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Gunay Mammadova 2016-

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Gunay Mammadova

Master of Landscape Architecture

University of Pennsylvania 2022–2024

Bachelor of Architecture

Azerbaijan University of Architecture and Construction 2014–2018

I am a design professional who is looking for projects to blend my architecture background with recently obtained landscape architecture knowledge for designing equitable, adaptive and regenerative collective spaces.

I have contributed to major projects in Baku, Azerbaijan with the guidance of international team leaders and independently with a team of architectural designers. My design agenda is driven by clear attention to local contexts - materials, communities and the identity of spaces combined through a generative creative vision.

Experience

Coordinator & designer

State Tourism Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Oct 2021 - Aug 2022

I was working with a team of researchers and designers on mapping and representation of tangible and intangible heritage as tourism destinations in Azerbaijan. I was also responsible for coordinating the team for documentation of historic buildings in Khinalig village with architectural drawings and written descriptions.

Co-Founder & architectural designer

ICMALAb

Mar 2021 - Jul 2021

With our team of four, we delivered three urban design concept proposals in Baku and its villages. While coordinating the team, I worked on the design solutions and prepared presentations for delivery to the client. We designed public spaces with high sensitivity to communities’ interests, local materials, building techniques and the complex identity of the historic city.

Projects: “Mardakan” & “Ramana” villages’ Regeneration projects, Tactical urbanism “Molokan garden” for government organizations including State Tourism Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Baku Transport Agency and “Baki Abadliq MMC” firm.

Architectural Designer

COBALT architecture & design

Jan 2019 - Apr 2021

Worked within an international office that partnered with offices in Oslo (SpaceGroup) and Riga (Annvil). Delivered over seven concept projects from furniture scale to block-size buildings. Worked on CD, and SD stages of design within teams of 3-5 and supported technical design team on DD and supervision stages of the projects as needed.

Projects: Olive apartments complex, Wine exposition, Winery landscape design, Civic service building and site design, Landscape and facade design of a bazaar project

Architectural Designer

Atelier “Pille” Dec 2017 - Jan 2018; Jul 2018 - Jan 2019

I was part of a small architectural studio and alternative local platform examining critical local architectural and urbanism issues where the team would organize discussions, prepare exhibitions, and coordinate workshops. With the Pille team, I have worked on urban design and streetscape designs. I was also responsible for preparing and presenting presentations for the team and client communication. Projects: “polycentric city” urban design proposal for the city of Baku and urban redevelopment projects of two historic villages. “Basqal” and “Khinalig” towns’ Regeneration for the State Tourism Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Competition

1st Prize “Architectural Look of Absheron Settlements” Jan 2021

Software Skills

3D modelling, drafting – Rhino, Revit (BIM), Sketchup, AutoCad | Adobe Creative Suite – Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign | ArchGIS | Rendering - Lumion, Enscape | Microsoft Office - PowerPoint, Word

Food industry, water quality and flood management p.6

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LIVING NETWORKS

Flood mitigation, urban redevelopment and landscape design p.12

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ABSHERON VILLAGES

Urban redevelopment of a village

1st Prize : “Architectural look Absheron Settlements” competition p.28

SHEPHERDS’ ECONOMY

South Greenland Green New Deal Studio - Food systems, futuring & world building, community center/farm building design p.18 3

KINGSESSING

Urban Renewal & landscape design p.24

4year

Observation and Drawing p.46

a historic look of competition

CITY IMPLANT

Urban furniture, public space design in historic urban landscape p.42

Atelier Pilla

1THE SLOUGH FOOD INDUSTRY & FLOOD MANAGEMENT

In this project, we explored the complex cultural landscape of South Florida around Lake Okeechobee. Intensive water management projects transformed wetlands into sugar farms and settlements, impacting native habitats, water quality, and subjecting farming communities to periodic, destructive floods.

Using comic making as a narrative tool, we created an alternative reality to examine current environmental, political, and cultural tensions from a fresh perspective.

Master of Landscape Architecture, 2024 Univeristy of Pennsylvania

Location: South Bay, Florida

Toolbox: Freehand drawing, Rhino, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Google Earth

COMICS AS A STORY TELLING TOOL

It is the 1980s - the buyout of lands from the sugar industry begins to clean contaminated waters caused by it. In our fictional world, “The Sheet Flow Canal” project was successfully approved. A wetland restoration project to reconnect Lake O to the Everglades. The story

Water management District office

The sheet flow canal project has been approved. We have a 10-year deadline to finish the new levies and demolish the lip.

revolves around two main characters: laid-off migrant sugar farm workers who stay and try to make a living in the abundant wetland; “Sheet Flow Canal” restoration biologists sent to preserve accumulating muck at the lip of the lake to restore extinct wild pond apple forest.

US Sugar company Head office

We have 100s guest workers living in South Bay. What should we do about them?

We failed to lobby against the project. We have to abandon the town of South Bay.

Cancel their contracts and let them go. We are at the losing end here anyways..

Enviromentalist Lobby

The water quality concern had to be addressed. We should celebrate this with an event!

How is next Friday?

the lip

sheet flow buy out zone

Sheet Flow Restoration Plan: In 1994 Army plan to restore Everglade’s natural sheet flow

sugar cane Army Corp of Engineers’ flow was approved.

Click for the link to the comic

DESIGN INTERFACE

Muck city

After the wetland restoration project begins, the dike gets demolished and the South Bay city gets flooded. Migrants with no jobs persist in living in the wetland, elevating some of the buildings while using construction materials for the abandoned houses.

As the water flows down from the lake it also brings down muck that has been built up at the bottom over decades. The remaining people seeing value in this natural resource start building structures to harvest the muck for gardening and sale.

raised house on studs to protect houses from the sheet flow

muck flow in the sheet flow

collecting muck by building structures against the stream direction. reused wood planks from destructed house materials

gardening

muck harvesting

LIVING NETWORKS

FLOOD MITIGATION PARKS SYSTEM

Master of Landscape Architecture, Studio

Univeristy of Pennsylvania group project with Xinchen Wei

Location: Coatesville, Chester County PA

Toolbox: ArcGIS, Rhino, AI, Photoshop, clay model making

Coatesville once thrived with the steel-making industry that brought people with diverse backgrounds to this region. With the city’s history of reoccurring floods, the industries slowly left the city, and the town started to struggle from socioeconomical decline. We propose to flip the disadvantages of the flooding issue and turn it into an opportunity to celebrate water and create connectivity in the public realm through water.

We proposed a system of sinks (for water re/detention) and swales that would mitigate flooding and accommodate public activities. Historically the development of the city including the sequence of cities along the great Walley started from the river bank and spread along the water. However, the industrial buildings occupying the river edge divided the city removing the river’s potential to create a robust urban network.

According to the existing topography, GIS analysis revealed the water flow streamlines for us to detect where to collect and divert water to establish a nature-based hydrologic system as well as connecting thorns down the urban fabric.

RIVERSIDE RESTORATION & FLOOD MITIGATION

Connecting communities through water

Wetlands’ As Sink and Swale

Widely spread geotubes create space for wetland vegetation. The vegetation on the gentle slope can slowly take water from the hills and divert to the creek.

Highly Vegetated mounds

Densely built Couirs reinforced with tree Root structure.

Amphitheater

A gathering space for cultural activities, also a space that connects communities.

Coils are proposed to be made from permeable material to fill and trap contaminated soil in the site.

Stormwater Sink - a Flexible venue and play area for the community

SHEPHERDS’ ECONOMY

FARM & COMMUNITY HUB

In a fictional world where Greenland is emancipated from the grip of Denmark on international relations, Greenlanders are building a new vision of the futureunrestricted trade and commercial relations with the world. They are envisioning not just trade but a network of interconnected businesses, crafting and exporting commodities of intrinsic value. From arctic clothing, and textile to insulated pipes and prefab building structures and elements in and around the Arctic Circle.

Master of Landscape Architecture, 2023

Univeristy of Pennsylvania

Location: Narsaq, South Greenland

Toolbox: Rhino, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Google Earth

NATURE BASED DESIGNS AND LAND MANAGEMENT

Sporadically scattered sheep farms are situated closer to the inner and mid fjords and are mostly isolated and disconnected from the larger towns. The farms’ grazing areas at the outer fjords benefit from more precipitation while having less productive soils due to higher salinity levels.

South Greenland pastures have a natural irrigation system that collects surface runoff by countering swales from the surroundings. Since the soil lowlands are not well drained and often muddy, the excess water is drained out to the nearby waterbody.

SHEEP FARMS AS CULTURAL ECENOMIC HUB

The speculation for south Greenland is building new trade relations to escalate the local economy. Instead of exporting raw materials (such as wool, and fish), South Greenland started to build smallmedium-size businesses to process each material into more valuable commodities. Wool processing facilities, fashion design ateliers and stores are envisioned to develop in steps.

This gradual development requires a quick and flexible construction process in Greenland’s harsh climate and unpredictable future. Prefabricated modular panel systems are seen as the optimal solution for that reason. Reusable panes would also allow future expansion of the buildings in time.

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KINGSESSING

URBAN RENEWAL

Master of Landscape Architecture, 2023

Univeristy of Pennsylvania

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Toolbox: Rhino, Lumion, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop

Exercising on the future of urban development in Kingsessing, this studio project blended landscape design with urban (framework) design for a holistic urban environment. The landscape design aims to accommodate a coherent transition between the natural landscape and the built interface.

LANDSCAPE DESIGN IN AN URBAN CONTEXT

Urban Plaza situated adjacent to a highway and office building is designed to accomodate shaded area with tree canopy as well as open terraces for storm water treatment/storage.

OFFICE BUILDING

CATCH BASIN

ABŞERON VILLAGES

HISTORIC URBAN REGENERATION

1st prize “Architectural look of Absheron Settlements”

ICMALAb, 2021

Location: Mardakan, Azerbaijan

Toolbox: Sketchup, Autocad, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator

The task was to bring back the faded “Abşeron” villages’ historical and cultural qualities while tackling the degrading socio-economical conditions of the site. The project is focused on material solutions while analysing the local socio-cultural context. The designs are made considering the overlapping interests of stakeholders including community members.

Caspian Sea

Qobustan

Şamaxı

Masazır

Masazır

Saray

Novxanı

Corat

Masazır

Pirşağı Goradil

Fatmai

Binəqədi

Binəqədi

vulkanları

K

Digah Məmmədli Zabrat

Balaxanı

Maştağa Nardaran

Suraxanı

Bakı

Bayıl qəsri

Caspian Sea

URBAN MORPHOLOGY STUDY & PROGRAM

Attraction points and core cultural hubs are identified according to the density and significance of historic buildings, attraction points’ relationship to the main roads and potential public spaces, green zones, and retail/job centres.

Shagan village

Yesenin

PUBLIC SPACES & STREETSCAPE DESIGN

The narrow meandering streets between century-old buildings call for slow speed of vehicles and demand a design strategy to encourage pedestrian accessibility, safety and comfort in the neighbourhood. The design introduces specific locally available materials with nuanced and simple design solutions.

enhanced greenery and shadow

smooth paving for making bike riding more comfortable.

lane for cars min.

5m - shared street

parking greenery

greenery/resting

COMMUNITY KITCHEN

PILGRIMS

FLOOD MITIGATION PARKS SYSTEM

Cobalt Architecture & Design, 2019

Location: Beshbarmak, Azerbaijan

Toolbox: ArcGIS, Rhino, AI, Photoshop, clay model making

With its unique shape and solitary posture, Beshbarmak Mountain as a landscape phenomenon is a pilgrimage that brings people from all around the country. They come here to climb up to the rocky mountain pray for their wish on the top and picnic in the lowlands. The proposed design cares for preserving the pristine landscape view while providing necessary amenities that would cater to the visitors’ needs.

CONTEXT ANALYSIS

NATURAL LANDSCAPE

The overall landscape of the upper zone of the study area is a fractured plateau with bearded vegetation on dark-chestnut colour soils. The pilgrims` camp is located on a relatively flat valley with a slope to the north. The low ground is surrounded on all sides by low hills with sparse, free-standing, low-growing trees. The neighbouring area is suitable for agricultural development.

The coastline along the Beshbarmak is one of the unique places to observe migrating from North Africa. Birds can be observed not only along the shore of the Caspian Sea, but also on the Beshbarmak rocks themselves.

Nature Patterns

Diagram

The main landmark of the surrounding area is the rock massive of the Beshbarmaq mount which has 445 meters in height. The geological structure of the rock consists of carbonates containing limestone (dolomites) and marls. The massif itself is a coral reef, around the usual deepwater sediments. The rock arose as a result of tectonic compression and extrusion from under the earth’s crust.

CONCEPT DESIGN

The 3 part buildings are combined along the roof - visitor centre and caferestaurant and the administrative block. This division and inclusion of courtyards are for illumination of the building blocks from side facades and create semiprivate access to outdoor space for both workers and visitors.

Visitor Center exploded 3D

Visitor Center

SEMI-OPEN PUBLIC KITCHENS

CITY IMPLANT URBAN FURNITURE DESIGN

Atelier “Pille” - Urban Furniture Workshop, 2016

Location: Baku, Azerbaijan

Toolbox: Skethcup, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Phsical model making

The winding roads of the old city of Baku will lead you to a special and overlooked place. It is one of these alleys where a design intervention aims to preserve the unique qualities of the historical landscape and enhance its identity as a public space. I combined the desire of people to engrave their memories in an ancient environment with urban furniture.

CONCEPT DESIGN

Built environment

People like to keep the memories alive and embed them somewhere. Writing with pens, spray painting even carving. The canvas is streets, walls, floors, light poles and more.

The texts/marks sometimes can be inspiring, caring, and cherishing. The intention to make your existence known, and be present for someone feels important but the marks get lost in undefined spaces. It’s only a matter of chance that you will stumble on them.

Something about this space makes people want to remember. If you try to look for them the writings are scattered on the stairs and walls of the buildings around.

The ribbon is the design proposal to collect all memories as a tribute to love, care, connecting and sharing. It’s not new that lovers come here to enjoy the time between silent walls of history, they can translate their whispers into words that can be rehearsed.

BB Section

backer rod sealant granite unit tiles

HARDSCAPE DRAFTING OBSERVATION AND DRAWING

University of Pennsylvania - Workshop IV class exercises

Location: Philadelphia

Toolbox: AutoCad, Illustrator

During our “Workshop IV” class we visited built landscapes to observe and analyse the construction materials and techniques used in specific projects in Philadelphia. We have developed observational skills and landscape construction knowledge by taking measurements/notes at the sites and producing precise drawings of built conditions as part of our assignments.

Concrete

8.1 HARDSCAPE DRAFRING

BARNES FOUNDATION

TABLETOP FOUNTAIN By Olin

140’ long tabletop fountain is designed to release/diffuse water from 5 separate pumps. Each granite piece was manufactured with such precision that the water level at the top looked flat and linear throughout the fountain’s perimeter continuously. Water discharges smoothly from two ends of the basin on the slightly pitched and drained paved area.

Guardrail panel

STAIRS WITH GUARDRAILS AT THE TEMPLE CAMPUS

The steps and landings are made from precast concrete on the sand setting bed, with a reinforced concrete base structure and paved with a ‘stretcher bond’ pattern in symmetry from the center line. Steel railings are welded with 2” seams.

Stairs Plan