Urban Design and Regional Planning Portfolio

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Table of Contents

Urban Design

Bucharest, RO

Paris, FR

Apeldoorn, NL

lakefront residential development

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urban insertion project

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public space design

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Regional Planning

Delta del Po, IT

scenarios for fragile territories

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Ijsselmonde, NL

strategies for the global metropolis

p. 18

Model making

analysis of urban form

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Hand Drawings

perspective renderings

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city scapes

p. 30

Artistic

Analog Photography

URBAN DESIGN

Land Use Plan

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Lakefront Residential Development Living with nature University

UAUIM, Bucharest

Year

2nd bachelor year

Type

urban design project

Location

Bucharest, Romania

Team Luana Czipczer Emilia Machedon Aimed effect urbanization and waterfront revitalization Program residential s residential c green leisure green religious water infrastructure houses

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The project area is located along the Morii accumulation lake on the outskirts of Bucharest. The project program demands the extension of the existing residential neighbourhood and the revitalization of the waterfront area.

Following the site analysis some areas were chosen for their higher potential to be the location of a new sports park and a new neighbourhood park. The tip of the peninsula enjoys a beautifull bellevedere and very good lake accesibility and can therefore host water related sport activities as well as new green areas. Also according to the altimetry of the terrain a new lake can be created inside the residential area and it can provide new leisure activities for the inhabitants.

The design aims to continue the existing street pattern by also following the more natural curves of the waterfront area.

Mixed used areas and higher buildings are located inwards while the lower residential area borders the lake. A green strip of protection aims to improve the quality of the waterfront zone.

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Urban insertion project Paris XVeme University

ENSAPB, Paris

Year

3rd bachelor year

Type

urban design project

Location

Paris, France

Tutor

Pierre Micheloni

Team

Emilia Machedon

Aimed effect residential development

Vasco da Gama street

Program residential commercial infrastructure houses jobs

This residential development is located in the 15th arrondisement of Paris on the site of a former railyway depot. As land is expensive in the city the authorities have decided to reconvert this RATP site and integrate it in the urban tissue. Municipality representatives were present during project judgements.

Following the site analysis a series of features characVasco da Gama street teristic to the 15th arrondisement have been highlighted. The dynamic skyline, blind walls and a variety of old and new were a few important elements which determined the spatial configuration of the new residential area. An important aim of the project was also to provide more public spaces for the neighbourhood due to their scarcity. Public squares such as the Place Katherince or the Place Dauphine from the historical core of the city have been used as reference urban spaces when designing the new public square.

The new street connection offers a commercial and service continuous ground floor and a series of residential buildings on top of it. The narrow street open up into a triangular public urban space where people can rest or sit at the cafe in a quiet environment.

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street connections

public square impression

building connections

built shape

squares and access

street impression

public space

Apeldoorn Day Trip City

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regional planning and master planning

Location

Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

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Team Adriaan Stobbe Jolien Berg Thomas Galesloot Machedon Emilia

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DAY TRIP CITY

Aimed effect population continuity and touristic attractivity

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Apeldoorn is a Dutch mid-size city located on the eastern borders of the Veluwe. In the coming years the city faces the danger of shrinking partly because of its young inhabitants’ emigration.

Our team’s goal was to support population continuity, on a regional scale by better positioning Apeldoorn in its city network and on city scale by improving housing and amenities for young people.

We defined the city’s profile as a Day Trip City thanks to its existing recreational features such as the Veluwe, the Het Loo Palace or the Apenheul. These features should be better connected and displayed in order to attract visitors and boost the vitality of Apeldoorn’s public spaces. This would also contribute for keeping young inhabitants in the city were they would find enough leisure activities and housing supplies. The city centre connections to these recreational areas are important for the future plan as well as the image of the city for people in transit, the rail track window view.

In order to support the master plan individual design projects focus further on on creating a city window along the rail tracks, creating a new residential area for starters and two public space interventions: a new green square along the north south connection and a new network of public spaces in the city centre.

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Royal residence

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Sports facilities

Municipal amenities

Canal landscape

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High density collective residential ‘80 planned residential neighbourhood

Historical center

There are several moments in time when the city grew and the different types of urban tissue show it very well.

The quality of the residential quarters and the density level has varied widely. The result being a real puzzle.

industrial parks unoccupied terrain

Green new development axis The only dense built area is the city center. The industrial areas are located inside the city borders on radial slices industral of terrain. Important amenities located in the south have residential The city borders the national Veluwe preserve at its determined contrasting urban tissues. The industrial parks innercity western periphery. There are important green features in reinforce the separation between neighbourhoods created by the canal. The diversity of spaces in the city makes theitcity such as the Royal Palace gardens planned accordmore attractive because it offers a wider range of choices. ing to French composition principles, the English style The main characteristic of Apeldoorn is its low density.

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Park French style Royal Park

landscaped gardens in the northwestern neighbourhoods or the central parks in more recent developments.

Besides the green front gardens there are important tree plantations along the major roads. The city center area is a very mineral place. However the city in total is very green especially in its western neighbourhoods.

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There is no cohesive landscape along the canal although LOWstrong DENSED this area has a very potential. The plantations along the railroad create some kind of green wall. Which makes the traintrip through Apeldoorn partly boring.LOW INCOME

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The parks situated within the city impact the inhabitants according to their size and the walking distance to reach them. They are mostly evenly spread across the city. The walks and bike paths in the forest are also easily accesible.

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ANALYSIS - NETWORK CONNECTIONS

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train connection sports center

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Almelo tobacco city harbour textile region bussines park

Which city connections have to be optimized?

When talking about public transport, Apeldoorn is very well connected in east-west directions. InterCity trains departing every half an hour in both directions, connect Apeldoorn with the large cities in the Randstad and those Which citypart connections have to be in the eatern of the Netherlands.

ANALYSIS - NETWORK CONNECTIONS

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Wageningen

Enschede

Winterwijk

Gronau

tourism village

music city

Zutphen

courthouse schools

Doetinchem

close, but it takes about one hour to get by train from the first train station to the other.

Aalte

Winterwijk

Nijmegen

university green

In the image to the left, the new connection is drawn in orange. The implementation of this track wil be part of an individual project.

technical university music city

soccer club

industry jobs village

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tourism village

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Arnhem city life museum fashion

soccer club

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Arnhem geographically quite Apeldoorn the large cities in theisRandstad and those close, but itpart takes about one hour to get by train from the in the eatern of the Netherlands. first train station to the other.

city culture jobs

Hengelo

university books

tobacco city harbour

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industry jobs village

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Apeldoorn has a very wide range of greenspaces and is therefore very attractive for outdoor recreational activities.

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Current use of theCurrent city: city’s usedemography of the city: city’s is domidemography is dominated by a few agenated groups by and a fewmost age visitors groups don’t and most visitors don’t enter the city (centre). enter the city (centre).

Apeldoorn in the new city network also invites visitors to actually enter the city, rather than pass it through.

MSC 1 URBANISM | Q1 | ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF URBAN FORM | GROUP 8 | JING ZHOU ANALYSIS | CITY DIAGNOSIS | COMPARATIVE STUDY | MASTERPLAN |

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Apeldoorn Day Trip City

public space

Backgardens University

TU Delft

Year

1st year Master

Type

urban design

Location

Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

Team

Machedon Emilia

city centre functions

Aimed effect city centre vital public spaces

The main goal for Apeldoorn’s city centre is structuring a higher quality public space. This will not only serve the city’s day trip visitors which have little time to explore along their way but also the city’s inhabitants which need a wider set of activities for spending their free time.

The distinct quality of this detail project is its use of public spaces situated behind collective residential buildings, now used under their potential as parking lots. The projects ambition is to integrate these spaces in the city’s public space network by using soft urban design interventions. This green pedestrian path will connect the train station to the city hall plaza.

Apeldoorn already is a very green city. What this project brings in addition to this is a new quality of green which combines the vegetation of a park with the amenities of a central street or plaza, such as cafes, gyms, flea markets or resting areas. The intimacy of being protected from traffic noise combined with the flow of people specific to busy streets are aimed to create a vibrant community around this string of backgardens.

By improving the visibility of these spaces, making use of their good access ways and working together with the surrounding tissue a new and different urban life can take place here. A guiding main path is the key element to directing people along the way.

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connections backgarden network

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sections

bird’s eye view

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main road highway

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REGIONAL PLANNING

4km

agricultural education campus bio farms urban agriculture nature water park waterfront park agricultural landscape sports park urban green

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Scenario Development for Fragile Territories

2010 - 2015

2020 - 2030

2015 - 2020

Activation Network

Universities IUAV, TU Delft, UAUIM, ETAV, UPC Year

2010 Summer School

Type

strategic planning

Location

Porto Viro Island, Delta del Po

Team Miriam Barona Conesa

Aura Luciana Istrate

Julio Alan Latre Cabrera Emilia Machedon Caterina Mendolicchio

Domnița Irina

concept

Aimed effect sustainable development

Our group’s concept was to enhance the connections between the different landscapes through the water network. By using specific projects where the waterways pass through the landscapes we aimed to strengthen the impact of new activities, facilitate their influence and spread in the territory. This activation strategy can expand in scale and density.

In 20 years time the Porto Viro island will expand its activation process to the scale of the Po River Delta and become its core site. The island will exploit its good accessibility and become the gate for entering the Delta area. This strategic position will allow it to have a good dynamic of economical and social processes and to strengthen its physical networks on water (branches, channels, lagoons) and on ground (corridors, dikes, bike lanes, pedestrian paths). The safety of the land will be enhanced and local resources will be better exploited for self supporting activities

In order to reach these aims there are several pilot projects, mostly soft interventions making use of the existing building infrastructure (cassones, pump stations, etc), local materials (reed, wood) and water sources (Colletore Padano). These autonomous projects will thus have a low environmental impact.

As the landscapes are recurrent in the Delta region they can be easily exported to other sites with similiar characters.

activity segregation

cooperation

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Permanent actors Residents Farmers involved in creating public spaces- local irrigation systems- planting vegetables, orchards, Fishermen creating facilities for tourists WWF General involved actors for financing European Level - E.U.National Level - Ministeries, NGOs; Regional Level -Veneto Region Local Level - Municipality Who beneficiates Residents of Porto Viro Farmers Tourists Private Investors

The wet park is a flooding area used as public space and as a museum to let people get in touch with water risk questions, for leisure and events.

Pump education centre re/uses existing building as Land Reclamation museum and educational activities about water management.

The Urban interchange is the gate to the Collettore Padano Polesano, a new axis for fluvial tourism. It improves small fishing activities and

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WATER SYSTEM

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PATTERNS

agriculture

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AGRICOLTURE AGRICOLTURE

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lagoon LAGOON

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Urban interchange harbour urban interchange

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vegetal crops HORTICULTURA

floating camping Floating camping and facilities

farming farming experimental harbour Experimental

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vegetal crops HORTICULTURA

irrigation vegetal crops INPUT HORTICULTURA tool storage HORTICULTURA

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Ijsselmonde Klein Randstad

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Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis

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RandStad is a policentric metropolitan area which consists of urban and natural areas connected via a network of highways and public transport. A4 and A15 corridors connect RandStad to the Port of Rotterdam, to Germany and to Belgium.

Ijsselmonde at the crosspoint of cargo routes acts as an important transport hub and a ‘South Entrance’ to RandStad.

As it results from our analysis the main problem of Ijsselmonde is fragmentation of activities and landscape caused by highways and railway. At the same time traffic corridors are crucial for Dutch economy and lifestyle and cannot be downgraded. Therefore in order to improve the living environment it is neccessary to create alternative landscape connections between the separated parts.

Strategic interventions include: - on national level: completion of A4 highway and a superdike, - on regional level: Rotterdam-Dordrecht connection with integrated villages of Ridderkerk and Hendrick-Ido-Ambacht, East-West connection as a chain of landscape parks, NorthSouth connection between a new development in the port area and a wetland park, reconstruction of historic rivers; - on local level: downgrading and relocation of secondary roads, relocation of existing industries, small park developments, new public transport connections.

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urban harbour

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TU Delft

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Amsterdam Rotterdam

Utrecht

Port

Germany

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agriculture park

industry relocation

green integrating into the city

port area development

riverfront park development

superdike

rivers breakthrough the landscape

highway

natural waterscape

railway

potential flood direction

new public transport connections

interventions

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Bio-Agriculture Campus

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Bio-food Market

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International Highway

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National Highway

Sport Park

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Spatial Strategies for the Global Metropolis University

TU Delft

Year

1st year master

Type

strategic spatial planning

Location

Ijsselmonde, South Holland, NL

Permeability system Agricultural system

Aimed effect urbanization and waterfront revitalization Program residential commercial port infrastructure landscape water houses jobs

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AREA

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The main aim of this strategic intervention is to enhance the connection between Rotterdam and Dordrecht by stimulating water related tourism and by revitalizing the waterfront village entrances. The Ridderkerk waterfront connection to the city centre is therefore a crucial project in this overall scheme.

The waterfront strip of land will be eliberated through the relocation of the industries and it will provide the site for a new park with marina activities, playgrounds for children and green leisure areas. Water will also find its way into the village centre along the dike. Activities in the area will be enhanced through the creation of the new regional tram line and the more frequent use of the ferry line.

URBAN

OPEN SPACE

RURAL

HIGHWAY

Agriculture Education Centre

Landscape Art

Highway Crossings

TRAM

“Urban” Boulevard + Urban Farming

Leisure Strip + Bio Agriculture

“Rural” Boulevard + Local Farming

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Urban Waterfront Park

Natural Water Park

Village Waterfront Park

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Permeability system

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Agricultural system

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strategic interventions

Ravine City by Chris Hardwicke of Sweeny Sterling Finlayson &Co Architects

regional tram

Urban Farming

residences

Sustainable Agriculture Education Centre street prospect

bike path

locals/tourists

natural water park

regional tram

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ferry line

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leisure line

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local agriculture leisure line

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Apeldoorn - Veluwe border

Apeldoorn - Analysis of Urban Form workshop Apeldoorn - infrastructure cutting through

Bonn City Hall

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MusĂŠe du Quai Branly, Le Jardin Printemps 2009

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Place de la RĂŠpublique, Automne 2008