selected VERONIKA KOVÁCSOVÁ works
name address telephone e-mail date of birth place of birth nationalisty
Veronika Kovácsová Czaar Peterstraat 102-E 1018 PS Amsterdam +31-6-18445961 veroni.kovacs@gmail.com v.kovacsova@student.ahk.nl 19. April 1984 Nové Zámky, Slovakia Slovak
Work experience
Working on a case study book on 9 streets in the Netherlands, reseraching their traffic and public space design; and on a renewal urban design plan of a post-war area in the western part of Amsterdam. September 2009 - July 2010 jr. urban designer at MUST Stedenbouw, Amsterdam Worked on projects with different scale - from street (the ‘Particuliere Stad’ project), neighbourhood (‘Geuzenveld Zuid and Buurt 5’) till a whole district (‘Noorderplassen island’, Gageldonk-West in Bergen op Zoom). Also, the projects ranged in type of assignment, from (design) studies (‘Noorderplassen island’), research (the ‘Particuliere Stad’) tills masterplans (‘Gageldonk West’, ‘Geuzenveld Zuid and Buurt 5’). March 2009 - August 2009 urban design intern at MUST Stedenbouw, Amsterdam
Education
curricul umvitae veronikakovacsova
September 2010 - now Internship at JAM* Architecten, Amsterdam
Personal details
September 2009 - now Master programe - Urban Design; Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam January 2009 - July 2009 Preparatory course Urban Design & Landscape Architecture Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam
Extracurricular Courses
September 2007 - February 2009 MSc. Urban Sociology, University of Amsterdam Focal courses: ‘Social Challenges for the City in a Globalizing World’ (by prof. dr. Sako Musterd) and ‘Cities in a Network Economy‘ (by prof. R. C. Kloosterman & P. Terhorst) Granted a scholarship /13 – 16/03/2009, Bruxelles, Charleroi (BE); 10 – 20/07/2009 Chemnitz, Chomutov (DE/CZ): ‘European City Seminars’ / Research project in European borderlands organized by www. europeancity.cz Granted a scholarship / 29/06/2009 - 10/07/2009, Central European University, Budapest (HU): Summer school ‘Public Management of Urban Change in Transitional Cities’ 05/08/2008 – 21/08/2008: Helsinki Summer School, University of Helsinki, Finland; Course ‘Representations of the City’ (courses on architectural, scientific and literary representations of cities by Prof. R. Beauregard)
09/2005 – 01 2006: Minor ‘People, Planet, Profit’, a sustainable development project carried out at the Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Tshwane (TUT), Pretoria, South Africa Languages
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Granted a scholarship / July 6 – July 19, 2008: IWM (Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna) Summer School ‘European Challenges’ in Cortona, Italy (courses on transformations of postsocialist societies and EU-Russia international relations by Prof. B. Geremek, L. Shevtsova, I. Katznelson, C. Offe, etc.)
Mother languages: Slovak and Hungarian (fluent) Other languages: Dutch (very good) English (very good), Czech (very good), German (intermediate)
List of rojects /work experience/
9/ Name of the project / Beeldverhaal Amersfoort West / Fase 1.
Role in the project / collecting photo materials (internet and on site), field reserach Duration / approximately 2,5 days
8/ Name of the project / Ruimtelijke verkenning MIRT - verkenning region Rotterdam en haven duurzaam bereikbaar Role in the project / drawing maps Duration / approximately 3 days
Bureau / JAM* architecten / 09-2010 - 04-2011 16/ Name of the project / Renewal plan Jacob Geelbuurt, Amsterdam
Role in the project / drawings of existing / new situation, participate in design / sketching processes Duration / approximately 30 days
15/ Name of the project / Stromen en Verblijven
Role in the project / make 3D drawings of the 12 case study street profiles Duration / approximately 90 days
Bureau / must stedenbouw / 03-2009 - 07-2010 14/ Name of the project / Renewal plan Geuzenveld Zuid and Buurt 5
Role in the project / make study drawings of the two whole areas and tree selected neighbourhoods within these areas, sequence drawings for comparison
13/ Name of the project / Brede School Poptahof Delft Role in the project / responsible for making the model Duration / approximately 5 days
7/ Name of the project / De Particuliere Stad
Role in the project / collecting research materials (documents, maps, photos), field and study research, analysis, drawing maps Duration / approximately 47 days
6/ Name of the project / Kop Amstelscheg / IABR Role in the project / building a model Duration / approximately 23 days
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Name of the project / Planstudie Ring Utrecht Knooppunt Hoevelaken Role in the project / collecting reference photos and creating a reference brouchure; assisting in drawing maps Duration / approximately 27,5 days
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Name of the project / Opstellen vernieuwingsplan buurt Bosleeuw Midden Role in the project / assisting in building a model Duration / approximately 2 days
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Name of the project / Stedenbouwkundig plan Randenbroek Zuid te Amersfoort Role in the project / assisting in building a model Duration / approximately 8 days
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Name of the project / Verwaardingen masterplan voor expo gebied in Hengelo Role in the project / assisting in building a model Duration / approximately 11 days
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Name of the project / Ruimtelijke analyse plannen Ijmeer - Markermeer Role in the project / assisting in collecting materials (maps, data, etc) in setting up posters for a travelling exhibition of urban and landscape plans of different offices; building up the exhibition at two locations (Amsterdam, Monnikendam) Duration / approximately 6,5 days
12/ Name of the project / Masterplan Gageldonk West
Role in the project / analysis, scale studies, sketches, responsible for making the final model Duration / approximately 35 days
11/ Name of the project / Landhof maquette / NAI
Role in the project / responsible for making the final model Duration / approximately 16 days
10/ Name of the project / Stedenbouwkundig ontwerp eiland Noorderplassen Role in the project / analysis, scale studies, sketches, responsible for making the final model Duration / approximately 22,5 days
Renewal plan Geuzenveld Zuid and Buurt 5
Geuzenveld-Zuid and Buurt 5 are two of the eleven designated renewal areas in the Western Garden Cities of Amsterdam. MUST took an integrated view of both these areas and drew up an action plan at the district level. The renewal areas have been divided into eight neighbourhoods, each with its own spatial and development characteristics and its own renewal objectives.
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MUST stedenbouw
private green
Geuzenveld Zuid and Buurt 5
public green
Slotermeerhof
Confuciusbuurt
(before) 2004
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Van Tijenbuurt
Legend / Green
public
(before) 2004
2010
phase 1
private semipublic
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Landhof maquette / NAI MUST stedenbouw
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MUST urban design has been by the Netherlands Architecture Institute selected together with other 21 urban design/landscape architecture and architecture offices from the Netherlands to take part in an international exhibition (Sao Paolo, Moscow and Rotterdam). For this exhibition, a model has been created of one of the projects MUST has been working on since 2007 - Landhof in Eindhoven. Illustrations by Michiel de Jong
Model
Scale / Material /
1:500 Wood, Museum cardboard, Perspex, Felt
Stedenbouwkundig ontwerp eiland Noorderplassen MUST stedenbouw
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The municipality of Almere has asked MUST to make a study, to look at an optimal way to feasibly develop the island in the Noorderplassen without pushing out the qualities of this place. From three proposed scenario designs, one have been worked out, with a final report and a model as end results.
Doorsnede 1:100 Profiles // streets on the island / scale 1:200
Profile sketches whole island // for final report
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Model
Scale / Material /
1:2000 Aluminium, Wood, Wire, etc
MUST stedenbouw
‘Vrijstaat Amsterdam’ was an exhibition organized by DRO Amsterdam for the 4th International Architecture Biënnale Rotterdam. Nine urban design, landscape architecture and architecture offices from the Netherlands were asked to show their vision of preselected parts of Amsterdam, with the means of building a model. Must designed and worked on the ladscape project - the metropolpark around the river Amstel. The design suggested a redevelopment of the 17th century landscape, with an argicultural usage of various types.
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Photo montage by Marijn van der Linden
Kop Amstelscheg IABR
Photos model
Scale / Material /
1:500 Acryl paint, candies, rubber, filler (plamuur), etc
De Particuliere Stad MUST stedenbouw
On this research project, MUST has been collaborating with Border Architecture. It is a vast study on 11 areas in the Netherlands, which have been established on the basis of private ownership. The aim of this research was to analyse, interpret and document the relations between the existing and pre-determined regulations in urban design and the created physical result. MUST and Border Architecture were mainly interested in the built and public space around the privately built dwellings and their usage and living qualities. The methodology has been divided into 3 phases. First, materials (regulation documents, maps, photos, etc) have been collected. Then these materials were processed into maps drawn, which continued with a qualitative (usage of space evalusated by means of taken photographs in the areas) and quantitative (data, calculations, regulations) analisys and consequently a final report.
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Mapanalysis // types, sizes and usage of spaces
6 / Distances between dwellings (between parcels - private terrain) Stripheldenbuurt/Almere
1 / Footprints of dwellings Klein Rieteiland/ Amsterdam
2/ Non-built area (black) Steigereiland/ Amsterdam
5 /Public spaces (black) Skoatterwald/Heerenveen 7 / Surface of the parcels (the smaller the darker the color) Zuiderburen/Leeuwarden
3 / Non-built area (black) with public space Graveland/Deventer
4/ Private spaces (black) Roombeek/Enschede
8 / Bredth of the parcels (the narrower the darker the color) Cronenburgh/Loenen aan de Vecht
9 / Distances between dwellings (between streets - public terrain) Waterrijk/Woerden
Skoatterwald / sides of the facade
Klein Rieteiland / fronts of facades
Photoanalysis // space and their usage, image
Roombeek / public space
Nesselande / private space
05 / 2011 school and other works on
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