Landscape Architecture Portfolio - Alessandra Torre

ALESSANDRA TORRE

PORTFOLIO

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CURRICULUM VITAE EDUCATIONAL Master degree in Landscape Architecture at University of Genoa - 2016 Bachelor degree in Architecture at The Polytechnic of Turin - 2014 Artistic high school diploma - 2010 SKILLS Artistic

Alessandra Torre I’m a hard worker.

I think I have the skills and the passion to handle a wide variety of tasks and, everything I don’t know, I learn it quickly, with the maximum commitment and enthusiasm for new challenges.

I can define myself creative and open minded, I work nicely as part of a team as well as on my own.

I've got excellent hand drawing skills and ability to generate conceptual sketches using different media.

I feel myself very bonded to the aesthetic and cultural values of my homeland, Italy, but I like to travel and have the chance to merge them with other cultures’ values and trends.

I’m looking for the opportunity to show what I can do and improve my skills and knowledge by learning everyday from the people around me.

Handdrawing Watercoloring

Digital

Autocad 2D SketchUp Photoshop Illustator InDesign Microsoft Office Vectorworks 2D

Botanical

Identification of the species Knowledge of European and Mediterranean palettes Project use of plants

Extra

Great relationship with clients Problem solving Multitasking and stress management

LANGUAGES Italian motherlanguage English fluent - IELTS 6.5 - B2 Russian fluent oral EXPERIENCES Workshops Bioengineering building in Varazze (SV) - IT Healing garden design in Milan - IT Work

Garden designer at Belderbos Landscapes - UK - 2016 - present Internship at Belderbos Landscapes in London - UK - 2015 Freelance designer for private clients - 2014 - 2016

Competition

YAC international competition: Wellness club Rebel's microbrewery garden - honor mention

CONTACTS E-mail torre_a@hotmail.it Phone +0039 335 82 73 005 - IT +44 (0) 77 68063 926 - UK AVAILABILITY One month notice.

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INDEX

WORKS

Master degree thesis............................................. 6 Re-design of a neglected garden............................................10 Private garden............................................12 Garden for a brewery............................................14 Thames Water Treatment Park............................................16

SKILLS

Masterplanning............................................20 Planting schemes............................................21 Details............................................22 Sketches............................................25 Watercolors............................................26

EXTRA

Photography & Drawing............................................28

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WORKS 5

Master degree thesis work.

Recovery of an abandoned and unfineshed stadium in Madrid, turned in an hanging park.

The focus of the project is traform modern ruins in amazing places to live and be enjoyed by the inhabitants.

Is an intense merging work between hard architecture and landscape, and will include a layered park, and urban farm, restaurants and shops, and public housing. The aim is to create something so peculiar and varied that will attract any sort of user. The status in is still work in project.

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Have you aver seen a six-floor park?!

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Toona sinensis 'Flamingo' It's the pink tree symbol of this project!

THE PARK

THE 8 FARM

URBAN PARK

SHOPS AND INSTALLATIONS

HOUSING

IDROPONICA AND ACQUAPONICA

New ways to plant, grow, irrigate and enjoy plants while giving new life to abandoned concrete.

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TRADITIONAL FARMING

Private hospital in Alba (IT)

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View from above

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Private garden

Wimbledon, London (UK) This is a private backgarden designed on specific requests of the clients.

The family asked for a special place to enjoy the sun and have bbq’s in the weekends, they dind’t wanted much plants to look after but asked for a peculiar outline that would make they’re their garden unique.

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Garden for a brewery.

Rebel's microbrewery design contest.

Second place - honor mention Featured on: www.rebelsmicrobrewery.it/concorso The contest asked for a garden that would express the mood of the brewery using only recycled materials. We tried to make it pecouliar by using a wide range of materials: from pallets to bottles, jute bags, stoppers and pipes.

The project, called TASTE ROAD, it's a winding path paved with pallet planks. Along the way the visitor can discover all the steps of the brewering process: the plant, the fermentation, the bottling, finishing with the tasting.

The infographic on the left explains the different arrangements.

Excluding the recycled materials, the whole garden could be made with a budget around 250 Euros.

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Quick project view.

To explain the project to the clients in a quick and easy way.

Few hours after the brief the clients can already see what’s the project like and tell what they do or do not like.

Made with: SketchUp Photoshop

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Thames Water Treatment Park o Thames Water Hampton Water Treatment Works needed a restyling, a massive green project to bring some extra in their grey working site.

The aim of the project is to create a central prairie surrounded by a woodland, that can be walked throungh using two different paths.

The main decked path as the purpose to connect two major buildings, while the narrower circle one is made of gravel and allows the workers to enjoy a relaxing walk in the woods and reach pic-nic and recreation areas.

The central area in partLy left as simple lawn and partially filled with shurbus and wildflowers meadows.

Value: ÂŁ150.000

The project was designed while working for Belderbos Landscapes.

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View of a dining area

KEYMAP

Title

Ref No

Belderbos Landscapes Limited

The Palm Centre, Ham Street, Richmond, Surrey, TW10 7HA

KEYMAP

THAMESWATER/D02

Client

Thames water

Date

24/01/2017

Reg No 5099102

t: 020 8940 2832 e: info@belderbos.co.uk w: www.belderbos.co.uk

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3D Visualization1

Scale

Address

Wholesale Water South West London Hampton WTW Lower Sunbury Road TW122ES

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SKILLS 19

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Planting plans

Plant List - Simple ID

6-Ligustrum japonicum - pleached

1-Clematis x cartmanii 'Michiko'

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Latin Name

Common Name

Lily Turf 50 Liriope muscari Sarcococca23 Sarcococca confusa

Lily Turf

Untitled ID-4 18 Nepeta racemosa 'Walkers low'

Catmint

Sweet box

Untitled ID-15 14 Pachysandra term. 'Green Carpet' Untitled ID-29 5 Lavandula ang. 'Hidcote' Untitled ID-32 9 Verbena bonariensis Untitled ID-33 7 Hydrangea seemannii

34-Echinacea 'White Swan'

1-Rosa Gertrude Jekyll Climbing V

3-Sarcococca confusa

Climbing evergreen hydrangea

Untitled ID-42 6 Polystichum setiferum Untitled ID-57 7 Viburnum tinus Eve Prince

Soft Shield Fern

Untitled ID-67 4 Digitalis purpurea

Foxglove

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6-Verbena bonariensis 1-Pittosporum tobira

PLANTER

1-Clematis x cartmanii 'Michiko'

Untitled ID-78 9 Geranium Rozanne Cranesbill Untitled ID-83 8 Asplenium scolopendrium Hart's Tongue Fern Untitled ID-91 1 Pittosporum tobira Japanese Mock Orange 18-Verbena bonariensis

1-Hydrangea seemannii

Polystichum setiferum

1-Hydrangea seemannii

Asplenium scolopendrium

Viburnum tinus

Zantedeschia aethiopica

Untitled ID-116 6 Vinca major

3-Geranium Rozanne

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6-Geranium Rozanne

Untitled ID-139 4 Paeonia lactiflora 'Festiva Maxima' Untitled ID-140 2 Clematis x cartmanii 'Michiko'

2-Sarcococca confusa

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Periwinkle

'Hidcote' Untitled ID-127 4 Zantedeschia aethiopica 26-Lavandula ang. Lily of the5L Nile Untitled ID-137 2 Hydrangea paniculata vanilleangustifolia fraise vanille fraise 9-Lavandula 'ArticHydrangea Snow' BBQ Untitled ID-138 3 Echinops ritro 'Veitch's Blue' Veitch's Blue Globe Thistle

Existing Camellia to be transplanted

Festiva Maxima Peony Evergreen Clematis

1:100 1-Magnolia liliiflora 'Nigra' 1-Hydrangea seemannii

13-Geranium sylvaticum 'Album'

SUNKEN LIGHTWELL

15-Liriope muscari

11-Euonymus japonicus 'Microphyllus'

SLOPE

1-Magnolia liliiflora 'Nigra' 2-Sarcococca confusa

EXISTING OLIVE TREE TO KEEP

EXISTING LAURUS SHRUB TO BE TRANSPLANTED

PLANTER

PLANTER

PLANTER

4-Sarcococca confusa

Hydrangea seemannii 14-Pachysandra term. 'Green Carpet'

2-Buxus sempervirens 45

1-Hydrangea seemannii

Clematis x cartmanii 26-Euonymus japonicus 'Microphyllus' 5-Lavandula angustifolia 'Artic Snow'

Paeonia lactiflora

1-Hydrangea seemannii

11-Dwarf Polyantha - MARIE PAVIE

5-Buxus sempervirens 45

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29-Phlox divaricata 'Clouds of Perfume' 4-Nepeta racemosa 'Walkers low'

20-Geranium sylvaticum 'Album' Hydrangea paniculata 'vanilla fraise'

5-Nepeta racemosa 'Walkers low'

3-Sarcococca confusa

16-Euonymus japonicus 'Microphyllus' +0.00 EXISTING LAURUS SHRUB TO BE TRANSPLANTED

3-Viburnum tinus Eve Prince

53-Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote Blue' 2L 13-Geranium sylvaticum 'Album'

1-Hydrangea paniculata vanille fraise

31-Pachysandra term. 'Green Carpet'

TER RAC E

11-Euonymus japonicus 'Microphyllus' 1:100

53-Lavandula angustifolia 'Hidcote Blue' 2L

2-Sarcococca confusa

1-Sarcococca confusa

2-Paeonia lactiflora 'Festiva Maxima'

7-Liriope muscari

Digitalios purpurea

1-Hydrangea seemannii Existing Fig tree 4-Digitalis purpurea

Lavandula ang. 'Hidcote'

16-Euonymus japonicus 'Microphyllus' 20-Geranium sylvaticum 'Album'

2-Nepeta racemosa 'Walkers low'

5-Lavandula angustifolia 'Artic Snow'

3-Sarcococca confusa 3-Nepeta racemosa 'Walkers low'

EXISTING SHRUB

26-Euonymus japonicus 'Microphyllus' 11-Dwarf Polyantha - MARIE PAVIE

2-Sarcococca confusa

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3-Verbena bonariensis 1-Viburnum tinus Eve Prince 3-Echinops ritro 'Veitch's Blue'

4-Liriope muscari 1-Sarcococca confusa

PLANTER

2-Nepeta racemosa 'Walkers low'

PLANTER

1-Magnolia liliiflora 'Nigra'

2-Nepeta racemosa 'Walkers low' 1-Hydrangea paniculata vanille fraise

PLANTER

2-Paeonia lactiflora 'Festiva Maxima' 15-Liriope muscari 5-Lavandula ang. 'Hidcote'

3-Viburnum tinus Eve Prince Existing Fig tree

UTIL ITY

2-Buxus sempervirens 45

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5-Buxus sempervirens 45

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0 1-Magnolia liliiflora 'Nigra'

29-Phlox divaricata 'Clouds of Perfume'

Nepeta racemosa

Pachysandra terminalis

Liriope muscari

Verbena bonariensis

1-Hydrangea seemannii

Balcony detail PLANTER

4-Polystichum setiferum

PLANTER

1-Zantedeschia aethiopica

PLANTER 1-Zantedeschia aethiopica

8-Asplenium scolopendrium 2-Polystichum setiferum

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9-Liriope muscari

1-Zantedeschia aethiopica 1-Zantedeschia aethiopica

3-Vinca major

3-Vinca major

Title

3 7-Ligustrum japonicum - pleached

20-Sarcococca confusa

Ref No

Planting plan D'ANGELIN/D02 S.BIRCH

37-Liriope muscari

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Client

26-Euonymus japonicus 'Microphyllus'

Address

15 Drayton Gardens 4 SW109RY London

D'ANGELIN 3

Belderbos Landscapes Limited 1

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Reg No 5099102

t: 020 8940 2832 e: info@belderbos.co.uk w: www.belderbos.co.uk

Date

08/02/2017

Scale

1:100 @A3

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The Palm Centre, Ham Street, Richmond, Surrey, TW10 7HA

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Construction details.

Prepare planning documents, conceptual and schematic designs, construction details, technical specifications for a wide variety of public and private sector projects.

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Details design.

Designig itemes for different kind of clients: from fountains to playgrounds.

Physiotherapic mosaic.

A tool for rehabilitation that remediates impairments and promotes mobility. To allow patients to train outdoor in an enjoyable way. The wall is filled with colored cubes, sand filled, of different weights, the patients can move them to create works of art while training at the same time!

Made with: Photoshop

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Sketches.

Making on-the-go sketches is fundamental for a better comunication beteween the designer and the client.

Here you can see differnt drawings about the same garden project. It's been rewied lots of times so hand-drawing turns out to be the fastest way to update the ideas and put them down on paper.

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Watercolors.

Used for any kind of drawings: architecture, landscape, sketches.

Made with: Photoshop

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Ephemeralartistic artisticgardens. gardens.

Ephemeral

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EXTRA Architecture photography.

During my travels I like to take shots of beautiful architecture and landscapes I find.

Fashion and cartoon.

Hand drawing fashion model and cortoon characters are some of my favourite things to do in my spare time.

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THANKS! 29