tape and classy masking tape used to mark out the area.






















The red tape at different levels.

Landscape.is Teddington Lock (slideshow)

Lanscape.is Tedington Lock and Teddington town in surrey............

The secound project i worked on in the first year was based at site surveying Teddington Lock/ weir. Teddington is about 3-4 stops away from Kingston Upon Thames, and is a quiet delecit little village really with nice shops and a loverly water leisure activities on the river thames. This area of the Thames is tidal as it is in the main tidal part of the river leading upto The Thames Barrier in London. This was a really good project in learning how to take recordings, material recordings, skercthes and genrally being taught how to survey a site. The images are alot for this so i will add some to this blog Post and also in a slide show..........













Boat Moring at Teddington.
















Teddington Lock where are project was based.
















The bridge over the River Thames at Teddington.

Landscape. is Creating a structure using fruit......

One of the projects i designed involved me looking at an apple and recording the different stages of cuttifng and tearing it part to form a shape which i liked to be placed into a public space. This was the first project i have ever done in Landscape Architecture and is very basic, but it gave me the designs and abilities to progress forward with ideas. The images show how i recorded and achanged my demolition of the apple.......................

















Starting to disect the apple, easiest option was to cut it in half first obviously!.





















Astar shape was the best idea i could come up with at the time for my apple!.

Landscape.is Covent Garden (London), and China Town....

In November of 2006, i visited Covent Garden in London. This is an excellant opertunity to see how a Landscaped area has been designed on a lrge scale in London, and also to see how a Public space has been created for a large amount of people mainly being tourists to London. It is a fantastic oppertunity to visit Covent garden to see how an area has been landscaped using Architecture in its design for a public open space. Also on my day out as i will call it i visited China town. Hope you like the pictures..........................................





































Entertainment in Londons Covent Garden.




















China Town London.



















The mian entrance to China Town.

















Covent Garden and China Town.

Landscape.is my journey through an urbanised Landscape Area....

Landscape. is London Zoo (its almost great)........

Right well in January of 2006 (yes i know it is 2007, but i had problems with my blog updating), so i have added it onto the new smart blog of mine and it all seems to be working. So London zoo is situated right near Regents park, myself and a couple of freinds decided a visit here would be nice, well it was untill we found at that time of year all the animals are locked away due to the harsh winter spell that we get. So i got some pictures and also some pics of the grade 2 listed Architectural buildings there. Enjoy the few pictures of London zoo...................








Giraffe at London zoo.





















Antelope chilling out at London Zoo.


















The Penguins enjoying there new pad at London Zoo.






















Penguins again.

Landscape. is Model Making......................

So with Landscape Architecture alot of the work consists of having to create scale models of your site, or like with this one in the image, developing your idea by creating it, and then using images of it in a program by Adobe called Photoshop which allows you to make the model look like it has been in the landscape for a long period of time for example. So here is my first model i have ever made, yes like the picture it did turn out to be a bit of a disaster, but have no fear as i have developed my model making skills over the past two years, and as you will see from the other images, i have made models at different scales for the relevant sites that i have visited. Hope you like them.....
















This is a model i made for a design centre to be built in Hastings.





















The same model but made to look like a close up and blending it in with its surroundings.
















An Areial shot of my model, using lighting it helps to create different shadows on your design.

Landscape. is Marlow Buckinghamshire......

Another town which is the county which i live is marlow. Marlow has a changing landscape for most of the year with it being hit by floods in the winter months and then in the summer being transformed also into a mass area for the Marlow Regatta. Marlow ahas been changing over the years since i csna remeber and have visited and lived there three years ago. More and more of the natural flood plains are being redeveloped into luxary houses along the river, and this is having a majour impact on the local area and other towns such as henley and bourneend.

The effects are caused by building on the flood plains and also changing the course of the river thames. No matter how much effort is put in the force of nature with water can not be avoided and flooding does happen as has in the town in the last couple of years over winter.

I have shown this Blog item to show that we must preserve the local environment and make sure the natural beauty is not taken up with just concreate slabs almost, we need open spaces and landscaped ares to be able to use the natural beauty areas more efficently......................

Landscape.is Henley on Thames

Henley on Thames is sittuated in Buckinghamshire, during the begining of July i went to the Henley festival which was amazing, the organisers transform one of the sides of the river bank into a mass of marquees and entertainment with a floating stage on the river where they have a live band and events. The live band was staus quo haha!. Anyway i included this to show how a natural wild landscape along the river bank is transformed into an open area for hosting large events and entertainment. Landscape is the river thames and its banks.............................