Mandala Kitchen Garden
Mandala Kitchen Garden
Mandala Kitchen Garden, eight raised vegetable beds in western red cedar, surrounded by medicinal and cullinary herbs, fruit trees and berry bushes,
with a cleft chestnut korral fence and gate. Hay-on-Wye, 2011.
Green Burial Site
Green Burial Site
Design for Green Burial site in Suffolk. 80 graves sites set in clusters within smaller burial gardens, encircling a large water body with circular path, access and parking, visitor centre and ceremonial area.
Suffolk, 2022.
Green Burial Site
Green Burial Site
Design for Green Burial site in Suffolk. 80 graves sites set in clusters within smaller burial gardens, encircling a large water body with circular path, access and parking, visitor centre and ceremonial area.
Suffolk, 2022.
11 Hectare Small Holding
11 Hectare Small Holding
11 Hectare (23 Acre) Small Holding. With 9,000 native deciduous trees for coppice and green woodworking. This site is designed to accommodate glamping, residential crafts courses and forest school activities. Food, water, energy, fuel and materials are produced on-site. All wastewater and sewage for upto 50 resdients is processed on-site using a Wetland Ecological Treatment (WET) System which was designed and installed by www.biologicdesign.co.uk. Hay-on-Wye, 2012.
11 Hectare Small Holding
11 Hectare Small Holding
11 Hectare (23 Acre) Small Holding. With 9,000 native deciduous trees for coppice and green woodworking. This site is designed to accommodate glamping, residential crafts courses and forest school activities. Food, water, energy, fuel and materials are produced on-site. All wastewater and sewage for upto 50 resdients is processed on-site using a Wetland Ecological Treatment (WET) System which was designed and installed by www.biologicdesign.co.uk. Hay-on-Wye, 2012.
11 Hectare Small Holding (image shows a selected area)
11 Hectare Small Holding (image shows a selected area)
11 Hectare (23 Acre) Small Holding. With 9,000 native deciduous trees for coppice and green woodworking. This site is designed to accommodate glamping, residential crafts courses and forest school activities. Food, water, energy, fuel and materials are produced on-site. All wastewater and sewage for upto 50 resdients is processed on-site using a Wetland Ecological Treatment (WET) biofiltration system which was designed and installed by www.biologicdesign.co.uk. Hay-on-Wye, 2012.
Ecological Garden - Oxford
Ecological Garden - Oxford
Ecological Garden - A garden for a modern passive house, with formal design language by the house, with formal deck, pond with bridge, raised sleeper beds; transitioning into an ecological garden with wildlife pond at the end of the garden where the office is found. Plants are predominantly native wild plants selected from the local biodiversity index, punctuated with naturalised plants and those with a complimentary wild aesthetic, with two existeing and two selected fruiting trees. Oxford, 2006
Ecological Garden - Oxford
Ecological Garden - Oxford
Ecological Garden - A garden for a modern passive house, with formal design language by the house, with formal deck & pond with bridge, raised sleeper beds; transitioning into an ecological garden with wildlife pond at the end of the garden where the office is found. Plants are predominantly native wild plants selected from the local biodiversity index, punctuated with naturalised plants and those with a complimentary wild aesthetic, with two existeing and two selected fruiting trees. Oxford, 2006.
Ecological Garden - Oxford
Ecological Garden - Oxford
Ecological Garden - A garden for a modern passive house, with formal design language by the house, with formal deck & pond with bridge, raised sleeper beds; transitioning into an ecological garden with wildlife pond at the end of the garden where the office is found. Plants are predominantly native wild plants selected from the local biodiversity index, punctuated with naturalised plants and those with a complimentary wild aesthetic, with two existeing and two selected fruiting trees. Oxford, 2006.
Orbital Garden - Urban Gardens Exhibition
Orbital Garden - Urban Gardens Exhibition
"Urban Inspirations" was the title of the design brief for the Urban Gardens Design Competition, to be exhibited at Kensington Olympia, London. This design featured in Garden Design Journal May 2005, Diarmuid Gavin described the design as "an utterly invigorating illustration of a dynamic and considered show plot". London, 2005.
Orbital Garden - Urban Gardens Exhibition
Orbital Garden - Urban Gardens Exhibition
"Urban Inspirations" was the title of the design brief for the Urban Gardens Design Competition, to be exhibited at Kensington Olympia, London. This design featured in Garden Design Journal May 2005, Diarmuid Gavin described the design as "an utterly invigorating illustration of a dynamic and considered show plot" London, 2005.
The Orbital Garden - Urban Gardens Exhibition
The Orbital Garden - Urban Gardens Exhibition
"Urban Inspirations" was the title of the design brief for the Urban Gardens Design Competition, to be exhibited at Kensington Olympia, London. This design featured in Garden Design Journal May 2005, Diarmuid Gavin described the design as "an utterly invigorating illustration of a dynamic and considered show plot" London, 2005.
A selection of design and draft work by Marcus Busby
A selection of design and draft work by Marcus Busby
Videos
Videos
Growing a Garden City of Today v2.0
Growing a Garden City of Today v2.0
This series of stills shows idealised implementation phases for the construction of a Smart Garden City.
This design was initially conceived for the 2014 Wolfson Economics Prize organised by Policy Exchange March 2014.
It was subsequently adapted according to the Locally-led Garden Cities Prospectus published by the UK Coalition Government in April 2014.
Adapted versions for the Smart Garden City have been submitted to three design challenges: UNHCR-IKEA Foundation - WhatDesignCanDo #Refugeechallenge, 2016 #WDCD2016;
EUSIC, 2016; and Utrecht University's Urban Futures Studio
PostFossil City Contest, 2017.
For more information on this concept there is a Twitter account, a blog and a forum page. More images may be found by clicking here.
Help rebuild Sunrise Farm in Nepal
Help rebuild Sunrise Farm in Nepal
This video (Prepared by kar98ghost) shows the aftermath of the Nepali earthquakes in 2015. This video was included in a crowdfunding campaign to raise £20,000 to rebuild Sunrise Farm, an urban farm and agroecology training centre in Kathmandu.
Circles Design & Build assisted with the setting-up and account administration for the crowdfunding campaign on behalf of Chris Evans, who co-founded the Farm and founded the Himalayan Permaculture Centre (NGO).
By October 2018 the £20,000 target was achieved !!
~Thanks to donations, the farm was completely repaired with an improved kitchen and in addition, the building now has solar panels ~
More information can be found on the GoFundMe donations page by following the link: https://www.gofundme.com/wr2cn5y4
ERC Concept Video
ERC Concept Video
A glamping site concept video, created using Google Sketchup. The virtual site is geo-located using Google Earth Pro and the terrain is modelled according to the geographical contour information.
This virtual run-through video was prepared for John D Liu's Foundation Ecosystem Restoration Camps to assist the camp designers formulate initial camp design concepts.
The Greenpeace field at Glastonbury Festival 2013
The Greenpeace field at Glastonbury Festival 2013
Circles Design & Build were invited to assist with the build project for the Greenpeace Field at Glastonbury Festival in 2013.
Through collaboration a 280 metre modular and reusable raised wooden boardwalk, steps and jetties were installed, constructed with a Larch
(Larix decidua) walkway for flexibility and durability, providing all-weather access and informal seating for up to 700 visitors to Greenpeace UK's Save the Arctic Campaign Exhibition.
More photos of this project can be found by clicking here.