PORTFOLIO SILVIA VERCHER
TITAN
HERSCHEL GAP
ROCHE DIVISION
ENCELADUS
TELESTO
CALYPSO
MIMAS
ATLAS
CASSINI DIVISION
DIONES RHEA
PANDORA PHOEBE JANUS
PALLENE YMIR ALBIORIX
ARCHITECT & URBAN DESIGNER silvia vercher
NYC / 2017
I am an architect who specializes in urban design of international global talent, vast sensibility and insightfulness to understand and learn from each context, through my unique artistic vision, strong interpersonal skills, with a prime focus to address societies´ present and future challenges such as climate change, public social space, and housing equality, with a specific design approach for innovative paradigms of historical significance, and rediscovering its unique beauty. Through my industrious and expansive professional and academic career along America, Europe and Asia, I enjoy working on international complex projects which are diverse and varied in scale and challenge my skills while simultaneously collaborating with professionals from different disciplines, and interacting with clients as well as the related communities to embrace best practices for healthy cities. I am continually exploring Architecture as a space of public appearance and other fields such as politics, sociology, cinema, music, and photography, where I draw great inspiration from testing and experimenting my ideas as a designer in this century.
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“Civilizations without boats, dreams dry up, espionage takes the place of adventure, and the police take the place of pirates�. Michel, Foucault. Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias.
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RESUME
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PROJECTS’ MAP
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PROJECTS ISRAEL BE’ER SHEVA QUARRY PARK
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CHINA BEIJING HORTICULTURAL EXPO 2019
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INDIA CULTURA WATERSCAPE
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USA HUDSON RIVER REBUILD BY DESIGN LUCAS MUSEUM OF NARRATIVE ARTS FORT WADSWORTH RED HOEK POINT NY RISING CANARSIE
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CONTENT
GEORGIA RIKE PARK MILLENIUM PARK GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT ZUGDIDI PARK TBILISI SEA BATUMI OPERA HOUSE
94 100 104 110 114 118
MEXICO PLAZA CARSO
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SPAIN EL PARDO NURSERY SCHOOL CEREBRAL PALSY CENTER
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EGYPT TERRITORIAL SHIFTS
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SILVIA VERCHER silviavercher@gmail.com silviavercher.com (+1) 347 892 0759 / NYC
EDUCATION MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE & URBAN DESIGN, Columbia University, New York, US 2013-14 Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial PRIZE 2014 for the best final semester design project William Kinne Fellows Travelling PRIZE 2014 for personal research project MASTER OF URBAN & REGIONAL PLANNING, University of South Australia, AUSTRALIA 2008 EASA GRANT for one international year specialization program BACHELOR IN ARCHITECTURE & URBANIM, ETSAV, Universidad Politécnica, Valencia, SPAIN 1999 -2007 ERASMUS GRANT in Arkitektskolen Aarus, DENMARK 2005-06
RESUME
WORK EXPERIENCE URBAN DESIGNER at SCAPE
NEW YORK CITY
Jun, 2014 - Currently Design sustainable and resilient Urban Planning and Urban Design projects with strong interdisciplinary perspective thinking to civic projects of all scales in all their phases with great number of awards. Be’er Semone Quarry Park (ISRAEL), Urban design project - in process. Rager Boulevard (ISRAEL), Transportation project - in process Hudson River (HOBOKEN), Feasaibity study - completed Beijing international Horticultural Expo 2019 (CHINA), Masterplan - completed
Brooklyn Strand (NYC), Masterplan - completed
DESIGNER at FR-EE
MEXICO
Jan, 2013 - June, 2013 Design and collaborate with international professionals to explore competitions and also complete private projects. Plaza Carso (MEXIC), Private develeopment - completed Comercial center inside Candela´s structures (MEXIC), Competition Veracruz Amusement Park (MEXIC), Competition
PROJECT MANAGER at CMD Ingeniers
SPAIN / GEORGIA
April2009 – January2012 Manage multidisciplinary teams to complete public and private projects and ensure onshedule completetion within budget and considerations, during all phases of construction projects, and conduct meetings with governments and professional staff using tact and diplomacy. New Parliament of Georgia (GEORGIA), Institutional project - completed Millenium Park (GEORGIA), Institutional project - completed Presidential Tbilisi Rike Park (GEORGIA), Competition - completed Batumi Opera House (GEORGIA), Private development - design completed
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COMPUTER SKILLS ARCHITECTURE Autocad • Revit • Rhino • Sketchup • GIS GRAPHIC DESIGN Maya • Photoshop • Indesign • Illustrator VIDEO EDITION After Effects • Premier • Final Cut OFFICE Word • Excel • Powerpoint • Onenote • Access INTERNET Blogspot • Twiter • DW • SEO • FACEBOOK
LANGUAGES SPANISH CATALAN ENGLISH PORTUGUESE ITALIAN
Native spoken Native spoken Professional working proficiency Elementary proficiency Elementary proficiency
COMPLEMENTARY SKILLS BACHELOR of MUSIC in PIANO Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Valencia, SPAIN 1992-2002 BACHELOR of FINE ARTS in PHOTOGRAPHY, Escuela de Artes y Oficios de Valencia, SPAIN 2004
RESUME
SELECTED AWARDS HABITAT III Conference in Quito, Ecuador, by General Assembly of the United Nations: “Pedagogy & Practice” and “Water infrastructure” side events
2017
NYC PUBLIC DESIGN COMMISSION, Award for Excellence in Design, SCAPE
2016
NY AIA HONOR AWARD - Urban Design Category: “Beijing Expo Masterplan”, SCAPE
2016
LUCILLE SMYSER LOWENFISH MEMORIAL PRIZE: “Densification in Delhi”
2014
WILLIAM KINNE FELLOWS TRAVELLING PRIZE: “Cuban Soundscapes”
2014
International Architecture Award from the EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR ARCHITECTURE ART DESIGN & URBAN STUDIES AND THE CHICAGO ATHENAEUM: “Batumi Seafront Boulevard”, CMD Ingenieros
2012
ROSA BARBA EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE PRIZE: “Tbilisi Rike Park”, CMD Ingenieros
2012
VALENCIA CENTRAL PARK COMPETITION participation: “Station Park”, Kazuyo Sejima & Cmd Ingenieros
2012
Australian Student Prize for the ADVANCEMENT OF ARCHITECTURE Honorable mention: “Abandon Mines”
2008
Australian SCIWORLD COMPETITION finalist: “Sydney Research Center “
2008
VII NATIONAL AWARD FOR YOUNG ARCHITECTS Honorable mention: “School in Madrid”
2007
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PUBLICATIONS
ACADEMIC AND PERSONAL PROJECTS
RESUME
Research project: “CUBAN SOUNDSCAPES”, Habana, Cuba
in process
Research project: “CULTURAL WATERSCAPES”
in process
“VOICES AND VISIONS OF ST. LOUIS”, Harvard University
2016
Publication and exhibition: “DENSIFICATION IN DELHI, INDIA”, Delhi, INDIA
2014
The Sketchbook Project: “WRITING ON THE WALL”, Art House Co-op, New York, US
2012
“CONCURSO NACIONAL DE IDEAS PARA JÓVENES ARQUITECTOS”, Madrid City Hall, SPAIN
2007
“ISLANDSK BYGNINGSKUNST”, Aarhus Arkitektskolen and Reykjavik arkitect F.I.A., ICELAND
2006
“SOCIAL BUILDING PROJECTS”, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, SPAIN
2003
ASSISTANSHIP GRANT, Richard Plunz Graduated School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University, NYC
2014
ARCHITECTURE WORK GRANT Aarhus Arkitektskolen, ICELAND
2007
INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP, Michael Sorkin Aarhus Arkitektskolen, DENMARK
2006
SOCIAL AND URBAN PLANNING ARCHITECTURE WORKSHOP, Aarhus Arkitektskolen, GREECE
2006
IAESTE INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE WORK GRANT, Universidad Politénica de Valencia, BRAZIL
2005
SCHOLARSHIP DELVING VALLDIGNA, European Union Culture program Universidad Politénica de Valencia, SPAIN
2002
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PROJECTS
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BY LOCATION ISRAEL
CHINA
INDIA
USA
2014-17
2014
2014
2013-2017
JOURNEY
GEORGIA
MEXICO
SPAIN
EGYPT
2009-12
2013
2007
2014
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URBAN DESIGNER
ISRAEL BE’ER SHEVA QUARRY PARK Abandon quarry international competition BE’ER SHEVA / 2014
ISRAEL
Currently a void in the urban fabric, the Be’er Shemone Park uses topography, vegetation, and shade to connect historically divided neighborhoods and the broader region. Our intervention reaches past the quarry boundary, producing an urban identity for the city that honors its history of culture and education. At the North End of the site, the cultural center, designed by Topotek Architects, reveals a new gateway to the city, showcasing landscape and geology. Central to the design is a connective civic promenade that transverses the park space, offering views of both the newly constructed landscape and micro-excavation sites. The deep cuts and elevated promenade intentionally intensify shadows, and expands the use of the park throughout the daytime. Water collects at the bottom of the deepest cuts, encouraging the growth of vegetation and creating a transcendental escape from the desert environment. Be’er Shemone provides an experience that is constantly evolving.
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DESIGNING EXPERIENCE PHASING STRATEGY
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URBAN DESIGNER NATIVE VEGETATION PALETTE
Treebelt Buffer Pistacia atlantica typ., Mt. Atlas Mastic Tree Olea europaea, Olive Tree Doum palms, Gingerbread Palm
Oasis Relief Washingtonia filifera, Fan Palm Doum palms, Gingerbread Palm Phoenix dactylifera, Date Palm Drimia maritima Phlomis brachyodon
Promenade Shade Lemon-scented eucalyptus, Gum Tree Acacia schaffneri, Twisted acacia Jacaranda mimosifolia, Blue Jacaranda
Desert Gardens Experience
SCAPE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE [NYC]
Moricandia nitens Sternbergia clusiana Polygonum equisetiforme Drimia maritima Phlomis brachyodon
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CYCLE
ISRAEL
PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE
CITY MAKING
CULTURE MAKING
PLAZAS / PATHS / BENCHES EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS SCIENCE, GEOLOGY, AND SCULPTURE
SPACE MAKING
EDGE STREET TERRACES / CINEMA / STAIRCASE
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SHALLOW FOUNTAIN WATER FEEDING EQUIPMENT WATERFALL OPEN STREAM COMPACTED STREAM BED
COMPACTED GRAVEL BASE COMPACTED SUBGRADE
ACCESSIBLE STAIRS QUARRY BOULDERS EXISITING GRADE
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EXISTING DEBRIS UNDISTURBED LIMESTONE SUBGRADE
UNDERGROUND MINE EXISTING OUTER RAPPING TO REMAIN
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SECTION 04 - WATERFALL + SHADED PROMENADE
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EVERGREEN TREE 5% SHADED PROMENADE SEATING STAIRS
REINFORCED CONCRETE SHRUB GROUNDCOVER PILING LANDFORM
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PARKING LOT ASPHALT PAVEMENT REINFORCED CONCRETE SLAB
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OUTDOOR RESTING AREA FILL MATERIAL
COLUMN CUSTOM BENCH
EXISTING GRADE COMPACTED SUBGSRADE UNDISTURBED LIMESTONE SUBGRADE
SEATING STAIRS EXISTING GRADE WADING POOL REINFORCED CONCRETE COMPACTED GRAVEL BASE
17M BEACH PAVILION
SECTION 03 - WADING POOL + NATURE POOL SCALE 1:100
PALM TREE
BAR COUNTER INDOOR SEATING AREA
3M SHADED AREA
15M WATER-SIDE LOUNGE
18M WADING POOL
ISRAEL
VERGREEN TREE ROMENADE
GEOLOGY WALK PALM TREE
STONE PAVING COMPACTED GRAVEL BASE COMPACTED SUBGRADE FILL MATERIAL
10M ADED PROMENADE
13M PALM TREE BEACH
3M BIKE TRAIL
9M SHADED PROMENADE
RIPARIAN EDGE PLANTING QUARRY BOULDERS EVERGREEN TREE ACCESSIBLE RAMP TO UNDERGROUND CAVE
OPEN STREAM FILL MATERIAL
5M PLANTING
7M STRE
LEDGE STONE PAVING COMPACTED GRAVAL BASE
PLANTING SOIL HORTICULTURAL SUBSOIL CONCRETE CURB BIKE TRAIL
REINFORCED CONCRETE STONE WALL FILL MATERIAL
CUSTOMIZED RAILING REINFORCED STRUCTURE EXISTING GRADE UNDISTURBED SUBGRADE
6.5M SHADED POOL ZONE
3M ACCESSIBLE RAMP
20M NATURAL POOL
5.5M LEDGE PATH
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URBAN DESIGNER
CHINA BEIJING INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL EXPO 2019 2015 NY AIA Honor Award Masterplan finalist competition BEIJING / 2014
CHINA
Beijing International Horticultural Expo takes a systems-based, site-specific approach to expo-planning, creating a long-term regenerative strategy for the Gui River region in southern China. Rather than treating the site as tabula rasa, our proposal integrates current patterns of use to both host an International Horticultural Expo and enhance post-expo ecologies, social connectivity, and land conservation. The site’s existing wetlands, agricultural cycles, and circulation patterns are magnified and developed through a phased implementation of water treatment systems, multimodal transportation routes, and renewable energy production. Designed to counter the tendency for expo sites to be abandoned after the event, the Beijing International Horticultural Expo leverages the expo as an opportunity to create an upward spiral of ecological growth.
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URBAN DESIGNER
2020 POST- EXPO DECONSTRUCTION AND ECOLOGICAL GROWTH
CHINA
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IMPROVE WATER QUALITY OF THE RIVER
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BIOFILTRATION PONDS
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RECREATION
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GUI RIVER
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CLEAN E NERG Y SOLA R EN ERG Y
GR EEN EC ON OM Y
FU TU RE IN TE R
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REGIONAL AFFORESTATION PLY R SUP ATE EW L AB SELF-SUFFICIENT PAVILIONS IRRIGATION
WETLAND
INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL GUJIAYING VILLAGE
THEME GARDENS
IRRIGATION
WATER TREATMENT PARK
EXPO GARDENS
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CORE WATER STRATEGY
水体 WATER FEATURES 水体 WATER FEATURES
检票口 TICKETED ENTRANCE
SCAPE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE [NYC]
检票口 TICKETED ENTRANCE
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瀑布 WATER WALL
瀑布 WATER WALL
湿地
WETLANDS
水塘
PONDS
湿地
水池 WETLANDS
WATER BASINS
水塘
PONDS 灌溉水渠
IRRIGATION CANALS
水池
WATER净水湿地公园 BASINS
WATER TREATMENT P
灌溉水渠
倒影池 IRRIGATION CANALS
REFLECTING POOL
净水湿地公园
WATER TREATMENT PARK
倒影池
REFLECTING POOL
规划绿色区域 PROGRAMMATIC GREEN AREAS 规划绿色区域 倒影池 PROGRAMMATIC REFLECTING POOL GREEN AREAS
水池 POOLS
倒影池 REFLECTING POOL
雨水 RAIN 雨水 RAIN
表皮渗透 PERMEABLE SURFACE 表皮渗透 PERMEABLE SURFACE
净化 CLEAN
收集 COLLECT 收集 COLLECT
净化 CLEAN
CHINA
PARK
水池 POOLS
水塘 PONDS 水塘 PONDS
人行道 PEDESTRIAN PATH 人行道 PEDESTRIAN PATH
湿地 WETLANDS 湿地 WETLANDS
妫河 GUI RIVER 妫河 GUI RIVER
排水 DISCHARGE 排水 DISCHARGE
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REGIONAL WATER STRATEGY
官厅水库 GUANTING RESERVOIR
妫河
SCAPE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE [NYC]
GUI RIVER
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现有湿地系统 EXISTING POND SYSTEM
拟建湿地系统 - 促进水体循环 PROPOSED POND SYSTEM FOR BETTER FLOW AND CIRCULATION
CHINA
湿地 - 净化水体 WETLANDS CLEAN AND DISCHARGE WATER
雨水 - 收集 RAIN WATER COLLECTION
灌溉 - 花园系统 IRRIGATION SYSTEM FOR THE GARDENS
净水湿地公园 - 收集、净化水体 WATER TREATMENT PARK COLLECT, CLEAN AND DISCHARGE WATER 视觉走廊 VIEW CORRIDOR
次级水体连接 SECONDARY WATER CONNECTION
倒影池 REFLECTING POOL
现有水体 EXISTING WATER 拟建水体 PROPOSED WATER 水体流向 WATER DIRECTION
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URBAN DESIGN STUDENT
INDIA CULTURAL WATERSCAPES Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Memorial Prize 2014 “Cultural Waterscapes” Exhbition at the Indian Embassy of NYC, 2014 Publication and exhibition, “Densification in Delhi, India”. Delhi, INDIA, 2015 “The parlor” conference, NYC, 2016 “Pedagogy & Practise”, Habitat III Conferences. Quito, Ecuador, 2016 NEW DELHI / 2014
INDIA
The project proposes to reorient Delhi’s future growth by addressing infrastructure issues concentrating on lack of water, seasonal flood and pollution. Furthermore, the project aims to reestablish the relationship between the city and the Yamuna River using water as a productive landscape that will generate social spaces. Through the lenses of culture and water the project imagines Lutyens Plan transformed from an imperial symbol of power and inequality, to a democratic space allowing social interaction. Finally, water is the catalyst for future growth of services and densification that will support the city at a regional scale. Team: Silvia Vercher, Marco Sosa, Belen Ayarra, Zahraa Alwash
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URBAN DESIGN STUDENT HISTORICAL AND ECOLOGYCAL TYPOLOGY
WATER TABLE RECHARGE UNIT ACTIVATION OF EXISTING DOHBI COMMUNITY
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY [NYC]
HERITAGE PRESERVATION
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PERMEABLE SURFACE BIOSWALE
INDIA
STRATEGY OF INTERVENTION Reactivation of existing service area Existing densification
High School Baoli reactivation and ground water recharge
Connaught Place
Bengali Market
Potential densification
new social spaces and services
Mandi House
permeable soil Activation of existing dohbi community Water collectors
Reprogram Bungalows
COMMUNITY SPACE CHANGING TOPOGRAPHY
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URBAN DESIGN STUDENT
RAJ PATH FILTRATION SYSTEM
MAIN WATER COLLECTION
NATIONAL CENTER
POINT
OF ART
GOVERNMENT
RAJ PATH ROAD
PROGRAMED SPACES
BUILDINGS
SERVICES
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY [NYC]
WATER FILTRATION TERRACES
Elevation
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THE NATIONAL MUSEUM
Collection
Filterati
1.7 billion L/year
+765
2 billion L
+765 +751
+735
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Sand +717 +735
+717 +700
A.C
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Grave
INDIA
FIRST COLLECTION POINT COLLECTION WETLAND
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Wetland
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5.2 bilion L/year
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CULTURAL NETWORK
rain water rain water rain water
gray water
Collection and Recharching Unit
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY [NYC]
Roundabout Collector
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INDIA
To Social Spaces
Raj Path Pools Filtration System To storage unit and Yamuna River
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URBAN DESIGNER
USA HUDSON RIVER FEASIBILITY STUDY IN HOBOKEN REBUILD BY DESIGN Competition with OMA HOBOKEN / 2015 • LUCAS MUSEUM OF NARRATIVE ART Urban design project with MAD Architects CHICAGO / 2015 • RED HOEK POINT Private developer NEW YORK CITY / 2016 • WADSWORTH FORT Historical landscape STATEN ISLAND / 2016 • NY RISING CANARSIE Feasability study with HR&A and Parsons Brinckerhoff NEW YORK CITY / 2014
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HUDSON RIVER REBUILD BY DESIGN COASTAL STORM AND STORMWATER FEASIBILITY STUDY
SCAPE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE [NYC]
SCAPE is partnered with OMA and Dewberry Engineering on the Hudson River Rebuild by Design (RBD) project, a coastal storm and stormwater management feasibility study for the City of Hoboken, New Jersey. The first stage towards implementation of the RBD Competition proposal developed in 2014, the design consists of two components—Resist, and Delay, Store, and Discharge (DSD). DSD maximizes the potential to capture, store, infiltrate, evaporate, and release stormwater in the city of Hoboken to create a sustainable stormwater system for the city to mitigate future flooding events. Through study of physical, environmental, and infrastructural constraints, the team located key sites and right-of-way opportunities where stormwater interventions would provide co-benefits to the city. First stage design work culminates in a toolkit of implementable strategies to improve stormwater and flooding events.
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WATER STORAGE UNIT
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WATER STORAGE UNIT DURING RAINING EVENT
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LUCAS MUSEUM OF NARRATIVE ART WATER SYSTEM
PERFORMATIVE DUNE LANDSCAPE
SCAPE partnered with Studio Gang Architects and Applied Ecological Services to design an immersive and performative landscape for the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art along the Chicago Lakefront. The landscape design integrates the museum into the Lake Michigan waterfront and draws from the region’s distinct coastal dune topography. A series of distinctive planting zones take cues from the Lake Michigan shoreline in the woodland, prairie, dune field and wetland. An evergreen-dominant woodland OVERFLOW
with dense shrub and groundcover planting buffers Lake Shore Drive and provide slope stabilization on the site’s edges. The Event Prairie is a grass mosaic dotted with canopy trees creating space for gathering and shade on sunny days. The EcoPark consists of a series of cascading ponds that reference the naturally-occurring dunes of the region. The ponds collect precipitation from the site and use highly textured perennial wetland grasses, ferns and flowers to provide wideranging habitat. WET PONDS
WATER COLLECTION AND DISCHARGE STRATEGY
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DRY MARSH
LAKE MICHIGAN
PERMANENT WET POND
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PROGRAMMED DIAGRAM
LMNA
INDICATOR SWALES RAIN WATER
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FORT WADSWORTH AND STATEN ISLAND GATEWAY UNIT VISIONING FUTURE’S HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
SCAPE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE [NYC]
National Parks of New York Harbor Conservancy asked to speculate on new futures for Fort Wadsworth and the Staten Island Unit of Gateway National Recreation Area. As an urban national park, Fort Wadsworth is a valuable historic, ecological, and cultural resource most widely known for its panoramic views of New York harbor and massive fort and battery infrastructure. While the assets are clear, much of the site is difficult to navigate and interpret and does not strongly connect to the surrounding neighborhoods or regional populations. The project developed a series of catalytic and small-scale interventions that better link the park to the coastline and the surrounding region and more clearly reveal historic resources within the visitor experience. A new bicycle route, an expanded pedestrian trail network, and an allocated space for the expansion of low-impact camping program within the coastal zone.
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MATERIALITY AND IDENTITY
LANDSCAPE ROOMS
BIKEWAYS
GATHERING AREAS PEDESTRIAN PATHS
PAVING = WAYFINDING
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PROGRAMMED ROOMS
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RED HOEK POINT
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RED HOOK MARITIME NEIGHBORHOOD
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Surrounded by water on three sides, SCAPE’s design for Red Hoek Point integrates aquatic habitat and water-based recreation into a low-rise commercial development on the former site of the Revere Sugar Factory in Red Hook, Brooklyn. The 2,000 linear foot waterfront esplanade features three unique edges and park experiences. The southern Eco-Recreational Edge provides a tranquil space for viewing tidal ecosystems and kayaking. The northern Historic Maritime edge celebrates the bustling maritime traffic around the historic Beard Street Pier warehouses and water taxi stop. An axial Mineral Courtyard accommodates cars and people, uniting the two commercial structures with a series of outdoor rooms structured by salvaged stone and reclaimed steel. The courtyard terminates at the Basin Panorama, where the ground lifts to enhance views to the Statue of Liberty, and falls away to create tidal pools and water-walkways along the edge. Above, an undulating green roof captures and slows water, sheltering a colorful roofscape track for running, walking meetings, and active events.
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NEW YORK RISING CANARSIE COASTAL AND STORMWATER FEASABILITY STUDY As part of a New York state initiative to respond to storm damage from Hurricane Sandy, SCAPE, with HR&A and Parsons Brinckerhoff, developed a series of strategies for rebuilding resilient communities such as Canarsie in Brooklyn. The community reconstruction plans included cost and feasibility studies for a wetland reconstruction and a berm at Fresh Creek. The berm would connect with protection features in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’
(USACE). Through fieldwork and community meetings, the study, coupled with the NYS DEC and USACE projects, would create a comprehensive flood protection strategy that would include the placement of berms in the upland perimeter to provide shoreline protection, ensuring greater resiliency to coastal flooding, and the effects of climate change.
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BERM TO 10 YR FLOOD PROTECTION (7.7’ NAVD88) + GREENWAY BIRD BLIND / EDUCATIONAL CENTER WETLAND RESTORATION
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FRESH CREEK MHHW 2.28 ft MLLW -2.77 ft
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CMD INGENIEROS [GEORGIA]
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GEORGIA TBILISI RIKE PARK Riverfront park Rosa Barba European Landscape Prize TBILISI / 2010 • MILLENIUM PARK Georgian Parliament Park KUTAISI / 2011 • GEORGIAM PARLIAMENT Georgian Parliament KUTAISI / 2010 • ZUGDIDI BOTANIC GARDEN Historical center Masterplan ZUGDIDI / 2012 • TBILISI SEA Regional Masterplan TBILISI / 2011 • BATUMI OPERA HOUSE International Georgian Opera House BATUMI / 2009
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TBILISI RIKE PARK Area: 6 Ha / Budget: $3.2MIL / Built: 2010
CMD INGENIEROS [GEORGIA]
The Old City Rehabilitation & Development Fund required a new green on the riverbank of the Mtkavi River under the views of the Presidential Palace which function is to connect Tbilisi old city centre with the new districts. The park is a 6 Ha grid abstraction of the map of Georgia clearly visible at night thanks to the lighting proposed. The program of uses invites to enjoy in each “region” with different activities. The landscape project enhances the use of native plants and the central area makes a symbolic reference to the Rose Revolution, a significant fact on Georgia´s history. This project was closely directed but the former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.
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MILLENIUM PARK Area: 115 Ha / Budget: $33MIL / Built: 2010
CMD INGENIEROS [GEORGIA]
The Kutaisi City Hall required a new urban park surrounding the new Parliament of Georgia. The landscape design creates a beautiful environment but at the same time highlights the architecture and arranges circulation and access for parliament members, staff and people from Kutaisi who wants to enjoy this new green area.
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The program is defined by the Parliament garden (289,390 sqm): Parliament, Lake of Angels, Ministerial building, Staff building and Gardens. And the Millennium garden (837,576 sqm): Lake of Colchis, Power station, buildable zone and Gardens.
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GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT Area: 4 Ha / Budget: $130MIL / Built: 2009 Kutaisy City Hall required a new Parliament for the country to represente its independece and new ideology after its independence. They required to move the building from Tbilisi to Kutaisi to reactivate the central area of the country. The project was designed in glass to express the transparency of the democracy of the country (surrounded by the Millenium Park) and with a huge potent concrete
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bridge on the top to remark its solidity. We had the collaboration of Mamoru Kawaguchi & Kenichi Kawaguchi (structure). The program covers a gross floor area of 40,000 m2 containing offices, meeting rooms, conference halls, press rooms, exhibition areas and plenary rooms. The glass dome covers a 100m wide and 150m long area.
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ZUGDIDI PARK Area: 40 Ha / Budget: $2.5MIL / Built: 2012
CMD INGENIEROS [GEORGIA]
Zugdidi City Hall required to recuperate the Botanic garden of the city in order to reactivate the area and implement it with more program such as hotels, amphitheaters, and public spaces. This landscape and urban design project integrates the gardens of the old Dadiani’s Palace, the Botanical Garden created in 1840 and a new area located besides those both historical treasures. Both historical areas will be linked with the city´s famous central boulevard by a new, modern park area in the place where actually the old soccer stadium is located. The renewal of this area will be a real mile-stone in the development of Zugdidi.
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TBILISI SEA Area: 5,000 Ha / Competition
CMD INGENIEROS [GEORGIA]
Georgian government openned a competition for holding the Olympic village for the Summer Youth Olympic Festival Tbilisi 2015 in Tbilisi Sea. New Surrounding of Tbilisi Lake, the natural water reserve of the city, creates about 23 km of Seafront with a huge potential to develop new programs for the present growth of the city. The project divides the lake’s shoreline in subzones to create several atmospheres such as a Yachtclub and whiterwater rafting, Guest house-restaurant-resting-Entertainment for the youth and Educational activities,
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beach zone, underwater world, fishing zone, camping, Olympic village, sport flotilla “Elingi” and Regatta. The project includes the creation of large green spaces, sports and recreational facilities and new housing developments, transforming it into the natural expansion of the city. The project extends over an estimated population of 147,000. It is also planned a detailed transportation and infrastructure network that connects this new area with the city center and the neighborhoods of Tbilisi.
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BATUMI OPERA HOUSE Area: 15,000 sqm / Budget: $33MIL / Completed
CMD INGENIEROS [GEORGIA]
Batumi City Hall and Government of Adjara required the construction of an Opera House in the touristic coastal city of Batumi due its importance traditions in popular music and opera. Opera House was designed in one of the main boulevards of the city. Main hall with enough seats and facilities to perform opera and ballet. The building has the technical facilities required (dressing rooms, workshop, warehouse, etc.) for the main use and is completed with conference hall, press rooms and a restaurant on the top floor where users have nice views of the city and the sea.
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MEXICO PLAZA CARSO TORRE CERVANTES MEXICO / 2014
MEXICO
Plaza Carso is a mixed-use master plan of commercial, residential and cultural buildings, located on a former industrial site from the 1940s. The master plan includes construction of an internationally acclaimed theater as well as two museums, and a mall, which will include movie theaters, restaurants, and stores. One of the office buildings will serve as the headquarters of an important Latin-American mobile telephone company. The client was interested in constructing a more city-friendly complex, and part of the master plan is to save fifty percent of the land for green areas; all rooftops will be green, and rainwater will be captured and recycled, and thirty percent of the land is public green space.
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Located in the northwestern part of Mexico City, with Plaza Carso, the CERVANTES MIXED-USE TOWER includes apartments, offices and retail. The tower’s 22 stories are organized along a vertebral spine that provides structural rigidity where all vertical services are located. Facing the Soumaya Museum and Jumex Contemporary Art Foundation, the tower’s orientation maximizes views on all sides. Connection as urban locator and residential onlooker creates new participation, new dynamism for the center’s educational and artistic elements mixed with residential and commercial program.
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SPAIN EL PARDO NURSERY SCHOOL Spanish national competition II National Young Architects Award “Concurso nacional de ideas” publication Centro de bellas Artes exhibition MADRID / 2007 • CEREBRAL PALSY CENTER Architecture thesis VALENCIA / 2007
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EL PARDO NURSERY SCHOOL Area: 8,225 sqm / Budget: 1,5MIL / Competition The project starts from the observation of the place. One of the concerns that accompany this projected is trying to extend the useful time of the proposal to the maximum, and also the number of neighbors to which it serves. This will, by the size of the plot, lead us to create a gradation of parks and gardens that will work outside the strict schedule of the nursery. The wide roads invaded by dense traffic not match with the scale of children proposed. The playground, around which the project is articulated, arises closed on itself. Then it seems a shelter to protect children and create a more graspable space. The classrooms are located in the northwest of the plot. Their access to the patio, with more translucent surface, has southeast orientation to catch the sunlight in cold seasons. In summer sunshine is shaded by deciduous vegetation and perforated panels on the facades. The elevation from the Boulevard hints the rich interior spaces through U-glass and the trees which take the high presence in the city.
PERSONAL PROJECTS
Team: Silvia Vercher, Maria Palencia, Andres Velarde, Pablo Siguenza
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CEREBRAL PALSY CENTER Area: 20,000 sqm / Budget: $1MIL / Thesis
PERSONAL PROJECTS
Through the lenses of cerebral palsy people the project imagines the Activity Center transformed into a sensorial space where different users live and learn there. Furthermore, the project aims to establish a relationship between the center and the city using the patios (voids) as a productive landscape that will generate social spaces. The programs are organized in section through the voids (patios). The building is composed by a huge slab, the roof of the first slab, which cross the existing pedestrian
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street that separates the programs. However the building is connected through the basement with the parking, the patios, and the external activities. On the top of this slab defined for the first floor, three volumes set organizing the bedrooms of the patients and residents. Each bedroom is characterized for comfortable measurements for people with wheel chairs, sun orientation, and private terraces.
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URBAN DESIGN STUDENT
EGYPT TERRITORIAL SHIFTS: POLITICAL & THE CITY Recombinant urbanism thesis “Voices and Visions Of St. Louis”, Harvard University, 2016 CAIRO / 2014
EGYPT
The project examines how cities evolve and develop public space and density over time in cycles of expansion and decline. The emphasis is on the urban actors who generate these spaces. Cities are seen as complex systems involving multiple actors, energy and information flows, resulting in diverse urban forms and systems of selfgovernance. Egypt’s growth pattern is manifested through multiple settlements. Each settlement came in form of an occupation/ mostly foreign. but most importantly each settlement was a physical demonstration of political ambitions. each had its armature and its usually understood as a symbol but also as most importantly public space (enclaves and armatures), each settlement either a cine citta, tele citta, or arch citta. Team: Silvia Vercher, Belen Ayarra, Wagdy Faisal A. Almogren
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المدينة القديمة
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Meta City: The just city
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Mobilizinf the nation Route to Tahrir Mosques Collection points Important twitter users Twitter user in network
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PROTESTER’S FORM OWN ID CHECKPOINTS
PROTESTER’S BARRICADE SECRET POLICE CHECKPOINT
ARMY NEUTRALIZES ZONE
6TH of October bridge & underside plaza neutralized Army tanks Tahrir Square occupation
FLAG SELLERS FOOD STALLS
STREET CLINIC
RESTROOMS WATER POINT WALL OF MARTYRS KINDERGARTEN BLOGGERS TRASH BINS
TANKS NEWS PAPER WALL
OVER NIGHTERS SIGN MAKING
KFC CLINIC
CAMPSITE
ARTWORK
DEMONSTRATION SPACE/ PRAYER SPACE MAIN STAGE PHARMACY
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SILVIA VERCHER silviavercher@gmail.com silviavercher.com (+1) 347 892 0759
NYC / 2017