Academic Experience
High School
ASG Neckarsulm | Abitur
Introducing Studies
informatics physics mathmatics design Basics ecology biology plant use basics TU Berlin Landsc. Architecture
claim management
Vectorworks AutoCAD
european tender and buil measurement detailling plant use planning con construction materials basic design construction drawings site managemen
pedology
Undergraduate Studies
FH Weihenstephan Dipl. -Ing. (fh) Landscape construction and -m
Tutor
Fh Weihenstephan CAD | Construction Technics | Detailli
Student Assistant
Fh Weihenstephan Chair of Constru
Graduate Studies Student Assistant
plant use planning construction details
Professional Experience
materials stonewalls pavement
plant knowledge
Apprentice Landscaper
construction process
Berlin Karre & Spaten | Landscape and Sportfacility design
Foreman on Landscape Sites
site survey maintenance
measurement construction site management billing
educating apprentices
leader of ďŹ ve person teams Zurich Spalinger AG | Landscape Design
Internship Landscape Architecture
Munich RGLA
Technical Assistant Site Agent
Landshut Haderstorfer | Landscape Des
Internship Project Management
Mun
GERMAN FEDERAL
SIEMENS
Junior Landscape Architect Junior Landscape Architect
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PORTFOLIO FLORIAN STRAUSS selected academic and professional work implementation planning
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management
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conference organization courses in site management uction Management GREECE
informal development
rendertechniques sustainable planning and building landscape urbanism parametric design HAITI architecture history regional and metropolitan planning design studios MEXICO history of garden art
urban planning
urban design
TU Munich M.A. Landscape Architecture TU Munich Ch. o. Public Space
Technical University of Munich Master of Arts Landscape Architecture THESIS + Terra Nova Ayiti Landscapes Between Urbanization and Agriculture STUDIO + Volos Waterfront + MEXXochimilco
symposium „Metropolis non Formal“
- Towards new Strands - Living in Cultural Landscape
VOGT Landscape Zürich | Berlin | London | Munich Junior Landscape Architect + German federal ministry of the interior + New Siemens Headquarter Munich
Vectorworks
sign
Curriculum Vitae
Adobe Mastersuite detailling
nich D&S cm
responsible for implementation planning
leading the set-up of new branch in Berlin L MINISTRY OF THE INTERIOR presentation of results
project coordination
meetings with clients design competition design GERMAN FEDERAL MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION HEADQUARTER Munich VOGT Landscape Zuerich Munich Schegk la
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AutoCAD urban design
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LAO
informal growth rapid urbanization studio
public infrastructures
MEXXochimilco | Mexico City | Mexico unesco heritage site fieldtrip to mexico city
flood risk watermanagement
LAO
inner city transformations studio
Urban Transformations | Wรถhrder See missing links
in collaboration with chair of hydraulic engineering riparian reforestation recreational spaces
architecture
LAI
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interdisciplinary workshop | studio greece third semester master studio
urban planning
landscape architecture
Changing Landscapes Volos | Greece morocco participants from mexico spain argentina usa italy portugal turkey germany sustainable urban planning
LAO
in collaboration with
GSD Harvard MIT Boston
thesis Terra nova Ayiti | Port-au-Prince | Haiti fieldtrip to Haiti
informal urban growth multihazardous environment
* LAO = Chair of Landscape Architecture and Public Space ** LAI = Chair of Landscape Architecture and Industrial Landscapes
landscape architecture watermanagement interdisciplinary project
master of arts
Technical University Munich landscape architecture
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY MUNICH master of arts landscape architecture thesis
Terra Nova Ayiti
landscapes between urbanization and agriculture Project information + Projectlocation [ Port au Prince | Haiti ] + Supervision [ Prof. C.Werthmann GSD Harvard ] [ Prof. R. Keller LAO TU Munich ] + Based on a fieldtrip to Haiti in January 2012 Design Task Developing strategies for a possible urbanization of a landscape adjacent to the fast growing metropolis of Port-au-Prince. Proposing design solutions while considering the high flood- and soil-liquefaction risk as well as the high value of this particular area for agricultural use. Concept Through developing three Scenarios for a possible future in the Cul de Sac Plain, north of Port au Prince, this proposal takes into account, that due to the unstable socio-political situation of Haiti, the development of the project area is difficult to predict. Four Landscape Infrastructural Elements, which were laid out on the plain according to the historical gridiron morphology of the former agricultural landscape, will prevent floding, soil liquefaction, biodiverity loss and a declining soil productivity in all different scenarios. By this strategic intervention, the landscapes resilience against natural hazards is consequently increased while the final result of the plains future is left flexible and open. Both, an agricultural or an urban development in the plain would benefit from the landscape infrastructures - Either through a higher yield due to the reduction of salinization and additional income for the peasants through aquaculture and forestry or through a reduced risk for a future urbanization.
+ Scenario One
+ Scenario Two
+ Scenario Three
Landscape Infrastructures A placeholder for future urban development
The proposed irrigation channels, the biodrainage alleys, the forestal buffer and the fishponds do structure and frame the future Cul-de-Sac plain. No matter what scenario will happen in the upcoming decades, these elements will guarantee a maximum flood protection, soil consolidation which leads to less liquefaction, higher yield through less salinization in agriculture, and a constantly increasing biodiversity. The Thesis so suggests a change in the current strategy for dealing with natural hazards in the plain. Instead of investing much more money, than the proposed landscape infrastructures would cost, to create assumed 100% security and protection of possible flood events, this proposal aims to intervene for a sustainable and manifold beneficial live in the plain. A new landscape in which the threat of natural hazards is to a minimum reduced while the productivity and the biodiversity of the landscape is ensured. The proposed ele-
ments address all the identified problems and do act as a placeholder, guaranteeing a minimum of public space and corridors for a infrastructural supplement of the future urban development. Irrigation strips may transform to inner city supply and disposal corridors, may carry freshwater and energy supply lines or may give space for urban agriculture as well as inner city wind energy usage - Or they will just be public spaces in the center of a new and very dense urban pattern, where residents will find room for recreation and play. Biodrainage Boulevards which formerly organized a rural landscape may transform to inner urban boulevards, still draining the adjacent soil and preventing from liquefaction. They might also transform to boulevards in which shade people trade their goods on street markets, or priority lanes might arrange a high speed network of public transport.
Irrigation Channels - transforming to innerurban recreation and agriculture spots
Urban Cul-de-Sac Plain | Irrigation Channels
Rural Cul-de-Sac Plain | Biodrainage and Fishponds
In this new landscape the irrigation strips are either lifelines of a highly productive rural landscape or urban junction and meeting point close to the water -the urban edge, where Haitians can do their laundry, where kids can play and people can relax in the shadow of the riparian vegetation. The channels will never look same but will always perform equally. They guarantee security during flood events, they provide fertile soil for urban agriculture, and public realm for sports and recreation. They even could serve as black- and grey water treatment channels. Also the Biodrainage Boulevards protect either adjacent buildings from the earthquake impact or they organize a rural Cul-deSac Plain, which again will evolve to the productive granary of Port-au-Prince. A plain with exotic riparian and coastal habitats, an active bird life due to the extended fishponds - a plain which is of high attractivity for tourists and locals. Terra Nova Ayiti is a landscape between urbanization and agriculture
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY MUNICH master of arts landscape architecture studio
Volos Waterfront towards new strands Project information + Projectlocation [ Volos | Greece ] + Supervision [ Prof. Dr. U. Weilacher TU Munich ] [ Prof. C. Saunders UPenn USA ] [ Prof. D. Governour UPenn USA ] + Based on the Workshop Changing Landscapes June 2011 Design Task Envision new perspectives for the Waterfront of the City of Volos, which former industrial harbor does not anymore compete with the world markets requirements on cargo capacity and reachability. Concept The main problems identified, a high pollution of the Volos Bay, the lack of accessibility of its waterfront, the disperse and pedestrian unfriendly public transport infrastructure and the separation of the city in three insufficiently linked districts through an inconsistent urban fabric, were faced by four strategic moves. Through a initial intervention, the former river deltas will reestablish and the ecological situation of the bay will improve. With the relocation of the anti-urban port functions in a industrial cluster south of Volos, the valuable inner city waterfront is able to reorientate towards a commercial and touristic prospect. Through the rearrangement of existing infrastructures and future city development areas at the coastline, the proposed new districts may interweave the disturbed city grid. Through a landscape framework the new districts are knit together to a series of public plazas and recreational parks.
Masterplan Volos Bay
Layers
Tree Structures The master plan concept is based on the use of three different types of trees to identify and characterise the different qualities of public space . The Pine tree, the Plane Tree and the Palm. Infrastructures A new tramway connects the eastern to the western part of the city. The bus terminal, the train station and the central car park are concentrated together with the cruisers‘ and the passengers‘ ferryterminal. New Houses A new district is being developed on the now available area of the former industrial port. Beneath housing for over 14.000 People, new business and campus buildings are planned. Existing Urban Fabric The development of new city districts at the waterfront is being used to connect separated parts of the city by responding to the different urban fabrics. Landscape Framework Connecting elements through the master planning is a coherent landscape framework that reaches from the ecological delta recreation to a green structure breaking the hard city‘s surfaces. Public Spaces By reusing and transforming existing surface materials a new system of public spaces, boulevards, Promenades and explicit pedestrian zones will be developed. Coastline Core part of the Project is the recreation of former river deltas to clean the bay water and to work as a filter between the agricultural uses of the hinterland and the evolving touristic interest in the Volos Bay.
Volos Bay
Urban Beach
Palmtrees
Beach CafĂŠ
Beach Ball
Promenade
Palm Lounges
Beach Soccer
Parking
Ornamental Pier
Water Access
Promenade
Pine Forest
Concrete Benches
Old Lamps
Old Cranes
Cruiser Terminal
Filter Container Spine of the proposed delta recreation are former cargo containers. They are reused for giving impulses towards a quicker sedimentation of the fertile delta soil and the cleaning of the polluted river water. Placing the containers in the flow of the rivers will disturb and slow down the incoming floodwater This supports the precipitation of fine sediments. Step by step, initiated by acupunctural interventions like the placement of „filter containers“, the eastern part of the bay will transform to a natural delta. The containers will speed up this process and help to create new habitats like fresh- and marsh water lagoons in the ecotone between seaside and wetlands.
Phasing In a period over 50 years the both river mouths will be redeveloped to a rich natural habitat, the Volos Delta. The initiated sedimentation will lower the water level and will allow a pioneer vegetation to accumulate in the evolving wetlands. The wetlands have a high ability to clean the polluted seawater and buffer extreme events. The ecotone between land and sea is one of the richest ecosystems known.
The urban beach is an area serving as field for sporting and recreation that would also take the pressure from the adjacent delta area. To overdraw, the sand pit defining most parts of the urban beach, isn‘t the only element seeming almost stereotypical. The area is planted with palm trees, creating a summary atmosphere and providing shaded areas like the palm lounges, that can be seen in plan and view. For German urbanist Feldtkeller urbanity
is the confrontation of the public and the private, it in other words occurs where different spheres of public life and different lifestyles and ways of representation meet (if not clash) together and enrich the variety of those urban spaces. The urban beach is the lively edge between delta and city. A place of tolerance, recreation, culture and sun.
View of the Urban Beach
As the future ornament pier today is mainly used for the loading and unloading of cargo containers, those define the rhythm of the space. Its surface is completely sealed in asphalt and its visually dominated by industrial cranes, huge light poles and container stacks all over the place. Huge parts of the pier are covered by rectangular white lines, drawn on the asphalt in a grid, indicating container storage spaces. The aim of the design proposal was to change this place from its character of rational organization and harsh industrial functionality into a Place of recreation and thinking, a place of enjoyment and beauty!
At the same time though it was intended to keep the history of the place visible and experience able. The idea was to dissolve the asphalt towards one side into open lawn areas, and cover the asphalt with a tree grove, dissolving equally into the lawn areas. To design this idea in a powerful way, it was decided to maximize the graphical contrast and implement a ornament. The ornament was designed under the inspirational theme of the Acanthus plant. Acanthus is a plant with high symbolic meaning, that was used in ancient greek for architectural details and the capitals in corinthian pillars.
View of the Ornament Pier
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY MUNICH master of arts landscape architecture studio
MEXXochimilco
living in cultural landscapes Project information + Projectlocation [ Mexico City | Mexico ] + Supervision [ Prof. R. Keller LAO TU Munich ] + Based on a fieldtrip to Mexico City May 2010 Design Task Informal settlements are growing into the Chinampas of Xochimilco, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Agricultural use in this former aztec landscape is declining and can not compete with the pace of the international food market. An vision must be developed, preventing this landscape of getting lost while providing new economic chances. Concept The Project suggests both a deliberate separation of an area for housing development, following a few specifically defined rules, supported by a publicly constructed infrastructural and supplemental system and a distinct area for conservation. Separated by a wide belt of wetlands, ineligible even for informal dwellings, the project proposes both, a new district for over ten thousand inhabitants, indirectly conserving the old landscape structures and a wide, protected area of recreation. The project offers solutions for fresh and wastewater management and for a “non car” depending mobility with connections to the local public transport. It claims for a integrated, landscape based approach as alternative to informal housing development at the fringe of Mexico City. And at the same time, it provides answers for basic questions on the future policy of one of Mexico’s largest heritage sites, the Chinampas landscape of Xochimilco.
Channel system The channels structuring the former Chinampa landscape are the organizers of the new district. In the pedestrian only settlement, the channels were main public transportation lines.
Pathways and Filters Some of the channels were transformed to constructed wetlands, generating biomass and cleaning the districts grey and black water. The former rural landscape gets a new identity.
Landscape Framework To preserve the landscapes unique character while offering new economical perspectives, a framework of willow alleys and forestal corridors was developed.
View of the Residential Chinampa
View of the Public Hub
View of the Recreational Chinampa
Public Hub
Recreational Chinampa
The three plans, developed in scale 1:200, show different situations in the proposed district. The public Hub is the connection point between old and new city. All the public transport lines join here. This is the point, where Metrobus lines, car parking, and bike sharing meets the small ferryboats and trajineras - a special mexican gondola - to continue into the new district, organized pedestrian only. At these important hubs, there are supplement centers and public facilities, providing the inhabitants of the new district with their daily goods. The second plan shows a detail of a recreational chinampa, a channel enclosed spot for swimming, beachball and recreation in the proposed greenbelt through the new district. Finally the last plan shows a so called residential chinampa - the proposal’s heart. These incrementally developed residential islands, embedded in a ferryboat based public transportation system, do locally produce energy by using photovoltaic systems and harvesting biomass. The freshwater is delivered by boat and stored in huge tanks, serving one chinampa. All houses are connected to a sewage system, based on phytoremediation capacities of filterchannels. The so produced biomass is being harvested. The energy generated from the biomass plants, does provide electricty for electrocars, located at the public hubs.
Residential Chinampa
VOGT landscape architecture junior landscape architect
VOGT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Junior Landscape Architect project
German federal ministry of the interior
Project information + Projectlocation [ Berlin ] + Team [ VOGT ZĂźrich|Munich|London|Berlin] [ MRA Architects Berlin ] + Role: project leader landscape architecture + Responsible for implementation planning + Landscape budget app. 3.0 million â‚Ź
During my masters studies i was working for Vogt Landscapes in their former office in Munich. Although working part time, i was responsible for the implementation planning of the new German federal ministry of the interior, a collaboration between Mueller Reimann Architects and Vogt. The interlaced building will be located close to the river Spree in the governmental district in Berlin. The small park and the courtyards play an important role in the storm- and rainwater management of the innovative building. Due to a high aquifer, the design of the swales surrounding the building was a interesting challenge. The following page shows an excerpt from the design and detailing process.
VOGT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE Junior Landscape Architect competition
Siemens Headquarter Munich Project information + 1st Prize + Projectlocation [ Munich ] + Team [ VOGT Zürich|Munich|London|Berlin] [ Henning Larson Architects Denmark ] + Role: competition leader landscape architecture + Responsible for landscape design and visualization + Landscape budget app. 2.0 million € In cooperation with Henning Larsen Architects in Kopenhagen Denmark, we developed a competition winning design. The new siemens headquarter, right in the city’s center offers a coherent and transparent link between the shopping streets of Munich and the southern entry to the museum district. The new and generous company-prospect to the western main street as well as the subtile and cautious connection to the protected historical building on the eastern end of the plot impressed the jury. The design, a sequence of five courtyards, is connected by a public passage. The buildings sustainable rain water management is highlighted in a open cistern which is made perceivable like a open water feature, showing the different water levels over time. Multifunctional lounges, indoor green, a visible and perceivable modern building technology underline the company’s intention towards a open, modern, transparent and sustainable oriented group.
Curriculum Vitae EXPERIENCE
SCHWEINGRUBER ZULAUF ZÜRICH | Landscape Architect
since 8 | 2012
+ project leader in several swiss landscape architecture projects SCHEGK LANDSCAPE AND URBAN DESIGN | Junior Landscape Architect
2011 - 2012
+ responsible for design in landscape projects and competitions VOGT LANDSCAPE | Junior Landscape Architect 2010 - 2011 + with responsibilities for design and construction in landscape projects and competitions + coordination of project related issues and presentation of results to clients and collaborators DREES & SOMMER PROJECT MANAGEMENT | Internship
EDUCATION
2009 - 2010
HADERSTORFER LTD | Technical Assistant of a Site Agent
2007 - 2008
REALGRUEN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE | Internship
2008
SPALINGER AG | Foreman on Landscape Construction Sites
2005 - 2006
KARRE&SPATEN | Apprenticeship in Landscape Gardening
2002 - 2005
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH | m. a. Landscape Architecture
2010 - 2012
+ Thesis “Terra Nova Ayiti - Landscapes between urbanization and agriculture” + Studio “Volos Waterfront - Towards new Strands + Studio “Wöhrder See - Urban Transformations” + Studio “MEXXochimilco - Living in Cultural Landscapes” UoAS WEIHENSTEPHAN | dipl. -ing. landscape construction
2006 - 2010
+ Thesis “Claimmanagement for Landscape Architects” TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN 2001 - 2002 introducing bachelor studies landscape architecture
HONORS
+ IFLA Prize - Zvi Miller Award 2013 + BDLA Prize - Bayerischer Nachwuchspreis + graduation with high distinction Master of Arts Landscape Architecture TU Munich + Participant on the international Workshop Changing Landscapes/Greece 2011 + 1. Prize Competition „Neue Mitte Thannhausen“ | SCHEGK + 1. Prize Competition „New Siemens Headquarter Munich“ | VOGT Landscape + 3. Prize Competition „New Ministry of Education and Science“ | VOGT Landscape + VGL Award for the best Diploma Thesis UoAS Weihenstephan + Best graduate of the Year 2010 UoAS Weihenstephan + Best graduate in Landscape Gardening of the Year 2005 in Berlin
PUBLICATIONS
+ Publication „Landscapes between Urbanization and Agriculture“ | Journal of Chinese Landscape Architecture + Publication „Terra Nova Ayiti“ | issuu online publication + Publication „MEXXochimilco - Living in a cultural Landscape“ | ELA Korea Magazine + Publication „Claimmanagement for Landscape Architects“| Garten und Landschaft Magazine
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