Garden Designer or Landscape Architect? Well for me this is a very big question after starting my degree on a BSc (Hons) Landscape & Garden Design and then going into the third doing BSc (Hons) Landscape Architecture yes I made the jump to Architecture, and I think that will lead very nicely onto the next chapter of my story. Looking back at this research booklet I’ve realise something; I always think about the wider picture and the point that’s come up most is the fact when designing I feel very strongly about working with the surrounding context and looking at the bigger picture in landscape.
At the start of my degree I remember thinking there was a big difference between Landscape Design and Landscape Architecture but after having two years of intense study and through the many debates with lecturers and other students. I have came to a strong decision that there are actually there is hardly no difference what so ever, apart from the fact architects work with more larger scale projects and designers smaller scale and even then the to professions can cross over. More than anything it excites me to think than I am that beginning of this ever changing colourful profession. So in conclusion I present the following elements to which my thinking and designs have and coming from in the past and what I assume the future will as well as many, many more!
Where am I in my development as a designer and a thinker? Are there common threads in my projects presented? One thing that I have notice through this booklet is actually that there is little reference to people and how they use the landscape and interact with it. Actually that is one of the most important elements to landscape as far as I can see there would be landscapes it there wasn’t people to interact with them and enjoy them the way I do every single day.
How will I take forward all these elements into my Dissertation? Choosing Tollesbury Marina as my dissertation site I feel was a bold move it the fact that I wanted to become a Landscape Architect. I am as ever looking forward to forwarding my studies in the subject. I also think that for me Tollesbury Marina is the prefect place in which to do this, it has so many opportunities and places in which need developing as well as so many connections with the surrounding area which just haven’t been made or have and then been lots. The water also give great opportunities for design as well as the salt marshes and Tollesbury the village itself. From now I really do need to push myself in as many ways as possible to get me up to as higher standard as possible for when I finish my degree and start selling myself to future employes. As previously said I think the most common thread in my work is using the surrounding context of a site and working with it using it to benefit my designs and ideas, and i believe this will carry on being part of my designs. I also think I use a lot of my experience in my life so far to come up with my design although I don’t always express this and I think if I did it would make designs a lot stronger. Well the list of what I’ve learn and developed in the past two years would go on forever, however I feel I’m in a good place in my learning and no doubt I will go on to learn a lot more in my third year in my degree. I would also like to make the aim of doing a lot more reading and researching over the summer.
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