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proposed development of Kuku Beach.

threshold perspective.

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 pre-dominately 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 per-maculture principles to suit the variable land types occurring on site. The disposition of the Iwi’s land creates a patch-work 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 prop-erty, similar to a cattle stop.

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perspectives.

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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 config-ured to numerous locations in a city.

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existing network.

exisitng network affected by road closure.

proposed new network.

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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Christchurch City Center.

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Avon River.

Hagley Park.

Christchurch City Center.

Vacant Lots.

Planter Suite.

Streetscape.

iridescent landscapes.

Christchurch like many other cities around New Zealand and the western world have been victim of there own preoccupied perceptions of beauty and what is perceived as natural and beneficial. The problem with these cities is becom-ing more apparent when attention is brought forward regarding pressing issues of how we occupy and use space within our cities. Looking at Christchurch in particular the Avon river, Hagley park, and the encompassed streets it repre-sents much of our adopted planting and programing practice, brought with the British Empire. The quintessential English landscape, mass planting of exotic species, vast lawns, and nature strips, offering very little in means of productiv-ity and demanding great inputs to maintain there existence.

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When events such as the Canterbury earthquakes pres-ent themselves we need to ask and question the perfor-mance of our spaces, the everyday space, can they ex-ist and confront the mono functioning current programs that inhabit the streets, our parks, and public spaces.

Many residents in Christchurch see a potential for the creation of community gardens and greater focus in urban agriculture as food is obviously a necessity for life, and when adversary is faced, how can we supplement and decrease our reliance on commercial food networks.

Food forest planting amongst current •exotic planting palette.Mitigating planting palette reducing •storm water runoff into the avon.Reducing Lawn cover.•

Wild meadows using native and exotic •edible plant species.Food forest planting amongst current •exotic planting palette.All programs to coexist with the cur-•rent sport and recreational programs.Reducing use of fossil fueled machin-•ery for maintenance, reducing lawn cover where appropriate.

Vacantlotspresentbeneficialoccupa-•tion in the interim to be used as com-munity gardens.Establishing community and commer-•cial cooperation to a more sustainable occupation of the sites.

Creation of a planter suite which re-•sponds and challenges generic street furniture and planters.Begins life in vacant lots as a catalyst •to the community gardens creation.

Redesigning streetscapes to enable •asignificantchangeinstreetoccupa-tion and function,Mitigating and retention of water run-•off. Challenging preconceived convention •of the ‘street’.Planters to then inhabit after vacant •lots rebuild. Th

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sub irrigated planter/street furniture suite.

planter deployment strategy.

meadow land and existing program.

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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streetscape components.

a. rain gardensb. lamp post, hanging plantsc. planter/ furniture suited. large road run off swale

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Entrance to Elizabeth Street

Town Belt entrance

Mount Victoria Community Garden

Fruit Forest

Pedestrian Axis

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drawing title:

Plan and Site Section Reference

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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.

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Corten Shapes,12mm thick and attachedwith masonary bolts into the Concrete retaining of the stairs.

8mm reinforcement steel.

20mm round polished timberhand rails

10mm Hex bolts

10mm hex bolts

Corten steel, wield joins for handrail support.

N THOMAS ANNANDLandscape Architecture StudentVictoria University, Wellington

drawing title:

Stair Sections, Elevations, and Details

20 October 2010

Mount Victoria Community GardenLandscape Construction TechnologyLAND 321

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NYC sidewalk vegetation map.decrotative and productivity

MIDTOWN

NYC sidewalk vegetation typology

LOWER EAST SIDE BROOKLYN HEIGHTS

NYC sidewalk vegetation typology

digital sketch.

pencil sketch and digital collage.

pen and pencil.digital diagram sketch.

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Bachelor of Design Major in Landscape Architecture (BDes Hons) School of ArchitectureVictoria University of Wellington, New Zealand(2008-2011)

Adobe Photoshop, Indesign, and Illustrater.AutoCAD.Google Sketch Up.Rhino.ArrGIS.