MARGHERITA GALANTE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
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PORTFOLIO
Barcelona 2015 Front page picture: Š 2010 MGalante All pictures and drawings insert in this portfolio are originals and own intelectual proprety of the author When others sources have been used are specific referenced
- Resume - Sustainable mobility plan Predazzo - ITALY Mobility strategy plan - Open competition
- Geneva Urban agriculture park - SWITZERLAND
Urban growing and sustanaible living - International open competition ŠScob
- #Baixem Collserola urban strategy - SPAIN Urban strategy - Invited competition
- Wind farm as cultural landscape - FRANCE
Landscape Characters Assessment, Rewable energy and earth excavation reclamation
- Ecopark Inverness - UK
Landfill reclamation, industrial statement and renewable energy
- Fort William waterfront - UK
Marina, waterfront and urban regeneration
work experience
education
Feb 13 - present
Freelance Landscape Architect Barcelona, ES
Oct 16 - present
Environmental educator Aloc Naturae, Badalona, ES
Jun 15 - Sept 15
Environmental educator TERSA, Barcelona, ES
Oct 13 - May 15
Volunteer - Coordinator & project management Permacultura BCN, Barcelona, ES
Jun 2013 Aug - Oct 12 Jan - Jul 12 Sep 2011 - Jan 12 Jun - Aug 11 Mar - Jun 09
2017- ongoing 2009 - 2012 2010-2011 2005 - 2009
Tutor in Landscape construction workshop Giardini in campo, Favara, IT Graduate Landscape Architect & researcher Vezone Wood Architects, Rougemont, CH Environmental consultant La Col + Raons Publiques, Barcelona, ES Volunteer - Gardener & Landscape assistant Can Masdeu Community garden, Barcelona, ES Intern - Graphic & Landscape designer SpazioOcchipinti, Vittoria, IT Volunteer - Research assistant ON Stalker, Rome, IT
Jul - Aug 09
Volunteer - Gardener & Landscape assistant Unarec France, Senones, FR
Jan - Mar 06
Intern - Environmental planning Natural Regional Reserve of Canale Monterano, IT
Bachelors’ degree in Comunication UOC, Barcelona, ES Master Degree in Landscape Architecture Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona, UPC, ES Exchange student BA (Hons) degree Edinburgh University, UK Bachelors’ degree in Environmental planning and Management Faculty of Agronomy & Faculty of Architecture, Università della Tuscia + Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome,IT
WORKSHOPS 2014
“Landworks Sardinia 2014: Sound Space Design”, Sardinia, IT Natural Building construction, la Kusturica, ES
2013
Snatural building construction, Can Masdeu, Barcelona, ES “Giardini in campo”, Agrigento, IT
2009
“GRA Primavera romana” investigation on the transformation in the Rome Borderline _ Atelier ON Stalker + Università Roma Tre, IT
2008
“Paysage infrastructure”, ENSALP Lille, FR “Rea _waterscape”, Ecole d’architecture de Rouen, FR “Architecktonik”, ENSALP Lille, FR
2005
Campagna Romana, Atelier ON Stalker + Università Roma La Sapienza, IT
RESUME
ADWARD 2016
First Prize IQU Innovation & Urban Quality, Participatory design category ,“Wild kitchen garden, Orto selvaggio con cucina”. Maggioli editor, Paesaggio Urbano, IT
Margherita Galante
Licentiate Landscape Architect 22313 - LI London Born in Italy - 15.06.1987 Living in Barcelona, Spain
Selected for XXI Triennale Milano – Design after design with the project “Street urban food farm”IT 2015
First Prize Agritecture & Landscape Award, Milano EXPO 2015 “Wild Kitchen garden with kitchen” (realized project) Team: M.Galante, F.Occhipinti, S. Sanna + Giardini in Campo
2014
Selected exposition Roma Design Lab 2014 “Doppio Filtro” Team: M.Galante, A. Collet, L. Torres Aguero
Web: Acrossland e-mail: marge.galante@gmail.com Mobile phone: +34 62 22 84 131 Skype: margherita.galante Linkedin profile
Third group of merit for “Sustainable mobility plan of Predazzo” IT Team: M.Galante, I.Martinéz Vallés, B. Gangolells Alseda, Q. Santandreu 2013
First Prize Simonetta Bastelli, Sez.Giovani for “Vittoria città verde” IT Team: F. Occhipinti, A.Saturno, M. Galante © Spaziocchipinti
2012
Selected best Master final project 2012 on UPC-commons, “Wind farm as cultural landscape”. Team: M.Galante, F.Ciuppa, I. Martinéz Vallés First Prize Public Competition Puertas de Collserola-Canyelles “#Bai-
Skills Languages
Informatic
Crafts
English, French, Spanish: proficiency level Catalan: intermediate Italian: mother tongue Mac e Windows environment Office, AutoCAD 2014, Adobe CS6: proficiency level ArcView GIS, GIS Miramont, Sketch up: intermediate level Rhinoceros, Vectorworks: begginer level Hand draw and watercolour Models 2D Metal cut and Glass work Landscape construction and Bioconstruction
Sustainable mobility plan Predazzo Mobility strategy plan - Open contest Third group of mention
Site: Predazzo, Trentino Alto Adige, Italy Team: Margherita Galante, I. MartinĂŠz VallĂŠs, B.Gangolells & Q.Santandreu
Vision of development: The main idea is creating a network of pedestrian and cycle paths composed by two different system in functions and typology to improve the sustainable mobility of the city. The first system is composed by paths sourrinding the town with a landscape and sport character, and the second is a system inside the city with an historical characters and a day-to-day base. Aditionally an analysis of the territorial tourist mobility considering both private and public long-distance accessibility to manage a potential number of users increase through transport point interchange interchange and through the implementation of new points of bike sharing.
Sustainable mobility plan Predazzo
Traffic calming zone
Cycle pedestrian network
Sustainable mobility plan Predazzo
Landscape and sport cycle path system Information panel Detail design
Geneva Urban farm Urban agriculture park - International open competition Selected ŠScob
Site: bernex- Confignon, Geneva, Switzerland Team: S.Carulla, O.Blasco, M. Galante, S. Sanna, C.Ruiz To the west of the canton of Geneva, Bernex aims to become a regional center, welcoming new residents, jobs and public facilities. The objectives of the competition is the design and implementation of public spaces with an agriculture component. The entire park is designed as an in-situ observation of natural, urban ecology and sustainable development. In this sense, the proposed water cycle is configured as a system that can see and visit, small channels large retention basin and depuration. In addition we found really interesting to extent and continue the wooded fringe located at the western boundary to maximizes ecological connectivity with other biodiverse areas located north and south. The creation of a linear timber functioning also as a filter to reduce noise and discomfort caused by environmental infrastructure.The ancient plots structure are recovered to organize the space and provide a cross connection with the park. They also help improve the management and organization of the territory vis-Ă -vis future development areas.Equipment market, services, storage and playground for children are arranged along the new public space on the system limit is strengthening its urban character and facilitating the management. A diversified, organic and biodynamic production, with the creation of an agro-forestry system is preferred. This agroforestry system will support the economic infrastructure of the barn as the continuity of the park in green infrastructure with the natural environment protected from the RhĂ´ne River. The composition and the principles of planning and management of the site are designed according to the concept of Permaculture (which describes the design as a systemic and sustainable approach towards natural and anthropogenic means). Plant structure revolves around a stepped arriving to crop edge. A curve of decreasing vegetation from west to east, consists of forest vegetation, a bushy belt, herbaceous hem.
Geneva urban agriculture park
Geneva urban agriculture park
#Baixem - Collserola Urban strategy Urban transformation & participatory urbanism First prize ex-aequo Š Lacol
Site: Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain Team: Lacol, Margherita Galante, D.La PeĂąa, P. Gonzalo, Raons publiques & SCEA Stakeholders: Barcelona municipality, Collserola park & citizens community association The competition aim was to explore criticisms and possibilities for the backside green spot of Barcelona city finding out new urban solutions for the sixties district of Canyelles and Collserola Park. The methodology adopted was from neighbourhood communication phase up to collective web mapping, historical research, interviews, and community walking and finally design workshops. The community desire were especially directed to preserve and maintenance natural habitat, create new bicycle connection, new market place, picnic areas and community edible garden.The large members of stakeholders committed could switch on a strong neighboured network and some micro interventions proposed in competitions phase are now going on thanks to voluntaries action group.
#baixem collserola urban strategy
Methodology
Green network
Mobility network
Management areas catalysts
Leisure and activity attractors strategy
#baixem collserola urban strategy
Design and management Interventions axis
WIND FARM AS CULTURAL LANDSCAPE Landscape characters assessment, Rewable energy and earth excavation reclamation Best Master final project 2012 on UPC-commons
Site:Vallé del Agly, France Mentors: Maria Goula, Anna Zahonero, Martí Franch, Pepa Morán Team: Margherita Galante, Israel Martinéz Vallés, Francesca Ciuppa This competition entry deals with the question how to create a profitable wind farm witch’s profits not only form a new source of income for the local population, but also contribute to a further improvement of the existing landscape by investing part of its revenues. Herewith a new landscape can be create, existing core landscape values by strenghtened and can weakness be tourned into strengths, benefiting the overall perception of the landscape. The proposed scenarios intend to give an important impulse to local tourism, given the fact the French wine production is decreasing. These economic changes have left their marks within the project landscape, having tourned many vineyard into abandoned plots. The stategies intend to use neglected landscapes to improve the ecological connectivity and biodiversity of the systhem as a whole, applying ecological principles like patches, borders and vegetation strata. Additionally the wind farms want to become a ‘green’ landmark within the landscape and therewith form a new identy for the region and attract sustainable tourism. This can either be achieved by its strategic placement close to singular landscape elements as well as traditional agriculture systems, historical villages or post-industrial sites.To reach maximum results with the visual integration of the wind farms in the landscape, tourbines will be placed in such a way that they reinforce the existing topography lines.
wind farm as cultural landscape
wind farm as cultural landscape
wind farm as cultural landscape
Ecopark inverness Landfill reclamation, industrial statement and renewable energy Site: Inverness, Scotland Tutor: Lisa McKenzie Edinburgh College of Art Considering the Energy and the Waste plan of Highlands region, the project wants to improve the use of renewable energy and recycled materials. The landfill site closed in 2003 and in the Ecopark develop the relamation action time is supposed to be around 50 year. Reconverting the Longman industrial estate as central point of the recycle process where the recycling materials are collected, recycled and trasform in ecodesign products in the some area. All the ex landfill area is thinking to be energy productive in a short time period with cropfield and forestry plantation for biofuel and biomass a and at the same time this land use help the bioremadiation of polluted soil. After the contamination critic periods an ecoschool will settle to work on the environmental learning of the young generation. By the time part of the space in the ecopark will be manage from the students and renewable energy strategies (solar, little wind tourbines and storm water system) could support the cost of the project along the time.
Recycled Producion
Waste collection
ECOPARK INVERNESS
Trasformation
Clean energy source production
ECOPARK INVERNESS
Fitodepuration, Biomasses production, Wind farm installation and reclying point collection.
Bike track and pedestrian access, water filtration by fitodepuration
Ecoschool and and centralization of recycling industries and Ecodesignproduction
ECOPARK INVERNESS
Season’s colors change Birch wood and OIlseed rape
Renewable energy
Reclying industries
ECOPARK INVERNESS
fort william city waterfront Marina, waterfront and urban regeneration Site: Fort William, Scotland, UK Tutor: Kenny Fraser Edinburgh College of Art The challenge is the reintegration of the town centre with its waterfront through the creation of a new, bold and distinctive urban quarter. The site is approximately 5.5 hectares and broadly lies between the two roundabouts which mark the extent of the dual carriageway section of the A82 parallel to Loch Linnhe. It extends back to meet the old High Street and is bounded to the west by Loch Linnhe. Given the linear nature of the site and the opportunity presented by the waterfront location. Two issues which must be addressed are the retention of a suitably scaled down A82 and a proposal which ‘heals’ the ugly rear side of buildings on the west side of the High Street which were not designed or intended to be viewed so prominently. Our proposals for the built environment will be mixed use; they should be of a high quality that will accommodate a range of uses including retailing, office space, cafes and restaurants with the predominant upper floor use being apartments. In our proposal we incorporate approximately 250 housing units and should also accommodate a hotel, a hostel, a new market square and library/ museum and a new marina. We also include waterside open space development incorporating some reclaimed land to have more space for cycling track preference. The aim is to link the cycling track facilities of the city with the Grean Glen Belt already connecting the outside of Fort William to Inverness crossing all Highlands region. Lastly, overall, Our proposals try to concentrate on placemaking, making unique places and spaces which respond to the site context creating a social, cultural and leisure hub based on proximity to the seafront and integration to the town.
FORT WILLIAM WATERFRONT
analysis_interesting visual connection
FORT WILLIAM WATERFRONT
waterfront detail plan original plan 1/100
Loch waterfront’s platform seccion original 1/50
FORT WILLIAM WATERFRONT
MARGHERITA GALANTE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
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Barcelona 2015 Front page picture: © 2010 MGalante