Portfolio and CV 2019 by Lavinia Isan

P O RT F O L I O LAVINIA ISAN ,

EXPERIENCE CONTINUED

LAVINIA ISAN ,

lavinia.isan@gmail.com | +4 0745 25 45 23 | +32 487 59 22 73

URBAN PLANNER | ARCHITECT birth date : 13/07/1990 | Romanian nationality https://issuu.com/laviisan/docs/portfolio_2019 • Experienced urban planner with proficiency in spatial planning and participatory planning processes. • Action research experience interacting closely with stakeholders on powerful community projects. • Skilled in research and policy making, having concluded a thorough spatial analysis in a coherent policy brief as master thesis. • Detail oriented and able to approach trans-scalar projects, having worked on different sized projects in various international contexts. • Possess an innate ability to lead teams and deliver qualitative and strong results, while also thriving as a team player. • Self-motivated, with genuine spirit of initiative and excellent written and verbal communication skills, having graduated magna cum laude.

RESEARCH | ‘Inside in the nature’ Master Thesis (Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning Cluj-Napoca) • Research about the architectural evolution of the glass house in time and its contemporary interpretations.

02/2015 - 06/2015

INTERN | RAUM Architecture and (R)Urban Planning (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) • Study about the integration of large architectural objects (i.e. industrial buildings) in the Romanian countryside, in the framework of the Architecture Guides for local design in rural environments (Rural Work Group - Order of Romanian Architects).

11/2014 - 01/2015

WORKSHOP | ‘Sewing a Small Town’ Architecture Summer School (Gassino Torinese, Italy)

07/2016

WORKSHOP | ‘New Urban Hybrids’ 20th YTK/IFHP Urban Planning and Design Summer School (Seinäjoki, Finland)

08/2014

WORKSHOP | ‘21st Century Urban Block’ 19th YTK/IFHP Urban Planning and Design Summer School (Jyväskylä, Finland)

08/2013

EDUCATION EXPERIENCE

MASTER OF URBANISM AND STRATEGIC PLANNING | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven • post-graduate master | graduated magna cum laude. • Spatial Planning track: Strategic Spatial Planning, Institutional Aspects of Spatial Planning, Project Development and Management, Urban Design Strategies.

10/2017 - 09/2019

MASTER’S DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE | Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania • Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning.

10/2013 - 06/2015

ERASMUS STUDY SCHOLARSHIP | Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble, France • Master Edification, Grands territoires, Villes (Edification, Large Territories, Cities)

09/2013 - 02/2014

BACHELOR’S DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE| Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania • Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning

10/2009 - 06/2013

RESEARCH AND PLANNING PROJECT (Master thesis) : ‘Sharing is Saving |Ideas for the future of the Berm in Mortsel and Wilrijk’ (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) • Spatial analysis, history of urbanization and interaction moments research for the Berm (threatened former railway embankment) in the Southside of Antwerp, publicly exhibited during the Institutional Aspects of Spatial Planning Action Research Workshop (see portfolio: https://issuu.com/laviisan/docs/ portfolio_2019). • Part of the organizing team of the IASP Action Research Workshop, preparing background material and interacting closely with invited guests. • Head of a team of seven international PhD students during the IASP Action Research Workshop (the Biodiversity Team), who successfully designed and implemented a (Not) Botanical Garden on the Berm in the course of one week. • Policy brief ‘Sharing is Saving | Ideas for the future of the Berm in Mortsel and Wilrijk’, which helped the stakeholders (municipalities, the Province of Antwerp, Natuurpunt, Trage Wegen vzw, Streekvereniging and Gebermte) to kick start the process of commoning the Berm and to save it from the construction of the R11 motorway.

02/2019 - 06/2019

LANDSCAPE URBANISM PROJECT : ‘Water Shaped Urbanity | Living in the Water City’ (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) • Elaborated a design strategy dealing with the increasing flooding risk and need for housing in Arenberg Campus in Leuven.

10/2018 - 01/2019

Languages

Software

LANDSCAPE URBANISM PROJECT : ‘Let it flood | Pudong Coastal Defense’ (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) • In charge of the intermediate scale design: elaborated the sea level rise design strategy on a 5x5 km site and built the 1:5000 physical model of the coast of Shanghai. • Designed an energy producing hybrid landform acting as a dyke against sea level rise as individual project.

02/2018 - 06/2018

ENGLISH - advanced | C1 FRENCH - intermediate| B2 DUTCH - intermediate| B1+ ROMANIAN - mother tongue

ARCHICAD - advanced ARCGIS - intermediate ILLUSTRATOR - advanced INDESIGN - advanced PHOTOSHOP - intermediate

RESEARCH AND PLANNING PROJECT : ‘Nostalgia Reinvention | Reinventing the future of Deurne Airport from the power of the past’ (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) • Managed to get strategic interviews with key stakeholders who shared crucial information regarding the future plans for the airport. • Investigated how the surrounding community can take charge of the airport as a local asset and how can it become the basis of a strong and resilient economic tissue at the local level. (‘Hands on community’ - see portfolio https://issuu.com/laviisan/docs/portfolio_2019)

10/2017 - 01/2018

URBAN PLANNER AND ARCHITECT | SQMArchitecture (Cluj-Napoca, Romania) • Participated in building the urban planning team, where I managed from simple assignments (concepts, urban studies) to complex projects (masterplans, zoning plans) working closely with stakeholders - clients and public institutions. • Coordinated a two week practice workshop for interns on a public space regeneration project. • Managed several collective and individual housing projects from concept to building permit as architect.

10/2015 - 08/2017

SKILLS

Personal strong leadership skills team oriented time management attention to detail quick learner creative self-motivated easily adaptable

Other policy making research stakeholder engagement landscape urbanism mapping written and verbal communication visual representation hand drawing

INTERESTS

travelling

photography

reading

writing

hand drawing

collecting maps

PORTFOLIO

CONTENTS Academic projects SHARING IS SAVING | Ideas for the future of the Berm in Mortsel and Wilrijk NOSTALGIA REINVENTION | Reinventing the future of Deurne Airport from the power of the past • HANDS ON COMMUNITY

WATER SHAPED URBANITY | Living in the water city LET IT FLOOD | Pudong Coastal Defense AGRICULTURAL CITY | Urban regeneration & Organic Agriculture Training and Visitors Center HYBRID HOUSING

6 12 16 20 24 28

Workshops SMART STATION | Connecting Seinäjoki on all levels PIAZZA D’ACQUA | Water Square

34 38

Work experience CITADELA Residential Development Urban studies and documentations

44 46

ACADEMIC PROJECTS

SHARING IS SAVING Ideas for the future of the Berm in Mortsel and Wilrijk project type: academic - thesis project location: Mortsel and Wilrijk, Belgium completion: february-june 2019 team: Lavinia Isan | Wossen Gebreyohannes Balcha supervisors: Pieter Van Den Broeck | Sofia Saavedra Bruno

Given its specific location, it is intriguing to encounter a three-kilometer-long ‘abandoned’ topography in Antwerp’s so-called 20th century suburban belt, sometimes seen as the densest municipalities of Flanders. The old railway embankment ‘de berm’ poses as a misfit leftover land, a natural topography, a green space, a reminder of the past as well as uncertainty of the future. It is quite evident that de berm is an embodiment of ‘exceptions’ at present day regarding land use, management, ownership regimes. In these exceptions lie its potentials as a questionable spatial manifestation of the ‘commons’. The spatial analysis (team Lavinia Isan and Wossen G. Balcha) shows how the area where de berm is currently located, has for centuries suffered from land consumption, privatization, speculation and fragmentation, but also from the imposition of large scale military and industrial infrastructure like military forts, the railway and its embankment itself. In the more recent history and today, de berm area has been threatened by speculative practices and infrastructural projects serving interests far beyond the local residents’ ones.

Examples include the use of the space to create a 2x2 road in Wilrijk in the 1970s, successfully contested ideas to extend that pattern in Mortsel and the Flemish government’s 2011 plans again successfully contested - to create a ‘cut and cover’ tunnel as a kind of second ring road for Antwerp (the so-called R11bis). The themes that resulted from the analysis were explored in a 10-day workshop, where students produced interventions tackling sensitive aspects of the berm (biodiversity, mobility, governance etc.). The Biodiversity group, whose coordinator I was, produced ‘This Is (Not) A Botanical Garden’, an intervention meant to highlight the potential of the berm in terms of natural and cultural heritage. The results of the workshop and the research findings were the basis on which a policy brief was written (team Lavinia Isan and Wossen G. Balcha). ‘SHARING IS SAVING | Ideas for the future of the Berm in Mortsel and Wilrijk’ was sent to the relevant stakeholders: the municipalities of Mortsel, Wilrijk and Edegem, the Province of Antwerp, Streekvereniging and Natuurpunt.

RESEARCH | SPATIAL ANALYSIS (team Lavinia Isan, Wossen G. Balcha). The text of the analysis can be found here: https://issuu.com/home/published/sharingissaving_annex-to-brief_june2019_watermark_

10 DAY WORKSHOP | THIS IS (NOT) A BOTANICAL GARDEN

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van de bestaande vegetatie van de Berm, maar ook over het industriële verleden. Aanvullend vestigen ze de aandacht op de (team Lavinia Isan, Virginia Vecchi, Anastasia Widyaningsih, Carlosoms Castellanelli, Deonefauna, Seva Dasallas, verborgen zoals Daniel egels, Essapo) eekhoorns, mollen, spechten en bijen. Het concept van de Berm als (g)een botanische tuin is een uitnodiging om na te denken over de positie van mensen in relatie tot ecosystemen. De natuur gedijt zonder menselijke tussenkomst op verschillende slingerende paden die binnendringen in het natuurlijke gebied. De toegang van mensen wordt zo beperkt. De boodschap 'de Natuur laadt op' die langs de informele paden zijn geplaatst zijn bedoeld om de kwetsbare delen van de Berm te beschermen. Deze berm vergroende zichzelf onder meer met zaden die uit treinen vielen en zaadlingen van door mensen aangeplante acacias. Zij is met haar unieke natuur in de loop van de decennia meermaals erkend en verdedigd. Er loopt een subtiele lijn tussen zich inzetten voor de natuur en de natuur laten gedijen. Het gebruik ervan kan wat er is ook in gevaar brengen. De (g)een botanische tuin wil met mensen in interactie treden zodat de waarde van de berm kan toenemen en ze beschermd wordt. BOOMBLAUWTJE TREEDT OP!

HOP HOP KONIJNEN!

#thisisnotabotanicalgarden

Acacia “Robinia pseudoacacia” Acacia is een boomsoort afkomstig uit Afrika en Australië, die van nature niet hier groeide. De bomen werden voor militaire doeleinden op de Berm geplant vanwege de kwaliteit ervan om de grond bij elkaar te houden door zijn breed verspreidende wortels. Het is bewezen dat de bloemen van de acacia eetbaar zijn, maar ook dat hij lager groeiende bomen voorkomt te bloeien. #thisisnotabotanicalgarden

Vederesdoorn “Acer negundo”

Madeliefje “Bellis perennis”

#thisisnotabotanicalgarden

Existing approaches to the issue of maintenance of the Berm

POLICY BRIEF (team Lavinia Isan, Wossen G. Balcha). The full text of the policy brief can be found here:

Sharing is Saving

Policy brief

Ideas for the future of the Berm in Mortsel and Wilrijk The last report on land consumption in Flanders (‘Poelmans, Janssen en Hambsch (2016) Landgebruik en Ruimtebeslag in Vlaanderen’) shows that Flanders has lost 7000 hectares of open space between 2013 and 2016, increasing the built surface to 33% of the total territory. It shows again how the Flemish territory has been affected by suburbanization for a century, including continuous privatization leading to landscape fragmentation and consumption of open space. In the case of the Antwerp Southside (‘Zuidrand’), the amount of open space is 5845 hectares, which is 54.7 % of the total area. Since this includes intensively used agricultural surface, the amount of open space that is to some extent accessible is less than 1957 hectares (18.33 %). Indeed, the Southside of Antwerp has been the victim of heavy military, railway and highway infrastructure impositions, which splintered the territory and made it vulnerable to land speculation. In this context, our master thesis project, made within the Master of Urbanism and Strategic Planning at KU Leuven, focused on a former railway embankment, the Berm, in the municipality of Mortsel, an example of land consumption, but also of land regeneration. The thesis consists of (1) a historical analysis of the area, showing how actors and institutions produced the current situation, (2) interactions with local stakeholders through 16 interviews and informal meetings, (3) participation in a 10 day action research workshop in May 2019, co-organized by the Planning & Development Research Unit of KU Leuven and a local civil society organisation ‘Gebermte’, and supported by a large group of stakeholders, and (4) the making of this policy brief. The thesis is linked to the research on the role of slow paths in the access to open space in the context of the strategic project ‘Beleefbare Open Ruimte Antwerpse Zuidrand’. This was taken on board by the KU Leuven Indigo project (Research Unit Planning & Development) and the PhD research of Sofia Saavedra Bruno on re-commoning by slow paths in the Antwerp Southside. The Berm is one of the supra-local connections of slow paths that however shows many missing links, especially where it crosses road and train infrastructure. The case study of the thesis, the Berm, is a deeply contested last piece of open space in the Antwerp Southside. Originally a railway for military use and in 1922 transformed into a

June 2019

Lavinia Isan , and Wossen Gebreyohannes Balcha

• Strengthening the urban-ecological value of the Berm: ‘(Not) a Botanical Garden’

KU Leuven | Master of Urbanism and Strategic Planning promotor: Prof. dr. ir. Pieter Van den Broeck tutor: ir. Sofia Saavedra Bruno M.A.

• Connecting the Berm to the broader green structure: ‘Connections’ • Consolidating the community’s appropriation of the Berm, taking into account its urban-ecological value: ‘The Berm bi-annual of bio-culture’ • Enlarging the Berm’s host community: ‘Reaching out’ • Institutionalizing the Berm: ‘Institutional rooting’

Excerpts from the policy brief

railway embankment driving industrialization of the area, in the 1970s local communities in Wilrijk and Mortsel (partially) successfully contested the Berm’s planned transformation into a 2x2 expressway around Antwerp. Since then it has repeatedly been defended by the community against transformation into a major road infrastructure, with protests in 1976, 2011 and 2014. As a leftover of this process, the Berm has since then been colonized by nature. One of the more recent happenings was the imposition of a motorway named R11bis passing over the current footprint of the Berm. The plan of the R11bis was made at the Flemish government level, aiming to relieve vehicular traffic on the ring of Antwerp. The plan triggered local community-based resistance in 2011 and 2014. In 2016, the re-surfacing threat over the Berm’s existence, also induced a community-based reaction going beyond a claim for the preservation and legitimation of the Berm. Civil society group ‘Gebermte’ started to actively engage in the problematic of the Berm, claiming a more active use and protection of the space, to safeguard and push back the imminent threat of infrastructural land consumption, by organizing an annual festival on the theme of culture, art and nature. Today, the Berm hasn’t received the necessary attention from all involved stakeholders as a rare remains of urban green with high biodiversity as well as a shared space for community. In fact, traces of neglect and misuse characterize the state of the Berm, which keeps it as a vulnerable and uncertain piece of land which is continuously under threat. Drawing on a historical analysis, interactions with stakeholders, and the action research workshop week, this policy brief puts forward recommendations for the future of the Berm, based on a thorough reading of its context and strategically bringing stakeholders on board. The policy brief argues for a continuation of the collective process of place-making initiated by Gebermte, maintaining, scheduling, connecting and reaching out, in order to empower the community’s claim on the Berm. Recommendations pertain the following

main strategies:

However, one must keep in mind that the Berm is a green area in an extremely congested municipality, so the relation between human access and nature must be carefully designed • Municipality maintenance scheme (‘Beheerplan’) https://issuu.com/laviisan/docs/sharingissaving_policybrief The current management plan by Mortsel municipality is in order to reach the optimal ratio between maximum use for criticized by several external actors, regarding the maintenance socio-cultural activities and a healthy nature of the vegetation, which is detrimental to the biodiversity, as well as the lack of law reinforcement in what concerns dumping Proposed maintenance plan trash on the Berm and dog owners not picking up their dog’s faeces. Indeed, on a closer look, the existing map of the Berm, The different biotopes of the Berm’s nature have to be based on which the municipality elaborated the management allowed to evolve towards species-rich habitats. Therefore, plan, has not been updated since 2002. The plan is still the a smart maintenance plan should work towards making the same as the one of the project with which Paul van Dyck northern side a welcoming place for wildlife, especially applied for Flemish Government funding in 2002. Already birds. This means reducing the number of human accessible a quick inventory made by the authors revealed significant footpaths and hanging nest boxes in order to enable the birds changes in the configuration of the biotopes (for example the to reproduce. Similarly, the maintenance plan should take tall vegetation area is larger and the grassland area has been into account the different reproduction cycles and preferred due to the fact that the(mammals company and cluster is placed reduced). The main aspects that the plan doesn’t tackle andnoise, environments of small animals reptiles), as well between the island andacacias Krijgsbaan. that are defining for a good nature maintenance plan are: as insects. Since the and the lindens attract bees which - lack of information about the tree and plant species, probably • Playground Berm (no.4) – The Berm island with come from considerable distances, they would thrive different fauna habitats, soil types, slope orientation playground with the equipments help of several strategically-placed bee hotels. The 1. 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The five essentials

of the Berm Management Plan

Flanders is considered an important logistics hub within the European Union, with several harbours and airports serving business clusters, industries and trading companies. Air transport industry in Flanders has increased significantly over the past decade, rapidly increasing the demand for connectivity, passengers and logistic capabilities. Antwerp Airport facilitates business and training flights, and ensures the delivery of medical supplies and organs for transplant, also providing space for aerial photography flights. Several protests emerged in the last decades against the presence of the airport, sparked by tensions generated by the proximity of the airport to increasingly dense neighborhoods, but also by the growing visibility of its financial losses. The conflict appeared when several communities of neighbors started to complain about the noise and air pollution produced by the planes, being also fed by complains regarding the massive financial support that the Flemish Government grants for the airportâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s survival. As a consequence, activists, politicians and experts started to re-question the existence and the future of the airport. The activist group Vliegerplein invited NDVR office and the group of students of MaUSP 2017 Strategic Spatial Planning Studio, which the author was part of, to look into the future of the airport and to think about how alternative uses for it can enrich the city and make it more equitable.

LEGEND Position towards the airport

Stakeholders

Flanders CITY OF ANTWERP

Province of Antwerp

Institution

Political Party

Company

Sector

Resident

Activist

Against

Support

Neutral

Gains and Loses City of Antwerp

Pride

Implications

Health Damage Economic Gain Pride Gain

Neighourhood

-due to being limited by major infrastructure, it developed relatively autonomous from the city-

Political

Economic

Environmental

Administrative Educational

Stakeholders’ Dynamics

Airport’s Importance in Agendas

Antwerp Airport

Black-Existing Stakeholders

Tools Financial Support

Master Plan

Entrepreneurial sector

Natuurpunt

Grey-Potential Stakeholders

Disturbances

Noise

Relations Ownership Control/Management

Air Pollution

Political Tie Vatuv

Vliegerplein

Verlenging Nooit

Culture sector Residents Pride Residents

FROM CONFLICT TO TREATY What is at stake in the battle for the airport?

Business sector

Tourism Sector Diamond sector

backgound research team: Lavinia Isan | Sijin Chen Municipality of Borsbeek

Mapping ‘agendas’ in the context of Antwerp Airport proves to be essential in assessing its position in the city, where it stands in the collective imagination and where the conflict lies. The cartography of the stakeholders seeks to shed some light on the tensions that led to the current situation of contesting the necessity of the presence of a regional airport in the city. In deciphering the structure of powers, we were inspired by the extensive social systems maps realized by Bureau d’Etudes, gathered in their book “An Atlas of Agendas”. In order to deconstruct the complexity of stakeholder’s agendas and interests, we needed to understand first the magnitude of their power, therefore we mapped them according to the different geographical levels on which they are placed: Flanders, Province, City of Antwerp, neighbourhood and the level of the airport itself. In each stakeholder’s agenda, there are certain important aspects which help understand the intricacy of the system: the type of stakeholder (institution, sector, company), the weight of the airport in each stakeholder’s agenda and the aspects in which every stakeholder is implied.

City of Antwerp Pride Business flights companies

Airlines

Pilot training Municipality of Mortsel Urban Planning Department

FLIGHT MUSEUM

Business and Innovation

Mobility Department

SECURITY

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All of these layers compose not only the story of the current state of the fight over the airport, but they also aim to give some clues about possible directions in which this fight is headed. Powerful actors are the decision makers, but smart coalitions with unexpected new stakeholders have the potential to help the airport’s most avid contestants, the activists group, to become someone to be listened to. The analysis of agendas proved to be a crucial tool which helped us disentangle the conflict over Antwerp’s regional airport. While the method gives an idea about the complexity of the system, it is not very effective in clarifying another important aspect for understanding the situation: the spatial reality This map aims to be a thinking tool and an instrument to help the activist group orientate towards preparing their position to oppose the government’s point of view.

Charter flights companies

-international air regulations authority-

FLANDERS Antwerp Regional Airport -major financial lossesGroen

Nieuwe-Vlaamse Alliantie (N-VA)

Christen-Democratisch en Vlaams (CD&V)

Vlaamse Liberalen en Democraten (VLD)

Flemish Government Oostende-Brugge Regional Airport -major financial losses-

MOW -Department of Mobility and Public Works

Province of Antwerp

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Vlaams Belang (VLB)

Pride

way to imagine new futures for the airport as follows:

Legalization of the ‘Green Fingers’ of Antwerp, with the airport forming one of the fingers, will ensure its protection and inclusion in future planning policies as a green belt, in the wake of emerging pressures due to increased population, migration and unaffordability of the city center

The reinvention of nostalgia can therefore provide a solid base for further discussion with the stakeholders on the future of the airport. After a thorough exploration of various aspects of nostalgia, the main ideas on various themes come together as a way to mobilize nostalgia and trigger a new discussion to find a suitable alternative for the airport.

NARATIVE OF NOSTALGIA REINVENTION | 1Alternative futures for Antwerp Airport 2 City and Non-city

Our studioashas endeavoured equip theland, Platfotm to join in the conversation about the future of the airport with concrete The airport a void retains part oftothe last open an imprint alternatives, backed bycity research. All the themes presented show how to mobilizing nostalgia in a strategic left as a ‘negative’ of the that developed as adifferent dense fabric invading open agricultural land as it grew outward from the 16th way to imagine new futures for the airport as follows: century center. This shows its great potential as the intermediary space between the fabric of the city and the sorrounding sprawled neighbourhoods.

2 City and Non-city The airport as a void retains partUrban of theEcology last open land, an imprint left as a ‘negative’ of the city that developed as a dense fabric invading open agricultural land as it grew outward from the 16th century center. This shows its great potential as the intermediary space between the fabric of the city and the sorrounding sprawled neighbourhoods.

3 Landscape of Memories and Memory of landscape Conceiving the airport as a recovered artificial Urbanlayer Ecology landscape will add a contemporary to the landscape memory.

3 Landscape Theoflandscape Memories design gives the mineral surface for humane and Memory of landscape activities and the permeable Conceiving the airport as a recovered artificial surface for to nature. landscape will add a contemporary layer the landscape memory.

6 Aviation Community The retention and expansion of aviation activities The landscape that mediate between an open, public territory design and gives the a severely restricted domain has the potential to for humane mineral surface build up a cohesive aviation community activitiesand andnew the permeable aviation cultural identity of the city. surface for nature.

As the last open land betweern city and suburban, the airport can contribute to urban ecology and landscape memory.

will be part of the integtal sustainable identity

7 Antwerp Business Prestige

Potential Actors Mapping

TheACTORS Deurne AirportMAPPING can contribute to the reinvention POTENTIAL of Antwerp’s business prestige towards an integral sustainable Identity.

The landscape adds a contemporary layer to the landscape memory

A negotiation landscape between nature and culture.

5 A Heritage of Innovation

Airport building can be renovated to A focus on the overlooked heritage of theThe airport as landscape adds a contemporary a place of new technology that once inspired layer to the landscape memory adapt new function innovation and brought people together can lead to the projection of a progressive future for the airport inclusivity, creation and artistic expression, thus Aof negotiation landscape between nature culture. defining a newand identity.

5 A Heritage of Innovation Identifying opportunities of A focus on the overlooked heritage ofcreation the airport as new technology, a place of new technology that once inspired and open collaboration innovation and brought people together can lead to the projection of a progressive future for the airport of inclusivity, creation and artistic expression, thus defining a new identity.

Airport building can be renovated to adapt new function

4 Built Heritage Deurne airport is more than a modern white box, is a flexible operational machine which could rapidly adapt to new uses.

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With these eight themes centered around nostalgia, the Platform can start forming new coalitions with other stakeholders like neighborhood communities, learning institutions, cultural institutional and landscape conservationist

opportunities of TheIdentifying nostalgia for lost agricultural activities and selfnew technology, sufficience should becreation converted into an identity of and open collaboration entrepreneurial pride, which is crucial in negociating the future of the airport towards a valuable resource in long term for the local communities.

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The Deurne Airport can contribute to the reinvention of Antwerp’s business prestige towards an integral sustainable Identity. The events in the community

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STRATEGY (individual proposal)

THE VILLAGE NEIGHBOURHOOD

What Next?

8 Hands on Community

The discussions toward an alternative future for the With these themes centered nostalgia, the airport willeight however require somearound compromises with Platform can start forming new coalitions with to other parties heretofore have been strongly opposed stakeholders like neighborhood communities, learning closure of the airport. Proposals and agreements can institutions, institutional and landscape but be made thatcultural speak to the business community, conservationist still preserve the open landscape of a park.

Sustainable economic The nostalgia for lost agricultural activities and selfactivities sufficience should be converted into an identity of entrepreneurial pride, which is crucial in negociating the future of the airport towards a valuable resource in long term for the local communities.

The discussions toward an alternative future for the airport will however require some compromises with parties heretofore have been strongly opposed to closure of the airport. Proposals and agreements can be made that speak to the business community, but still preserve the open landscape of a park.

Sustainable economic activities

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Antwerp’s 20th Century Belt evolution started when small settlements began to form along the radial roads converging to town’s center in the Middle Ages. The densification grew more and more between these roads in the following centuries. 19th and 20th century brings the transformation of the radial roads into major infrastructure works (railway lines, motorways), these being major barriers between the inhabited areas of the outskirts. A consequence of this is that the neighborhoods developed separately from one another, as well as from the inner city. The growth of communities in this infrastructure bounded area was relatively autonomous, quite indifferent to the administrative borders of the districts. In the past, this area used to be a countryside retreat for wealthy Antwerp burgeoisie, appreciated for the lively and bucolic character, its livelihood being provided by numerous small businesses and agricultural activities. The village atmosphere of the past is preserved up until today, in the various local food production initiatives (honey, allotment gardens etc.) and in the high amount of community involvement initiatives in this area. Therefore, we can say that communities of this area are characterized by a strong entrepreneurial spirit, always taking charge of their own environment and organizing it.

WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD?

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City of Antwerp

Local Media

new involvement

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green Legend environment

Tourism Sector

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Socialistiche Partij Anders

green environment DEURNE AIRPORT, ANTWERP

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Airport fans

Vliegerplein

Airport staff

Entrepreneurial Sector Urban Planning

Residents

Department

Verlenging Nooit

CONNECTIONS

Natuurpunt

DIVERSITY

Educational Sector

Groen Partij

transformation

Musicians

Business community

VOKA

Nieuwe-Vlaams Alliantie (N-VA)

Christen-Democratisch

Groen Partij

DEURNE AIRPORT, ANTWERP

REIVENTING NOSTALGIA

Mobility Department

Artists

HeritageSector

Local Media

new involvement

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Musicians

Relation

new involvement

High taxes imposed by the city and lack of “window shoppers” led to the current situation of local businesses in the neighbourhood: a few shopping streets with a little number of small businesses, while the number of unemployed job seekers in the area is one of the highest in Antwerp. The area around the airport is one of the most “business deprived” in the neighbourhood, which led to the unattractiveness and little street livelihood. However, the number of self-employed people suggests the high density of small entrepreneurs in the area.

Educational Sector

Owner

Verlenging Nooit

Urban Planning Department

Cultural Sector Province of Antwerp

Tourism Sector

Vliegerplein

Mobility Department

Socialistiche Partij Anders

Flemish Government

State of the Art

Entrepreneurial Sector

Artists

TAX INCENTIVE AREA

Airport fans

Airport staff

ENTREPRENEURSHIP HUB

MODEL | ExRotaprint (Germany) • •

protected monument building 1/3 Culture: designers studios, architects, musicians 1/3 Social: German for foreigners, projects for unemployed or school dop-outs

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TAX INCENTIVE AREAS can be used by the city as a leverage to stimulate the urban development: they can ease the formation of mixeduse areas in strategic places, thus the formation of micro-centers at neighbourhood level. At the same time, they can help the city negociate the inclusion of local businesses in the new developments. A well-thought-out combination of tax and other incentives, careful regulation and enforcement, and participatory planning can yield the best results for a community-building effort.

negotiation

Residents

ECONOMIC RESILIENCE

FOR THE INCLUSION OF

LOCAL BUSINESSES

transformation

MODEL | ZOHO Rotterdam (Netherland • former business park which was struggling with vacancy • a collective of entrepreneurs, residents and investors took it onboard • they established a platform where small companies and local entrepreneurs can access available space at a low rent price • all the investors are involved in the gradua

STRATEGY (individual proposal)

WATER SHAPED URBANITY Living in the water city project type: individual strategic design within the collective project location: Leuven, Belgium completion: october 2018 - january 2019 team: Lavinia Isan, Vincent Van Praet

From a car infrastructure dominated landscape, where pedestrians and cyclists move through the residual spaces, in the new Naamsepoort area the roles are inverted. Cars are pushed to the periphery, while the slower rhythm of soft mobility allows for the water landscape to be fully experienced. Water is liberated from the underground and, by topographic manipulations, the natural flow of Molenbeek River is choreographed in its trajectory towards Dijle. The excess soil is used for new landscape figures to protect the existing buildings from flooding. As the stadium moves to another location, the old earth amphitheater becomes a captivating botanical garden, where the seasonal cycles can be experienced through water movements and perennial plantations. The floating gardens and the flower beds become a vegetal negative of the mineral ring public space. As the hidden water is brought to the surface, the flooding rhythms dictate the urbanity. By being elevated on stilts, the new buildings take full advantage of the spectacular views of the water landscape while simultaneously respecting the movements of the water. The commercial structure becomes an extension of the public space over the landscape while it provides an attractive spot for new apartments. New housing, co-working spaces and greenhouses take over the footprint of the earthed amphitheater, making the experience of living in the Water City tangible.

Seasonal diagram

Masterplan Naamsepoort Transversal section

1:500 model of the individual design Longitudinal section

LET IT FLOOD Pudong Coastal Defense project type: academic collective project location: Shanghai, China completion: february 2018 - june 2018 team: Lavinia Isan | Manola Colabianchi | Yuxi Wu

The site is located on the East China Sea Coast of Pudong District, which formed through successive land reclamations (both natural and human-made). With each wave of the expansion of land, there was a new appropriation and division of the territory. A ‘leapfrogging’ of use and plot-sizes is currently visible in the sequence of the three different landscapes (large sized industrial and military plots closest to the sea, intensive agriculture, villages and agricultural land closest to Shanghai). At the same time, the entirety of the present landscape is walled off as part of the 500 kilometer concrete coastal defense system, from the majestic view of the sea. There are minimal access points to the water’s edge. The site will be significantly effected by sea level rise (1-2 meters by 2100). Let it Flood implies restoring a healthy estuarine landscape and migrating towards an aquaculture-based economy. The greatest challenge of the site is the vulnerability of the hard-engineered system in the face of the sea level rise. Therefore a new, more adaptive, softer coastal defense system is envisioned. It is designed to accentuate the particular assets of the site. Simultaneously, the settlement structure is reconfigured in a more compact way, and the site’s potential to produce renewable energy, mainly solar and wind, is harnessed.

LET IT FLOOD 1: 5000 Model of the 5x5 km site

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Understanding the Yangtze Delta (fieldwork | team : Lavinia Isan, Mengyi Han)

ENERGY SUPER-DYKE individual strategic project

The site is strategically chosen to highlight change in the productive landscape. A new super-dyke separates the two landscapes (flooded terrace and brackish-water aquaculture). In order to appreciate the openness and the vastness of the coastal landscape, new buildings are camouflaged as earthworks. The focus is on a think-tank which fuses with the new super-dyke, resulting in a strongly engineered construction. The earthed dyke traces the existing elevated landform and both heighten and structurall reinforces it, recycling materials from the ongoing demolition of industrial estates. The canal running at the foot of the dyke is deepened (as well providing fill material). The super-dyke not only adapts to coastal sea level rise but also performs as a massive energy producing landscape, accommodating windmills. A scenic route atop the dyke affords the opportunity to admire the spectacular interweaving of industrial, energy and aquaculture landscapes.

Section 1:500

The canal becomes the main water transport route along the coastal landscape, serving as a harvest line for brackish water ponds in the west, as well as the main access for functions on the dyke, namely the think tank. A small harbor serves as a local station for the transport system, at the intersection between the main canal and a secondary one.

Model 1:500 (150x750m)

The energy super-dyke is a hybrid landform, where the coastal defense system comes together with a new productive landscape structured by a multifunctional backbone. Existing site plan

AGRICULTURAL CITY Urban regeneration Organic Agriculture Training and Visitors Center project type: academic - diploma project location: Codlea, Romania completion: february-june 2015 individual project

The small town of Codlea was well-known during the communist regime, both in the country and abroad, because of its famous Codlea Greenhouses. Although the greenhouses slowly disappeared in the last 20 years, the important agricultural and food-producing character of the city remained, however not being visible anymore nowadays. The proposed Masterplan for the regeneration of the former greenhouses site aims to reintegrate it in the urban structure of the city, by providing a range of functions such as housing, office spaces, market hall, artisansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; studios, whose purpose is to highlight the foodproducing character of the city and to encourage the local economy. The proposed functions are intended to work together, as a system: the future small farmers who will live in the area will benefit both from the organic food market hall and from the Organic Agriculture Training and Visitors Center (further detailed as an architectural object), while the visitors will be able to enjoy learning about the natural food production, academically as well as by interactive means. The Organic Agriculture Training and Visitors Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purpose is not only to be a meeting point between all the actors involved in the organic food-production field (such as farmers and public institutions), but also to inform the public and bring the people closer to the origin of their food, while the market demand for organic food is increasing.

URBAN URBANCONCEPT CONCEPT

Agriculture Industry Majorfunctions functions Main

Streets Street network Streets

HOUSING WITH AGRICULTURAL LAND

Marketsquare square Market Market square

Green belt Green Green belt

GREEN AREA

MARKET HALL, SERVICES AND OFFICES

ORGANIC AGRICULTURE CENTER

NON-POLLUTING INDUSTRIES

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ORGANIC AGRICULTURE CENTER

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ORGANIC AGRICULTURE CENTER

GREENHOUSES

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Aromatic herbs

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Cereals

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The small town of Codlea was well-known during the communist regime, both in the country and abroad, because of its famous Codlea Greenhouses. Even if the greenhouses slowly disappeared in the last 20 years, the important agricultural and food-producing character of the city remained, however not being visible anymore nowadays. The proposed Masterplan for the regeneration of the former greenhouses site aims to reintegrate it in the urban structure of the city, by providing a range of functions such as housing, office spaces, market hall, artisansâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; studios, whose purpose is to highlight the food-producing character of the city and to encourage the local economy. The proposed functions are intended to work together, as a system: the future small farmers who will live in the area will benefit both from the organic food market hall and from the Organic Agriculture Training and Visitors Center (further detailed as an architectural object), while the visitors will be able to enjoy learning about the natural food production, academically as well as by interactive means.

General storage

Fruit shrubs

Ground floor plan

Axonometric view

The Organic Agriculture Training and Visitors Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s purpose is not only to be a meeting point between all the actors involved in the organic food-production field (such as farmers and public institutions), but also to inform the public and bring the people closer to the origin of their food, while the market demand for organic food is increasing.

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HYBRID HOUSING project type: academic location: Chatillon-en-Diois, France completion: november 2013 - january 2014 team: Lavinia Isan | Kawtar Rochd

The villages of the Drome region are confronted nowadays with the massive migration of the young generations to the city or to other regions of France, due to the lack of opportunities. At the same time, the tourism is growing slowly because of the rich historical heritage of the area and the organic agriculture potential which is increasingly exploited. Our task was to conceive an innovative form of housing which should be able to cohabitate properly with the very old historical built environment and, at the same time, to respond adequately to the need of development and progress of this region called Biovalley. Our concept was built around the idea of a hybrid housing complex which brings together the modern lifestyle with the calm rhythm of life in the countryside. While the current inhabitants will benefit from the private practices of the new-comers, the new community will enjoy the excellent location and the fabulous landscapes of the French Alps.

NCEPT Intermediate density housing:

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WORKSHOPS

SMART STATION Connecting Seinäjoki on all levels project type: 20th YTK/IFHP Urban Planning and Design Summer School, Finland, 2014 location: Seinäjoki, Finland completion: august 2014 team: Lavinia Isan, Carolin Vorwerk, Tianyang Wang, Ilona Wieska

The City of Seinäjoki is a young city, with a continuously growing population due to permanent settlements of the students, the jobs provided by the food industry and the influx of people who are coming to start businesses here. The dynamics of these movements, which is supported also by the various artistic events (such as concerts and festivals), gives a special energy to the city, and especially to the city centre, which doesn’t have a coherent urban structure in order to maintain a permanent activity in the area: the functions are not in the same area, but are scattered in different directions without any visible connections between them. The redevelopment of the railway station area aims to revitalize the city centre and to (re)create connections between the disconnected parts of the city by becoming a catalyst for the cultural life as well as for various functions which are able to bring life to the area and to make the current periurban nature of the center disappear.

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Development in time Phased development Development in time

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Mixed use development

PIAZZA D’ACQUA Water Square project type: Gassino Torinese Summer School, Italy, 2016 theme: SEWING A SMALL TOWN location: San Mauro Torinese, Italy completion: july 2016 team: Giovanni Amadu | Elisabeth Feith | Lavinia Isan | Martina Viviani

The small town of San Mauro is part of the metropolitan area of Turin, at the same time being the main settlement of a unitary territory composed from ten municipalities. The authorities intend to place here a metro end station and a light rail start station. Divided by the river Po and disconnected from the water, the small city gets a big Piazza d’Acqua (Water Square). Piazza d’Acqua is basically a PORTICO, running along the river banks and the existing pedestrian bridge, becoming the connecting element between all the important points and disconnected areas : the old town square, the waterfront, the two stations, the park and the river itself. The whole urban composition is meant to frame, phisically and virtually, the true potential of a small town on a big river.

PORTICO | PIAZZAd’Acqua D’ACQUA Portico | Piazza

CONCEPT CONCEPT

Disconnected Disconnected

Touch the river Integrating the river

Metro station andand light railrailstation Metro station light station

Focus areas Focus areas

Connect Connect

Portico | Piazza d’Acqua Portico | Piazza d’Acqua Inspirations Inspirations

Museo Colecciones Reales, Madrid

Murcia City Hall, Rafael Moneo

Piazza Vittorio Veneto, Turin

Park Box

Bridge Box

Light Rail Station

Piazza Box

Market

WORK EXPERIENCE

CITADELA RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT office: SQM Architecture project type: urban planning and architecture theme: masterplan and construction of a residential neighbourhood in Cluj Napoca completion: february 2016 - august 2017 location: Cluj Napoca, Romania team: Cristian Urcan | Ferencz Bakos | Lavinia Isan |Oana Burnete | collaborator: Mihaela Vrabete

The plot on where the residential neighbourhood will be developed is one of the last large buildable sites of the city of Cluj Napoca. The challenge consists in finding the balance between the right housing density and the best living quality in relation to the suburban position of the future neighbourhood, both in the city and in the woods. The discussions with the clients and with the City Hall representatives focus at the same time on the urban planning level and on the housing typologies, the goal being to provide affordable houses for young families with a wider range of income.

HIGHHigh DENSITY SINGLE FAMILY HOUSESTYPOLOGY STUDY density single family houses - typology study

High density single family houses 1 Medium density single family 2 row houses

Detached single family houses 3 Semi-collective slope housing 4

Block Blockaxonometry axonometry

Upperfloor floorplan plan Upper

Groundfloor floorplan plan Ground

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URBAN STUDIES AND DOCUMENTATIONS office: SQM Architecture type: urban planning studies team: Ferencz Bakos | Lavinia Isan | Oana Burnete

As part of the urban planning department in the office, my tasks were to develop urban studies andto prepare documentations for the discussions with the City Hall representatives.

Urban regulations plan and land urban Urban regulations planproperty and land use plan plan

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