Zinzia Care Center, extension and landscape | assigned project

Part of the objectives of the project were differentiate areas according to mobility and deseases of the patients. This was achieved by the intagrated design of landsacpe and architecture.

The competition was about the rst social housing project in Kaohsiung, that had to be part of a broader requalication of a dismissed-railway area. The project took the rst prize thank of a broader thinking of the whole area, inlcuding a masterplan, a landscape design, and to have integrated specic characteristics of the local culture into the architectonic schemes.

Projects I`ve worked on: Windmoleken

Invited competition, 1st prize | Re-development of a large scale social housing complex. (BE)

CNUZ

Competition| Proposal for a small scale green living on a budget. (BE)

Matexi

Direct assignment | Development for a private residential area. (BE)

BOBRA

Direct assignment | New construction for a private villa in the outskirt of Brussels. (BE)

1st prize competition for a large scale social housing refurbishisment. The different modules that characterize the project were outdated in terms of floorplan and insulation as much as the facade, made of different colored bricks that has been modified by each user into something different. With a keen eye for the low budget we chose to modify the floor plan for a more contemporary use, leave the interior car parking for more living space, and bike shed and eventually insulate to the latest constructions standards.

Floorplan with intervention

The design for this masterplan proposal responds to the needs for new residential development in the green outskirt of Brussels. Three different zones would relate in the different ways with the public space, Zone A would have a more classic confortable apartments blocks with a park, aimed to elderly inhabitants. Zone B would be a typical flemish single/attached family house with a green slow boulevard , whereas Zone C would be a more experimental small scale village, with a communal space where to gather, do public gardening or just play open air.

ZoneA

Projects I`ve worked on:

GB-LOT

Invited competition,1st place | Renovation and new construction for a public school in Lot (BE)

NEO

Deveoped Design specifications | Construction detailing for a multi-sport center in Brussels

DB-Evergem

Invited competition, 1st place | New construction for a public school in Evergem (BE)

Geert Heyvaert

Direct assignment | New construction for a private villa in the outskirt of Brussels

1st prize competition. The school in Lot (BG) comprises the kindergarten and the elementary school. Due to an increase number of alumni and an outdated functional layout of the structures, they asked both for a spatial extension, and a change in the layout. Considering the diversity of the two architectural element, one brick classic long element, and a modernist set of prefab boxes, we decided to add some more rational element that would directly highlight were the extension would be. The rest is a work of material and landscape, making both the layout, and the architecture more simple in the way it will be used by students, and teachers. My involvement was primarily in the management of the Archicad file, the set up of the existing situation, the design for the old brick compartment, and all the vector planar, axonometrical export and their final visualization.

1st prize competition. The school in Lot (BG) comprises the kindergarten and the elementary school. Due to an increase number of alumni and an outdated functional layout of the structures, they asked both for a spatial extension, and a change in the layout. Considering the diversity of the two architectural element, one brick classic long element, and a modernist set of prefab boxes, we decided to add some more rational element that would directly highlight were the extension would be. The rest is a work of material and landscape, making both the layout, and the architecture more simple in the way it will be used by students, and teachers. My involvement was primarily in the management of the Archicad file, the set up of the existing situation, the design for the old brick compartment, and all the vector planar, axonometrical export and their final visualization.

New bike lane

New bike lane

Permeable pavement

Permeable pavement

Reinforced grass

Reinforced grass ( fire brigade )

Sand Grass

Sand Grass

Existing water course

Existing water course

1st prize competition. The competition for the extension of this college convinced the jury for its functional and simple design, an approach based on 2 phases scheme, and its sustainability. The playful outdoor space, once just an unutilized green area, becomes the center of the childrens’ activities, were numerous soils variation are created from the soil excavation materials, as shown in the diagram. My involvement in this project, among others, was on the design of the outdoor spaces, visualization of the diagrams, masterplans and plans. The entire project has been set up in Archicad.

Axonometry

Projects I`ve worked on:

Direct commission for new apartments| Urban study and sketch design

Direct commission for private extension and renovation | Sketch, definitive design

Direct commission for a dancehall barn conversion | Sketch, definitive design

Direct commission for private extension and renovation | Sketch, definitive design

Direct commission for private extension and renovation | Sketch, definitive design

Direct commission for area study and masterplanning | Sketch

Small private residential project. The clients had the desire to extend their living area towards their property, mainly covered by en extensive crown of trees, and a small, kitchen-garden style, wineyard. The opposite side faces the entrance alley, and a provincial road, for which the client asked to be hidefrom. Having these principles in mind, the extension is thought to be visually light and massive, made of simple steel-wood builtup. The demolition would regard only non load-bearing elements, allowing both a strategic division of spaces, a lower budget, and the possibility for the owners to cooperate in the project’s development.

Having already had the countryside villa already renovated with TALUD, the client, a dance teacher, decided to transform the unused barn into a dance hall that would comprise a bar-reception as extension. The main element, the tower and the wall are both an iconic remark for the changers, technical room, and bar, and are stratefic structural element that allowed to have a less invasive demolition, and lighter builtup. The arrangement of the dance hall, technical core, and bar are made to grant a diverse accessibility for the private living area,

Tienen, is a small Belgian city, which perifery is already a strategic location for residential and commercial expansions of surrounding bigger cities.The client asked to densify the lot providing a renovation for the existing family house, new family houses` typologies (private entrance) and offices, to be combined in a private inner courtyard rather than the common, banal street access.

Projects I`ve worked on:

Stelle Marine

Direct assignment. Activity park and garden for a leisure boutique hotel in Costa Smeralda. (IT)

Eden Rock

Direct assignment. Proposal for the steep landscape surrounding a villa. (IT)

Arkadia

Direct assignment | Proposal for the landscape surrounding a coastal villa. (IT)

Scheme Garden Park

The project comprises two phases, at first a landscape design is proposed for the new hotel expansion, comprehensive of a teatrical use of low blooming flowers, low shrubs and trees. A second phase foresee the design of an activity-park, were endemic mediterranean species make the stage for a leisure park were a range of platforms and paths, is intended to host a variety of activities and finally strenghten the connection with the marvellous shore.

Visuals

Masterplan

Arkadia

Softscape Hardscape

New trees

Existing trees

Wooden deck

Beach pool

Lawn

Low shrubs/blooming

Medium/High shrubs

Planters

Concrete planters

Reinforced grass

Wooden deck

Masterplan

Individual thesis project. Discover and design urban and architectonic requalications for border's condition areas. Autocad Corel Designer ArcGIS Revit Photoshop