2010
Rundle Bubbles
Competition entry for Design Festival 2010. Designed in collaboration with artist Laura Haigh
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Throughout the year expressions of culture and self are hidden behind closed doors, bubbling beneath the surface of the public realm. Festivals are the point at which they burst through for all to see - thought bubbles brought into physical form. They nourish, they leave an impression that ripples throughout the city, and then they are gone.
2010
Future visions for Adelaide’s streets
Visualisations for Adelaide City Council and 5000+ (The Integrated Design Strategy for Inner Adelaide). They are creative interpretations of how we could meet the targets set in the 30 Year Plan for Greater Adelaide.
The photomontage for Sturt St was also featured on the cover of the National Urban Policy:
http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/infrastructure/mcu/urbanpolicy/index.aspx
2009
Victoria Square_ Turn Adelaide Inside Out
M. Landscape Architecture studio project
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This proposal for Victoria Square consists of a series of public spaces that draw elements out from the wider context of Adelaide and South Australia, into the landscape. These elements are:
BUILDINGS_ Bring the activities concealed within the city’s buildings out into the public realm
WATER_ Make the water issues of South Australia tangible in the landscape of the Square
MATERIALS_ Bring materials sourced locally into the design of the square
ARTS_ Allow the people of Adelaide to express themselves through the arts giving a sense of ownership and identity to the Square
2008
Urban Abrasions
B. Design Studies (Landscape Architecture) studio group project with Carlia Bates, Nina Orkina & Amanda Bichard
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On a median strip on West Terrace, this temporary garden draws passing drivers’ attention to the many infrastructure-related objects on the strip. It alludes to open wounds as a means of highlighting and challenging the typical lack of aesthetic consideration paid to such objects and the environmental damage that can result from some forms of infrastructure.
2011
Gather & Nourish
M. Landscape Architecture Final Year Project
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Public open green spaces in the City of Charles Sturt can too often be described as unproductive, impersonal and inactive. In contrast, the pre-European landscapes they replaced were abundant and nurtured the physical and mental health of the communities who inhabited them. Gather and Nourish is a typological approach to turning these neglected suburban open spaces into contemporary landscapes of nourishment.
Public reserves of less than 30ha were sorted into five typologies. For each, a set of broadly applicable design attributes was devised according to the opportunities and constraints, with particular attention to the likely social catchments.
A test site representing each typology was selected for design testing of these attributes. The designs were generated by gathering a plant that would have once grown on the test site in pre-European times and taking inspiration from its form.
Although these designs are site-specific, the attributes they exhibit are applicable to any other site in Charles Sturt which is of the same typology. By improving many small sites across a broad suburban context, it is possible to create a landscape that is overall more productive, expressive and active.
