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mark ernest radford - Master of Landscape Architecture -

Victoria University of Wellington School of Architecture and Design

L’ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Nature

et du Paysage - Blois

October - 2014

18 Colombo StreetWellington 6021

New Zealand

Mark.E.Radford@gmail.com

Master of Landscape ArchitectureCurrent Working Thesis

La promenade de L’Anse de Landroanec -

Waikanae Town Centre -

Stains, Paris -Calais, North France -

Wellington Carillon Project -

Pipitea Precent Construction Project -

Bachelor of Architectural StudiesMajor in Landscape Architecture

Internship - Agence RADAR

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Post OfficePolice Station

Scale: 1:10,000

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Economic Importance:01 - Queen Marry Hospital 02 - Thermal Pools & Spa03 - Supermarket04 - Heritage Hotel05 - Accommodation06 - Retail

Community Amenities:07 - Christen Church08 - Anglican Church09 - Protestant Church10 - Golf Course11 - Primary School12 - Kindergarten13 - Public Space14 - Recreation Area15 - Medical Centre

Landscape Qualities16 - Sanitorium

Economic Importance

Post OfficePolice Station

Scale: 1:15,000

Significant Community Amenities

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Economic Importance: 01 - Old Town Centre02 - New Town Centre03 - Supermarket04 - Crop/Orchard05 - Accommodation06 - Retail

Community Amenities:07 - Christen Church08 - Anglican Church10 - Golf Course11 - Primary School13 - Public Space14 - Recreation Area15 - Medical Centre

Landscape Qualities16 - Clutha River17 - Kawanau River18 - Lake Dunsten

Land for Generation of Electricity

Economic Importance

Post OfficePolice Station

Scale: 1:15,000

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Economic Importance: 01 - Old Town Centre02 - New Town Centre03 - Supermarket04 - Military Residential Land05 - Military Commercial Land06 - Accommodation

Community Amenities:07 - Christen Church08 - Anglican Church10 - Golf Course11 - Primary School13 - Public Space14 - Recreation Area15 - Medical Centre

Landscape Qualities16 - Waioeka River17 - Otara River18 - Otara Harbour

Economic Importance

Post OfficePolice Station

Scale: 1:20,000

Significant Community Amenities

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Economic Importance: 01 - Waikanae Beach02 - Waikanae Town Centre03 - Parata Township04 - Mahara Mall05 - Crop/Orchard06 - Railway

Community Amenities:07 - Train Station08 - Church10 - Golf Course11 - Primary School13 - Public Space14 - Recreation Area15 - Medical Centre16 - Hemi Matenga Memorial Park

Landscape Qualities17 - Waikanae River18 - Waimeha River19 - Kawakahai Lagoon

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This thesis focuses on the rural community of Waikanae that is currently heavily reliant on State Highway One running from Wellington to Levin. Cutting directly through the town centre, it defines the town centre and sustains a soon to be dwindling economy. A new expressway will divert this main thoroughfare west of the township, creating a deep scar in the cultural heart of the community.

Design proposes to relocate the town centre along the Waikanae River which, although an important amenity for the community, has till now been profoundly neglected. The proposal addresses the river’s edge. It uses the river to connect amenities and draws on agricultural processes to create new industries, thereby reviving the cultural heart of the beautiful coastal township of Waikanae.

In illustrating how one can identify the loss of cultural heart in a rural setting such as Waikanae develops a methodology in how this urban design theory can rejuvenate the populations that suffer from a industry, sense of community and landscape qualities is of grave importance today on the Kapiti Coast and in wider New Zealand.

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Victoria University of WellingtonTown Centre Initial Hunch

The existing town centre relies heavily on the traffic from State Highway One to create a its streetscape and to creates lack a of ‘welcoming’ into the township. The division created by the highway and railway, lack of identity, and internalised mall structure are very influential. The intensified town

centre creates an urban framework of integrated waterways that filtrates the vegetation while creating linkages throughout the district. This hunch asks the question;

What if the town relied on the river not the road for its sustenance? Proposed Hunch Condition

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Integration of Agricultural SystemsAgricultural Campground

Campground Matrix

Evolution of Campground

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Application of the grid Connections & links

Relation to topography Storm & grey water links Developed structure

Tenting within agricultural systems

Camping within agricultural & forestry systems

Cabins within active forestry

The idea of the ‘products of the region are a reflection on the quality of the landscape’ and bringing the community together by actually touching the landscape then using that to create an economy. Perhaps in practice it is not very strong financially viable at first or the conventional approach, however this is a concept that

ties together the landscape to the community while intensifying the connection to our agricultural systems and the impacts we have. What if tourism became more than just an economic driver and actually gave back to the landscape and community?

Waikanae Masterplan Scale 1:2500 @A2

L’ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Nature et de Paysage - Blois

La Promenade de L’Anse de Landroanec

ENSNP is a landscape engineering school located in Central France that is renowned for its pragmatic approach to nature and the landscape. This project was based on man-made lake by Mur-de-Bretagne, which is a site of national

significance. The project focused on how to treat a site that currently contains limited design problems insofar the design conceptualized a site sensitive approaches that favored minimal consilient design strategies.

Boardwalk

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Split Leveled Path

Elevated Pathway

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Section A-a, Scale 1: 250@A3

Section B-b, Scale 1: 200@A3

Section C-c, Scale 1: 250@A3

Internship - 3 Months - ParisAgence RADAR Paysage

Directors Sabrina Hiridjee and Laurence Camel (from École nationale Supérieure d’architecture de Versailles) established Agence RADAR landscape architecture in 2011. Located in the North of Paris, the agence has a passion for innovative and hybrid solutions in achieving their vision of the

landscape. This vision integrates the landscape within the built environment, while placing a emphasis on the relationships between the scientific and artistic, social and subjective, and most important is the real and the imaginary.

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Calais CampgroundLocated in the North most port of France, this design (completed in assosiation with Laurence Camel) caters for travelers traveling from France to England. The final design conept dirved from a process relating directly from to the context of the site and the limitiation specified in the brief.

Majoring in Landscape Architecture

Bachelor of Architectural Studies

My understanding of landscape architecture was initiated through Victoria University of Wellington. Over this three year period of my undergraduate degree, the school of architecture taught many crucial skills in architecture, urban design and most importly landscape architecture.

This reinforced confidence in this field of knowledge and created a holistic understanding of the landscape and the landscape ecology. VUW places a strong emphasis on resilience design, communication, integration with architects/interior architects and engineers.

Detailed Design & ConstructionPipitea Precinct This scheme accommodates for the increase in people while emphasising a

playful and integrated design that incorporates all types of transport. This was done through the use of fluid pathways over the entire site to pull together the main destinations in the surrounding area and making the present unoccupied concourse into an eventful and lively atmosphere.

Pathway Section Railing Detail I-beam to Collum Detail Subtle Level Detail

Pipitea Concorde Masterplan

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Zone A - Detailed Plan

FE - Aa Front Elevational Perspective

Hand Drawn Media Exploration Wellington Carillon Upon entering the first year of architectural studies, it become important to

understand the importance of communicating a design through physical media. This project was a interpretation of different scale shifts between the Carillon and the body.