PORTFOLIO Emma Diehl LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 2016
Emma Diehl Landscape Architecture Student Portfolio 2016 January Cover : Water system in the South of the Netherlands, Source: Personal design
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS KELLERMAN PARK
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SAINT-MICHEL
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PARIS-SACLAY
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PARCK DESIGN
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JANNEZAND POLDER
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ASSE VLAANDEREN
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SPAKENBURG
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IABR NEXT ECONOMY
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REBUILD BY DESIGN
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SAINT-DENIS
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WORK IN PROCESS GRADUATION PROJECT
REPRESENTATION
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CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE
Studies at National School of higher studies in Nature and Landscape Architecture ENSNP (currently in the 5th year)
Baccalaureat with honors at the Ecole Massillon (an equivalent of A LEVELS in math, biology.)
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Graduation final project in progress
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6 months internship in H+N+S Amersfoort, Netherlands (Landscape Architecture office) Erasmus exchange at the Academy Van Bouwkunst of Amserdam, Netherlands
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3 months internship in Taktyk Brussels, Belgium (Landscape architecture & urbanisme agency)
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2 months internship in the Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam, The Netherlands (garden maintenance and greeting visitors)
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2 months internship in the Powis Castle Garden Welshpool, Wales, UK (garden maintenance and greeting visitors)
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Internship in The Communication Agency MAFIA
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SKILLS & INTERESTS Photoshop In Design Illustrator AutoCAD Sketch up
Word Excel Power Point French English* Spanish
* IELTS grade 6,5 Piano, swimming, riding, reading, travelling, hiking, photography, sketching, gardening
PERSONAL DETAILS +33 ( 0 ) 6 76 10 01 14 diehl.emma@wanadoo.fr 8 rue saint honorĂŠ 41 000 Blois, FRANCE
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KELLERMAN PARK
Paris, France 48°49’15.66’’N 2°21’26.66’’E
KELLERMAN PARK 2013 This urban park in Paris is designed with structure of lines and perspectives which define spaces. All these spaces create different atmospheres for all kinds of use. Visitors can play or rest, in the shade or the sun light on the great lawns. The Northen part of the park shows various species of plants. Each season brings particularities. Adults and children can all discover and appreciate not so common plants in cities. The large square between the restaurant and the cultural building presents a mineral and very sunny open space with a big stretch of water. It can welcome the restaurant terraces and cultural events.
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View from the Eastern entry (Left) The eastern entry leads to the most intimate part of the park. There, the design process is about plants composition, colours and shapes Aerial picture (Right) The park is located in a very urban area in the East-South of Paris 2013
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Project plan (Left) View from the Eastern entry (Right up) The eastern entry leads to the most intimate part of the park. There, the design process is about plants composition, colours and shapes View from the Southern entry (Right middle) The Southern entry goes through the shadow garden. Western limit (Right down) The limit of the park with the street is designed with large stairs. Source : Personal design
2013
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TO THE HILLSIDE
Blois, France 48°49’15.66’’N 2°21’26.66’’E
TO THE HILLSIDE 2013 The forecourt of ENSNP (school of landscape architecture) and the engineering school facing it, is one of the highest places in the city. It is located between the train station and the hillside. A luminous installation brings the visitors near the terraces of the hillside which overlook the Loire Valley. Some remarkable elements are illuminated in the distance. (Team work)
Project plan (Left up) The lightnings change trhougt a progression from the urban place to the hillside. Overviews and section (Left down) Different ambiances are created with different kinds of lightning. Along the river (Right down) The quays are designed with an alternance of urban and natural vocabulary to express this place as a buffer between the city and the river. Source : Personal design
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LIVING THE RIVER
Saint-Michel, France 45°38’43.08’’N 0°06’30.37’’E
LIVING THE RIVER 2014 Saint Michel is located on a knoll formed by two small rivers running on each side of it. Both of them meet the river la Charente on the west side of the city. Although the topography is mainly structured by the rivers, water is not really present through the city. Besides an important separation between the city center and the northen part is created by the railway (with a train station no longer in activity) and a cliff. In order to enhance the redability of the river and to reconnect both sides of the village an wide and open urban plaza is created instead of the existing carpark. To that aim, the organization of the buildings is reconsidered to open up the visibility on the river and densify housing. A bridge crossing the railway is created as well. It reconnects the urban plaza to the Nortern part of the city through the cliff against which supports new buildings. Source : Personal design, Original picture : Google Eath 2016
View from the river (Left) Actually hidden behind houses and dense vegetation, the project opens the river to the public. Aerial picture (Right) Saint-Michel is a middle sized village located in the surroundings of Angouleme 2014
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LIVING THE RIVER
Project plan (Left) Section of the footbridge (Right up) A footbridge runs against the cliff to create a connection between the top and the low part of the village. Section of the cliff (Right middle) Actually seen as a boundary, the cliff will support new activities. Overview from the river (Down) The river becomes a real public space that brong people together. Source : Personal design
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PARIS SACLAY MOULON
Saclay, France 48°42’35.03’’N 2°12’44.10’’E
PARIS SACLAY MOULON 2014 20 km South of Paris, Paris-Sacaly has the ambition to groupe together several famous schools, universities, research centers and companies. Launched in 2006, this project will last about 15 to 20 years. Taktyk (landscape architecture and urbanism office where I did an internship) is part of the groupe MSTKA (Menu Saison, Taktyk and Artelia), in charge of all the public spaces on the Eastern part of the project. Paris-Saclay is part of the very big project of Le Grand Paris. This place, actually mostly agricultural, will soon support the arrival of the subway and thousang of students and researchers. This is consequently a great challenge to design spaces able to support such activities while respecting the environment. My work on this project was focused on the furnitures' design, the rain gardens and the use of sheeps for maintenance. Source : Personal design, Original picture : Google Eath 2016
View from the river (Left) Tha whole project is thought in order to require low and natural maintenance. Here are used rain gardens to deal with rain falls and sheeps to maintain the large lawns. Aerial picture (Right) The campus Paris-Saclay is located on a very large agricultural plateau. A forest is going down on the hillside to the towns located down the hill. 2014
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Section of the benches (Right up) In the forest, the benches along the path are designed according to the various situation of the ground level. Views of the furnitures (Left and Right middle and down) Different kinds of furniture are developped in the various places that compose the campus. They are designed using a shared vocabulary of materials and shapes.
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PARCK DESIGN
Bruxelles, Belgium 52°52’12.66’’N 2°21’26.66’’E
PARCK DESIGN 2014 Parck Design is a biennial organised by Brussels Environment since 2006. Each edition means to gather various artists, designers, urbanists, architects and landscape architects in order to think public spaces. The 2014 edition raises the question of the participative project process and how inhabitants from a neighborhood can participate in their public spaces' conception. It also works on the idea that spaces are not just a design but are defined by their functions and the dynamics that it generates. The theme of this edition is the food, 2014 ParckDesign is accordingly, ParckFarm. The design of the park is very sober. It lives through the different installations that have been thought by artists, designers and students and that are maintained by neighbors. This project highlights the idea that a landscape architect's work is not just about design but he can also take a role as a coordinator between all the stakeholders of a project.
Event at ParckFarm (Left) All sorts of celebration can happen at ParckFarm, always with laughs and music. Aerial picture (Right) ParckFarm is the first part of the large future park Tour & Taxi located in Brussels. Source : Personal design, Original picture : Google Eath 2016
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CUBIOUS BLACK TREASURE FACTORY
Wetland KOT-KOT RECIPES GARDEN FARMHOUSE LANDSCAPE TABLE
THE ELECTRIC RAINBOW FARMFAIR ParckFarm map Source : Personal (from a plan of Taktyk office)
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PARCK DESIGN
Celebration at ParckFarm Celebration are the occasion for all the neighbors and visitors to gather and share what they do, what they know, what they make,...
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JANNEZAND POLDER
Jannezand Polder, Netherlands 51°44’33.63’’N 4°52’14.07’’E
JANNEZAND POLDER 2015 Jannezand polder is located is a very sensitive area regarding water level issus. It is, indeed, in the middle of what is called "the delta of Europe". More often and often, dikes have to be risen to be able to protect the agricultural lands. This project proposes to experimente floated agriculture to take advantage of the rising water level. However, to be able to set up floated agriculture, the water level needs to be constant. A part of the polder is turned into wetlands that will be used to buffer water fluctuation. The wetlands are furthermore maintained by special cows that can be also breeded for their meat. A whole cycle is so then created, the water being collected by the creeks in the agricultural fields, then filtered in the fish farm and its level buffered trhough the wetlands before being put back outside the dike. Each use of the land is related to the other through several interelations (explained on the next page). Source : Personal design, Original picture : Google Eath 2016
View from the platform (Left) Visitors can go around and look at the wetlands and the fish farming from different points of view. Aerial picture (Right) The Jannezand polder is in this very specific place which is the confluence between the Maar and the Waal. It is at the junction between the agricultural part and the very natural part.
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JANNEZAND POLDER
Project plan (Left) Project Diagram (Right up) This diagram explains all the interrelations between the different uses of the land.
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ASSE VLAANDEREN
Asse, Belgium 50°54’36.71’’N 4°11’59.41’’E
ASSE VLAANDEREN 2015 Asse is a small city located in the Flemish part of Belgium close to Brussels. Actually, a network of important roads are going through the city center. These roads are every day carrying a large amount of trucks. Due to this, the city center is almost constantly noisy, smelly and congested. Pedestrians cannot circulate freely in this area. This is why the city decided to think of a ring road going around the city center. The aesthetic qualities of both of the valley in which will pass the road oriented our choice to hide the road at the most by lowering it. However some opening allow overviews on the valleys while not disturbing the surroundings. Thinking the new ring road of Asse was the first project that I have been working on when I arrived in H+N+S. I have been given a lot of freedom on this project. It was a very nice experience for me since I have been allowed to think and interpretate the project by myself. It made possible for me to do mistakes and to learn from them.
Plans and sections of the road (Right down) These plans and sections explain the road's shape in its different locations. Aerial picture (Right) Asse is a small town quite near from Brussels. It is surrounded Source : Personal design, by agricultural valleys. Original picture : Google Eath 2016 2015
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SPAKENBURG
Spakenburg, Netherlands 52°15’05.97’’N 5°22’03.79’’E
SPAKENBURG 2015 Spakenburg is a city located on the Gooimeer, in the South of Almere. The city center is prone to flooding, this is why a contest has been organized to ask the question : how to prevent Spenkenburg from occasional floodings while respecting its historical aesthetic qualities? To answer this question, H+N+S developed a system of a rotating dam located as a line along the water front. The whole system is implemented underneath the ground pavement which allows it to be invisible when it is not in use. My work on this project has been to illustrate the different principles of implementation according to the locations.
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Axonometries (Left) These axonometries shows the different situations in which the dam system is developped in the harbor. Aerial picture (Right) Spakenburg is located along the Eem sea, in the South East of Almere. 2015
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IABR NEXT ECONOMY
Groningen, Netherlands 53°14’00.09’’N 6°34’26.28’’E
IABR NEXT ECONOMY 2015
Energy potential and Landscape maps (Left) These two series of maps draw a parallel between the energy potential of a territory and its other values of the landscape, like the old dike, infrastructures, vegetation type, urban shape and so on. It is important not to see energy just through infrastructures but also to realize the quality and the history of the landscapes in which they take place. 2015
The energetic transition is one of nowadays main problematics. The IABR 2016 will question how the transition can be the support of a new economy through the development of spatial applications. Different workshops are organised in different cities, Utrecht, Rotterdam and Groningen. In this workshops, the cities and regions involved in each one of the three major issues (which are the energy, the public sphere and the production of wealth) will research on the new urbanity in which the next economy can flourish. The Project Workshop Groningen chooses the great opportunities that exist in the region as a starting point. Indeed, the condition for the extraction of renewable energy is favourably pronounced. Furthermore today’s politics plan to be energy neutral in 2035. This first phase of the research consists in bringing together the information available about the context and give some input to the design teams. These first maps represent on one side a simplified energetic landscape from the European scale to the regional scale of Groningen. The other serie of map represents the geographical context in terms of landscape values. Next to these maps a whole serie has been made representing the potential of the different renewable energies.
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Scenario 1 a
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REBUILD BY DESIGN
Long Island, USA 40°37’50.47’’N 73°40’31.20’’O
REBUILD BY DESIGN 2015
Sections of the marshes (Left up) These four plans present two scenarios. Scenario A is about reinforcing the marshes to use them as natural buffer. Through different stage, it would eventually become a complete natural dike. Scenario 2 is about constructing a real dike directly in the city. Sections of the marshes (Left down) These sections show the marshes morphologies and how it can buffer water level fluctuations and waves. 2015
After the major disaster caused by the storm Sandy on the East cost of the United States, the government set up a program to start a reflection and engaged design research on the idea of how to rebuild the damages caused by the storm while preventing new ones and create qualitative public spaces. It is a very large programme in which designers, architects, urbanists, landscape architects, of all around the world are involved. The area has been divided in different plots assigned to the different teams. The team of which HNS is part of is working on a district located on Long Island. There are a multitude of problematics. The main issue is that the marshlands that used to be a buffer and protection against the ocean are nowadays damaged by the polluted water coming upstream from the city. The project is about re-enforcing the marshes with hard construction and redeveloping natural sedimentation dynamics so that they can keep re-enforcing by themselves. It is also about controlling the water quality coming from upstream and buffering it in case of strong rain falls. All these technical aspects of the project are also an opportunity for the city to develop a highly qualitative recreational area along the water network of city as well as in the marsh lands where some of the marshes will be accessible to public. Even though it is important to protect them from high visitation in order to protect them and improve their ecological potential. Two scenarios has been developed according of the location of the protection (of the dikes). The scenario that places the protection on the marshlands is developed in 3 phases. The first phase implements systems that buffer the water coming from the ocean while the last phase can completely stop the waves. The other scenario places the dike directly in the city. This scenario is less relevant because it does not use the restoration of the marshlands as a main argument.
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SAINT-DENIS
WORK IN PROCESS
Saint-Denis, France 48°49’15.66’’N 2°21’26.66’’E
GRADUATION PROJECT
SAINT-DENIS WHEN THE RIVER SUPPORTS MOBILITY Pictures the Eastern estate (Left) This housing scheme present very large public spaces despite a hight density of population. People have a strong neighborhood felling but do not feel as belonging to the city. River trace (Down) The "Vielle Mer" is not directly visible however it is possible to follow it in the urban fabric.
2016 Urban mobility is actually a very important theme that gathers nowadays big issues as the social, the environmental and the energetic issues. Therefore, this problematic is essential in the reflexion for cities more fair and sustainable. The project "le Grand Paris" is a very interesting study case on this subject. The idea is to enhance the attractivity and the dynamism of the whole region by creating thematic hubs. Quite far from each other, these hubs need to be connected by heavy mobility infrastuctures that are money and energy consuming. However a project of such a size needs to be though also on a smaller scale. Are those hubs connected well with the cities and the neighborhood in which they are? I chose to work on Saint-Denis. The city will welcome soon one of the economic hub called "cluster culture et creation" and its station . The city has been communist for almost a century and always had a very strong will concerning social housing. However these areas located in the North and the North-East near the city center are nowadays enclosed spacally (not well connected with public transport and public space not organised for gentle mobility) and in people's mind (they actually consider Saint-Denis as an other city). These areas are not included in Grand Paris' projects, and cannot take advantage of it because they are not connected, despite their proximity. What are the tools of a landscape architect to open up these estates by connceting them with the other parts of the city through gentle mobility? In analyzing the geographical base, it appears that one element goes through these different areas from East to West. It is an old river called the Vielle Mer (the Old Sea). It is nowadays underground however we can still follow its route in the city. The river can be used as a geographical object creating a continuity through the city, connecting areas with each other, with public transport and with hubs, via gentle mobility. It can be furthermore a strong identity symbol in these areas that are disconnected from there geographical territory.
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REPRESENTATION
REPRESENTATION 2013 Ambulation illustration Combining sketches and photography through the idea of strolling.
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2013 Town through lines "Tell about the city’s hubbub, the superimpostion of things. Tell about its complexity." Exercise about composition through the illustration of a sentence.
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2013 A trip to Belle Ile Island landscapes are very particular, about biodiversity and also about the way human being develops in it. The horizon is shorter. Being aware of the limites of physical moves, geographically speaking, changes the idea we have of space. Reading landscapes throught botany, pedology, etc, as well as drawing is a way to understand how scientific data influence how we perceive space.
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Emma Diehl Landscape Architecture Student Portfolio 2016 January Cover : Water system in the South of the Netherlands, Source: Personal design
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