Ken L.Spangberg
KEN L . S PA N G B E R G Landscape Architect Student ABOUT & CONTACT Date of Birth: December 9th 1994 Citizenship: French Address: 2 Rue Saint Lubin 41000 Blois France
EDUCATION SCHOOL OF NATURE AND LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE BLOIS INSA CVL BLOIS Study of landscape project - arts - architecture - ecology - botany geography / 1st- 2nd- 3rd - 4th - 5th years / 2019-2014 / Blois - France ACADEMY OF ARCHITECTURE AMSTERDAM - ACADEMY VAN BOUWKUNST Erasmus exchange in the landscape architecure department / September - December 2017 / Amsterdam -The Netherlands LANDSCAPING WORK FORMATION CENTER - VERT D’AZUR Diploma in landscaping work with honors / 2014 - 2012 / Antibes-France
Phone: +33 (0) 6 29 74 22 48
OTHER SKILLS
Mail: ken.spangberg94@gmail.com
INTERESTS Travel: South Africa, United States, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Greece, Netherlands, Germany Philosophy: Kant, Epictete
SOFTWARES
DRAWING
LANGUAGES
PHOTOSHOP
WATER COLOR
INDESIGN
FRENCH (mother tongue)
PRO MARKER
AUTOCAD
PENCIL
SKETCHUP
Sports: Tennis, biking, swimming, skiing
LUMION
Music: 60’s - 80’s
RHINO 3D
ENGLISH (fluent - IELTS test) SPANISH (basics knowledge)
WORK EXPERIENCES ATELIER CAMPO - LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AGENCY Work placement / April-June 2018 / Nantes - France Landscape architect assistant - «Green Stars»: Nantes’s valleys landscape study Reference: Matthieu Picot, atelier@campopaysage.fr KARRES+BRANDS - LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AGENCY Work placement / September-December 2017 /Amsterdam- The Netherlands Landscape architect assistant - Concept and design works Reference: Lieneke van Campen, l.vanCampen@karresenbrands.nl ANOTHER ARCHITECT - ARCHITECTURE AGENCY Work placement / April-July 2017 / Berlin - Germany Managing the landscape part of the entire design of a new city in Egypt Reference: Daniel Dendra, dd@anotherarchitect.com JEAN MUS & CIE - LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AGENCY Summer Job / 2018 - 2017 - 2016 - 2015 - 2014 - 2013 / Cabris - France Designing master plans and follow up sites management Reference: Florence Mus, contact@jeanmus.fr BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN - BOTANIC GARDEN Work placement / April - June 2016 / New York - USA Gardening work in the different parts of the garden - work on the South Garden project with the Michael Van Valkenburgh agency (MVVA) ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS OF KEW - BOTANIC GARDEN Work placement / April - June 2015 / London - Great Britain Gardening work in the Palm House with rainforest tropical plants LA FOLIE DOUCE - GARDENING COMPANY Summer job / 2012 - 2011 / Cannes - France Maintenance and gardens creation in the Côte d’Azur area (handling garden tools, discovering the job’s technicality)
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Eco-neighbourhood’s design Richelieu - France
Use the past to design the present The first landscape project of this year, was oriented on a train station’s rehabilitation in Richelieu (Indreet-Loire). We had to take care of different questions, as the arrival of an bicycle path and the conception of an eco-neighbourhood. After the researches phase, we wanted to keep the train station’s heritage, to create some landscape breakthought and to link the project to the existing site.
Hydrologic diagram
Circulation diagram
The objective was to find the good balance between the public spaces and the private habitations. I chose to create a high urban density in order to developp the public uses and increase the green spaces quality.
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The main objective was to reduce the car impact and create the maximum of pedestrian paths. I also worked a lot on the transition between the private gardens and the public spaces in order to increase the biodiversity at the neighbourhood scale.
Pedestrians walkway view
Redesign a main urban axis La chaussée Saint-Victor - France Create a centrality The main objective of this project was to redesign the main axis of «La ChausséeSaint Victor» a little city in the «Loire-et-Cher». I wanted to reconnect the axis to the existing neighbourhood by the creation of pedestrian walkways to revitalise it and to create some intern flows. Besides, the objectif was to design the space in order to highlight the landscape heritage as the Loire, an exisiting stone quarry and the various specific Flora of the site.
Stairs level view
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Haie Trottoir piéton
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Piste Stationcyclable nement
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Route Nationale
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Station- Piste nement cyclable
Trottoir Haie piéton
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Espace privé
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Bande végétale Allée piétonne
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Enherbement Allée piétonne
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Terrasse enherbée
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Main axis and neighbourhood’s section
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I wanted to design this masterplan according to the pedestrians expectations. Mixed with nature trails, soft paths and different vegetation atmospheres, the pedestrians is now considered and is the main protagonist of the site.
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Bar’s terrace view
Boost the Rochefort’s wetland area Rochefort - France
Design a flexible space Located along the ‘Charente’ river, 10km (6 miles) far fom the Atlantic ocean, the Rochefort’s wetland area his rich by his biodiversity and his history (used to be a military airport). Completely disconnected from the city and without any interaction wih the river, the objective was to conceive something flexible and create some agricultural, cultural and ecological attractions in order to revitalise this secluded site.
Commercial zone: Design a flexible space link with the surrounding landscape
Developp Légende Grazing area Short circuit and local agriculture Légende
Flooding area
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Cultural center Légende (exhibition, museum...) War architecture heritage Create lanscape breakthroughs
Redesign the existing canals Underline the historical axis Pedestrian paths
Connect Physical connection between the city and the wetland Connections between the two riverbanks ZOOM: redesign the commercial zone
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Improve the cultural heritage: Redesign the past airport site as a polyvalent space (tourism, agriculture, history)
The connected city Oberbillwerder - Germany 1st price competition As a part of my exchange at the Academy of architecture in Amsterdam, I had the opportunity to work at Karres and Brands where I was involved in the Oberbillwerder’s competition. Located at 10 kilometres from the Hamburg’s city center, we had to transform some agriculture lands into a smart and a resilient city. In association with the danish architecture firm ADEPT, we decided to design a «connected city» in order to create an urban entity and reconnect the surroundings neighbourhood to the large scale lanscape.
This sketch represent the water system of the city. The main objective was to collect the waste water from the agriculture land and the neighbourhood in order to clean it by the phytoremediation. I also wanted to connect the system to the existing water features (river, lake...) in order to lead the pedestrian to the surrounding landscape
The master plan enlight how the city is connected to the surrounding neighbourhoods and the lanscape features. The water system leads us to the large scale and the paths are connected to the other urban centers in order to create a continuity
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Ein riesiges Zukunftspotenzial, das spezielle Funktionen über Nachbarschaftsgrenzen hinweg verbindet
In order to create an urban entity, we decided to developp several pedestrian paths which connect the surroundings urban centers. The purpose was to think the «connected city» as a meeting point which leads to the urban activities (sports, shcools, cinemas...) and to the large scales landscape features (river, agriculture lands, forests...).
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The Connected City - Oberbillwerder
Path connections diagram
Feinmaschiges Fußgängernetz macht Oberbillwerder super zugänglich
The design of the city was lead by the past agriculture plots which splited the site in several strips. In order to connect the neighbourhood to the landscape, we decided to developp the exisiting pedestrian paths in order to create some global continuities and reduce the urban/landscape disruption.
The Connected City - Oberbillwerder
Ecological and pedestrian corridors
The water management was one of the biggest problematic of the project. As the site is located on a flood zone, the water create different atmosphere according to a humidity gradient. It also help us to brings a large phytoremediation program and several activities (canyoning, swim area...)
Private gardens design Ibiza - Spain
Mediterranean grace The experience I could acquire with Jean Mus & cie agency, was extremely helpful. This one, enriched my vision in the respect of the gardens art within a specific geographic context: the mediterranean shores. Those internships helped me to have a different vision and gave me a tremendous professional experience. This property is located in Ibiza (Spain) on a steep montain flank. The objective was to imagine different atmospheres according to the climate, the topography and the client wishes.
Ficus nitida The Ficus nitida was used to create a link with the existing vegetation which was composed with Ficus, Pinus and Quercus
Waterfall and pond The water create a humid environement and allows us to draw a moss wall
Stairs Draw in a riprap environnement , the stairs goes through an intimate space create by the endemic vegetation
Mediterranean atmosphere Composed with Pistacia lentiscus, Thymus repense, Rosmarinus corsica and Myrtus communis, the plants palette was created according to the surroundings ÂŤmaquisÂť
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Located in Ibiza, this house was built on a steep montain slope just in front of the sea. Because of the topographic situation, it’s organised on several terraces where we decided to create for each of them, different atmospheres («Shady garden», «Cacteae garden», «Citrus garden»...)
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Study trips and internships Site analysis Every year, the school of the Nature and Landscape gave us the opportunity to make several study trips mostly in France. Those experiences help us to enlarge our vision in different areas: Geological, pedological, botanical, ecological or geographical studies and to represent those by the help of the drawing.
Stone cutting
Village-Cevennes
Kew Gardens London - Great Britain Every year during two months period, we have the opportunity of an internship preferably in a foreign country. During my first experience (2015), I had the chance to discover, the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew and his famous palm house where over 800 tropical and sub-tropical plants are growing. This internship, enriched my horticultural and botanical knowledges. London life experience was particularly interesting, between various visits of parks and museum.
Palm House
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Brooklyn, NY - United States In my second year of internship (2016), I had the opportunity to work at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York. The experience was extremely interesting: In addition to my daily work, I had the opportunity to collaborate with Michael Van Valkenburgh agency (MVVA). During more than two months, I attended many project meetings and follow the South garden project’s management.
Bluebells and cherry blossom
Front de Seine Paris - France
Looking up
This photographic work is a part of my diploma’s site analyse which is located in the Paris’s XV district. Design in the late 50’s by Raymond Lopez and Michel Holley, this neighbourhood was designed according to the slab urbanism, the brutalism architecure style and is inspired by the Charter of Athens (horizontal and vertical zoning). Even if the site has a rare location (in front of the Seine, 5 minutes walk from the Eiffel tour), it’s totally secluded and disconnected from his urban environment. The verticality, the scale or it complex structure rised in different levels, create an important rutpure with the rest of the «traditional» city. I wanted with those black and white pictures show the oustanding elements I could noticed during my first site visits.
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Texture and structure Arborescence Drawing is a strong personal art form. It’s an essential tool which is able to represent our space perception and different elements. Those sketches are the example of a ‘trees book’ we had to realize for plenary session about trees structure.
Experiment by matter This scholarship, give us the freedom to experiment architectural and landscape approaches by using many tools. Drawings, models and installations gives us the opportunity to apprehend and perceive in a different manner our futur professional life.
This 2 metres (6.5 feets) high structure represent the organisation of an mycorrrhizae. I had to build it as a part of our ÂŤrepresentation classÂť in the second year.
This gateway was made for the last project of the first year. The purpose was to design an architectural structure (my choice was this gateaway) and add it in a park. The objective of this exercice was to think the landscape by the architecture and vice versa.
CONTACT Mail ken.spangberg94@gmail.com Phone +33(0)629742248 Address 2 Rue Saint Lubin 41000 Blois France