The project educates visitors about waste and energy recycling through its own design: the farm recycles organic waste from restaurants in the building below to become fertilizer for plants. The design also introduces the concept of clean energy through solar cells placed at edges of planting areas, illuminating paths and visibly highlighting larger conceptual themes. Turning infrastructure into ...
Kopupaka Reserve is a locally responsive environmental design that integrates engineering, ecological, cultural and community outcomes. From an infrastructural need to attenuate and detain stormwater run-off from the streets and buildings of the town centre, Kopupaka challenges expectations around the design and use of stormwater reserves to intertwine culture and infrastructure with the creation ...
Siam Green Sky, the first and largest green roof of its kind in Thailand, is an urban farming and agricultural learning center in the commercial heart of Bangkok. The project is a showcase to reclaim wasted concrete roof space for a productive landscape and introduce urban agriculture to a densely populated and highly developed area.
The Jialing River is one of the important tributaries in the Yangtze River Basin, which is of great significance for the development of Chongqing. Due to the rapid development of city construction and water level fluctuation in Three Gorges Reservoir Area anti seasonal fluctuations, waterfront was gradually eroded, and became a dominant negative space with a fast driving traffic and flood control ...
A former director at Martha Schwartz Partners, Jasmine Ong, has experience running projects of all scales from concept design through to site overview of construction works as a Landscape Architect. With a career that has spanned across Australia, China and Europe, she holds a unique perspective on the differences of working in the Asia Pacific Region and the EU.
Rick has over 35 years experience in the field of Landscape Architecture. In 1980 Rick worked under the direction of Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe before establishing his own practice Urban Red in 1983. His keen interests in a design led artisan culture prompted the formation and management of a design and build construction company that now operates in the UK. In the late 1980’s Rick formed a practice ...
