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PRANABANTI KARMAKAR Education 2006-2012
Bachelor in Architecture ENGINEERING Jadavpur University , Kolkata, India
2017-2019
M.A. in Landscape Architecture University of Sheffield,UK
SEP. 2018JAN 2019
eRASMUS PLUS EXCHANGE PROGRAMME Wageningen University, Netherlands
work experience 2012-2015
LA VISTA,Delhi,India Assistant Architect Assisting the Principal Landscape Architect in design development to making good for construction drawings of Landscape projects of varied size mostly residential and ecological.
2015-2017
HILAND GROUP,Kolkata,India Deputy Manager (Landscape) Working along with a team of In-house Architects, Urban designers and Associate Landscape Architects on 2nd Phase development of ‘The Calcutta Riverside” a 106 hectare township primarily focussing on designing and execution of public spaces and landscape areas.
JUN-AUG,2018
URBAN WILDERNESS, LEEDS, UK Summer Intern Assisting Senior Landscape architects on projects of various scale and interest ranging from masterplanning to small scale temporary landscape in all over U.K.
Projects -LI AWARDS Report |St. Moorish Stitch Garden |Awarded Highly Recommended in Temporary Landscape LI Awards 2018
-Desborough Housing Planning Policy -Holbeck Viaduct Project -Alton Planning Policy Proposal
scholarships 2007
National Talent Search Competition Scholarship (NTSE)
2017
Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering(Architecture)
2017-2019 2017-2019
Landscape Merit Scholarship, University of Sheffield
Postgraduate Taught Scholarship, University of Sheffield
2018
skills software
Language English Hindi Bengali
Erasmus Plus Scholarship
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LOWER DON VALLEY, Landscape Planning Sheffield,U.K.
PARK DESIGN-A Narrative Approach, Landscape Design
Almere, Netherlands.
construction & planting drawings
LOWER DON VALLEY, Landscape Planning|2018 Sheffield |U.K.
Lower Don Valley has a very mixed character with the mix of industrial, post-industrial, private suburbs and commercial character zones. But most importantly it is the flagbearer of Sheffield’s rich history of industrialization especially the Steel industry. But lately Lower Don Valley is degenerating, it’s once bustling industries are now mostly at the end of its days.Many of the industries have been demolished and the lands have been converted to brownfields. With the upcoming HS2 at the edge of the lower don valley a major transformation is inevitable. The project requires to envisage a vision and a longterm strategy to rejuvinates the Lower Don Valley The Vision for Lower Don Valley is to create a landscape planning and land use framework which is adaptable, resilient and multidimensional yet deeply culturally rooted.
PARK DESIGN-A Narrative Approach, Landscape Design|2018
Almere |Netherlands. Studio Co-ordinator - Adrian Gueze|West 8
The site , a 40 ha arable land is within the Urban farming campus ,the land dedicated for Floriade 2022 in Almere, the newest city of the Netherlands. Almere is aspiring to build a legacy based on the asset of innovating the garden city concept by incorporating new themes such as sustainability, ecology and food, it successfully applied for hosting the next International Garden Festival; Floriade. Thus the scope was to design a park which acts as an epicenter for the Floriade . The brief was to create a narrative which seamlessly marries the existing context of farming ,food and sustainability with one’s individual reflection and memories on the same.
THE SONG OF THE ROAD The Pioneers, the first community of men in Almere ,is almost synonymous to it’s journey. They came from different countries at the wake of the WW2 to this newly built land from sea. They moulded the barren waste to the arable productive polders as we presently see it, nurturing farmlands and livestock and making it their Home . The produce from this land reached nations worldwide making the polders one of the most highly exporting land globally. But due to the proximity of Almere to Amsterdam, there is the advent of globalization and rapid urbanization. The lurking danger of losing its identity and democracy is strong. This fear within pioneers and people of Almere had been felt when for the first time a populist party with a nationalist agenda had been elected within Almere. Thus this is a time to look within, to take a few steps back and try to picture the future from a distance. To look into what should be and can be retained to keep the legacy going. Is there a more ecological and sustainable way possible to balance out it’s rapid urbanization? The park embodies the journey of Almere through these very phases of the past, present and future of Almere.
concept strategy
Water Strategy
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RYE/WHEAT/BARLEY
FRUIT FARM
INTERACTION /EDUCATION
ENTRY PLAZA
LIVESTOCK
FRUIT FARM
CANAL NETWORK
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DRAINAGE OF THE SITE WILL BE 1 NATURAL DIRECTED TO THE LAKE
PHYTOREMEDIATION THROUGH THE CA
ENTRY PLAZA INTERACTION /EDUCATION FRUIT FARM
LIVESTOCK
INTERACTION /EDUCATION
ENTRY PLAZA VEGETABLE
VEGETABLE
masterplan
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The journey within the park starts from an organic wooded environment which is unknown to the polders as it gradually moves into the vastness and nothingness of the moorland of the open sculpture park represnting the earliest form of Almere.Then the landform starts to mould into fruit orchards and agricultural land moving upwards to look at the future more clearly where the bird island and butterfly garden awaits.
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siteplan
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UGH THE CANAL SYSTEM AND ISLANDS WHICH WILL COME TO THE LAKE GRASSES FOR PHYTOREMEDIATION
ANAL SYSTEM
GRASSES FOR PHYTOREMEDIATION
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floodable promenade
legend
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BIRD’S ISLAND
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visualization|lake
LAWN
LAKE PROMENADE
AMPHITHEATRE
LAKE
BIRD’S ISLAND
BUTTERFLY HOSTING HOUSE
DECK FOR BOAT RIDES TO THE ADJOINING FARMS
OPEN SCULPTURE MUESUEM
URBAN FARMIMG AWARENESS CENTRE
visualization|orchard /fruit farming
visualization|bird’S island
construction drawing and quantifications
shani temple detail |crs|kolkata
gazebo detail |Hiland green i|kolkata
section & detail |Hiland green i|kolkata
Planting plan |Hiland green ii|kolkata
Planting plan |interval bar cafe|sheffield
visualization | holbeck viaduct project office work |urban wilderness|2018