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SARA GAL AR ARCHITECT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT contact
saragalar@gmail.com In shanghai, china
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FILLING IN GREEN PROPOSAL FOR A FACTORY RESTORATION IN SHANGHAI, CHINA
W&R Group Landscape Architect. Head designer The project is a restoration of three old storage buildings. The idea is to use these spaces for creating high-tech offices. The project area is really small comparing with the volume of people there will be located here and the different companies. The main problem is the parking space. This is solved leaving the ground floor free for functional use. We keep green areas in this level as a natural environment for the offices. As this is a new concept development, it is necessary to create a first floor level for people to take a break, make business relationships and make easy the communication between these three buildings. In their interiors, we will find patios with common areas, as small meeting rooms and opened conference areas. The roof garden will be the last step to feel with nature all the area. Here, we will find coffee shops, ping pong rooms, picnic areas as well as running path.
Free ground floor for traffic and funtionality use
Creating a medium green level for pedestrians
Completing the solution with green roofs and covered parking
ORIGAMI-TREE CONTEST FOR AN EXHIBITION CENTER FOR A PREFABRICATED SUPPLY COMPANY, CHANGSHA, CHINA
W&R Group Landscape Architect The main aim in this project was to show the client preoccupation about the environmental problematic that China is living nowadays. So all the project becomes an artificial nature. From a tree, whom leaves change to create composite triangles, we describe the whole area. A topography park is the perfect surrounding for the exhibition center, which is created by geometrical shapes. These shapes remember an origami construction, they born from the soil, the park, and the triangles which come from the initial geometrical tree. The building will close a little portion of nature in its interior. This way, nature and new technologies can be read in the same line, being an example for future actions.
The building is disposed surrounding an interior patio. The movement flows around it. The floor continues showing different areas, with different furniture and guides on the floor. As in the landscape design, the soft movement is the key of design. Nothing stops the whole view in each plant, he visual relationship is essencial in the design.
nature
wildlife
people
activity
nature
organic wealth
ECO-VALLEY ECOLOGICAL VALLEY AND ORGANIC FARM DEVELOPMENT
W&R GROUP Landscape Architect
This is the concept project for the first organic farm in China. It is consisted in a mix of activity areas, and their location between mountains. The nature and environment is ideal, so the way to distribute buildings tries to be as respectful as we can. We use soft slopes for main buildings. Orientation and ventilation are the other important decisive components in the last decision. All is disposed attending to the topography.
Tourism center
Organic development area
Cable car
Fruit tree field
Domestic animal field Solar Panels
Domestic animal field Public field
miniGolf
Ecofriendly hotel Outdoor market
Vegetable storage
Vegetable valley
CHINESE COURTYARD RESIDENTIAL PLANNING SCHEME IN VIENTIANE, LAOS
W&R GROUP Landscape Architect
8 HA residential development in the Mekong river edge. It is the Chinese contribution in the whole urban design. So, in this proposal, the Chinese feeling should fill the entire atmosphere and, at the same time, it should be integrated in the Laos culture. The idea is to create small courtyards, small communities that share common spaces. These can remind us chinese gardens, and at the same time, it is joined to the Laos culture of enjoying outdoors spaces and interior patios. They are divided by covers. These act like links between communities. The main axe distributes people. The typology mixture of buildings creates a rhythmic and original movement. All buildings have incredible views and can enjoy fresh air and light. Lao nature fills the landscape.
AS TREE RINGS CONCEPT DESIGN FOR THE GREEN SURROUNDINGS OF A HIGHWAY IN NANTONG, CHINA
W&R GROUP Landscape Architect The project starts with the idea that people and cars should enjoy the landscape and should not to disturb each other. So, the area close to the highway will content bigger scale landscape and the area close to the compounds will have a person scale. That area close to the highway will be arranged by different kinds of tree, disposed in 45 degrees. So, when people in cars had a look at the environment, they will appreciate a rhythmic movement. These trees will stop the noise to the interior areas, so, they have a double function. The area for pedestrians will be divided in tree rings, each one will content an own landscape, filling the territory freely.
FOREST-RIVER-PATH CONCEPT DESIGN FOR A COMMERCIAL STREET IN HAIMEN, CHINA
W&R GROUP Landscape Architect The project shows two different areas, one in the middle street, giving waves, and the area close to the street, more organised.
LEAF NERVES 10 BLOCKS DEVELOPMENT DESIGN
W&R GROUP Landscape Architect
The area assigned to me was the public park with some sport facilities and a private villa compound with club house. The water is the most important thing in the concept. It helps to be the fence between the areas and, at the same part, gives the form of the landscape. A connector bridge joins north and south. From east to west, the axis is not very clear, not direct, so privacy is keep intact in the villa gardens.
ENVELOPING ROOMS CONTEST FOR A 176 HA RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT IN SANGUESA, SPAIN
Fernandez Morras Studio Landscape Architect
The project consists in two residential building areas placed next to the riverside passage, which enjoy a beautiful Old City views. A requirement was that these buildings should be constructed of prefabricated materials and should respond to a modulation. We propose two areas to keep the ancient city in the core of the new total area. The main rooms are situated in the building perimeter. Every space is situated in concentrical rings. The fachade entries to create every window in the house.
AXIOM CHAIR DESIGN PROGRAM
Gottschalk Associates Concept and Construction Architect
Furniture series. Concept, material research, construction and Tent London participation. Status: Commercialized Current price: ÂŁ7,500.00 inc. VAT Strong and elegant, the Axiom chairs are minimalist inspired contemporary classics. Their graphic shape alludes to a monolithic expression and architectural symmetry that the cha ir and sofa, with their comfortable proportions and exquisite craftsmanship counter with an invitation to relax. The standard collection features aluminium shells with leather upholstery.
MILLBANK APARTMENT APARTMENT DESIGN IN MILLBANK, LONDON, UK
Gottschalk Associates Concept and Construction Architect
When asked to design a two-bedroom flat in Millbank, the clients and team decided to start from scratch. Maintaining a maximum ceiling height, keeping to a limited palette of colors and materials, as well as emphasizing spatial flow, were used in order to maximize a feeling of generosity and continuity. A first to be used in UK, the bespoke kitchen utilizes an automatic sliding mechanism, that allows the user to reveal it at the push of a button.
HPG DUPLEX REBUILDING OF A HIGH-END DUPLEX APARTMENT IN LONDON, UK
Gottschalk Associates Concept and Construction Architect
The project is a challenge due to the complexity and the aid to make it high ending. Floors, walls and windows are planning to be the perfect background to incredible, modern and simple furniture and installations. Smart equipment as well as domotic equipments are located in a very discrete way. All sobrieties is forgotten in the staircase with an elliptical design.
MUSWELL LOFT LOFT TRANSFORMATION IN A PENT HOUSE IN LONDON, UK
Gottschalk Associates Concept and Construction Architect
The project tries to keep the total floor in an unique space. Although is a small floor, the sections give different spaces and a creative atmosphere. The space goes from private area, public, and private area again, with the staircase in the middle of it, so everything works perfectly. Light materials are chosen to enlarge the space and modern and young furniture fill the teenager room.
RE-WATER-STATION IDEA CONTEST FOR AN INDUSTRIAL AREA REGENERATION IN BARCELONA, SPAIN
JDVDP Landscape Architect Assitant This project is focused on the recovery, respect, reutilization and discovery of the existing areas. The river is used like a green connection between mountains and sea. And at the same time, distributes and cleans the water, with water filter pools. Borders are an important part of the design. They will be no fences, just different areas that show us where and how to cross to other spaces.
CROSSING THE BORDER MARITIME TERMINAL FOR PASSENGERS IN GETXO, VIZCAYA, SPAIN
Final Project. Eduardo Escauriaza Master in Architecture. 2009 The terminal is the last limit for people who go and come from the sea. But in first place, for cruiser´s passengers, it is the first contact with land. However, when you go inside a ship, you don´t realise you are in the middle of a big sea. The main activity develops inside these capsules, where consumism is exploted. For this reason, it is neccesary to remind passengers that they have been overseas. They must smell, feel and perceive their temporary home. How can we be aware of the others? Perceiving the limit. The limit shows where you finish and where the others start. Because of this, the building has a floor which dissapears as tides cover it. It is the coming back way to land. All this level is protected by a cover, which has industrial characteristics and proportions, and where services are placed to be far away from sea movement.
4_ When you let the platform and arrive to the breakwater, you arrive to land. A perforation on the floor emphasize the sense of “touch land”
3_ A light and shadow game is the main character of this route. Light passes throught skylights and water reflexions. Also, prisms reflect all this game and create a confusion, blending reality and mirages.
2_ Then, you discover the prisms where the different areas are protected of the environment.
1_ The first meeting with land is produced by a platform, which let you approch sea visually and corporeally
VEGETABLE CELLS RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT IN VITORIA, SPAIN
University work.Proyect department Cesar Azcarate and Roberto Ercilla
The neighborhood centre as the neighborhood soul.The external building is an abstraction. It is a wall which protect the natural interior. The internal facade mimics nature with organic forms and soft movements which look for the sun. These movements generate many changes in the building perception because of the changing shadows.The apartment is created as an opened space, it can be occupated in its totality. Domestic uses as: bed, furniture, bathrooms, kitchen,... are compacted in a dense and compacted band. It acts like the building´s wall. It is situated in the external fachace. For this reason, the apartment has a lot of occupation possibilities. It is transformed from orthogonality to sinuosity.
The closer the apartment is from the square, the more disintegrated it is. The apartment´s basic idea tries to reduce bed-room to bed-space. A mobile canopy describes the separation between bed space “cell” and common space. This canopy is materialized in some rotating screens which are opened or closed according to the different situations can happen in the home. The apartment can even reach a unique space.
SCULPTING A TOWN RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE ANCIENT TOWN IN PAMPLONA, SPAIN
University work. Proyect department Cesar Azcarate and Juan Domingo Santos This Project consists in completing a medieval square with a residential building and a multiple purpose building. It is between a convent and some “houses between walls�. The emplacement is peculiar, because it is one of the four corners of a four roads intersection. Also, the irregularity of the street outline shows its facade to the principal affluence of pedestrians. The narrow streets pretend to surprise with the volumetry and construction of this aggregate. The typical medieval square describes a closed square with an occult interior, only visible for neighboords. What would it happen if a street elevation bend itself and let people come in? There would be a new type spacein the old city, where peole can meet others.
GREEN FINGERS URBAN SPACE ON THE SEA FRONT IN BADALONA, SPAIN
University work. Landscape department Eduardo Rojo and Montse Periel
This Project introduces an urban problem in the city of Badalona. For centuries, Badalona has turned his back on the sea, considering it a working and industrial place. Because of this, the railway was built parallel to the coast, creating a barrier between city and sea. The Project must give a solution to this limit to create unity, as actual needs require, where beach should be an important leisure and amusement part of the city. Topography. These spaces are built placing groups of trees in different levels. The centre of dry riverbed is in an inferior level, because of its stay nature. The will of making a place where people can rest or avoid the city movement. There aren´t any interruptions. Space develop into a big continuous. Space flows shoftly reaching the desired datum levels.
LITTLE PATCHWORK WETLANDS RECOVERY IN NAVARRA, SPAIN
University work. Landscape department Eduardo Rojo and Maria Larraùeta The Project is divided in several groups which develop the different parts of the intervention (biology, villages, agriculture, paths,‌) In my case, I take part in the Green Way development , which is placed in the antique railway. These wetlands are in process of desappearing. Four creeks converge in the middle of Loza and Iza wetlands. The arable lands which are situated between them have destroyed the river ecosystem. The main action is replanting the river bank with pooplars, willows and reeds. Oaks will be introducing in the environment carefully. This regeneration divide the green way into four parts. The green way section will change with neccesities, views and sensations. The main action is replanting the river bank with pooplars, willows and reeds. Oaks will be introducing in the environment carefully. This regeneration divide the green way into four parts. The green way section will change with neccesities, views and sensations.
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