Landscape discovery and exploration

The following installations or landscape treatments have caught my attention on my travels, and have the power to make people think more about sustainability or are inspiring examples of visibly sustainable initiatives in the public realm and the outdoors. Reuse of a disused railway for 'velo-rail', Massif Centrale, France A community bio-pool in the Massif Centrale, France - uses reed beds to clean the swimming pool water A solar powered tourist boat. La Rochelle, France The solar tree, Bristol Habitat enhancements in a disused waterway, Georgetown, America.

  I have come across the installations below at home and abroad, and they have all elicited feelings which could on the whole only be incited by the particular atmosphere’s created by    sculptures or art within the landscape. Most of these installations are unexpected and at times juxtaposed within the landscape that they have been placed, and perhaps this is what causes them to have an impact. The bee hive Kew Gardens -  What impressed me about this installation was the ability to enter within the structure, the pass around it and underneath it, all the time being encouraged to reflect on the life of bees Zadar’s Sea Organ and Sun Salutation, Croatia This installation comes to life at night time, when humans can trigger light effects, however as well as the human induced responses the structure located on the sea also contains holes of different sizes that act as an organ as waves travel through the structure The interactive "rave tree", the Greenpeace field, Glast...

Below is some of my experimentation in creating nolli maps using Adobe illustrator. I have taken areas that I have previously lived in, and experimented in using different colours to understand which may be most useful in analysing and presenting the urban form. My choices of locations were based on the fact that they are all quite different in terms of pattern, density, presence of greenspace and water. Nolli mapping helps to analyse locations and to identify any defining features. For example the convening of roads in Cowley Oxford is clear to see, as is the presence of greenspace adjacent to the river, whilst in EUR in Rome the low density and highly planned layout of the urban area as planned by Mussolini for a world expo before the WWII is clearly evident. The examples of Southville in Bristol and Balham in Wandsworth, exhibit some similar characteristics particularly in the density of housing, although accessible greenspace is available on a much greater scale in the case of Balh...

Here I have been experimenting in sketching dynamic people with a view to creating future resources. I firstly sketched by eye and have then presented and integrated my sketches alongside the originals using photoshop to be able to compare and observe any differences that I can learn to reflect in future sketches.