Landscape and Urban Design Portfolio

Dordrecht Stadspark XXL Ex-Macello Redesign

Hoofddorp Stationsgebied

Ponticelli Under the Volcano

Ruimtelijke Studie Binckhorst

I am writing this letter to introduce myself and to express my motivation for working in your office and gaining experience and face new challenges to fully expand and evaluate my skills and passion in professional career.

Firstly, having the experience of working in two different offices in two different offices in Netherlands (Flux Landscape architecture and Basic City Office) for one year and previously in Massimo Novati’s office in Italy, has made me capable of dealing with various urban and landscape issues by deep analysis of the situation, proposing ideas and visualization techniques..

Secondly, thanks to my Urban Planning bachelor and Landscape Design master’s degree from Politecnico di Milano, my studies have been in the multidisciplinary aspects of urban and landscape. Therefore, I have gained various skills in decision making, mapping, drawing, modelling, and presenting. The tools which contribute to them are mostly QGIS, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketchup, Enscape, Rhino, and Microsoft Office.

Besides, the scopes of the researches I had, demonstrates my interest in widening my knowledge in various fields. Having done a paper in environmental geochemistry filed entitled “Combined GIS-experimental evaluation and fate mapping of heavy metal contaminations at Lambro River basin, Italy” and my thesis project entitled “Post-Covid Ex-Macello: Optimization and Modification Implying Integrated Modification Methodology” are to name a few.

Furthermore, working in groups with different numbers of people during my university and at work, has improved my cooperation skills. As communication plays an important role in group works, I have always been open to learn new helpful languages (like Dutch). Being fluent in English has always been of use.

It would be a great opportunity for me to be part of your team due to the compatibility of my knowledge and abilities with your requirements. My portfolio and resume, enclosed herewith for your consideration, includes additional information on my experience and skills. I hope you will take this letter as a sincere proof of my interest and motivation to work in this firm.

Lastly, I have the work permit for working in Netherlands and there is no need for further applications and bureaucratic works.

Kiana Nikoosiar Jahromi

Contcts:

Soetendaalsekade,58 B01, Rotterdam

K.nikoosiar@yahoo.com

(+31) 641116743

Experiences:

• A six-month apprenticeship in Flux Landscapearchitecture office based in Utrecht. (Netherlands, September 2022-March 2023)

• A six-month internship in Basic City office based in Rotterdam. (Netherlands, September 2021- March 2022)

• A three-month internship in Arch. Massimo Novati’s office based in Cantu. (Italy, December 2020 -February 2021)

• Having participated in “Life Bridge” Contest. (Iran, 2020)

• Redesigning a district in Naples. (Italy, 2020). http://www.underthevolcano.eu/group14.html

• Redesigning a local children’s park, using degradable materials in “Chartabaqe” NGO under supervision of city council (Iran, 2017).

• Improving city landscape of a quarter in “Chartabaqe” NGO under supervision of city council (Iran, 2016).

Researches:

• An Environmental Geochemistry Paper entitled “Combined GIS-Experimental Evaluation and Fate Mapping of Heavy Metal Contaminations at Lambro River Basin, Italy, Nahid Vatanpour, Kiana Nikoosiar Jahromi, Javier Martinez Martinez, Massimo Pajoro, Laura Scesi, Amir Mohammad Malvandi, 2021.

• QGIS and ArcGIS application in Urban and Environmental scales and projects in scopes of presentation and analysis. Techniques and tools: Spatial Analysis, Spatial Statistics, Network Analysis, Model Builder, IDW, Kriging, ORS Tools, Shortest Path, Isochrones, OSM analysis, Point Sampling, Spatial Join.

• Urban analytic software such a Defenite, Space Syntax, and Meta-shape.

Software Skills:

Sketchup

QGIS

Enscape

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Indesign

Adobe Photoshop

AutoCAD

Microsoft Office

ArchiCAD

ArcGIS

Corel Video

Revit

Language Skills:

Persian

English

Italian

Dutch

Personal Skills:

• Was a member of English Translation Team in two scientific journals: ATELIER AZAD, ECO-CITY (Iran, 2014-2017).

• IELTS band score 8. (Reading:8.5 - Listening:8.5 - Speaking:8 - Writing:6)

• Having participated in two photography contests.

• Was a member of volunteery community of “Institue for Support of Children with Cancer”.

• Interested in Tennis, Dancing, and Bullseye shooting.

• Abilities: Cooperation skills in teamwork, Eager for learning new things, High level of patience, Problem solving, Taking new challenges, Multitasking, Hard working, Research abilities, Management ability, Able to analyze different aspects of an issue, Attention to details.

To Whom It May Concern,

To Whom It May Concern,

Kiana Nikoosiar has been working at Flux as an intern from September 2022 untill March 2023. Within this period she worked on the following projects:

From Flux landscape architecture

Ravenoord 238 3523 DB Utrecht

Kiana Nikoosiar has been working at Flux as an intern from September 2022 untill March 2023. Within this period she worked on the following projects:

• Hoofddorp Stationsgebied urban and landscape design, climate adaptive planning

Date 16-01-2023

• Dordrecht City Park XXL analysis, park design, mobility

From Flux landscape architecture

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Date 16-01-2023

Our reference Letter of reference

• Hoofddorp Stationsgebied urban and landscape design, climate adaptive planning

Our reference Letter of reference

• Nieuwegein tender garden design, concept schemes

• Dordrecht City Park XXL analysis, park design, mobility

• Nieuwegein tender garden design, concept schemes

• Strandeiland tender competition, schemes, design public space

• Strandeiland tender competition, schemes, design public space

• Nijmegen Hezelpoort competition, design roof garden

• Nijmegen Hezelpoort competition, design roof garden

To Whom It May Concern, Kiana Nikoosiar has been working at Flux as an intern from September 2022 untill March 2023. Within this period she worked on the following projects:

Kiana is very motivated and shows initiative. During her working experience at Flux Kiana participated actively in teamwork and could also work independently. She worked on a variety of projects on different scale levels with themes like climate responsive planning and new forms of ecology. Kiana is presize, analytical and has a systematic approach. Moreover Kiana is good at visualizing concepts, is independent and communicates well within the team. She performed with enthusiasm and has an open minded character that contributed to a good team spirit. We wish Kiana all the best and lots of success in her future career.

To Whom It May Concern, Kiana Nikoosiar has been working at Flux as an intern from this period she worked on the following projects:

Kiana is very motivated and shows initiative. During her working experience at Flux Kiana participated actively in teamwork and could also work independently. She worked on a variety of projects on different scale levels with themes like climate responsive planning and new forms of ecology. Kiana is presize, analytical and has a systematic approach. Moreover Kiana is good at visualizing concepts, is independent and communicates well within the team. She performed with enthusiasm and has an open minded character that contributed to a good team spirit. We wish Kiana all the best and lots of success in her future career.

Yours faithfully,

Yours faithfully,

Gerwin de Vries

Gerwin de Vries

Owner/landscape architect Flux landscape architecture

Owner/landscape architect Flux landscape architecture

• Hoofddorp Stationsgebied urban and landscape

• Dordrecht City Park XXL analysis, park design,

• Nieuwegein tender garden design, concept

• Hoofddorp Stationsgebied urban and landscape design, climate adaptive planning

• Strandeiland tender competition, schemes,

• Dordrecht City Park XXL analysis, park design, mobility

• Nijmegen Hezelpoort competition, design

• Nieuwegein tender garden design, concept schemes

• Strandeiland tender competition, schemes, design public space

• Nijmegen Hezelpoort competition, design roof garden

Kiana is very motivated and shows initiative. During her actively in teamwork and could also work independently. different scale levels with themes like climate responsive is presize, analytical and has a systematic approach. Moreover is independent and communicates well within the team. open minded character that contributed to a good team of success in her future career.

Kiana is very motivated and shows initiative. During her working experience at Flux Kiana participated actively in teamwork and could also work independently. She worked on a variety of projects on different scale levels with themes like climate responsive planning and new forms of ecology. Kiana is presize, analytical and has a systematic approach. Moreover Kiana is good at visualizing concepts, is independent and communicates well within the team. She performed with enthusiasm and has an open minded character that contributed to a good team spirit. We wish Kiana all the best and lots of success in her future career.

Yours faithfully,

Yours faithfully,

Gerwin de Vries Owner/landscape

Date: 16-01-2023

Place: Utrecht

architect

Flux landscape architecture

To Whom It May Concern,

To Whom It May Concern,

Hereby I want to recommend Kiana Nikoosiar Jahromi for a position in your office.

BASIC CITY

ARCHITECTURE + URBANISM

WWW.BASICCITY.EU

Oostzeedijk 244

3063 BP Rotterdam

T +31107523938

E info@basiccity.eu

Hereby I want to recommend Kiana Nikoosiar Jahromi for a position in your office.

ARCHITECTURE + URBANISM

WWW.BASICCITY.EU

Kiana joined Basic City A+U in October 2021 as an intern. In our office she operated as on a variety of urban planning and public space design projects. Kiana’s input was of great value on the Zonweg-Maanweg project, a study for the integration of public transport in the Binckhorst The Hague. She also worked on the visualizations of numerous other projects, where her ability to translate public space proposals into legible well-constructed images of a high visual quality, was visible in its full swing.

Kiana joined Basic City A+U in October 2021 as an intern. In our office she operated as on a variety of urban planning and public space design projects. Kiana’s input was of great value on the Zonweg-Maanweg project, a study for the integration of public transport in the Binckhorst The Hague. She also worked on the visualizations of numerous other projects, where her ability to translate public space proposals into legible well-constructed images of a high visual quality, was visible in its full swing.

She is comfortable working in a variety of fields at different scale levels, from urbanism to landscape. Kiana’s critical contribution in Basic City lies in participating in conceptual designs for public spaces through different means such as analysis, 3d modelling and visualization.

Date: 25-2-2022

Date: 25-2-2022

Place: Rotterdam

She is comfortable working in a variety of fields at different scale levels, from urbanism to landscape. Kiana’s critical contribution in Basic City lies in participating in conceptual designs for public spaces thro ugh different means such as analysis, 3d modelling and visualization.

To Whom It May Concern,

Place: Rotterdam

A pleasant personality to work with, Kiana is a reliable team player. She is capable of grasping the structure of projects, as well as importance and place of her contributions.

A pleasant personality to work with, Kiana is a rel iable team player. She is capable of grasping the structure of projects, as well as importance and place of her contributions.

Best,

Best,

Bart Pouw

To Whom It May Concern,

Bart Pouw

Hereby I want to recommend Kiana Nikoosiar

Kiana joined Basic City A+U in October planning and public space design projects. a study for the integration of public transport visualizations of numerous other projects, well-constructed images of a high visual

Hereby I want to recommend Kiana Nikoosiar Jahromi for a position in your office.

She is comfortable working in a variety critical contribution in Basic City lies in different means such as analysis, 3d modelling

Date: 25-02-2022

Place: Rotterdam

A pleasant personality to work with, Kiana projects, as well as importance and place

Kiana joined Basic City A+U in October 2021 as an intern. In our office she operated as on a variety of urban planning and public space design projects. Kiana’s input was of great value on the Zonweg-Maanweg project, a study for the integration of public transport in the Binckhorst The Hague. She also worked on the visualizations of numerous other projects, where her ability to translate public space proposals into legible well-constructed images of a high visual quality, was visible in its full swing.

Flux Landscapearchitecture

Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2022-2023

Increasingly, Dutch people exercise outside, not tied to a sports’ club. Walking, running, sport cycling, in-line skating and boot camps are among the most common forms of ‘disorganized’ or ‘differently organized’ outdoor sports. The municipality of Dordrecht recognizes the importance of this trend and is directed to get the interests of outdoor athletes on the agenda.

The aim of this project is to translate the insights into spatial wishes and use of space into concrete opportunities to make the outdoor space more attractive for outdoor sports enthusiasts. Therefore, a city-scale park was asked to be designed, in a way to increase the liveability of the area from various separated sport fields into a united park which attracts not only the athletes to stay in the area and mingle, but also pedestrians and cyclists to choose it as a destination.

• The images indicated by “for presentation”, are the ones done by my colleagues, but are placed here for better understanding the project.

Route Structure : Suggested Park-Loop and Tiles

Struinpad

Parkpad

Parkloop

Stadspolders

A-A’ Wide Nature Strip With Separate Park Run

B-B’ Wide Amphibious Nature Strip And Elevated Park Run With Grandstand

aanleg of versterken van amfibische natuur verdichten groen parkloop, parkpad of struinpad sportveld

A-A’ Wide Nature Strip With Separate Park Run

B-B’ Wide Amphibious Nature Strip And Elevated Park Run With Grandstand

aanleg of versterken van amfibische natuur verdichten groen

Krommedijk

E-E’ Spacious Entrance To The City Park With Catering In The Plinth And Play Nature

F-F’ Active Sports Square At The Parkloop

aanleg of versterken van amfibische natuur verdichten groen parkloop, parkpad of struinpad sportveld

Proposed Proposed

Schenkeldijk

G-G’ Water-Storing Polder Park At The Water Tap

H-H’ Activity At The Park Run, Strolling Paths Between The Sports Fields

aanleg of versterken van amfibische natuur verdichten groen

parkloop, parkpad of struinpad sportveld

Proposed Proposed

Intersections of existing roads and Park-Loop

Flux Landscapearchitecture

Hoofddorp, Netherlands, 2022-2023

Hoofddorp is about to enter a new phase. Because it was still a small polder village until the 1960s. But from 1970, Hoofddorp has developed as a growth center, and the number of inhabitants rose from 9,000 to 73,000 in 40 years. Characteristically, this rapid growth took place on the outskirts of Hoofddorp, with a strict separation between living and working. Now we introduce the third development phase. We plan to redevelop or even repurpose the existing areas of Hoofddorp. Think of the offices in Beukenhorst, which may be a great place for apartments. The development of Hoofddorp will therefore not stop, but will be more controlled and continued within the built-up area. At the same time, we can make Hoofddorp much more sustainable.

But building houses in the existing core will not get you there. We also want to make Hoofddorp a lively, sustainable and easily accessible city. You can read about how we intend to do this in this partial structure vision.

• The images indicated by “for presentation”, are the ones done by my colleagues, but are placed here for better understanding the project.

Ringvaart

Polderlint

Geniedijk

Rijkaweg

Hoofddorp

Schiphol

Green Structure

For Presentation

Component Network Structure

For Presentation

For this vision, we approach Hoofddorp on five different scale levels, large to small and from landscape to public spaces in the neighborhoods to building-related greenery.

1. Ruimtelijke systemen

2. Stadslijnen

3. Serie van parken en pleinen

4. Openbare ruimte deelgebied

5. Groen op blokniveau

A good and green interpretation of public space can provide an impulse for biodiversity, climate and health. A public space with attention to a good quality of stay and solid green landscape structures. In this, health will be stimulated by the opportunities for exercise (sports, walking, cycling, playing), meeting (quality of stay, inviting people to go outside) and physical condition (air quality, coolness).

Three Main Themes

1. Spatial systems

Continuous green structures

2. City lines

Tree lined avenues and green verges

3. Family of squares

Unpaved squares, green up to the maximum

4. Public space sub-area

Sunken facade gardens, green parking spaces

5. Block level green

Green roofs, facades and courtyards

1. Spatial systems

Large water structures in polder

2. City lines

Canal Streets and Rain Streets

3. Family of squares

Water squares, wadis

4. Public space sub-area

Sunken facade gardens, street rain gardens

5. Block level green

Water retention on roofs and in the courtyards

1. Spatial systems

Large structures and connections

2. City lines

Squares, small places i.c.m. to play

3. Family of squares

Waterpleinen, wadi's

4. Public space sub-area

Sunken facade gardens, residences residential street

5. Block level green

Collective courts, roof gardens

fietspad

autoweg/fietsstraat

R-NET weg

trottoir

woonstraat

plein

buurtplein

doorgang/tunnel

goene straat

park

stadslijn

infrastructureel groen

binnentuin

ruimtelijke systeem

kanaal

brug

bestaande boom

nieuwe boom

For Presentation

nieuwe boom (conflict met K&L)

1.Bosplein

2.Waterplein

3.Stationplein 4.Sportplein

Existing

Proposed

Existing a.a’Van Heuven Goedhartlaan b.b’Railway Zone c.c’Linear Park

Proposed

Basic City Office

The Hague, Netherlands, 2021

This study of the Maanweg and Zonweg concerns a spatial exploration of both profiles. The two streets are located in the Binckhorst and fall under the current environmental plan for the Binckhorst. Both streets are part of the Binckhorst environmental plan pilot, from which the renewal will (partly) be paid for and both profiles are also possible HOV routes from the MIRT. The study of the Zonweg and Maanweg should result in a number of (spatial) scenarios for how these profiles can be renewed with or with-out HOV (MIRT routes). The scenarios visualize the complexity of the situation and make it possible to make an integral assessment between the various aspects that play a role in the renewal of the profiles.

The study aims to develop a broader understanding of the spatial-programmatic context in which the streets play a role. It is an integrated approach that does not only concern solving infrastructural issues. The ambition is to create a good part of the city in which a street profile is an important carrier of urban developments that determine the quality, atmosphere and image of an area.

Environmental vision and plan for public space

The public space plan map Binckhorst is a concluding map showing the public space network of the Binckhorst. Important ambitions that have been laid down in the map and for the Zoneweg and Maanweg are:

• Accessible for pedestrians, cyclists and cars;

• Strengthen tree structure and preserve existing trees;

• Influence of the cemetery zone on Zonweg;

• Moon Road Ecological Zone

Cables and pipes

There are pipelines in the Binckhorst with restrictions for their environment. These pipes have obstruction zones of different sizes. There are a number of heavy pipelines in the Zonweg that are not easy to move.

In this street there is a complex situation in the subsoil that influences the possibilities for renewal of the profile.

Boundaries: properties and ecological zone

Within the study area a number of plots are privately owned. The majority of the plots is municipal land, including leasehold situations with existing users. These ownership situations affect the use of space in the new profiles of the Zonweg and Maanweg. Another hard limit is the ecological zone on the south side of Maanweg

Developments and existing buildings

There are a number of plots on Zonweg and Maanweg that will be redeveloped. Such as the HAC location and the Hallen on the Zonweg and the master plan of Posad Maxwan on the Maanweg.

In addition, existing buildings and users that have already been transformed (the KPN cluster), may be transformed or will remain in use (the Haagse Veste). These situations affect the renewal options of the Zonweg and Maanweg

Existing Situation of Maanweg

Plan Map of Maanweg

Existing Situation of Zonweg

Plan Map of Zonweg

HOV Stop

Integration of HOV has an impact on plots and ecological zone. Sewer must be relocated to accommodate a row of trees.

Integration of HOV has an impact on plots. Opportunities to push through ecozone under light rail. Sewer must be relocated to accommodate a row of trees.

Without the integration of HOV, there is sufficient space to renew the profiles for all modalities and to introduce more greenery and trees

Integration of HOV has an impact on plots and ecological zone. Sewer must be relocated to accommodate a row of trees.

Integration of HOV has an impact on plots. Opportunities to push through ecozone under light rail. Sewer must be relocated to accommodate rows of trees

Without integration of HOV, there is sufficient space to renew the profiles for all modalities and to introduce more greenery and trees.

Integration of HOV has an impact on plots and new developments.

Integration of HOV has an impact on plots and new developments. Under the light rail, there are opportunities to increase the ecozone

Without integration of HOV, there is sufficient space to renew the profiles for all modalities and to introduce more greenery and trees.

Maanweg East

Maanweg West

A-A’

A-A’ : Existing and Proposed

B-B’ : Existing and Proposed

Water

Existing K&L: Low voltage Medium voltage Sewer

Reservations: Drainage, Sewer

Heat House connections

Potential water storage/infiltration

Impression of the intersection Maanweg-Regulusweg

Impression crossing Maanweg-Melkwegstraat

Impression of the intersection Maanweg-Binckhorstlaan

Green Ecozone

Exceeding the Limit of Ecozone

GRAPHICAL VISUALIZATIONS

The documents in the folowing pages represent the graphical visulaizations of different projects done in different stages of the professional works in Flux and Basic City. The major softwares used are:

Sketchup

Enscape

Adobe Creative (Illustrator - Photoshop)

BasicCity- Nijmegen project

BasicCity- Kortrijk project

Flux- Nijmegen project

Basic City- Barndegat project

Basic City- Nijmegen project

Flux- Amsterdam project

Flux- Amsterdam project

BasicCity- Kortrijk project

BasicCity- Kortrijk project

BasicCity- Kortrijk project

BasicCity- Kortrijk project

BasicCity- Kortrijk project

BasicCity- Breda project

BasicCity- Breda project

BasicCity- Kortrijk project

Professors: Massimo Tadi, Ozge Ogut

C0-Author: Mahya Hasheminamin Milan, Italy 2022

This project is trying to demonstrate a more sustainable method than urban sprawl for future urban developments, and taking as a prototype for retrofitting and optimization, the former slaughterhouse of the city of Milan, Ex Macello to imply the rules of Integrated Modification Methodology, or shortly, IMM. It is a fully integrated four-phase design process and a set of guiding Design Ordering Principles to trans-form an existing urban context into a more sustainable one. The main four steps are Diagnostics, For-mulation, Transformation, and Retrofitting. QGIS was the software used in Diagnostics and Retrofitting stages. Regenerating the area alongside with some other areas in the city was part of a C40 competition named Reinventing Cities, which was initiated to stimulate ambitious carbon-neutral developments. The DOPs, correlated with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), defined by UN Agenda 2030 are the ones chosen. SDG has 17 categories in total and SDG 11, discusses the field of study specifically: Sustainable Cities & Communities.

What is IMM?

IMM is the acronym of Integrated Modification Methodology, an innovative design methodology based on a specific process with the main goal of improving the CAS (complex adaptive systems) energy performance, through the modification of its constituents and optimization of the architecture of their ligands. Its approach is fundamentally Holistic, Multi-Layer, Multi-scale.

IMM methodology is based on a multi-stage process composed of four different but fully integrated phases. IMM methodology through an interconnected Phasing Design Process shows how incorporating a wide range of issues makes it possible to improve the metabolism of the city as well as its energy performance.

IMM design lab by a science based diagnostic approach provides to designers, local authorities, decision-makers, and stakeholders a full understanding on how and why urban systems perform the way they do and a decision support tool for transformation actions aligned to the UN 2030 SDGs. IMM is a tool also able to quantify the effects of modifications in the various areas by performance indicators.

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-Balancing the Distribution of Functions

-Making Biodiversity an Important Part of Urban Life

-Converting the City into a Food Producer

City as a food producer contains a variety of activities that most fall under the category of greenery as well. Restaurant/café gardens produce fresh organic groceries in micro scale for the use of their kitchens as well as creating a pleasant outer space for their customers. Urban farm can contribute to production of goods needed by the neighborhood that can be sold in the farmers markets.

This not only reduces the transportation and distribution carbon footprint but is also counts as an important physical workout. Vertical farms as the future of the food production industry have also been included in the program of the ex macello building to which all the aforementioned qualities can apply.

-Implementing Permeability To Facilitate Urban Flow

WIND ROSE

SUN-SHADE

Phase IV: Retrofitting

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Professors: Andreu Arriola, Aurorarosa Alison Naples, Italy 2020

http://underthevolcano.eu/group14.html

La Marina del Prat Varmell is the area between Metal-Lurgia, Foc, Cisell and Mare de Deu del port streets. Under the metropolitan master plan amendment, this former industrial area is being turned into a new mixed-use district in which homes and businesses are perfectly compatible, making it one of the highest profile parts of Barcelona. The goal is to improve social cohesion and to recover identity of the place, preserving the existing tissue and promoting mixing of users, housing, economic and productive spaces, Also focusing on the youth of Barcelona and people vising the neighborhood with Youth center and Multi-religious space for the community. Our approach towards the design is to create a sustainable interface linking dense community living with well designed green infrastructure.

Psychogeographic Map

Our experience of space as a practiced place changes gradually as the surrounding urban environment evolves around us. An urban journey/drifting starts and ends without any predefined plan in mind, A big interactive “database” of sounds, smells, images, faces, ideas, and notions, is dispersed throughout smaller parts which all together defines the “urban puzzle”, the city.

In our case, while close observation and face-to-face communication with inhabitants was impossible, we started to make the drift map and the psychogeographic map by collecting information through official documents related to Ponticelll District, the Google Map and Google Earth pictures and searching in detail about our specific area (Parco Galeazzo).

Drift Map

Bioswales are useful low-impact development work to decrease the velocity of storm water runoff while removing pollutants from the discharge. They are extremely beneficial in protecting surface water and local waterways from excessive pollution from storm water runoff. The longer the runoff stays within the bioswale, the better the pollutant removal outcome. It is also beneficial in re-moving standing ponds that could potentially attract mosquito. Bioswales can also be designed to be aesthetically pleasing and attract animals and create habitats. Bioswales can also be beneficial for groundwater recharge.