Ellen Raes Design portfolio
Ellen Raes Curriculum vitae Flierendries 12
10 maart 1990
+32 474 30 72 84
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9400 Denderwindeke, Belgium
Work experience 2013
Think tank Vicinia
Research on neighourhood development
2011
Summer internship, AREN
Brugge, Belgium
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Skills Autocad Adobe Photoshop - Indesign - Illustrator Sketchup Microsoft Office - iWork
Liege
Education 2015
Master Landscape Architecture
Manchester Metropolitan University
2013
Master Civil Engineering Architecture University of Ghent
2011
Bachelor Civil Engineering Architecture University of Ghent
2008
Sciences and mathematics
Sint-Aloysiuscollege Ninove
Languages Dutch (mother tongue) French English
Content
Student work Architecture 01. Densifying Venice Venice, Italy 02. Hotel Cap Gris-Nez, France 03. School Rabot, Ghent 04. Community centre Brugse poort, Gent 05. Construction Sony centre, Berlin Modular building Student work Landscape Architecture 06.
Define and release Cumbria, UK
Think tank 07. 08. 09.
Pleasant neighborhoods Regional cities Organizational structures Belgium
Student work Architecture
Densifying Venice Venice, Italy 1st Ma
The site ‘Il Redentore’, built by Andrea Palladio, has large open
spaces running from one side of the Giudecca island to the other. This sequence of ‘outdoor rooms’ is connected by a long, narrow
building which interacts differently according to the character of
these ‘rooms’. At the centre of the building block, a public square
with an new entrance to the monastery connects the design with its urban and social context.
The public square gives the hidden monastery a new entrance
Newly created ‘cale’ creates a dialogue with Palladio’s church
Connection between public outdoor space and a public garden
Water facilities as a spill between the lagune and the building
Axiometric shows how interior and exterior rooms communicate with each other
Facade and plan
Hotel Cap Gris-Nez 3th Bach
To design a holiday hotel at the sea, is to bring people in close contact with the coastal environment. A long volume, parallel to the coastline, contains the hotel
programme. Perpendicular on the building, a pier reaches in the sea and generates a tension between the hotel and its setting. Coastal processes become visible around the pier and the building over time.
Eastern facade of wellness
Northern seaward facade
Informal entrance hall for residents towards the Longitudinal section
sea, wellness, ground floor and first floor rooms
bathroom-hotel room
School
2nd Bach
Ghent
The site of the Rabot towers is a Modernist island in the urban tissue of the city of Ghent. The school is situated between the
towers as an island in the island, defined by its own rules. Three
cantilevering volumes with the classrooms are stacked upon each other. In the middle, a large multi-functional hall acts as the
backbone of the school and generates different spatial relationships which add to the overall experience of the school.
Ground floor and first floor plans
Section school
Community center Ghent 3th Bach
The assignment calls for a community centre to be located at the ‘Brugse
Poort’ in Ghent. Terraced houses define inner areas, filled with industrial
warehouses which are invisible from the street. These warehouses are part
of the collective memory of the people who inhabit these blocks. The design represents this part of the industrial heritage in the street by placing a new
warehouse like volume on the site, which directly refers to the surrounding
industrial typologies. Two gaps are introduced to this volume. The first creates a courtyard, the second allows light and air to enter the building.
Ground and first floor plans
Constructive sections
Construction
Sony centre
Modular building
Student work Landscape Architecture
Define and release
Cumbria, UK
Landscape is a product of manipulation, consisting of
physical constructions and a complex field of invisible
objects, contained in un-crossable lines and boundaries.
Changing the physical content will change the relationship between objects.
Closure of the mines resulted in a cultural response of denial. This is visible
place back into the language from which it was built.
in the landscape by the brutal juxtaposition of fragmented spaces.
It is not about creating plans, but trying to de-materialise the artificial
The design tackles this fragmentation by re-framing the edges. It does
impenetrable boundaries in order to create an inhabitable landscape that
not want to restore a reality that has disappeared but transform it from a
will develop into wider spaces that allow synergetic systems to take place.
“waste-landscape� by growing it from a place of extraction into a place of
To achieve the transformation, small-scale interventions will be developed,
production. By reconnecting the fragmented local conditions, the design is
according to the three different categories: earth, water and air.
not an invented utopia, but rather a rooting environment for grafting the
Earth
Dealing with earth, makes the alignments between visual continuity and differentiation of the territory, able to organize the perception of the users and suggests the presence of mass covering the site. Earth is the modification that needs to happen to initiate change.
Water
Water on the lager scale corresponds with strategic interventions to slow down and delay water in order to keep it longer on site, to be able to store it and re-use when necessary. Earth’s transformations allow the landscape to act like a sponge.
Air Air is something we have influence on with vegetation. New green infrastructures will respond to the new flow of water due to transformations of the earth. Vegetation turns the area in a new carbon landscape.
Black water treatment gives the valley a new use in the city
Unaccessible,unstable redundant mining areas are stabilised
structure and creates new habitats
over time by the process of natural succession
Removing the fences of the houses creates a large open
Water treatment generates new relationships in the street
communal garden
By transforming the artificial boundaries into larger surfaces, new subdivided spaces create a coherent area where biodiversity is enhanced by different techniques to deal with runoff water and where people’s relations change.
Bioretention pond
Raingarden vegetation
Ajuga reptans Bugle 9 m2
Campanula glomerata Filipendula ulmaria Clustered bellflower 5 m2 Meadowsweet 5 m2
Iris foetidissima Stinking gladwin 7 m2
Caltha palustris Marsh marigold 7 m2
Iris pseudacorus Eupatorium cannabinum Helleborus foetidus Yellow flag 7 m2 Hemp agrimony 5 m2 Stinking hellebore 5 m2
Lysimachia vulgaris Yellow loosestrife 7 m2
Rudbeckia fulgida Succisa pratensis Orange coneflower 7 m2 Devil’s bit 7 m2
Lythrum salicaria Purple loosestrife 5 m2
Serratula tinctoria Saw-wort 2 m2
Valeriana off icinalis Valerian 3 m2
Constructed wetland
Edge vegetation
Acorus Calamus Sweet Flag 7 m2
Butomus umbellatus Flowering rush 7 m2
Glyceria fluitans Juncus effusus Water mannagrass 5 m2 Soft rush 2 m2
Alisma plantago-Aquatica Epilobium palustre Iris pseudacorus Great water plantain 7 m2 Marsh willow herb 4 m2 Yellog flag 7 m2
Mentha aquatica Water mint 6 m2
Menyanthes trifoliata Bogbean 2 m2
Phalaris arundinacea Canary grass 5 m2
Ranunculus lingua Sparganium erectum Great spearwort 5 m2 Bur reed 6 m2
Scirpus sylvaticus Wood club-rush 4 m2
Typha Latifolia Reedmace 8 m2
Communal garden
The Acreage of gardens in England is greater than the acreage of nature
courtyards lies in the continuity of management practice. Management of
reserves. Thus, gardens play a significant part in providing fauna en flora
wildflowers, but also introduction of trees that will give a new scale to the
habitat. By giving local, ignored wildlife species a place in the gardens, they
urban condition. The trees will control the spatial organization and dominate
can start to reconquer the surrounding landscape. The key of having diverse
the meadow. The wildflowers will respond to the different light-intensities.
Oak woodland trees
Acer campestre Field maple
Betula pendula Silver birch
Fagus sylvatica Beech
Fraxinus excelsior Ash
Prunus avium Wild cherry
Quercus robur common oak
Sorbus aucuparia Rowan
Prepare soil
Clear disturbed soil
18 cm topsoil stripping
One meter deep ploughing
Spot-treat unwanted weeds
Harrow seeds into ground
Meadow will flower
Mowing meadow
Planting trees
Planting spring and bulb flowers
Management trees - and meadow
Sow meadow
Sow meadow mix
Planting trees
Reinforce spontaneous pathways
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Think tank Vicinia The research is a journey full of discoveries and paradigms that incorporate both urban and landscape environments. What started as a
general interest in specific phenomena, generated thoughts which are transformed into ideas. It
is not about the end-result reduced to what is
important and appropriate, but the interest in the debate and visions of what is going on.