Laban Dance Centre - Site Grading

Potter's Field Park

Potter’s Field Park lies at the very heart of London and has a unique riverfront location and iconic position within the historic context of Tower Bridge and the Tower of London. The Park offerssweeping views of the river Thames, Gherkin and City Hall. Potter’s Field Park is a strategically significant green space on the London metropolitan area.

Its overall design objective is to accommodate the requirements of all its various users: local residents, office workers, tourists and the park serves its purpose very well.

I suppose that the design team Gross. Max. has considered carefully the public consultation in the design of the scheme. The site clearly benefitsfrom the renovation and improvement of the park.

Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009

I went to see Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet at the Barbican. Radical Nature is exhibition to bring together key figures across different generations who have created utopian works and inspiring solutions for our ever-changing planet. There is so much to see and many interesting work focusing on landscape, nature, and environmental issues.

I particularly liked Agnes Denes's 'Wheatfield - A Confrontation' and 'Tree mountain - A Living Time Capsule'. Her conceptual land art was truly novel for me. Another really interesting piece was Tomas Saraceno's 'Cloud Garden'. It was plastic spheres installation inspired from cloud and air temperature. Their work let me have a chance to think about how artists and architects get inspiration from nature.

Sustainable Design Solutions Charrette

As part 2 of Teach-in programme, there was one day design workshop 13th October at Kingston University Landscape studio. I made a group with Michael and Lily and we decided to redesign landscape of the Knights Park campus for biodiversity, productivity and joy. There was a lot of things to green in Knights park campus! We decided to change concrete roofs as green roofs and also thought about keeping natural spaces within the campus. Before taking this workshop, I thought sustainable design demand highly professional knowledge. However, it was really effective way to learn sustainable design during just one day and make me feel closer.

Teach-in lectures

I attended 2012 Imperative Teach-in programme at the V&A. It was series of lectures focused on urgency of current changing climate and ecological thinking to solve this serious situation. It was time to remind us what should we act now especially as designers.

We need to look at our problems and learn to make real sustainability happen. I believe that Landscape architecture and architects could be a key to solve environmental urgency. But, if they don't mind this issues when they design, their works will be disaster. To avoid this, designers have to always mind situation what will be happened in the future through their design. have to learn and think more for sustainability.