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agricultural education campus bio farms urban agriculture nature water park waterfront park agricultural landscape sports park urban green
portfolio - EMILIA MACHEDON - urban design - regional planning
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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
p. 8
public space design
p. 10
Regional Planning
Delta del Po, IT
scenarios for fragile territories
p. 16
Ijsselmonde, NL
strategies for the global metropolis
p. 18
Model making
analysis of urban form
p. 26
Hand Drawings
perspective renderings
p. 28
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
8,00 ha 1,00 ha 0,90 ha 1,90 ha 0,40 ha 0,10 ha 2,8 km 200
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. Lecourbe Street
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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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1st year Master
Type
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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TU Delft Apeld
University
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City Masterplan (published in Atlantis magazine)
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DAY TRIP CITY
Aimed effect population continuity and touristic attractivity
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theme park
culture
housing
jobs Apeld
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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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‘30s individual residential area
incorporated village
‘50s collective residential area
Royal residence
Lower density
Sports facilities
Municipal amenities
Canal landscape
‘50s individual residential area Tree plantations
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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.
MONUMENTAL
EXPENSIVE
CULTURAL
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
POPULAR
EDUCATION
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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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Although part of the central area and a slice of the indus-
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ANALYSIS - NETWORK CONNECTIONS
THE CIT Zwolle Kampen
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train connection sports center
THE CIT
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
ANALYSIS ANALYSIS - CITY SCALE - CITY SCALE Optimalthe demographic distribution of a city: all age How shouldHow the should identity be identity implebe implegroups are sufficiently present
mented on mented city scale? on cityin scale? optimized? demoOptimal Current use of Apeldoorn Netwo When Apeldoorn When is wellApeldoorn connectedisinwell the connected region, it isinimthe region, it is important that the new portant connection that the works new connection both ways: works it givesboth ways: it gives graphic distrithe city: city’s the newfortocity the possibility forthe thepossibility inhabitants the goinhabitants to use outertocity go to useSTOBBE outer city MSC 1 URBANISM | Q1 | ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF URBAN FORM | GROUP 7 | JING ZHOU | APELDOORN | JOLIEN BERG | THOMAS GALESLOOT | EMILIA MACHEDON | ADRIAAN facilities, but also facilities, creates abut larger alsoflalso ow creates of visitors a larger toflApelow of visitors to Apelbution of a city: demography network ANALYSIS | CITY DIAGNOSIS | COMPARATIVE STUDY | MASTERPLAN | RAILWAY TRACK| MY FIRST HOUSE|THE BEEKSQUARE| BACKGARDENS doorn. Since a lot doorn. of these Since facilities a lot are of these located facilities on theare citylocated on the city borders, few visitors borders, actually few realise visitors they actually are in realise Apeldoorn, they are in Apeldoorn, all age groups is dominated invites visilet alone visit the city let alone centre. visit the city centre. are sufficiently by a few age tors to actually From the railwayFrom track,the it israilway a similar track, situation. it is a similar Passingsituation. Passing through Apeldoorn through you see Apeldoorn mostly you see , trees mostly and rears sheds , trees and rears represented. groups and enter thesheds city, of buildings. The view of buildings. from outThe of the view train from is not out represenof the train is not representative for what Apeldoorn tative forhas what tothan off Apeldoorn er. On tophas of to that, offwhen er. On top of that, when most visitors rather arriving from the train arriving station, fromitthe is not train clear station, let alone it is not intuiclear let alone intuitive what the direction tive what to the the centre is. to the city centre is. don’t enter the pass itcitydirection through. Optimal demographic distribution of a city: all age of a city: all age Optimal demographic distribution city (centre). groups are sufficiently present groups are sufficiently present Oldenzaal
Zwolle
Harderwijk
Deventer train connection sports center
Kampen tourism harbour fishing
Almelo
industry jobs textile region bussines park
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Oldenzaal
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food research army leaving
Enschede
Deventer
tourism harbour fishing
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Arnhem city life museum fashion
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
LARGE
tourism village
university green
MEDIUM
Doetinchem
Arnhem city life museum fashion
soccer club
Nijmegen
Current use of the city nated by a few age gro enter th
In North-South direction however, in the direction of ArnIn and the image left, the new drawn hem Zwolle,to thethe connection is lessconnection optimal. Inisthe case in The implementation this distance track wil that be part of an of orange. public transport, it is not the of travel is cruindividual cial, but the project. travel time. Arnhem is geographically quite
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Zutphen
university books courthouse schools
food research army leaving
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In North-South direction the direction ArnWhen talking about publichowever, transport,in Apeldoorn is of very hem and Zwolle, connection is less optimal. In the case well connected in the east-west directions. InterCity trains of publicevery transport, it ishour not in theboth travel distance that is crudeparting half an directions, connect cial, but with the travel time. 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
Apeld
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Aalte
RAIL TRACKS
industry jobs village
LARGE RAIL PROJECT
university green
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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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HYERARCHY
GROUP
LINK
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hyerarchy
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COUPLE
NETWORK
IDENTIFY
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public space
HYERARCHY
GROUP
LINK
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BRANCH
COUPLE
NETWORK
IDENTIFY
JOIN
BIND
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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actors ACTORS
WATER SYSTEM
activated existing
area
PATTERNS
agriculture
urban URBAN
valley
AGRICOLTURE AGRICOLTURE
VALLEY
lagoon LAGOON
interventions DEVICES
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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fitopurification OUTPUT
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vegetal crops HORTICULTURA
irrigation vegetal crops INPUT HORTICULTURA tool storage HORTICULTURA
fitopurification OUTPUT
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irrigation INPUT tool storage
vegetal crops HORTICULTURA
Ijsselmonde Klein Randstad
amsterdam
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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Team Lukas Papenborg Bram Groenveld Viktorija Prilenska Emilia Machedon
urban harbour
A15
Ijsselmonde, South Holland, NL
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Utrecht
Den Haag
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1st year master
sc land
Year
A15
TU Delft
A4
port
University
amsterdam
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A4 antwerp
Amsterdam Rotterdam
Utrecht
Port
Germany
Antwerp
Antwerp
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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Antwerp
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Existing Tram Line Rot - Dor Tram Line
Water
Urban
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Agricultural Area
Super Dike
Village
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Feyenoord
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Bio-Agriculture Campus
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Industry Centre
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Drecht Touristic Attraction
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Bio-food Market
Orchard
Rot - Bar Tram Line
Forest
International Highway
Urban Park
National Highway
Sport Park
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Natural Water Park
Industrial Area
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Rotterdam Dordrecht connection
Water system
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
13,7 ha. 35,8 ha. 14,9 ha. 5,7 km. 26,3 ha. 10 ha. 0,2 hundred 2,5 hundred
Water system
Aimed effect Rotterdam-Dordrecht landscape connection Rotterdam-Dordrecht transit connection Ridderkerk waterfront revitalization
AREA
Water system
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
FERRY
Urban Waterfront Park
Natural Water Park
Village Waterfront Park
LINK
Permeability system
Permeability system
AREA LINK
Agricultural system
Agricultural system
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 station
ferry line
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green park and info/bike centre
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local agriculture
leisure line
leisure line
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Yverdon les Bains Expo.02, West 8 Landscape Architecture Diller & Scofidio, Vehovar & Jauslin, Morphing systems, Delux, Techdata
local agriculture leisure line
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ARTISTIC SKILLS
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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