JACQUES ABELMAN Ink drawing illustration from Go With Me: 50 Steps to Landscape Thinking
GROUNDCONDITION LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
Learning to Land: Reviewing Makars' Court
University of Edinburgh, Scotland 2015
Position: Lecturer and Seminar Leader Client: Edinburgh City Council and Edinburgh World Heritage Trust This studio-based course introduces beginning MA (undergraduate) and MLA (graduate) students to the fundamental principles, skills, conventions, and theories of contemporary landscape architecture. As lecturer I provide group and individual critiques and lead fieldwork exercises. The students design a real urban site and present ideas to a real client. I also lead a critical reading and writing seminar for the more advanced MLA students. All course content is given through an interactive website, www.ffieldwork.org. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
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Cultivating the City: Infrastructures of Abundance in Urban Brazil
Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, the Netherlands 2012-2014
Cultivating the City envisions the potential for multifunctional productive green infrastructure in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil. The lacelike network is based on an urban analysis matched to underlying ecological systems and typologies of urban agriculture and agroforestry. The plan investigates urban food systems and negotiates social, economic, and spatial differences to create an integrated strategy for sustainable and equitable cities. MLA THESIS | RESEARCH INTEREST
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The Landscape Table
Brussels, Belgium 2014
Client: Par(c)kdesign Landscape Biennial for the City of Brussels I designed and constructued The Landscape Table to contain four different landscapes of edible plants and to seat 100 people. It celebrates the Par(c)kdesign Landscape Biennial theme of "from landscape to table." An outdoor kitchen integrated into one end is a focal point for community events and workshops. The gradient of culinary species goes from herb garden to native ecosystem. The table is also used as a learning platform by local schools. SELECTED PROJECTS
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Par(c)kdesign Landscape Biennial
Brussels, Belgium 2013-2014
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Client: City of Brussels, Institut Bruxellois pour la Gestion de l'Environnement As co-curator of the biennial, I developed a working urban farm on the new park site of Tour & Taxi. I collaborated to create and organize this international event around urban agriculture, food systems, and social solidarity. The urban farm, run by community groups, was divided into sections exploring food production, waste recycling, bee keeping, water harvesting and urban livestock. Installations by artists and a calendar of events and performances created a yearlong public event. SELECTED PROJECTS
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Go with Me: 50 Steps to Landscape Thinking
Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, the Netherlands 2012
Go with Me 50 steps to Landscape Thinking Within the framework of the Living landscape Lectureship Written and edited by: Thomas Oles Marieke Timmermans Jacques Abelman
Position: Co-author, Research Assistant, Editor This handbook or vademecum ("go with me" in Latin) is a guide to fieldwork as well as the main streams of landscape scholarship. As co-author I developed the pedagogical structure and researched sources for each of the fifty chapters or steps. The book moves from positive to normative explorations of landscape, serving as a guide for reflection as well as design and introducing a wider audience to a holistic conception of landscape. Published on Architecture and Natura Press in 2012, the book has sold out. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
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Living Landscape Lectureship
Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, the Netherlands 2010-2012
LIVING LANDSCAPE
LIVING LANDSCAPE
WHAT IS LANDSCAPE? WHEN DID THIS WORD
09.09.2010/ THOMAS OLES
COME INTO BEING, AND HOW HAVE ITS MEA-
Thomas Oles is currently Lecturer on Living Lands-
NINGS CHANGED OVER TIME? WHAT EXPLAINS
cape within the Landscape Architecture Department Design for London is a regional design resource for
ITS PROLIFERATION IN RECENT YEARS? AND HOW
at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture. His
DO THE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS SHAPE THE DESIGN AND PLANNING OF PLACES? THIS IS THE SUBJECT OF ‘LIVING LANDSCAPE’.
CAPITA SELECTA
WORKSHOP London. They work across London to provide ambirecent research focuses on the cultural history of tious improvements to the ETHICS network of public spaces, THOMAS OLES / DESIGN landscapes, and on the ways in which landscapes sign and planning. He previously taught landscape
Cambridge University and the Massachusetts Institute
architecture and urban design at the Massachusetts
of Technology. Her focus is on how design and the
FOR AGRICULTURE. ROOTED IN PICTORIAL
Institute of Technology and the University of Oregon. physical environment can shape cities and commuDesigners rarely take the time to reflect on the assumptions that guide the way His bookthey Recovering Wall: Enclosure andwords, Ethics tonities, developed through design research on cities reasonthe and work—in other consider their own ethics.
RESOURCE THAT CAN BE DRAWN DOWN TO MAKE ROOM FOR ‘NON-LANDSCAPE’ FUNCTIONS SUCH AS HOUSING OR INDUSTRY. BUT THIS STATIC
in the Modern Landscape will be published in 2011. including London, Mumbai, New York, Tokyo, In design practice there is usually too muchBeijing, to get done, too much to produce in a short time. and Kabul. Architect Mark Brearley leads This lack of speculation often restricts the terms within which design is undertaken. Design for London and is head of the London 16.09.2010/
UNDERSTANDING OF LANDSCAPE IS UNTENABLE
Development Agency. In his current role, he has been ALAN BERGER What are you really doing when you make design choices?
IN AN URBANIZED WORLD. A GROWING NUMBER
Alan Berger is Associate Professor of Urban Design
OF SCHOLARS THEREFORE DESCRIBE LANDSCAPE IN TERMS OF HUMAN PRACTICES, INSTITUTIONS,
worked on the formulation of policy, and the creation and Landscape Architecture at the Massachusetts In three phases we will use role playing, games, observation, and concentrated design of numerous planning frameworks and masterplans. Institute of Technology. He is the founder of Project assignments. The focus will be on drawing as a communicative tool.
PERCEPTIONS, AND VALUES UNFOLDING IN A
for Reclamation Excellence, a think tank for solving
issues of You landscape reclamation through design, 07.10.2010/ will learn to question your own design process.
DYNAMIC VIEW, LANDSCAPES ARE NOT SIMPLY
planning, and ecological thinking. His research
ZONES LIVED ‘IN’: THEY ARE THE RESULT OF
focuses on the produced relationshipwill between landscape Chris Landscape Reed (winnerExhibition of the Topos 2010) is Work be included forand the Living in Award the fall,
LIVING.
and published thetoLiving Landscape laterLandscape this year. Urbanism, a Bostonurbanization, and on newin ways see, measure and Vademecum founder of Stoss
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CALLS INTO QUESTION MANY ASSUMPTIONS
Reclaiming the American West. ture, urban design and planning, and is especially Tuesday April 26: 18:00 - 19:00 introduction interested in how landscapes work, how they
LANDSCAPE/ AMSTERDAM
IT THEREFORE HAS THE POTENTIAL TO TRANS-
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY/ P-REX 23.09/ CHARLES WALDHEIM HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN 30.09/ ELEANOR FAWCETT+ MARK BREARLEY DESIGN FOR LONDON 07.10/ CHRIS REED
based strategic design and planning practice.
Designing the Reclaimed Landscape, Drosscape and Stoss operates at the juncture of landscape architec-
ABOUT SPACE, OBJECTS, AND REPRESENTATION
16.09/ ALAN BERGER
CHRIS REED
UNDERSTANDING LANDSCAPE AS LIVED PRACTICE
LECTURER ON LIVING ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE
closely involved with more than 200 live projects, has
PARTICULAR PLACE OVER TIME. IN THIS, MORE
act on disturbed landscape systems. He is author of
09.09/ THOMAS OLES
from the doorstep to the street, parks and land-
can yield new and EXPERIMENTAL more durable approaches toEXERCISE de- scapes. Eleanor Fawcett26 studied architecture AN / APRIL - MAY 13 at
MANY PEOPLE THINK OF LANDSCAPE AS A PLACE CONVENTION, THIS VIEW SEES LANDSCAPE AS A
CAPITA SELECTA 10/11
30.09.2010/ ELEANOR FAWCETT+ MARK BREARLEY
ON WHICH THE DESIGN PROFESSION RESTS.
existing city frameworks, and how they 23.09.2010/ April 27 - 29: independent work Phase reinforce 1 invent new ones. Reed is adjunct Assistant Professor CHARLES WALDHEIM
FORM THE PROCESS, PRODUCTS, AND WIDER
Friday April 29: 15:00 - 18:00 discussion and critique Phase 1 at the University of Pennsylvania and a design critic Charles Waldheim teaches the history, theory and
MISSION OF ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE
April 30 practice - May 02:of landscape independent work Phase contemporary architecture and 2at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN. ‘LIVING LANDSCAPE’ IS A FORUM FOR EXPLORING THIS
urbanism at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Monday May 02: 16:30 - 19:30 discussion and critique Phase 2 He focuses on the relation of contemporary urbanism 14.10.2010/
TRANSFORMATION AT EVERY SCALE OF THE BUILT
May 03 Waldheim - 12: independent work to landscape. coined the term ‘landscape
ENVIRONMENT, FROM TERRITORY TO BUILDING.
urbanism’ to describe emerging design practices in Ken Smith is unquestionably one of the most inteFriday May 13: 9:00 - 12:30 final presentation the context of North American urbanism and has resting voices in landscape architecture. He is one
KEN SMITH
written extensively on this topic. He previously taught of the best-known of a new generation of American Completing the workshop gives participants one official keuzepunt. landscape architecture at April the University Toronto, landscape architects, equally at home in the worlds Please register by 25 at the of latest. Maximum 10 students.Waldheim has edited Michigan and Pennsylvania. of art, architecture, and urbanism. Trained in both avblivinglandscape@gmail.com The Landscape Urbanism Reader and StalkingTo register: design and the fine arts, he explores the relationship Detroit. He is currently completing the first natural
between art, contemporary culture, and landscape,
and cultural history of Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.
in projects ranging from temporary installations to residential gardens to regional parks. He established his New York based practice, Workshop Ken Smith, in 1992. He recently opened a second office in
STOSS-LU/ LANDSCAPE
southern California to implement his award-winning
URBANISM/ BOSTON
competition entry for the new Orange County Great
14.10/ KEN SMITH
Park.
WORKSHOP KEN SMITH/
LANDSCAPE IS NOT SCENERY, IT IS NOT A POLITICAL UNIT; IT IS
NEW YORK
REALLY NO MORE THAN A COLLECTION, A SYSTEM OF MAN-MADE SPACES ON THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH. WHATEVER ITS SHAPE OR SIZE IT IS NEVER SIMPLY A NATURAL SPACE, A FEATURE OF
Position: Instructor, Organizer THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT; IT IS ALWAYS ARTIFICIAL, ALWAYS For two years I worked closely with Thomas Oles and the head ofALWAYS the landscape architecture department on the designing and teaching of the lectureship. Students were asked to SYNTHETIC, SUBJECT TO SUDDEN OR UNPREDICTABLE interrogate their own understandings and prejudices with respect to landscape. They attended lectures CHANGE. WE CREATE THEM AND NEED THEM BECAUSE EVERY and seminars by prominent scholars and practitioners, and tackled difficult readings on landscape drawn from the fields of geography, archaeology, art history, and literary studies. They were asked to bring their revised understanding of landscape to bear LANDSCAPE IS THE PLACE WHERE WE ESTABLISH OUR OWN on design tasks that ranged from urban parks to regional master plans. HUMAN ORGANIZATION OF SPACE AND TIME. IT IS WHERE THE ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
SLOW, NATURAL PROCESSES OF GROWTH AND MATURITY AND DECAY ARE DELIBERATELY SET ASIDE AND HISTORY IS SUBSTITUTED. A LANDSCAPE IS WHERE WE SPEED UP OR RETARD OR
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JERSEY CITY
AIA New York and Amsterdam Center for Architecture 2012 R E D PO I N T PA R K S • AQUAPUNCTURE ON THE WATERFRONT
Red Point Parks: Aquapuncture on the Waterfront
STATEN ISLAND
MANHATTAN
BROOKLYN
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August 10th, 2100: a summer story
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“Do you remember the summer of 2075, when the hurricanes hit? Do you remember how it was before the water got so high?” I asked my friend. We were sitting together on the stoop of our Brooklyn brownstone, it was a sweltering day, 105° F.
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“Thank god for this luxury that we have at our doorstep. The wetlands even protect us from the hurricanes. Storm buffers you can relax in!” She sighed, floating on her back in the cool water.
“I remember how the sewage used to flow into the water every time it rained. It was a mess when they still called it the Upper Bay. That was a long time ago, and the water is about three meters higher now, and that old waterfront is now the Red Point Parks.
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I want to check out diving lessons. Let’s pick our own oysters from the reefs for dinner!” I said, splashing.
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Brooklyn Water Hub.
Let’s follow the greenlines down there and swim, I can’t take this heat!” she said. We jumped on our bikes and followed the shallow canal of grasses and trees down to the Gowanus Canal and Red Point Park 33. The old sewage overflow was gone – now at the end of the greenline you could see clean water burbling from the outflow, right before the pier started. Extending through a wetland, the vast new pier stretched out into the bay, alongside old foundations and ancient raised warehouses missing their first floors.
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Entry #0029
August 10th, 2100: a summer story “Do you remember the summer of 2075, when the hurricanes hit? Do you remember how it was before the water got so high?” I asked my friend. We were sitting together on the stoop of our Brooklyn brownstone, it was a sweltering day, 105° F. “I remember how the sewage used to flow into the water every time it rained. It was a mess when they still called it the Upper Bay. That was a long time ago, and the water is about three meters higher now, and that old waterfront is now the Red Point Parks.
We stripped down to our bathing suits and jumped off the side of the pier where the marshy vegetation gave way to deeper water filled with eelgrass. They say it’s almost clean enough to drink now, and the sturgeons are back. “Thank god for this luxury that we have at our doorstep. The wetlands even protect us from the hurricanes. Storm buffers you can relax in!” She sighed, floating on her back in the cool water.
“Do you want to go to Governor’s Island Beach this Client: competition of the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture with AIA New York and Amsterdam Center for Architecture weekend? We can rent an electric boat at the Brooklyn Water Hub. Let’s follow the greenlines down there and swim, I can’t take this Climate change will demand a radical adaptation strategy around the Upper New York Bay. Red Point Parks proposes a network of access points around an altered urban edge. heat!” she said. We jumped on our bikes and followed the shallow I want to check out diving lessons. Let’s pick canal of grasses and trees down to the Gowanus Canal and our own water, oysters from the reefs it forfrom dinner!” Wetlands will occupy flood zones, creating a living storm buffer.The greenline network will connect inner urban areas to the bay and absorbs rain diverting the sewage I said, splashing. Red Point Park 33. We were both enjoying the park, water. and happy in a city The oldcreating sewage overflow was gone – now edge at the end the estuary greenline whose system. The aquapuncture of the parks will respond to climate change and transform the city, a new urban andof an heart is pristine
COMPETITON WINNER
you could see clean water burbling from the outflow, right before the pier started. Extending through a wetland, the vast new pier stretched out into the bay, alongside old foundations and ancient raised warehouses missing their first floors. 2km
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Our New York, our Central Bay’s Red Point Parks.
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zo is het begonnen...... Vertical Mushroom Farm: Prototyping Urban Food Futures
4000 horecagelegenheden in Amsterdam die koffie schenken
zij produceren samen per dag zo’n 20.000 kilo organisch afval: koffiedik!
in potentie 5000 kg paddestoelen
er zijn vele kilometers stegen in Amsterdam......... met de perfecte condities om paddestoelen te kweken!
M us hroom Tree Fores t in potentie 5000 kg paddestoelen
Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2012
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Clients: Amsterdam Center for Architecture, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, CITIES Foundation Vertical mushroom urban farming captures parts of the city's waste stream, using coffee grounds, cardboard and paper as substrates for cultivating oyster mushrooms. The project makes the process of recuperation, transformation, and harvesting visible by locating it in public space. The vertical growing system uses recycled plastic cylinders on the walls of narrow alleys in inner-city Amsterdam and installations in urban parks. Winner of the 2012 Food and Architecture fair and published in Farming the City. SELECTED PROJECTS
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SERENISSIMA: Saving Venice from Rising Waters
Venice, Italy 2012
Client: CityVision Competition Scientists project the permanent flooding of Venice in 100 years. The Serenissima plan augments the existing underwater topography of the lagoon, creating a ring dike system. Opening locks allows fresh sea water into the city and flushes water outwards into new tidal marshlands or barene around the urban core. Brackish water is filtered and pumped through the dunes, creating fresh drinking water. The ring landscape creates new biological, recreational and urban potentials while safeguarding the city. COMPETITON WINNER
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EMiLA: European Masters in Landscape Architecture
Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Barcelona, Hannover, Versailles 2011-2016
Position: Lecturer, Organizer of Summer Workshops, Co-ordinator of E-Learning EMiLA is a consortium of five leading European master's programs formed in order to train cross-cultural leaders in landscape architecture. Students study in at least three different countries and engage current topics in European landscape and policy. I develop and teach an e-learning module dealing with current critical issues and also organize and run summer programs that are hosted by different participating institutions. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
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Hedgerow Harvest: Renewing Agricultural Landscapes in the Netherlands
Oldenzaal,Twente 2011
HEDGEROW NETWORK
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FARMLAND AND MEADOW
AGROFORESTRY ZONES
Client: The Municipality of Oldenzaal in the Twente Region, the Netherlands Farming in the Netherlands creates a vital cultural landscape but critically needs renewal–new economic activities and more biodiversity. Hedgerow Harvest first creates a network of hedgerows on existing parcel boundaries. Agroforestry with native species and Acer saccharum is then established. Vacation cabins are located in the green “chambers” formed by the agroforestry and hedgerow system, also creating a new source of income. Buffer zones, spatial rhythms and the corridor effect create and maintain higher levels of biodiversity. SELECTED PROJECTS
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Op Buuren Erven: Agricultural Heritage Housing Development
the Vecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands 2011
Op Buuren Buiten
Op Buuren Erven Plankaart Wisselbare Korrels
Wisselbare Korrels
Op Buuren Erven Op Buuren Erven
De Boerderij ruimtelijke opzet
boomgaard moestuin weide
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100 m
boomgaard bebouwd moestuin weide bebouwd
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Villa’s
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weg / laan Client: Landscape Architects for S.A.L.E. (Urbanism, Architecture, Landscape, and Ecology), private developer ruimtelijke separatie / knotwilgenrij The Vecht area near Utrecht features historical estates and very old working farms. As a lead designer on this proposal for a new development on agricultural land, my team analyzed boomgaard spatial qualities of regional estates and farms and catalogued typologies of gardens. We proposed mixed-use social housing with orchards and vegetable gardens, clusters focused on horse owners, and garden villas. The spatial ensemble features large amounts of public space accessible for all in the area. collectieve ruimte
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What could happen ?
The Strip: Community Happens
“I just turned eighty, and had my party right here in the cafe next to the farm. There are some projects for seniors at the community center, but I just like how busy it is here, and watching the children at work in the garden.”
“This saturday our church is holding a big car trunk fund raiser out here. The strip is well lit, and we’ll have a big barbecue after.”
“Drive in movies are really fun for me and my family, like back in the day. The park on the strip is safe at night, it’s got a lot of lights, and lots of people around. A great place for picnics Sundays or our 20th family reunion.”
Amsterdam and St. Louis, MO 2011
“I have a flower farm outside the city. I’ve been coming to the market here to sell cut and dried flowers on Saturdays. It’s going so well I’m thinking about making a small shop here.”
“Every saturday I come to the farmer’s market to get the best fresh fruits and vegetables, grown right here. I see my neighbors more often. Folks from all over the city come too.”
“I teach biology and started a community gardening program with several city schools. The kids are getting hands on learning, they love it. From an urban ecology standpoint the site is fascinating.”
“Before I started the farm, there was nowhere to buy produce in this part of the city. The city helped me start up with seed money. The farm is really easy for everybody to reach, and there’s lots of room for us to grow.”
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trunk sale tuesday and sunday
bbq picknicks playground
drive-in theater wednesday and saturday
urban farm
greenhouse
art center farmers market
education
crops
schools and individuals
exhibitions
shops, coffee shops, studios sports community center
art museum city center
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“I coordinate programs for the museum downtown. The strip has become a hub for creatives, and we’re planning a temporary outdoor pavilion for museum activities here.”
“There were no skate parks in this part of the city until we started one at the strip. We put in some killer ramps. The skate shops in town want to sponsor a skateboard competition this summer.”
“This place has great outdoor courts. I come here to play with my friends. But I can bring my baby sister because the community center has after school activities for her.”
“I thought I’d give my business idea a try and sell speciality baked goods. I sold out every single time at the market, and soon I’m going to start my own bakery.”
“I’ve been making music for a long time. I used to come down here after work to jam with friends. I got the money to invest in a small recording studio in a space on the strip, and it was matched by th city and an investor.”
“I get to come here to learn about how to make a garden. The farmer and my teacher showed us how to grow carrots and lettuce and tomatoes. My class has its own plot. I really like basil!”
“My restaurant concept is market to table, fresh every day. I can do that right here like no place else, no delivery truck required. We’re so close to downtown I’m full every evening.”
Client: Pruitt - Igoe Competition This socially oriented competition brief called for the redesign of a modernist housing project which was a famous disaster in the history of American urbanism. My team proposed a bottom-up plan where a framework for new buildings and projects would be implanted on the site. Community members could then slowly fill this structure in over many years according to the real needs of the community, thus creating a stark contrast with a failed social legacy. COMPETITON WINNER
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Landscape Masterplanning for Saharan Gateway Cities
Sebha and Ghadames, Libya 2010
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Childrens zoo
Childrens gardens
Farm/Childrens zoo
Open air reading garden
Knot gardens
Sahara Desert Museum Garden
Festivities
Parterre garden
Mediterranean courts
Bulb gardens
Tea House
Quranic garden
Water courtyard garden
Sculpture garden
Walled orchard
Skateboard ramps
Watchtower
Basketball courts
Enclosed playground
Barrier woods
Five-a-side football
Open air chess/checkers
Palm arboretum
Futsal
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Tree Nursery
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Bbq fields
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Client: Inside Outside and Office for Metropolitan Architecture This conceptual masterplanning project for two Saharan gateway cities was based on renewing landscape structures. My team focused on water conservation, indigenous plants, alternative energy technologies and large-scale landscape approaches for repairing damaged ecosystems. We developed strategies for new landscape elements, public spaces, and programming. We also integrated landscape-based cultural and recreational activities into the urban plan. SELECTED PROJECTS
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LAB 01
Amsterdam, the Netherlands 2009
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Client: Office of the Architecture Commission of the Netherlands LAB 01 was a research lab for urban strategies initiated by the Dutch government during the economic crisis of 2009. As the only landscape architect in a group of architects, I researched and designed public space within the six development scenarios that my team created for the city of Utrecht. My individual research focused on new forms of multifunctional green infrastructure in high density urban settings. FSI 5
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FOODPRINT: Foodscape Schilderswijk
The Hague, the Netherlands 2009
Client: Urbania Hoeve, STROOM Architectural Center The Hague, FOODPRINT project Foodscape Schilderswijk researches typologies of urban agriculture specifically for the Schilderswijk neighborhood in The Hague. Through urban analysis interventions such as espalier fruit fences, herb lawns and SPIN (small plot intensive) gardens are mapped onto the neighborhood. The intention is to activate vacant and under-used public spaces with edible infrastructure. The visual nature of the design research strategically communicates to a non-design audience. SELECTED PROJECTS
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Regional Planning for Pays Landes Nature Côte d'Argent le procédé de synthèse
Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Mimizan, France 2008
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La méthode en pratique: Voorsterklei Commune de Voorst, les Pays-Bas 2007
atlas historique Blaeu eu 1665 1
carte topographique 2004
1850: terrains bâtis
atlas historique Blaeu 1665
1850: pâturages et prés
carte historique
carte topographique 1850
1850: chemins
1850: constructions
1850: réseau hydrographique
1850: digues
1850: forêts et vergers
carte topographique 1910
carte historique
phiqu carte topographique 1850
2004: structuress uviales
1910: forêts et vergers
1850: réseau aphiq hydrographique
tions 2004: constructions
1910: terrains bâtis
ges eet prés 1850: pâturages
2004: digues
1910: constuctions
1850: digues
réserves naturelles les
1910: terrainss bât bâtis
habitats faune aviare aviar
ns 1910: chemins
structures et zonage nage écologique
ologi zones archéologiques
points élevés du paysage
monuments hist historiques
vision d’aménagement geme communale
urell histoire culturelle
vision d’aménagement geme régionale
carte de relief
1910: forêts et vergers
1910: terrains bâtis
1910: chemins
1910: constuctions
1910: digues
coupe France, les Landes - une protection aléatoire et poreuse
1910: structures uviales
typologie des sols
1910: structures uviales
carte topographique 2004
coupe Pays-Bas - une protection forte et vitale
points élevés du paysage
propriétaires carte topographique 1941
1941: forêts et vergers
carte topographique 2004
2004: structures uviales
2004: forêts et vergers
2004: terrains bâtis
PAYS LANDES NATURE CôTE D’ARGENT Mimizan Plage
Castricum aan Zee
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zones archéologiques
monuments historiques
histoire culturelle
Qualités et Evolution Historique du L’infrastructure Paysage
recherche analyse dialogue
es caracteristiques ecologique et phere authentique en ville. typologie des sols
zone de fourage des oies sauvages
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carte de relief
Evolution Culturelle et Spatiale
Schéma d’Amenagement Stratégique: Opportunités Futures
L’axe Nord-Sud de la Nationale 10 est efficace par sa rapidité mais il ne permet pas de découvrir les qualités du pays. Les réserves naturelles habitats faune aviare structures et zonage écologique axes secondaires perpendiculaires, offrent davantage la possibilité de traverser le territoire du pays Landes Nature Côte d’Argent. C’est pourquoi, il semble pertinent de proposer des services pour les estivants concentrés le long de ces axes - ces avenues vertes. De cette manière, conserver les connections à l’intérieur du pays sans les agrandir, pour préserver une vision d’aménagement vision d’aménagement propriétaires certaine tranquillité tout en s’adaptant à l’afflux touristique en communale régionale haute saison.
zones d’inltration
points élevés du paysage
authenticité
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connecter l’axe de transport avec les anciennes voies ferrées - fermer le système
FORETS
Les routes sont l’introduction au pays. Il faut bien les concevoir pour apporter un maximum de valeur. Les infrastructures routières destinées aux “transports doux” doivent être renforcées et développées afin d’offrir une plus grande diversité des moyens de déplacement. En couplant les transports en commun et la circulation douce, on obtiendra un réseau qui créera par conséquent une hiérarchie des transports à travers le pays.
innovation
Conçu pour le mouvement saisonnier, ces avenues seront un moyen de concentrer le tourisme tout en mettant en valeur les centres urbains du pays et en aboutissant sur le littoral. L’aménagement de ces avenues peut se référer aux thèmes déjà évoqués pour les trois zones du Pays.
nature & paysage
infrastructure publique
• les traces de l’agro-pastoral et les structures du passé : l’airial, le champ «la lande» = heide les tucs (collines) les peguilleys (allées de déplacement à travers la forêt) les «parcours» (étendues de pâturages pour les troupeaux) les «parguiers» (enclos pour le bétail l’hiver dans l’airial) la chênaie (plantation de chênes) le pin parasol • le pin , ses qualités esthétiques, «graphisme» l’histoire et patrimoine de la sylviculture • le paysage qui travaille pour l’homme, la production du bois
• à l’heure actuelle les services publiques sont dans les agglomérations, qui ont grandi lentement de manière traditionnelle
• faire évoluer la forêt selon la demande de la nouvelle industrie de bois qui s’installerait (meubles, objets utilitaires, bois de construction, nouveaux produits)
• formations haut niveau liées aux points forts de développement futur: tourisme, bois, énergies
• renverser le dessèchement en rétention de l’eau, milieu dynamique • créer des typologies et des «working landscapes» qui sont adaptés aux besoins actuels, filtrage, lagunage, ou autres formes d’occupation du sol, dégager les pins et les arbres autours de certains points importants pour créer d’autres espaces pour mettre en valeur d’autres éléments, par exemple près des cours d’eau
• diversifier le sortes de nature que l’on rencontre par un système signalétique
diversité
2004: chemins
• diversifier les forêts: - plus intéressant pour les loisirs - plus de diversité pour l’industrie du bois - plus de diversité pour les animaux et espèces végétales • restaurer les biotopes et créer des nouveaux: - créer des lagunages - fortifier la bio-diversité pour les autres espèces, animaux et insectes
• chaque centre urbain ou village a des services de base dans son centre, mais il manque de grandes infrastructures publiques
transport & réseaux • hiérarchie existante qui est intéressante : - les liens est - ouest - les petites routes tranquilles - les anciennes structures (peguillets, etc.) - les anciennes voies ferrées
loisirs & tourisme • vieux arbres, chênes centenaires • les charmes de la rusticité ; la tranquillité, les odeurs de la forêt • hameaux authentiques
économie & développement • les points forts traditionnelles - système agro-pastoral - résine et sève - charbon - papier - liège
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• la proximité de services de base = qualité
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• placer les nouveaux projets sur ou au croisement des nouveaux axes de transport (ou en léger retrait des boulevards verts, en forêt, mais bien connectes au réseau rapide) • concentrer les grandes fonctions régionales • disperser de manière égale les fonctions telles que polyclinique ou «service flats» (importation des concepts de l’étranger) • plus de docteurs en été?
• duidelijk de kustplaatsen noemen bij uitrit snelweg (niet La Bouyhere, maar Mimizan plage) • navettes, tram sur la côte, efficace pour les touristes en été et pour les population locales • innover dans les matériaux copeaux de bois pour les sentiers, coquillages, etc. • l’exemple de Poelgeest- relation publique/privé et territoire partage • Beeld kwaliteitsplan maken! Developper une strategie qui definit l’atmosphere et les qualites, le profils, etc. des parcways(cahier de proscriptions archi., urbaine et paysagere, CPAUP en image) • Alfred Peter • 12m2 per huis om te zuiveren
• introduction de l’équipement publique en complémentarité avec l’offre du travail dans les Landes, par exemple, hôtellerie, université du bois, centre de recherche
• accentuer la hiérarchie
• lié à l’évolution démographique, par exemple, «service flats» maison de retraite avec appartements indépendants
• caractériser chaque avenue, parcway, ou avenue, garder un réseau bien hiérarchisé et des routes calmes, sillonantes
• diversifier les types de transport: trams, voiture, piste cyclables, sentier de randonnée, bus
• toerisme op bosgericht (niet alleen strand gasten) • l’innovation, c’est attirer des autres sortes de touristes • la forêt de culture du bois amène à toute une culture de la forêt • saai productie bos verandert en parc bos, imago van bos veranderen, bos ??? • mixité du tourisme, diversification des publiques mais aussi l’attrait à différentes saisons
ecoquartier abordable mais moins luxueux Culemborg en Drachten douche buiten • diversifier l’habitat, dramatiser, chics, observatoires d’oiseaux et autres, sauna, camping, silence, ludique, moderne, etc. Toutes les gammes pour une diversité de touristes. • préconiser la réutilisation des maisons traditionnelles pour le tourisme haut de gamme, maison de hôtes, les maisons des airiaux • parcours aventure, gids tochten • kloosters van hout, hermitage • kluiszenaarshutjes • observatoires • culture artistique dans la culture du bois: centres culturels en forêt ( Biesboch et Kruller Muller) • investir dans des «bezoekerscentum» centres d’accueil touristique et éducatifs • camping ecologique
• énergie: biomasse, co2, forêt = solutions pour l’écologie et l’innovation • encourager les nouvelles initiatives comme la cite du bois à Mimizan Ecomateria (un quartier d’affaires en pleine forêt) Plate-forme technologique aquitaine • 1ère et 2ème transformation peu rentables, les avancées technologiques et la recherche permettent de nouvelles transformations • werkende landschap; zelfde regio ecoindustrie et eco quartier, directe relatie bos, locale productie, loc. economie, locale fuel, klimaat verbetering, diversiteit • autre manière de gérer la coupe, pas tout en même temps , garantir la div. et continué de la forêt • diversifier au niveau traditionnel et innovateur Expliquer: Cité du bois des Landes (exemple d’Annemie, scan) Haute Qualité Environnementale • que faire des pins à part l’industrie papier? Il faut diversifier le secteur. - les maisons en bois - produits technologiques, matériaux composites - mobilier et design, compétences artistiques et créatives • «polyculture» économique nécessaire • aspect écologique, compensation CO2 • développer bio-énergie : biomasse, devenir autonome en production énergique • exemple de Batavia wharféducation et métiers anciens et modernes ensembles
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Client: DS Landscape Architects for Pays Landes Nature Côte d'Argent, France Diagnostique 51 Large-scale regional planning and development project for the department of Les Landes south of Bordeaux. The analysis and plan features the landscape as the carrier of developmental schemes ranging from infrastructure and housing to tourism and new industrial activities. I developed detailed matrices as well as cartographic analyses for each landscape zone which provided strategic conclusions in terms of urbanism, landscape, infrastructure and economic activities. SELECTED PROJECTS
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• le bois d comme m regarder l rendre plu (platowoo • propose loppemen tage trop i • utiliser l sans en fa mimetism • libre/pa construit ( • exemple oplossen verdienen *Innovatie sterker ma • mentalit • volgende bos, Waar
• propose les airiaux • trouver d d’habitati secteur im une popul • diversité réutiliser e ges pour d santé, ou infrastruct l’industrie • diversifi l’on est en ou dans l’ productio Exemple? • urbanism au lieu de
Ecologically Emergent Leisure Landscapes
Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2007
Client: SKOR (Foundation for Art in Public Space), Bureau Venhuizen, and STROOM Architectural Center The Hague EELLs investigate new ways of reusing agricultural waste and reactivating disused periurban agricultural landscapes. The modular architectural system made of biodegradable plastic tubing is filled with straw. The tubes function as lounging spaces and are inoculated with mushroom spores which later spread through the straw and earth while the bioplastics break down, helping to clean polluted soil on the site. The project addresses recreation, food production, and ecological cycles. SELECTED PROJECTS
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Cerillos Red and Blue Xeriscape Garden
Santa Fe, NM 1999
Client: private commission The Cerillos Red and Blue garden was designed and built by hand in dialogue with an architect. I worked closely with several private clients in New Mexico to create small-scale sustainable gardens using Southwestern native species requiring little water. My company was known for work with desert botanics, permaculture and xeriscaping techniques. We were also responsible for the maintenance of several art gallery and sculpture gardens in Santa Fe. In total I designed and executed ten private gardens. SELECTED PROJECTS
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The Monsoon Arsenal
Santa Fe, NM 2001
Client: Plan B Evolving Arts Center The Monsoon Arsenal is a public art installation designed around the idea of contemplating security in the desert. Near the Los Alamos nuclear laboratories, I created a xeriscaped installation whose forms reflect the symbolism of technology while embodying ecological principles about water in the desert. Target-shaped drainage pools collect sparse desert rainwater while earthen warheads filled with fertilizer and seeds create an oasis of blooming desert flowers. SELECTED PROJECTS
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Clam House
Seneca, SC 2000
Client: private commission Named the "Clam" because of its shape, this structure is an experiment at the intersection of artistic practice and architectural thinking. A showcase for ecological building techniques, it emerges from a year-long dialogue with place and uses only materials present on site. This guest residence features a roof of native grasses over a roof of curved pine strips assembled with boat construction techniques. The post-and-beam stucture frames straw bale and rammed earth walls covered with clay plaster and lime paint. SELECTED PROJECTS
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