Niloufar Kiarostami | Architect & Landscape Designer

NILOUFAR KIAROSTAMI

Architecture

CONTACT

Email: arch.kiarostami@gmail.com

Phone: +393518121566

niloufarkiarostami.com

EDUCATION

HELLO

I am a recent Master graduate in Sustainable Architecture & Landscape Design from Politecnique University of Milan. After graduating from my first Masters studies in Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, Iran & working with United Nations as a Disaster Risk Reduction Consultant, I decided to deapen my knowledge about sustainablity in Italy, for it was long known as the best place for architecture. Due to my background, my approach to architecture & Landscape Design is to plan and design resilient spaces while bringing life, human interaction & aesthetics to the public places. Painting is also my passion & I have had solo exhibitions in Iran & Italy in recent years. I enjoy using my creativity to bring to life what I imagine to serve humanity to have better experience. whether its a painting, a building or a public space.

WORK EXPERIENCE

OPENFABRIC 09/2021 - 11/2021 Intern Concept design|Detail design|group works|individual research| Technical drawings of different phases of Landscape Design projects

UNITED NATIONS, UN-HABITAT TEHRAN OFFICE 12/2016 – 03/2018 Disaster Risk Reduction Consultant

Collaboration with the architecture department of BHRC: Developing the 23rd National Building Code for “Designing and Implementing of Rural Buildings” in Iran | R&D | Giving lectures & courses in work shops held by governmental partners such as MRUD & Universities (Tehran university and Buein Zahra University)

MINISTRY OF CULTURE, IRAN 03/2016 - 05/2019 Content production for website

Master of Sustainable Architecture & Landscape Design

9/2019 - 04/2022

Politecnico Di Milano, Italy

Final grade: 110 Lode

Master of Post-Disaster Reconstruction 09/2014 – 08/2017

University of Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, Iran

Final grade: 18.48/20

Bachelor of Architecture 01/2008 – 12/2012

Guilan University, Rasht, Iran

Final grade: 16.83/20

TECHNICAL Software Photoshop

Other

Hand Drawing

Painting Model Making Research

Production

SAYEH TENSILE STRUCTURE COMPANY, TEHRAN, IRAN 03/2018 - 09/2019 Part-time architect and interior designer

GOSTARESH AMAD CONSULTING ENGINEERS, TEHRAN, IRAN 2014/02 – 2013/04 Architect Designing the First and Second designing phase of Iranian Residential complex

HERAM-PEY CONSULTING ENGINEERS, TEHRAN, IRAN 07/2010 - 03/2011: Intern 03/2011 – 07/2011: Architect Research|2D & 3D design|Preparing reports and lectures|Material study|Translation

Office

LANGUAGES

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

As an expert in UN-Habitat’s Tehran Office:

Lecturer at workshop on disaster management in “International Conference on Earthquake, Disaster Management, Rehabilitation & Reconstruction” |Title of the course: Using HAZUS-MH for Disaster Risk Assessment, 25th May 2017

Lecturer at workshop in the “5th Comprehensive Conference on Flood Engineering and Management” |Title of the course: International Practices in Natural Disaster Insurance, 14th November 2017 Lecturer at workshop in the “3rd comprehensive conference on urban management” |Title of the course: Sustainable Reconstruction in Urban Areas, 16th January 2018

Kordasti English Academy, English Language Teacher, 10/2018 - 07/2019

SKETCHES

PARCO MAGGIORE DI PIACENZA

Development of the Northern Sector of Piacenza by reconnecting the city with nature

Location: Northern sector of Piacenza, Emilia Romagna, Italy

Project Type: Planning | Design

Year: 2022 | Thesis Project

Master of Sustainable Architecture & Landscape Design Politecnique University of Milan

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PROJECT OVERVIEW

The current project aims at bring back the lost connection of Piacenza city to the nature from the urban fabric in city center towards Po River by both soft and hard interventions. A park is designed as a transition point between the city center and the nature. The park, Parco Maggio re, consistS of an active urban park in the place of abandoned military areas hosting different events, sports, playground, amphiteatre, etc and a more natural part between the river and this park. In order to make sure this connec tion is safe for pedestrians some revisions in the transportation network was made: mov ing the railway underground, removing some roads and move the traffic to other roads or making them more pedestrian friendly.

The organic and curvy shape of River Po

The grid shape of the city, hard edges, No trace of nature, hu man made

Zoom in Plan | Interactive Playground, Food Court, Sport Facilities

Zoom in Plan | Urban Park with Perennial Gardens,

Orchards, Skatepark, Interactive Water Feature

Zoom in Plan | Historic walls, Pedestrian Oriented Paths, Open Amphitheatre

la plaça

Location: Badalona, Spain

Project Type: Planning | Design

Year: 2021 | Advanced Architectural Design Studio 2

Master of Sustainable Architecture & Landscape Design

Politecnique University of Milan

Grade acquired: 30

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THE THIRD SPACE

Location: Carrara, Italy

Project Area: 120000 m2

Project Type: Planning | Design

Year: 2020 | Landscape Design Studio

Master of Sustainable Architecture & Landscape Design

Politecnique University of Milan

Grade acquired: 30

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The site is situated on the waterfront in Avenza, currently occupied by open spaces that extends around a group of residential buildings on Viale Giovanni da Verrazzano. It also includes the riverbanks to the extent of the industrial areas.

Due to the high impact of marble industry, and other important industries such as General Electrics and the Carrara port, the site is full of heavy trucks and the environment is polluted with noise and dust which is not very pleasant for the inhabitants. The site is not very well organized for daily human activities. The waterfront, a reclaimed land, acting as a wave breaker and in the same time is active, but it needs to be designed and organized. The landscape proposals asso ciated with this development, is to pixelate the river banks by adding transversal artificial enlargement and reclamation of the missing natural riverbed, where we have potential abandoned areas in order to reduce the flood risk; also to develop wetlands and other green and gray infrastructure systems to reduce the pollution of the river especially because it pours into the sea. In case of human activities and sense of place, refining the beach area and adding some soft open spaces and vegetation are some of the measurements proposed. A limited and pedestrian friendly network concerning the vehicular transportation, while re connecting dead-end roads to become more frequented, is reinforced. By this mean, Viale Giovanni di Verrazzano is reconnected with the main road of Via delle Pinete. Land cover in the site and the surroundings is proposed to become more porous and permeable enabling water infiltration into the soil, reducing as much as possible flood effect and filtering polluted water. Phytoremediation is a perfect example. This decision was the result of an analysis concluding a high percentage of impermeable cover and higher heat island.

ISSUES:

1. WATER POLLUTION

2. FLOOD RISK

3. ENDANGERED BIODIVERSITY

4. LACK OF PROPER PUBLIC SPACE

5. POOR PEDESTRIAN ACCESSIBILTY

6. IMPROPER MIXTURE OF ACTIVITIES IN THE AREA (INDUSTRIAL VS. RESIDENTIAL)

7. LACK OF SAFETY BECAUSE OF HEAVY TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS IN THE SITE (AC TIVE RAILWAY+HEAVY TRUCKS)

POTENTIALS:

1. ACCESS TO LOCAL MATERIALS SUCH AS MARBLE

2. ABANDONED SITES AROUND CARRIONE RIVER

3. NICE VIEWS TO THE MOUNTAINS AND THE SEA

4. ACTIVE BEACH AREA STRATEGIES:

The concept longs for a space and a missing connection between the lines of residential & industrial buildings, the views of marble quarries & the sea, and the connection between the two existing ecosystems of Carrione river and the water channel.

PIACENZA MOBILITY SHIFT &

NEIGHBOURHOODS, the east-west corridors

Location: Piacenza, Emilia Romagna, Italy

Project Type: Planning | Design

Year: 2020 | Urban & Environmental Design Studio

Master of Sustainable Architecture & Landscape Design

Politecnique University of Milan

Grade acquired: 30

PROJECT OVERVIEW

In this project, Piacenza is considered as a case study to envision a new urban question. Piacenza a city of around 100,000 Inhabitants in Emilia Romagna Re gion, like many other cities in Italy is facing the same problem of climate change, and of new challenges related to circular economies. The interventions in this project are based on different analysis and critical mappings. We see Piacenza as a city where we have many available areas, such as the abandoned military domains and abandoned industrial areas.

In this project Piacenza is envisioned through two main scenarios. One goes to the “Mobility Shift” and the other one goes to “Clean Energies and Sustainable Neighborhoods”.

Potential areas are those who can be developed or connected to eachother to keep the connec tion between attraction areas for the inhabitants & visitors by means of public transports & also transferring the abandoned areas to the places that attract people & going towards having multiple centralities in Piacenza.

STRATEGIES

1. MULTIPLYING PUBLIC SPACES AND OPEN SPACES

2. ENHANCING SLOW MOBILITY (PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE LANES)

3. SUGGESTING PEDESTRIAN ORIENTED INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM

4. ADOPTING A CIRCULAR SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY

5. REQUALIFYING THE MOTOR WAY (EAST AND WEST CORRIDOR)

IDEAS & SKETCHES

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