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Landscape Architecture
The art and practice of designing the outdoor environment
Located 22km north of Hurghada, Egypt this project was an addition to the El Gouna Resort on the Red Sea. Aaron's main responsibility as a Landscape Architect with EDSA was to develop a concept plan for the Hilltop Village. The design, which combined the best of Egyptian traditional architecture with western style comfort, took advantage of views to both the Red Sea and Crimson Mountains.
Hilltop Village at Ancient Sands
El Gouna, Egypt
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Gu’an New Town
Beijing, Beijing Province, China
Gu’an is a planned new town just outside the fifth ring road in Beijing, China. Aaron's role (whilst working in China) was to develop the main corridors and urban plazas for Phase One of a 3,500 hectare development on the eastern side of an overall 11,000 hectare land holding. All plans were drawn within his nine-months in China. To date the project remains one of the largest landscape architecture projects for EDSA Orient.
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Whilst at EDSA, Aaron served as Project Manager for a 1.2 hectare mixed-use urban infill project in North Miami, Florida. His main role was to implement LEED green building standards for the project. In addition, he worked closely with the architects to create a comfortable pedestrian environment on the first two floors – introducing public realm improvements, zoning and landscape elements at street level.
Hollywood Young Circle
Miami, Florida, USA
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Dubai Creek Golf Facility
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Situated in the heart of Dubai, just minutes from the airport, Dubai Creek is an international golf destination. Whilst at EDSA, Aaron worked concept design through to construction documentation for a new golf maintenance facility for the site. The project was a 12-month contract and required quick turn around on detailed drawings. The project was one of the first projects in the Middle East that he produced a full construction package for and helped educate him on the various construction issues in the Middle East.
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Ritz-Carlton
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Facing a long crescent beach in Puerto Rico’s Isla Verde resort district east of Old San Juan, Aaron's three-year involvement on this project looked specifically at the remodeling of a 700 square-meter formal style swimming pool area and surrounding gardens, which is now completed. The project required numerous visits to Puerto Rico during construction and allowed his to see a project from concept to completion early in his career.
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Camp Hill Development
Franklin County, Florida, USA
As part of a two-part planning process, whilst at EDSA, Aaron helped develop a landscape strategy for an approximately 200-hectare site. The site will be used for camping sites on a former pine plantation in North Florida. The vision and conceptual master plan includes several recreational areas and conservation lands. However most of his individual design efforts were on the more detailed site level schemes – looking at specifically at the community centre area, camping lots and entrance features.
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Pioneer Park Redevelopment
Deerfield Beach, Florida, USA
Whilst at EDSA, Aaron's team developed a master plan for the redesign of a 6.47-hectare active park in South Florida. As the Project Manager, Aaron helped lead the project from design through construction within three-years. The completion of the park in 2009 helped provide a broad range of activities to the community and was a personal achievement early in his career.
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Humao City Residences
Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China
Located in the beautiful garden city of Suzhou China, this 5.2 hectare mixed use urban infill project faced many landscape architectural challenges - particularly related to heritage conservation and brownfield redevelopment. During Aaron's time working in China he served as the lead Landscape Designer during the conceptual design stages of the project. The experience taught him how to express creativity in small urban spaces whilst considering the local context of this beautiful historic city.
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Rose Town Community Garden
Rose Town, Kingston, Jamaica
Since independence Jamaica has become increasingly urbanised, triggering increased pressure on housing, employment opportunities and social facilities. Since 2011, the Prince’s Foundation has worked in Rose Town, an inner-city neighbourhood in Kingston, which has experienced four decades of violent conflict. Since Aaron's involvement on the project, he has helped work with partners on the ground to renovate a building in the centre of Rose Town and turn it into a community garden.
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Pulaski Residence
Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Located in one of the most upscale communities in Miami Beach, this private residence was one of the first projects Aaron worked on in practice. The residence was taken through to construction, with his main role to carry out design representation on-site during a nine-month internship with Font Designs in Miami. For the project he was fortunate to work closely with David Font (CEO) to develop a design / build package for the residence. David allowed him to build upon his hand graphics and the on-site experience sparked an interest in carrying out projects to completion.