landscape architecture portfolio by Evanthia Beristianou

EVANTHIA BERISTIANOU LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PORTFOLIO

P E R S O N A L I N F O / / C O N TAC T name: EVANTHIA BERISTIANOU address: Carrer del Consell de Cent, 225, 08011, Barcelona telephone number: +34603143771 // +306988767800 email: euaberi@gmail.com date of birth: 19/03/1992 profession: LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT (UPC), ARCHITECT ENGINEER (NTUA)

E D U C AT I O N / / S T U D I E S 2018- today Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Master in Landscape Architecture. 2009- 2016 National Technical University of Athens, Master degree in Architecture & Engineering 2013- 2014 Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona, erasmus program.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 10/2018- 07/2019 Technical assistant at MAP, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Graphic design and communication. 04/2017- 08/2018 Junior architect at DOLIHOS ARCHITECTS LTD, Athens, Greece. Participation in projects of various content and scales, in tasks including mapping, architectural design and presentation, technical drawings for building permits, interior design, signage design of large-scale buildings consisting of the graphic design and detailed technical drawings. 09/2016- 12/2016 Intern at B2B ARCHITECTES (Jordi Bellmunt & Agata Buscemi), Barcelona, Spain. Participation in landscape and urban design projects (design and presentation). 05/2015- 09/2015 Designer at C&M ENGINEERING S.A., Athens, Greece. Participation in the architectural design (2d architectural and technical drawings) of the Trans Andriatic Pipeline. 10/2012 -2/2013 Research project for NTUA (internship) Study of the settlement Tsikalia in Mani, Greece. Mapping and analysis of the traditional settlement. 07/2010 2

WORKSHOPS 05/2019 “CREATIVE FOOD CYCLES” Design and fabrication workshop, Barcelona. Project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of European Union. Organized by IAAC, LUH, UNIGE_DAD. 07/2017 “RE-CONFIGURING PRODUCTIVE MEGALOPOLIS” International Landscape Urbanism design workshop over the future of Megalopolis mining area, Greece Organized by ±0.LAB, KU LEUVEN 03/2015 “SHAPES OF LOGIC” Flock behavior & control workshop International conference of parametric design, Wroclaw, Poland organized by ARCHITECTURA_PARAMETRYCZNA

COMPETITIONS 12/2017 REDESIGNING THE CENTRAL SQUARE OF IOANNINA International competition// collaboration with the team “topio 7” landscape architects (3D models). 01/2017 BORDERS, DMZ underground bathhouse Open ideas competition, run from Arch out loud, arch. research initiative. 05/2013 120 HOURS, experimental preservation Open ideas student competition, Oslo School of Architecture and Design.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

SOFTWARE SKILLS

GREEK Mother tongue ENGLISH Highly proficient in both spoken and written English Level C2: Michigan Proficiency, 2006// IELTS 2018 (grade 8/9) SPANISH Fluent in both spoken and written Spanish Level C1: Intermedio, 2010

AutoCAD 2D-3D Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Premiere QGIS Rhinoceros 3D Microsoft Office

TRANSITIONS INTERVENTIONS ON A POST-INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE

A WASTEFUL OPPORTUNITY PORTO MARGHERA

SIMBIOSCAPES TOURISM AND THE CITY

ROOM FOR THE RIVER! RIVER BESÒS

REDRAWING THE BORDERS EL PLA DE REIXAC

THE WATER’S PATH CONTROLLING RAINWATER IN THE PARK OF ORENETA

MULTIESTRATO AN MULTILAYERED OASIS IN RAVAL CENTER

T R AN SITIONS INTERVENTIONS IN LEFKA’S POST-INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE

The presented diploma thesis concerns the intervention in the industrial zone of Lefka in Piraeus. In the area are located the repair factory of OSE train company and a historical abandoned textile factory. The proposal aims to the rehabilitation of this industrial landscape and it’s transformation to a city park, an active field for the neighborhood while maintaining the historicity, the unique industrial character and the memory of the broader area. The urban planning proposal focuses on the integration with the city (road network/ inner connections), as well as the creation of a network of land uses that could answer to basic needs and shortages of the region. The organization of the design strategy is moving on two axes. The first is the scenario of uses that will be given to the abandoned industrial buildings, which includes work and productivity, culture and education, with activities of mild industry and workshops being in the core. The second axis focuses on the design of outdoor facilities and open spaces of the OSE plot through a system of paths and a network of public spaces. A key issue is the introduction of human scale in these vast spaces, to be visible and usable by a wide range of users and daily activities. Three tools are used for the organization and configuration of different open spaces: The study and intervention on the existing steel structures, the introduction of a new system of independent light steel structures and the vegetation system.

DIPLOMA THESIS | NTUA | 2015-16 EVANTHIA BERISTIANOU | VALLIANATOU DAPHNE- FOTINI | PETINATOU VIVI 6

ANALYSIS OF THE INTERVENTION AREA

Lefka Athens

Piraeus

current situation

existing plan for the broader area/ correlations

The geographical position of the city of Piraeus was crucial for its development and its relationship with Athens. The town has always been connected with the port functions and the various productive activities associated with it (industrial, commerce, shipping). In the spatial footprint of the city is visible that residential areas cover itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the biggest percent. The industry and other related sectors such as warehouses, garages, and workshops also occupy a large proportion of land uses, while uses of services, commercial and naval activities, as well as some recreational uses, are dynamically displayed. Trade appears in local centers and on the main road axes.

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The special development of the city growth, the mixing of incompatible uses and continuous attraction of human resources (manpower, inhabitants) without the necessary planning in each phase, has provoked problems for the urban fabric. These include dense structure and lack of free green space - that proportionally to the population is virtually nonexistent- as long as lack of cultural infrastructure. The lack of functional public transportation and parking spaces, worsen the already burdened -because of the port - traffic and make the connection of the various areas almost impossible. Last but not least, come the inactive industrial or storage spaces and portal areas (both buildings and vast areas).

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Our area of study is located in the industrial area of Lefka, consisting of the inactive textile industry of Retsina and the factory and warehouses of the OSE trains. The plots are located between Kaminia, Palia Kokinia and the industrial zone of Ag. Dionysios. The area is a problematic part of the urban fabric, a dead piece and a very hard border for the city. The elongated region -an area of 146 acres- cuts out the two residential areas (Kaminia, Kokinia), since the transition from one to the other is possible only around the plots. The boundary is reinforced both by the active train lines in the southern part of the plot - which divide it into two parts- and by Thevon Avenue on the north. The exclusion of the area alleviates the existence of the suburban Rail station “Lefka” -which is within the plot- as well as the former railway tracks at the North part, which are proposed for a linear park ending to the Ietionia Coast.

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road network

borders 9

separate public spaces in the city fabric

PROPOSED USES OF LAND

elongated shape closed to the city

transverse opening to the city network of neighborhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s & internal public spaces

mild industry industrial furniture cooperative arts & crafts textile workshops education 2dary school of woodworking & metalworking 2dary school of Industrial Design childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s workshops audiovisual workshops housing student residence social facilities nursery collective kitchen culture exhibitions theater music leisure cafe/ canteen restaurant concerts

he intervention consists of the urban planning proposal -so as the area of study could connect with the neighboring areas- and the design proposal of the “intermediate” open spaces that appear in it. The planning proposal is based on three basic principles that respond to the identified main problems. Starting with the elimination of the actual limit, we considered essential the transverse opening of the area to the city, which will assure the direct access of the residents. The second part of the planning proposal refers to the uses of land and activities’ scenario, given both to the existing buildings and the open spaces. The reuse of the buildings firstly aims to rescuing and promoting them, but also to the vitality and continuous operation of the site, which will ensure and continuous communication with the rest of the city.

buldings new uses

main trails & plazas

The selected activities derive from the character and needs of the area and are divided into five main categories: manufacturing activities, residential and social infrastructure, education, park and recreation, and cultural uses. The organization of uses results from the main features of the area, while supports a scenario of cooperation and evolution (from education, production, marketing, etc.). Finally, mild interventions are proposed in the existing road network, both for the immediate local and supralocal connection to the region, and a functional inner network.

connection with the city

urban fabric

INTERVENTIONS/ BASIC PRINCIPLES

public space - plazas entrance open air route park pets playground rest strolling around overground passage bench leisure- cafe walking productsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; exhibition amphitheater info point covered space open air theater

exhibition space

market

education steel structure

leisure

workshops

concerts train paths on the rails

students residence theater music studios

DESIGN PRINCIPLES

workshops

entrance points

cross section/ axis

main axes

squares

paths

buildings to be reused

bicycle paths

interventions

purveyance

new structures

communal spaces

exhibitions

culture- leisure

education

auxiliary spaces

steel tower// observatory _perforated steel floor added on two levels _interior staircase and elevator system steel frame of building//central plaza _the two pairs of steel trussess on the borders of the former building are maintained _a ramp system is added on the pairs of steel frames _a system of overground corridors is added, parallel with the carrier plate and on the trail of the former ground floorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grid

steel frame

central plaza

16 students dormitory

steel arcade bike trail

overground pass

observatory tower

canopy

arcade building exhibition- passage

market productsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; exhibition

cafe

overground route

central plaza

leisure activities

segcondary plaza

central plaza

cafe

technical education building

overground route

cultural center

market

arcade building

observatory tower

observatory

A WASTEFUL O PPO RTUNITY PORTO MARGHERA

We are located in the inner zone of the Marghera port. In most of the areas, traces of largescale abandoned industries are found and among them the old refinery, while mild industries continue to operate in a smaller proportion. The heavy industrial activity of the last century has transformed the area into a zone of high pollution (soil, air), loaded with waste and industrial materials (buildings, metal structures) that continuously damage the surviving ecosystems of the area, while degrading the rural system and the neighbor urban fabrics. The area, being considered an area of environmental interest, is in a longterm process of environmental rehabilitation. In a territorial scale, we read the site as an articulation between various ecosystems, such as the lagoon system, the rural land, and the interior urbanizations. For this to be achieved, the project moves in 3 axes: 1. Environmental rehabilitation. The decontamination of the area in phases is proposed, until the naturalization of certain points of the site (current channel, new channel, wetland points, and park). 2. Natural connection. The opening of a new channel could solve flood problems, and most importantly work as an ecological corridor. It will also play an important role as the riverbank of the new neighborhood. 3. Anthropic use. A gradual occupation of space is proposed. Extensive, elevated industrial structures can serve as protected routes from soil contamination and prominent buildings can host mixed housing and uses, replacing dysfunctional urban fabrics. Moreover, construction materials that are found in the site could be used for the new structures (flooring, furniture, etc.)

Ana Zabala | Germán Guillén |

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Puerto Marghera

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Evanthia Beristianou | Mariana Farrera |

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Topografía

WATER & TOPOGRAPHY

CONCRETE & VEGETATION

INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS & HERITAGE

INTERVANTION STRATEGY

FASE 1

DECONTAMINATED SOIL TO BE VEGETATED UNDER CONSTRUCTION

FASE 2

SPACE OCCUPATION NEW FABRIC

FASE 3

ELEVATED PASSAGE

LOWER INUNDADED POINTS

WATER & VEGETATION

PATHS & EXTERNAL CONNECTIONS

NEW FABRIC & REUSED BUILDINGS

CONCEPTUAL SECTION

NEW CHANNEL ELEVATED PASSES REUSED BUILDINGS & STRUCTURES

SI MB IOSCA PES

ALTERNATIVES FOR TOURISM IN BARCELONA

How do tourism and city marketing work in a contemporary metropolis such as Barcelona? The concentration of visitors in certain zones of the city is both dysfunctional and a little democratic. Trying to analyze the ways cities grow and how their various pieces gain value (historical centers, industrial zones, green spaces, etc), some interesting pieces show up. The social housing blocks, hidden representatives of the city’s evolution, could take part in the new narrative of the city. These fragments, in their great majority, are found in the margins of the city close to vast natural or agricultural areas (Collserola, Besos, Llobregat, etc) and therefore could work as articulations of the city with the peri-urban and natural spaces that surround her. Moreover, the polygons are surrounded by hard infrastructures but also by the vast pieces of open space that those leave in between and could work as green articulations. The project focuses on the case of Bellvitge, one of the most characteristic (socially and spatially) working-class neighborhoods of Barcelona. Starting from the revitalization of the neighborhood (new structures for new uses and improvement of scale perception) and ending to the Llobregat river, the project aims to improve the living conditions for the residents and their relationship with nature, by providing a new space of interest and hospitality for the visitors.

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releyendo los márgenes

de Barcelona a “las barcelonas”

releyendo los márgenes

TOURISM CONCENTRATION IN AMB

CLASIFICATION OF SOCIAL HOUSING BLOCKS

releyendo los márgenes

SOCIAL HOUSING BLOCKS & INFRASTRUCTURE

SOCIAL HOUSING BLOCKS, GREEN & IN BETWEEN OPPORTUNITY SPACES

INTERVENTION STRATEGY

articulando

PROPOSED ACTIONS: BELLVITGE TO LLOBREGAT

EMPTY SPACE

GRID- SPACE TO BE OCCUPIED

GRID & VEGETATION

GENERAL PLAN

Nuevo funcionamiento Bellvitge

Bellvitge (espacio pÃºblico actual)

Usos mixtos PROPOSED RELATION & USES

BUILT & EMPTY SPACE

Propuesta Rio Llobregat

Propuesta secciรณn paso bajo autopistas

DRAWING: JOSU RUIZ SAINZ

Espacios publicos

R O O M F OR THE RIVER! RIVER BESOS

Approaching Moncada, we realize that the city is living with its back to the river. A very dense urban fabric, introverted and devoid of public spaces. Furthermore, its neuralgic location between the Turó de Moncada, the Besòs river and the Marina range, draws attention. On the one hand, the project tries to recover the lost relationship of the city with the river in two aspects. At the local level, a transversal connection between the urban fabric of Moncada and the Besós River is proposed, making openings in certain points that allow us to sew both. At a territorial level, we prioritize and clarify the existing mobility along the longitudinal axis that leads to the Linear del Besòs Park. On the other hand, the place of action stands as a potential piece of ecological connectivity which helps us to get closer to the Besòs transversal level and allow a greater biological permeability. That is why we focus on the plot of the old Valentine factory and the Vallençana torrent to be able to propose through this axis an intervention that ensures this connectivity. At the urban level, on the right bank, the old factory is transformed into a flooded park with activities that will gradually connect the urban condition with the natural one (urban gardens, platforms for workshops and wet meadows). On the left bank of the river, next to the treatment plant, a phytodepuration park is proposed, which can be visited through certain routes that will follow the depuration processes. At the level of the river, the expansion of the channel is planned, to induce the natural creation of different habitats that favor greater biodiversity. Besides, anthropic use is limited as we approach the riverbed through the vegetation and the controlled paths.

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ACTUAL SITUATION

PROPOSED SITUATION

2 PARKS: ECOLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY

INTERVENTIONS IN THE RIVERBED RIVERBED FLOODING URBAN PARK

FITODEPURATION PARK

ROUTES

GREEN BORDERS

SEQUENCES TOWARDS THE BIRDS OBSERVATORY

SEQUENCES TOWARDS THE RIVER PASS

PLANTATIONS

SPONTANEOUS VEGETATION

PLANTATIONS

SECTION IN THE RIVERBED

RE DR AWING THE B O RDERS EL PLA DE REIXAC

“Redrawing the borders” aims to preserve the central ecological connector that links San Llorenç del Munt and the pre-coastal serrated ones through a buffer between the urban fabric and the agricultural landscape in the Vallès’ unique agricultural mosaic. To achieve this, four interventions are proposed that will help control anthropogenic disturbances and thus the biodiversity of the area will be favored and enhanced. On the one hand, the creation of an ecotone between La Llagosta and the agricultural land is proposed, recovering the natural flow of the streams and providing these new plant topographies with playful functions such as parks and picnic areas. This filter allows us to control the anthropic use of the agricultural mosaic, to which we carry out a landscape acupuncture work acting on the margins between fields, enhancing roads and reactivating old heritage farmhouses. At the top of this landscape, an important piece of genista scrub is revegetated to encourage greater habitats and ecosystems that help ensure this great central ecological connector. This hinge between urban fabric and agricultural tissue is intended to extend towards the river Besòs through a green corridor that colonizes by riverside vegetation all the interstitial spaces between medians and that, although it does not renature the entire bed of the stream until its mouth in the river, allows to elevate the ecological permeability between species and increase the environmental and ecological values of the current connector. Finally, our buffer extends along the railway line to reduce noise and visual disturbances. Rehabilitating certainly degraded tesserae of the agricultural mosaic that extends to the train and endowing them with a function, we allow from the ecological point of view greater connectivity and biodiversity and from the anthropic point of view, the junction between two municipalities such as Montcada and La Llagosta by completing the outline of an interrupted path.

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RURAL FABRIC

URBAN FABRIC

HABITATS

STREAMS & INUNDATION

RENATURALIZE THE DRY STREAM CONTROL ANTHROPIC USE

RECOVER THE RELATIONSHIP WITH THE CITY

RECOVER THE MOSAIC CONNECT WITH BESÃ&#x201C;S RIVER

PROTECT AND HIGHLIGHT THE AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE

REACTIVATE THE RURAL HERITAGE (MASIAS)

REDRAW THE BORDERS

ecosystem services B A S E

CONCEPT

topography change new river habitats structure comlexity vegetation plant structure diversity regulation of the nitrogen cycle with legumes

ecosystem services OF REGULATION river renaturalization increased vegetation and shade areas

ACTUAL SITUATION- TRANSITIONS

ecosystem services C U L T U R A L SOIL MOVEMENTS

new urban park on the island tours in the agricultural landscape and riverside educational workshops in the communal orchards enhancement of the vies towards the Pla picnic areas viewpoints towards the emerging river landscape

WATER CONTROL

PROPOSED SITUATION- GRADIENT

WATER AND TOPOGRAPHY

VEGETATION

ACTIVITIES AND PATHS

VIEWS

communal orchards intensive //workshops cultivation

scrub plots borders

picnic zone

riverside vegetation

salix â&#x20AC;&#x153;forestâ&#x20AC;?

meadow

habitat of humid soil

T HE WATER’S PATH CONTROLLING RAINWATER IN THE PARK OF ORENETA

Studying the conditions of the Oreneta park, we focus on two complementary problems. On the one hand, the lack of organization and limitation of roads and spaces destined for activities of public use as well as protected areas of vegetation is evident. On the other hand, the “paths” that are forming the water of torrential rains catch the attention. In this way, we understand the park as a system of complementary elements; the runoff waters, the human use, the topography and the state of the ground cover that interact generating problems, and at the same time forming the dynamics that will solve the dysfunctions of the park. A series of solutions are introduced for each of these elements. A system of ditches and draining points to manage the descent of water, the organization of the roads (the saulo and gravel of recycled materials with sub-base of draining substrate), plantation of herbaceous and shrubs for the best support of the soil and drainage, while certain interventions using bioengineering solutions to support the slopes (krainer wall on the terraces) are proposed. To organize the perception of the new park, we introduce the main path, the water’s path. This route will have a double role: that of connecting the points of most frequent use of the park and of transforming into a collector of water from the highest points to the lowest. On its way, it finds in the flat spots some draining lagoons that will diminish their speed and quantity. For that, we introduce a system of vegetated gutters that will function as water conductors to each lagoon. At the most loaded points, a system of drainage tanks is proposed, formed by polypropylene boxes.

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INTERACTION OF ELEMENTS

water runoff

anthropic use & pases

vegetation cover inclination & slopes

SOLUTIONS paths & activities organization canalization & drainage points

plantation for slopes stabilazation & paths limitation

terraces with nb solutions

PATHS

VEGETA

P A T H S T Y P O L O G Y

TATION

WATER SYSTEM

HOW DOES THE WATER MOVE [CONCEPT]

TECHNICAL DETAILS

WATER DEPOSIT

DRAINAGE POINTS

DRAINAGE DITCH

KRAINER WALL

MU LT IESTRATO A MULTILAYERED OASIS IN THE CENTER OF RAVAL

The project is located in Raval, a neuralgic point of the old center of the city, with a very dense urban fabric and lack of green. Apart from the residents, the concentration of significant cultural and educational buildings attracts everyday visitors, students, tourists and so on. The zone is composed of three sequential public spaces of action, while the two extroverted squares also have a strong identity, differently from plaza Juan Coromines, which is mostly a passing space. We understood that even if the dynamics, users, and identity of the three squares are quite different and not related to each other, they all have in common the lack of a place to stay. Therefore, we focus on the central, protected square, proposing an urban oasis. A public space with different conditions, inspired but the rainforests, that will attract and the different users to stay, rest, enjoy and so interact with each other. In order to achieve that, we are thinking in layers. Using a structure of steel columns an nets, hanged in different heights, the various functions can be fulfilled a base for the plants to climb or hang from, and the use of the people. The layer structure, also imitates the organization of the rainforest. In order to achieve and maintain the desired conditions a system of water collection and reuse is proposed. Through a visible pipe system, rain water and water of the surrounding buildings could be collected, leaded to an underground deposit, where it can be purified and sent back to the top of the buildings or the poles.

DRAWING: ALESSANDRO LOREFICE

JUAN COROMINES SQUARE

GENERAL PLAN 66

GROUND LEVEL

NET STRUCTURE: ACTIVITIES LAYERS

NET STRUCTURE: VEGETATION LAYERS

WATER TREATMENT &REUSE

DRAWING: ROBERTA GRAMAZIO