AMÁLIA MIRANDA
Landscape Architect
AMÁLIA MIRANDA, I describe myself as an enthusiastic and committed person.I am passionate in creating empathy with people and nature in order to design/plan sustainable and efficient solutions to shape public spaces and the environment through an holistic approach enhancing quality of life. I’m a proactive worker and pursue to be involved in challenging projects putting my endeavor in finding visionary solutions which respect the historical identity, improve people’s experiences of space and influence the future of the environment in order to conceive flourishing designs.
Internship Wurck - architecture, urban design and landscape architecture
Volunteer Gardenning Serralves Park Serralves Foundation
Rotterdam, Netherlands Feb. 2012 - July 2012
Porto, Portugal
Competition young landscape architect Garden Design - general plan Garden with events Krakatoa Jardim
Competition Bridging Prague Prague, Czech Republic in 19 finalists
Garden Design Balcony and private house
Portugal
Aveiro, Portugal
Aveiro, Portugal
2013
2008 Bachelor degree
Master degree Landscape Architecture University of Porto, Portugal scope: Planning, Landscape Design, Legislation
Erasmus Exchange
Landscape Architecture University of Porto, Portugal grade: 15/20; A in european scale scope:Sciences (Biology and Math, Geology), Landscape Architecture, Garden Design
Hoegschool Van Hall Lrenstein, Netherlands scope: Planning, Landscape Design, Legislation Urban Design, Ecology, Dutch Landscapes
COMPUTER SKILLS :
Drawing & Mapping
Edition & Graphics
3D & Render
01 Aveiro Smart City pg. 6 Urban Planning
02 Urban Park 10 Park Design
03 Bridging Prague 18 Masterplanning
04 Every drop counts -water resilient cities 24 Ecology Masterplanning
05 The landscape makes the design 28 Masterplanning
06 Quires Urban Park 32 Park Design
07 Cadouรงos Square 36 Square Design
08 Therapeutic Gardens 40 Park Design Plant focus
URBAN PLANNING Year: 2012 , MLA University of Porto Location: Europe, Aveiro, Portugal Exercise: Individual, Academic Products: Descriptive report, A1 Poster, Law application calculations, tables and drawings
parking fa for bikes cars
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offices and companys
Aveiro Smart City
trade and services in the avenue continuity and identity with the existing city
more green space creating continuity
spaces of leisure and recreation
green roofs
safe pedestrian and cycling paths
acilities and
culture
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REQUIREMENTS,
Develop urban design considering the existing principles and facing the realities of the city studied in analysis • consider the existing urban planning laws and numbers and change part of the design according to this rules •
CONCEPT,
Smart city through design - considering the reality of the city and the current world issues and principles on cities development design using four structural principles: green structure; roads structure; public space structure and building typologies • improve public life and public realm
ZONE OF OFFICES AND BUSINESS ATRACTIVE AND COMPETITIV EMPLOYMENT AND ENTREPENEURSHIP ECONOMY PEOPLE DIVERSITY OF BUILDING TYPOLOGIES COMUNITY LIVING PUBLIC GATHERING IN THE STREETS AND PUBLIC SPACES CREATED LEISURE LIVABLE CULTURAL OFFER PROXIMITY WITH EDUCATIONAL, RECREATIVE, COMERCIAL AND SERVICES FACILITIES QUALITY OF LIFE
SMART CITY
MOBILITY ACCESSIBILITY EXTENSION OF THE CYCLE PATH CONFORTABLE ROAD PROFILE TO PEDESTRIANS AND CARS PEDESTRIAN PATHS GRID PARKING FOR BIKES AND CARS
ENVIRONMENT GREEN SPACES GRID INTEGRATED IN THE EXISTING GREEN STRUCTURE URBAN DRAINAGE SYSTEMS RENEWABLE ENERGIES GREEN ROOFS
2 floors with private garden
TERRACED HOUSES
2 floors private garden in the back
Building
5 floors private gardens in the middle
Buildings ‘E’ shaped
5 floors small public gardens between blocs
Buildings with mixed use 1 floor trade 1 floor services 3 floors living green roofs
Buildings of offices and companys
5 floors offices public garden/square in the center of the building public garden nearby
bulding typologies
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DESTACHED HOUSE
PARK DESIGN Year: 2012 , MLA University of Porto Location: Europe, Aveiro, Portugal Exercise: Individual, Academic Products: Descriptive report, A1 Poster
Existing formal Lawn Proposed Parking place
Coffee Existing parking place Sports Complex Gas Pump
Woods
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Aveiro Urban Park Wetarea Lawn Proposed Parking place
Agriculture fields
Linear Market Square
Woods
Co.Working office
people make the Park
PROJECT REQUIREMENTS,
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40 ha of agriculture fields in the center of the city to transform into an urban Park • needs for recreation and leisure • urban agriculture • integrate the green structure • approach sustanabilty • find strategies to financiate the Park • face reality as a design challenge •
DESIGN PRINCIPLES,
In the north of the Park there’s already a green public space and a coffee, related to a sports complex so, it is more sustainable if the Park starts from here and has a strong connection with the city. The woods in the North were also preserved and improved in terms of vegetation, paths and views. The big clearing is the most important space in the Park which serves the needs for recreation and leisure of the population.
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| car and pedestrian ways
| bicycle ways
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| Urban qualification of spaces in the city creating a grid of qualified ecologic public spaces
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MASTERPLANNING Year: 2012 , International Competition Location: Europe, Czech Republic, Prague Exercise: Team work, open competition Products: Poster A0 - In the 19 finalists, exhibited in Prague streets
Bridging Prague 19 | Amรกlia Miranda
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REQUIREMENTS,
An international ideas competition for the Vltava River in Prague • Organized by reSITE Festival and ARCHIP • Competitors were asked to develop a new Vision Plan for this section of the riverfront that creates a unified experience linking cultural, recreational, ecological, historical and economic opportunities • design an intervention that will become a premiere destination along the river Vltava with easy pedestrian access to the historical core
SINOPSE,
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The Vltava and its immediate context are not a part of everyday experiences of city residents as well as the cultural imagination. Our proposal seeks to claim the river as the first step for civic space and a territory for multiple uses: ecological, economic and social. Our approach stands for a new economy that values local production, urban agriculture, self-sustaining energy, art, sociability, and the most important, the people. We will make full use of the landscape as a productive, ecological infrastructure for enhancing social equality, generatic economic vitality, and regaining cultural identity.
DESIGN CONCEPT,
Elaborate new models for the city life is one of the goals. The strategy is flexible and therefore dynamic and sustainable. The inhabitants are the main players in this scene. This policy leverages underutilized and waste resources; finds efficiencies in collaboration and cross fertilization between urban and environmental systems.
Culture + Recreation
Green + Flooding
Mobility + Access
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ECOLOGY, MASTERPLANNING Year: 2012 , Erasmus Van Hall Larenstein Location: Europe, Netherlands, Almere Exercise: Group, Academic Products: Booklet, Posters
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Water Resilient City
REQUIREMENTS,
The project area is the eastern part of the city of Almere (a city below the water level created by the Dutch), which comprises the expanded area of Almere Oost as well as the yet-to-be-established ecological corridor, called OostvaardersWold. The challenge is to design the area in connection with the ecological corridor, regarding climate change issues in accordance with the Almere Principles and having the theme Water Resilient Areas.
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DESIGN CONCEPT, Being a city below water level, the water in Almere is being pumped out every day and every hour • development of a Plan for water resilient Almere using the design principles for water resilient cities on the right • Regarding climate
change it’s more sustainable to store the water in Almere to stimulate biodiversity and for uses in housing. Considering this, the design uses an old historical valley and tranform it into a new blue corridor next to the green corridor to store water, where biodiversity can flow and recreational routes are proposed • different typologies of living with diferent road system, density, green structure water system and energy: business and living, eco-living, luxury living, self-sufficient living - integrated in the multi core structure of Almere • different typologies of nature and storage: open water, forests, streams, pools, wetland, meadow, swamp • Above an image of the typologie business and living •
Businesses Geometric patterns
Water storage and purification
Living
DESIGN PRINCIPLES Water cycle: Rain water is collected inside the residencial areas; waste water will be filtered and reuse for flushing toilet. Filthy water gets into the areas and redundant clean water goes back into the system. Animal species also profit from this water and nature zone.
Ecologic and recreational zone: A difference in water depth will increase ecologic diversity. Water and nature are used to prepare for climate change as well as for recreational activities. Living next to dynamic nature. Nature and water enter residential areas to create a sustainable water cycle.
Fresh groundwater is used to irrigate agricultural plots. Toom much pumping will bring up salt water. Fresh water storage puts pressure onto the water system to combate salinity.
Cooling Urban heat Island: Business parks know a high density. Big buildings generate a lot of heat. Large water areas combined with nature are used to cool the urban heat islands.
Building principle: Only buildings and roads are built on sand. Clay from streams is put on existing soil.
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Combating salinity:
URBAN PLANNING Year: 2011 , Erasmus at Van Hall Larenstein Location: Europe, Netherlands, Leek Exercise: Individual, Academic Products: 2 Posters
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The landscape makes the design
For the region
For housing
The landscape makes the Design
For people
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For the nature itself
Requirements. Individually choose a neighbourhood of the masterplan and detail it in terms or urban design
Design concept. As shown above: The wet area will be a good place to live and learn from the nature. The landscape is the stage so, the houses must all have views to it, they are the audience, in this way the housing becomes a ‘U’ shape and in the middle space it’s semi private. There will be no back gardens because the landscape is the garden but every floor will have balconys to enjoy the landscape. People in the surroundings must also enjoy this landscape in this way a deck will be implemented with few impact in the landscape, creating sort of a linear park so, everyone can take part of the landscape in a sustainable way. The existing landscape will be the connection between the diferent spaces in the area and also the connection between the areas in the masterplan like rome and forest areas.; green roofs in housing can improve this connection for biodiversity The landscape is a dynamic element through the year and a continuous feature to live.
PARK DESIGN Year: 2011 , Bsc LA University of Porto Location: Europe, Porto, Portugal Exercise: Group of 2, Academic Products: Booklet, 2 Posters
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Quires Urban Park
REQUIREMENTS, Develop a park for a new neighbourhood in Maia, Porto in a place that was a trash deposit
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DESIGN CONCEPT, The proposal uses the existing contours and improve them bringing a new dynamic to the space; preserves existing trees which create good shadow; creates a Wadii to sustainable storage of water , a lawn good for recreation and a smaller lawn with slopes for kids to play; The path kind of gives the park an identity, a contemporary identity, after entering the Park it guides the visitors thought a dynamic of places like woods, lawn, aromatic shrubs or ornamental grasses. All this features bring to the new neighbourhood a sustainable green space, versatil and dynamic with greate potencial of leisure and recreation
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SQUARE DESIGN Year: 2010 , Bsc LA University of Porto Location: Europe, Porto, Portugal Exercise: Individual, Academic Products: Poster, descriptive report, execution plans (ex.: plantation, modelation, irrgation...)
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REQUIREMENTS,
Redesign a square in a sunny space with views to the sea which actually has an old design that is not working, it is a tilted area, the space is too chambered for its dimension and it’s being crossed by car lanes and with cars parked illegaly everywhere.
DESIGN CONCEPTS,
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The main concept is fluidity, serving the needs of people who wants to stay for a while but also the ones passing by. The proposal aims to solve the space problems by creating new parking places and pleasant spaces for people. The Cadouços Square will be a place to stay, to contemplate or walk by with stunning views to the sea. The main feature in this concept is the walking path which is crucial to give continuity breaking the fragmentation of the space, in this path users can circulate from top to down in safe and with pleasant views. The shape of the path create harmony and its diferent lenghts where sometimes people can find a place to sit by the plants make it a pleasant place to walk. There will also be a coffe with esplanade and a great paved space for gathering with nice views to the garden and the lawn.
Walking path
Paved Surface Coffee
Lawn
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PARK DESIGN WITH PLANT DESIGN FOCUS Year: 2010 , Bsc LA University of Porto Location: Europe, Porto, Portugal Exercise: Group, Academic Products:Poster, descriptive report, plantation plan
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Therapeutic Garden
REQUIREMENTS,
In the center of the city of Porto, close to the Metro and close to the ‘Casa da Música’ where some new buldings will grow design a Park for the citizens and the neighbourhood taking special concern about the vegetation and having as main theme: Therapeutic Garden
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DESIGN CONCEPT,
The garden is thought for the different ages and conditions of a comunity, with special focus on the eldery people. We use the principle of reminiscence to stimulate the memories and life experiences of old people using old features and plants that bring good memories, for instance the recovery of the old train lines that passed by the area or the use of Olea europea or Citrus sinensis which are plants always in the memories of the portuguese people. The space provides many different spaces for recreation with easy instalation and maintenance and visual transparency important for safety, it is composed by a Coffe with esplanade where one can see the old train lines surrounded by aromatic and colored plants, the more residencial area between buildings with the same character, the paved surface where many things can be experienced like just observing, relax, socialize or make urban agiculture as a therapy in lifted boxes or play card games in the tables and also a sloped lawn for kids, in this areas the pavement is apropriated for blind people and some handrails with braille information about the park. In the north will be a Center of Fisiotherapy and Geriatric Reabilitation and the arboretum, with many trees and plants with sensorial and therapeutic interest the whole year and also a dynamic of slopes where exercises and fisiotherapy can be done and close by the center a naturalised lake to bring biodiversity and dynamics to the area . So this Park aims to be agreeable, usefull and accesible for the whole community and satisfy its interests.
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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
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PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
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SUMMER
AUTUMN Outono
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WINTER Inverno
AMĂ LIA MIRANDA
Landscape Architect Collection of Academic Works Bsc, MLa Aveiro, Portugal amaliamiranda@outlook.com +351911164331 March 2013