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     Rain gardens          Are rain gardens mini toxic cleanup sites?  “If you’re concerned about water pollution, you’ve likely heard this message: The water that gushes off our roofs, driveways, streets, and landscaped yards is to blame for the bulk of the pollution. “You probably also know about the most popular storm-water solutions, including rain gardens and other green infrastructure that soak up the filthy water, cleaning it before it reaches sensitive waterways that are home to salmon, frogs, and other wildlife.” “But those two ideas taken together are making some people anxious. If storm water is the source of such devastating amounts of petroleum and heavy metals, won’t the rain garden in my front yard become a mini toxic waste site that could harm children and pets?” “Rain gardens and similar environmentally friendly storm-water infrastructure are being embraced worldwide because they do their job so well. They sponge up polluted ...

Sketches exploring depth subjective to visual perception.  

Two point perspective drawing.  

Fast sketch and colour rendering with coloured pencils  

 One point perspective drawing.  

Rough sketch of a horse  

Petra Blaisse  (born 1955 in London, United Kingdom ) is a British-born Dutch designer.  Her work is an intersection of the professions of architecture, interior architecture, landscape architecture , textile design  and exhibition design. INSIDE OUTSIDE In 1991, Blaisse founded the Amsterdam-based studio Inside Outside. The office has since completed a number of different project types including the kunsthal in Rotterdam (1994), the Prada Epicenter in New York (2001), H-Project in Seoul (2004), Casa da Musica in Porto (2005), the Mercedez benz musuem in Stuttgart (2006), the Prison Gardens in Belgium (2010) and the Dutch Pavilion of the Venice Biennale of Architecture(2012). Blaisse has collaborated with various architects and designers, including Rem koolhas, Irma Boom and SANAA. FIELD OF WORK Petra Blaisse's encompasses a wide scope of design ranging from architecture, interior design, textile design, exhibition design and landscape a...

Abstract  art in design Attached are a few personally selected landscape design images and abstract art in design chosen for viewing.    

YELLOW I would like to believe yellow is one of my most favourite colours for landscape art and furniture.It stands  out and also widely known to incite feelings of happiness, excitement, originality, enthusiasm, confidence, hope and creativity. Below are some free pictures uploaded from the web.   

                                                   North place car park. The North place car park and Portland car park showing the boundaries of the whole site.  Topographical X-sectional survey: In order to draw the cross sectional survey of north place car-park we had to do a site survey of the site boundary and then with the use of a levels map (fig 1) , Lidar digital surface model(DSM) fig 2,  and Lidar digital terrain model(DTM) fig 3, was able to know the contour lines running along and across the whole site. Fig 1; Levels map showing the contour lines along the site and adjoining areas. Fig 2; The digital surface model shows areas of high elevation in red and low areas in green. Fig 3; The digital terrain model shows the lowest areas in pink, blue medium and the green the higher areas. These data draws our conclusions to the fact that t...