Robinson Landscape UK Profile

“Bringing flair & creativity to the outdoor space”



Welcome to this brief introduction to Robinson Landscape which I hope provides

a taste of our ability to provide excellent landscape design to compliment and bring value to your development.

What these pages cannot do is introduce the staff which is essence of our

practice. We would therefore welcome the opportunity of meeting with you and

discuss direct how we can help deliver your specific project aspirations and

requirements

Robinson Landscape is a registered practice with the UK Landscape Institute

Clive Horsman – Director


Robinson Landscape is a registered landscape

architecture practice. We are part of Robinson Design Ltd in the UK, a multi-disciplinary company which includes architects, civil and structural engineers, environmental engineers, interior designers and 3D computerisation modellers, employing over 100 staff in both our UK and China offices.

The Robinson group was established in 1947 by Jack Robinson and it remains a family led company with his grandson James Robinson now Chairman. Robinson Landscape was formed in 2005 through the merger of landscape practice Horsman Woolley, with Director Clive Horsman bringing a wealth of knowledge and experience.

Robinson Landscape have been supporting our China architectural joint-venture company Robinson-JZFZ in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, on a variety of projects since 2005 for both private and Government clients. We have also worked on projects independently in China and recently in Kuala Lumpur.

We continue to give a personal service to our clients around the world and with our first class reputation we can provide a refreshing approach to the landscape design of projects.

INTRODUCTION

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Design excellence and the celebration of place are at the heart of Robinson Landscape’s ethos. Central to this are the core values of teamwork, service excellence, creativity and the ambition to provide our Clients with solutions which suit their needs.

Our core services include:

• Landscape Architecture• Urban Design and Masterplanning• Planting and Hard Works solutions• Visual Impact Assessment• Landscape Management• Design for Sustainability• Bio-diversity and Ecological Principles

Through our close working relationship with fellow consultants we can also offer ecological surveys and BREEAM reports, tree surveys, geo-technical surveys, 3d computer imagery and facilitate public art – essentially a one-stop-shop for the external environment.

We believe our strength lies in our staff: their knowledge, experience and commitment to deliver both large and small-scale projects with equal enthusiasm. We aim to generate value for clients by early involvement in a project, through an ability to manage projects from inception to completion, through flexibility and by learning to understand our client’s needs.

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Robinson Landscape’s key

objectives are:

OBJECTIVES

To bring added value to a project through the following

means:

Developing a relationship ~ with client and design

team

Listening ~ to what the client wants

Removing problems ~ being pro-active

Adding £’s through good landscape design ~

creating a setting, improving rent or selling values,

increasing the perceived profile of the company

Creating Image ~ for the public, visitors to site or

employees

Getting involved with the project at the right time ~

see the ‘Route Map’ which follows


We are familiar with the required input for all RIBA Work Stages and the importance of achieving outline and detailed planning. However, we can also bring benefits to the project by being involved at the earliest opportunity, such as pre-purchase of the site and exploring site options, as we can use our experience to help identify and mitigate potential site and planning difficulties and, if necessary, bring in complimentary expertise through our close working relationships with ecologists, arboricultralists and geo-engineers.

We can bring added value to a scheme at a variety of important stages: through pre-development audits; visual impact assessments; formulating landscape strategies and bio-diversity action plans; gaining BREEAM credits; assisting and which may be necessary procurement of appropriate plants and materials to ensure the best outcome at completion; provide site inspection of work being carried out to ensure specifications are being adhered to and providing long term management plans for effective aftercare and successful maturing of the scheme.

We also bring a passion for good design and relish working with visionary design teams.

ROUTE MAP TO A SUCCESSFUL PROJECT


PROJECT EXAMPLES


Gateway West, Newburn Riverside, Tyneside – BREEAM excellent ratingCompleted May 2009


St Georges Student Housing, Sheffield – courtyards and extreme access requirements

Completed Autumn 2007


Derby Road Offices Phase 1, Chesterfield - Completed Spring 2008


Whitehall, Leeds – Public Waterfront Leeds Architectural Award for Open Space 1997


Manor Mill, Mixed Use Development, Hull – planning application

Water Feature

Performance Space

Public Realm Courtyard


York St John University ‘Centre for Excellence’ – paving and access details

completed 2008


The Grammar School at Leeds - extensions, access and courtyards

completed Summer 2008


Whitehall, Leeds – Public Waterfront RICS Award for Public Open Space 2003


Edlington Health and Community Centre – new town centre masterplan


Hope Academy, St Helens – new school bid success, April 2009 Currently on site


Mossley Hollins High School, Thameside – successful BSF bid currently on site

Main entrance access concept Entrance plaza and outdoor dining space


Ferrymuir Business Park, Edinburgh – masterplan and detailed design

Computer image for planning Dakota Hotel

Infrastructure planting

Sustainable drainage

2001- 2008


Office Developments


Novotel, Leeds – roof garden construction – completed 2003


‘The Tramways’ housing apartment courtyard, Guiseley – completed 2006


Chettles Yard Student Accommodation, Nottingham – student + public spacesCompletion 2010

Public Realm Corten Steel

features


Great Horton Primary Care Centre, Bradford - completed 2010


A64 Road Junction Improvements, Copmanthorpe, York – completed 2002


International Car City, Shanghai – masterplanning


Kang Jun Ao`shi Door Apartments, Chendgu, China – Glass bridge


Planning Exhibition Centre, Xindu, Sichuan, China Completed 2009


The practice was invited to join a UK team to masterplan a new park in Abu Dhabi. As well as contributing to the overall layout, Clive Horsman was particularly responsible for the designs of the three Islamic gardens on the Grand Avenue.

Khalifa Park, Abu Dhabi Masterplan and concept design


Yubei International Plaza and Culture Park, Chongqing Airport, China Masterplan and concept design

International Plaza concepts

Culture Park masterplan

Plaza Gateway concepts


Mixed use, residential, hotel and commercial development, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – masterplan and detail design

Masterplan

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Robinson Landscape are becoming increasingly involved in various aspects of sustainable development including SUDS, bio-diversity issues, roof gardens and BREEAM type applications.

We are becoming particularly adept in providing landscape designs which maximise Code for Sustainable Homes and BREEAM credits especially within the ecology (ECO) section of the Assessments. We can provide a complete service for this element in conjunction with our partnering consultants Ecology UK or work with the clients appointed ecologists.

Sustainable Drainage principles Wild Flower Translocation

Sustainability


DETAILED CASE STUDIES


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CASE STUDY 1

Robinson Landscape were commissioned by the Yubei District Government to design a new public square in a parkland setting in advance of their new offices, public administration building and conference centre planned for the site.

The site is located in the Yubei High Tech Industrial Zone northof downtown Yubei, a government district of the municipality of Chongqing. The site is approximately 5 hectares in size with approximately a third allocated to the public square and the remainder to a lake and landscape setting.

The scheme has been designed using contemporary European design principles such as clean simple lines in a minimal setting which in turn emphasises the scale of the Square and its grandeur creating an impressive public statement.

The scheme will form the catalyst for the re-development and economic growth of Yubei District as an important modern, high tech centre for international business and commerce.

The project was completed in May 2007


Design concepts

Taking this analogy further, by connecting the north-west and south-east corners of the site a ‘lifeline’across the ‘palm’ seemed a fitting gesture of people and government connected. This line has manifested itself as a black granite wall, symbolising strength and permanence . The wall forms a divide on the north side of the main pubic square and the adjoining area associated with the conference centre.

The early site and office development scheme prepared by Robinson Architects focused on the arrangement of modern buildings and landscape around the image of a hand – with the fingers as government offices and the palm of the hand as the public areas – illustrating the ‘government embracing the people’.


To the south and west of the main square – a change in levels dictates the need for steps which create the boundary to these sides. The podium is located in the south-east corner along a secondary line from the wall and conference centre up to the high point at the south-west corner of the site. The main vehicular entrance for public visiting the proposed public administration building and VIP’s visiting the government offices breaks the public square with a less formal park which rises up to the south-west corner.

The lake sits in the centre of the overall site at a lower level to the square.

The Square has been design to give a clear space of approximately 55 x 70 metres which, with additional surrounding smaller spaces to be adequate for a wide variety of uses from small exercise groups to large scale gatherings for Government speeches or concerts.

Design concepts


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6. Administration Building

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Masterplan


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Masterplan images


The Black Granite Wall

The Wall – the ’lifeline’ of the scheme - extends across the square towards the south-east corner of the site. The top of the wall is at a constant level approximately 3.5 metres above the square. Where it reaches out over the lake, the change in level introduces a dramatic height of 7 metres. The square terminates around the wall as a viewing point looking over the lake with extensions of the Wall stepping into the water framing an imposing flight of steps down to a water side terrace. In line with the Wall is a single jet fountain in the lake rising to over 10 metres in height. On the opposite side of the lake, a short section of black wall, incorporating a water feature, rises out of the water and creates the setting for a small glass pavilion and terrace.

The Wall is constructed using black polished granite with stripes of unpolished black granite to provide interesting contrast. Around the base are coloured neon lights set under frosted glass at pavement level.

In order to move between the different spaces, sections of Wall have been removed. However, these are relocated in different places and linked with the neon lights to provide the impression that they have been broken and pushed out of the wall, yet are still part of the Wall within the square.

The Black Granite Wall – the lifeline


The finished scheme – the Granite Wall Lifeline


The finished scheme – the Public Square


The finished scheme – the Light Wall


The Teahouse

The Lakeside Terrace and planting

The Park Entrance

The finished scheme - features


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Robinson Landscape were commissioned in 2008 by the Sichuan Golden Cup Group, Leshan, to develop the landscape masterplan and detailed design to phase 1 of the 9km2 proposed Qi Li Ping Mountain Tourist Resort.

The site is situated in the shadow of the World Heritage Site of Emei Shan (Mt Emei) and surrounded by natural beauty – deep river gorges, tree clad mountains, tumbling rivers and streams – a wide variety of wildlife and plants and within the setting of a rich and valuable local rustic culture demonstrated by the generations ofpeople living in the region.

As landscape architects within the design team our principle aim was to help achieve the economic success of the development at the same time as preserving, enhancing and utilising the distinctiveenvironmental quality of the locality.

Development of the masterplan and the detailed design of phase 1required attention to carefully integrate tourist activities anddestinations such as a golf course, hotels and hot spring spas, villas and apartments, commercial centres, culture museums, outdoor activity and visitor centres. Added to this were the environmental developments such as new lakes as features and to provide water, habitat creation to enhance the local bio-diversity,

providing opportunities for the locals to gain financially with their produce and culture and developing a landscape strategy to utilise the natural environment as a selling point for the lifestyle on offer.

The scope of work included land planning, legibility through the site, iconic structures such at the entrance bridge over the Qi Li Ping

river gorge, imaginearing of appropriate tourism destinations and championing sustainable and eco-friendly design solutions.


NORTH LAKE DEVELOPMENT(SCHEME EXAMPLE)

PHASE 1 DEVELOPMENT(DETAILED EXAMPLE)

Landscape masterplan

Entrance Bridge

Discovery Centre


1: Bar Street 风情酒吧街2: Cultural Buildings Museum

Cluster 文化建筑集群3: Ecological Fishing Centre 生态垂钓中心4: Wildlife Centre 野生动植物中心5: Hotspring Hotel 温泉酒店6: Car Park 停车场7: Track to Forest and Lake 通向森林和湖区的小路8: Proposed Lake 计划的湖区

Masterplan extract – North Lake Development


Masterplan extract – Planting Concepts

The philosophy towards the planting was to utilise natural occurring species, and to transplant where possible from

areas of development.

Ornamental plants, where required, were chosen predominantly from the range of coloured azaleas and

rhododendrons which are local to the region.


Masterplan extract – Entrance Bridge Concepts

The bridge at the entrance of the site over the Qi Lii Ping river

gorge was designed to provide an iconic structure and sense of arrival to the development.

The desire was to provide a structure which ‘lightly touched

the landscape’ and which took design cues from the local culture and environment.


Phase 1 Detailed Design - Planning


Phase 1 Detailed Design – Discovery Centre


Discovery Centre Amphitheatre

Phase 1 Detailed Design – Discovery Centre


Phase 1 Detailed Design – Images

Outdoor hot spring spas Natural environment to housing

Outdoor hot spring spas New Lake


Phase 1 - Site progress


KEY PERSONNEL


RESUME:

QUALIFICATIONS:

CMLI Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute : 1986Dip.LA Diploma in Landscape Architecture : Leeds 1984

Landscape Institute Part 2 : 1980Landscape Institute Part 1 : 1976NVQ Level 2 Interior Planting : 1996

EXPERIENCE:2002 Director of Robinson Landscape1996-2002 Co-founded Horsman Woolley Landscape Architects1988-1996 Founded Clive Horsman Design Studios – Halifax1984-1988 Landscape Architect with Kirklees Metropolitan

Borough Council1974-1983 Landscape Assistant with Kirklees Metropolitan

Borough Council

AWARDS:1991 BALI Award – Arlington Centre, Leeds1997 Leeds Architecture Awards – Phase 1 Offices, Whitehall, Leeds2003 Ripon Civic Trust Award – Ripon Canal restoration and Marina2003 RICS – Open Spaces Award – Whitehall, Leeds

CLIVE HORSMAN Dip LA, CMLI

Director : Landscape Architect

Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute

SUMMARY:

A Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute (MLI) and having nearly 35 years experience as a landscape architect, Clive commenced his career in 1974 with Kirklees Metropolitan Council in West Yorkshire, working on education, housing, key projects such as civic square and town centredevelopments, the Council’s land reclamation programme and providing an advisory role in the planning department.

In 1988 Clive formed his own practice gaining further experience working on a number of prestigious projects including banking HQ’s, business parks and leisure schemes and in 1996 created the partnership Horsman Woolley which continued to produce award winning projects.

In 2002 his practice became a subsidiary of Robinson Design Group, and was re-branded to the current name of Robinson Landscape. He is currently leading urban design, masterplan and tourism projects both in the UK and in China where he has gained extensive experience since 2005.

Clive has presented at many seminars in the UK and China and hascontributed to a number of publications in magazines and books.


Whitehall, Leeds

Whitehall, Leeds

Whitehall, Leeds

Office CourtyardBradford & Bingley Building Society

HQ Keighley

Clive Horsman


Meeting the delegation from People’s Government of Chenghua and Sichuan Provisional Investment Promotion Bureau at CBBC, London, UK

Delivering a lecture on

working in China to British Businesses, UK

Delivering seminars on Regeneration at Guangzhou

and Chongqing

Some of the publications which have featured the work of Clive Horsman

and Robinson Landscape

Delivering a lecture to students at

Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu

With Group MD Tony Mobbs receiving a

UK award for work in China

Clive Horsman


CHRISTOPHE WATIEZ BA (Hons), DipLA, CMLI

Senior Landscape Architect

Chartered Member of the Landscape Institute

RESUME:

QUALIFICATIONS:CMLI Chartered Member of the Landscape Institue: 2004Dip LA Leeds Metropolitan University: 2001BA (Hons) Leeds Metropolitan University:1999Landscape architecture and garden design: ISICF Gembloux, Belgium 1993-95Horticulture: ISICF Gembloux, Belgium: 1995-1996 ISICF

EXPERIENCE:

2006 Robinson Landscape (Senior Landscape Architect)2005 - 2006 Whitelaw Turkington (Senior Landscape Architect)2002 - 2005 DLA Landscape & Urban Design (Landscape Architect) DLA2001 - 2002 Popplewell Associates (Landscape Architect) Popplewell2000 HLM Architects (Landscape Assistant) HLM

AWARDS:

2003 ‘People’s award for Architecture’ Leeds Architecture Awards: BBC/College of Music, Leeds

SUMMARY:

Christophe has gained valuable experience working on a wide range of Health care, educational, housing schemes, master planning .

In 2002, Christophe joined DLA Landscape & Urban Design, where he undertook work on a wide range of development including public realm projects. His roles included taking projects from initial inception right through to site implementation and project management. Also Christophe gained valuable experience undertaking several Environmental Impact Assessments, working on larger scale Industrial and Leisure Schemes.

Christophe joined Whitelaw Turkington in 2005 as a Senior Landscape, he took over the project management role for local

developments and some large scale residential developments in Dublin, Ireland. He also gained valuable experience in team management and participated in various design competitions.

Since joining Robinson Landscape in 2006, Christophe has worked on a wide range of schemes including residential developments, projects in the educational and health sector, as well as commercial developments and town centre regeneration.

Also Christophe is involved with large scale developments in China including Residential developments and Public Realm improvements.


BBC/Leeds College of Music

Brewery Wharf, Leeds

Christophe Watiez


MICHELLE NEWTON Dip LA, BA(Hons), CMLI

Landscape Architect

Chartered Member of the Landscape institute

RESUME:

QUALIFICATIONS:

CMLI Chartered Member of the Landscape Institue: 2008

Dip.LA Diploma in Landscape Architecture (Distinction): Leeds 2004/06

BA (Hons) Garden Art & Design : Leeds Metropolitan University 2003

HND Design Crafts : Cumbria College of Art & Design 2000 HNDBTEC National Diploma in Art & Design: Cumbria College of Art &

Design 1998

EXPERIENCE:

2004 Robinson Landscape (Landscape Architect)2003 - 2004 Horsman Woolley Landscape Architects (Landscape Assistant)

AWARDS:

2003 Royal Horticultural Society: Chelsea Flower Show , London (Silver Gilt Award)

SUMMARY:

An Associate Member of the UK Landscape Institute Michelle commenced her career in landscape architecture in 2003 with Horsman Woolley Landscape Architects (now called Robinson

Landscape) as a landscape assistant working alongside the landscape team on a wide range of projects including housing, education and health care developments.

Michelle graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University with a Distinction in Landscape Architecture whilst continuing working

at Robinson Landscape gaining valuable experience and knowledge covered in her Urban Design electives. She has worked on both large and small scale urban regeneration, public realm and master planning projects; residential and student accommodation, education developments within the UK. In China she has worked on the successful Yubei Public Square in Chongqing as well as residential and master planning projects.

Michelle won a Silver Gilt Award for her garden design with fellow students at Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show in London in 2003.


‘Chic Garden’ Silver Gilt

Winner, RHS Chelsea

Flower Show

Michelle Newton


CONTACT

Robinson Landscape1-2 Merchant’s Quay, Ashley Lane, Shipley

West Yorkshire, BD17 7DB

United Kingdom

Tel: +44(0)1274 534140

Fax: +44(0)1274 534000

E-mail: [email protected]

www.robinsonlandscape.co.uk

www.robinsongroup.co.uk

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