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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT SUSAN ISAWI
COVER LETTER I am 24 years old. I can speak Italian, English, Portugues, Spanish and Arabic. I have worked in three different countries since I Ieft school. I would describe myself as an outgoing but practical person (a good mixture I think) and someone who makes friends easily. My interests away from work are hand drawing and photography, which help me to express my point of view regarding different environments. I always like to try something new and challenging, and my most rewarding experience so far, it was the time I spent in Jordan helping refugees. It opened my eyes to the world outside my comfort zone and it gave me a more understanding and balanced perspective on the priorities in life. I am a graduate of a master degree in Advanced Architecture of Landscape at the University of Rome “ La Sapienza� and I previously studied my bachelor degree in landscape at The University of Rome and University of Evora. My studies have helped me to develop my architecture skills, learning to see different spaces in relation to their contest and use. Additionally, I have gained excel theoretical and practical computer skills regarding important architecture programs, such as Auto CAD, Microsoft Office, Adobe and other graphics communication programs. My attraction for landscape makes me constantly in search for contest that give me strong motivations for new challenges, with the aim of always developing creative projects. My previous study and work experience in several countries draws me to your drive towards increasing the international audience. I want to be involved in dealing with the varying landscape architecture challenges. I am always keen to build up my learning capabilities and to be regularly tested. I’m highly motivated for a new working experience in your organisation because I want to work on this field and I feel that I would be able to make a useful contribution as well as benefiting personally from the valuable experience it would provide. Indeed, over the past four years or so I have built up a good amount of relevant knowledge, experience and skills on a range of academic and workplace projects. For example, my placements in Italy gave me valuable know-how on leading a team, and on more detailed skills such as competency in building a landscape project, starting from gathering information about the area, to building a new ecological environment, taking into consideration each social aspect of the space. I have been absolutely sure for some time now that the landscape architecture is the world I want to do. Furthermore, one of my strength is the hand drawing, which is not for me only a hobby, but it helps me in my project to put into practice my ideas regarding the working enviroment, and it allows me to create each detail of
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
RAMIFICATION INDEX ACADEMIC WORKS
Tronto: Landscape planning and River Contract - Ascoli Piceno, Italy Waterfront Regeneration - Torvajanica, Italy Metamorphosis - Rome, Italy Into it - San Basilio ,Rome, Italy Suspended Gardens:Tangenziale est - Rome, Italy Restoration Historic Garden - Tor Fiscale, Rome, Italy Planification - Palestrina, Italy
RAMIFICATION MASTER THESIS PROJECT
Tronto: Landscape Planning and River Contract
The Tronto river runs through different types of landscapes: the urban landscape and the natural landscape. This area suffers from many others critical issues related to the accessibility of the river, infrastructure connections and the urban residual spaces, although the worst problem is the hydrogeological problem of the river’s flooding. Our project aims to solve all these problems by the use of bioengineering techniques which creates stable banks and risolves the soil erosion. The ecological corridors’ net with the river and an accessible waterfront have been masterplan priorities of our project, which aims to create an ongoing system in both natural and functional terms.
AREA ANALYSIS THE RIVER’S LANDSCAPES
URBAN LANDSCAPE
HISTORIC LANDSCAPE
AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE
INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE
RIVER MOUTH LANDSCAPE
MIXED LANDSCAPE
INFRASTRUCTURE
HYDROGRAPHY
URBAN STRUCTURE
ALTITUDE
RAMIFICATION MASTERPLAN
PROJECT - VEGETAL SPECIES
REQUALIFICATION - VEGETAL SPECIES
RIVER CONTRACT
The Tronto River contract creates an adaptation to the local environmental and socio-economical realities with an adequate partnership management. The importance of the mobilization around this project of institutional partners, as well as local collectivities, agricultural producers and water users in general reveals the great expectations of the actors concerning this new tool of water participative management
VEGETATION SYSTEM
OBJECTIVE
PROJECT ACTIONS Linking the restoration of rivers and riparian zones Riqualifation of the River waterfront
Riqualification ecological system
green infrastructure
AMTHROPIC SYSTEM
AMBIENTAL SYSTEM
Phitodepuration system
Reduce water pollution
Green roof
Naturalistic engineering
Reduction hydraulic risk
Creating a system for water management Increasing riparian vegetation
Public awareness
Public awareness by river committees
New path
Improving the use of the area
Recovery of degraded areas
River’s park Improper disposal activities Green network Neighborhood parks
PUBLIC
PARTNERS
PRIVATE
RIATTIVATION OF THE RESIDUAL SPACES
This area suffers from many others critical issues related to the accessibility of the river, infrastructure connections and the urban residual spaces. The project wants also to riattivates the green system inside the neighborhood. The reinventetion of residual spaces is the catalyst for the trasformations of the urban areas and it becomes a whole system in which the green spaces becomes parts of the river’s park.
INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM
ECOLOGICAL SYSTEM
RESIDUAL SPACES SYSTEM
Local pedestrian
Riparian vegetation
Residual spaces
Rural path
Ecological corridors
Bicycle path
Green network
Infrastructure
Parks
Riparian space
Green interstitial
Residual spaces are being reincorporated creatively into the Monticelli neighborhood. They are providing space for recreational activities, spiritual regeneration
TRASFORMATION RESIDUAL SPACES IN PARKS
GARDEN ROOM INSIDE THE URBAN SPACES
URBAN EMPTY SPACES ”The Third Landscape – an undetermined fragment of the Planetary Garden – designates the sum of the space left over by man to landscape evolution — to nature alone. Included in this category are left behind (délaissé) urban or rural sites, transitional spaces, neglected land (friches), swamps, moors, peat bogs, but also roadsides, shores, railroad embankments, etc. To these unattended areas can be added space set aside, reserves in themselves: inaccessible places, mountain summits, non-cultivatable areas, deserts; institutional reserves: national parks, regional parks, nature reserves” (Gilles Clement)
VEGETAL SPECIES
Natural regeneration and ecological recovery
INFRASTRUCTURAL BARRIER
INFRASTRUCTURAL MARGIN
ELEMENTS OF INTERRUPTION
WATERFRONT REGENERATION Requalification Torvajanica waterfront . The project aims to create a direct connection between the sea and the canal system through the environmental recovery. The project involved reorganizing of the landscape and infrastructure by the reorganization a functional waterfront which aims to restore the ecological and social value of the waterfront
MASTERPLAN
Reconfiguration of urban spaces Phitodepuration system Connection of the different landscapes Improving ecological system
WATERFRONT square
METAMORPHOSIS
The project aims to requalificate an urban degradated space. Starting from the concept of Metamorphosis which is best shown in Escher drawing. The metamorphosis becomes the central system and the project forms and the functionalities develop according to itrding to it
Reptile - M.C. Escher
MASTERPLAN INFRASTRUCTURE
GREEN NETWORK
SYSTEM OF FUNCTION
DYNAMIC SPACE
WATER SPACE
RIATTIVATION OF THE-RESIDUAL DECONSTRUCTION Square SPACES INCREASING RIPARIAN SYSTEM
DECONSTRUCTION - Garden
INTO IT
SHARED LIBRARIES
PLAYGROUND
DYNAMIC GREEN SHARED GARDENS
SOCIAL GREEN
The project aims to requalify the degradated neighborhood. The large volumes that characterize the area cause the absence of a connective space that is the true reason of degradation of the neighborhood. The goal of the project is the urban regeneration throught the trasformation of the main axis into a Linear Park
MASTERPLAN
RELATION BETWEEN PUBLIC SPACES - SERVICES - CONTEST
SUSPENDED GARDENS Imagine to create a high line park, which develops through the buildings and becomes the green system that we can see out from our high windows. This is what it could bring the reuse of a section of the high line called Tangenziale es. The new future for this type of infrastructure, which could be no more an impacting street but instead a linear park over our head
MASTERPLAN
GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE
AUTUMN COLORS
SPRING COLORS
RESTORATION HISTORIC GARDEN
Mending the Roman Acqueduct through the cane thicket which will resume the linear form of the archeological element. Connection of the hIstoric garden through the creation of public spaces which will create a green system
travertine slabs wear mantle of cement paste
concrete
steel mesh
cast concrete with steel mesh drained embankment and rolled
paved road lawn dominated by grasses
ballast gravel drained embankment and rolled
path clay
screed reinforced ballast gravel curb curb cast concrete
leveling layer of concrete
roadbed drained
PLANNING
Planning of the rural landscape, The project aims to study the Territorial Landscape Plan and compaRe it with the actual territory’s condition. The Plan’s revision will make possible the improvement of the plan and at the same time the creation of a masterplan which will consider all the aspects of this landscape. The protagonists will be the natural and anthropogenic landscape elements and structures such as characteristic plant communities, monument buildings and structures, objects of tourist interests, terrain topographic and geological features and uniqueness, tourist infrastructure.
COMPARATION BETWEEN THE TERRITORIAL LANDSCAPE PLAN AND THE ACTUAL AREA CONDITION (PTPR)
AREAS BOUNDED
CRITICS
RESOURCES
AREAS NOT BOUND
SITES OF REGIONAL AGRICOLTURAL AREAS INTEREST The PTPR provides The PTPR provides for the protection of for the control of natural habitats hunting activities
AGRICOLTURAL SYSTEM The PTPR provides for the protection of the agricultural system
WATER SYSTEM The PTPR provides for the creation of the public areas close to the water system
WOODED AREAS The PTPR provides for the recovery of the forest areas The PTPR don’t provides for the preservation of wooded areas
SITES OF ARCHEOLO- HISTORICAL ROADS GICAL INTEREST
The PTPR don’t provides for the preservation of the historical roads
VISUAL PROTECTED
URBAN SYSTEM The PTPR protect the historic center
the reality of the the place do not present any area with visual protected as indicated in the PTPR
REVISION OF THE TERRITORIAL LANSCAPE PLAN
PROTECTION OF THE ECOLOGICAL CORRIDORS AND CONNECTION BETWEEN THE LANDSCAPES
PROTECTION OF THE AGRICULTURAL SYSTEM AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE CONNECTION INSIDE THE RURAL LANDSCAPE
HAND DRAWING
The hand drawing it’s my way to express my point of view. I believe just through our hand and sketching in a paper we can really describe what we see or better how we would like to see a landscape. Our immagination becomes reality
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