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IAN LOSA URBANISM PORTFOLIO
IAN LOSAU R B A N I S M
P O R T F O L I O
PERSONAL DETAILS
IAN LOSA - urban design and planning
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: +447931164584 (UK) +41795165926 (CH)
Nationality: Swiss
Date of birth: 1st April 1985 (Locarno, Switzerland)
Website: cargocollective.com/ianlosa
I AM A YOUNG URBANIST KEEN ON qUESTIONING AND RESEARCHING CONTEMPORARY URBAN SPACE UNDER ITS MULTIPLE FACETS AND CONTRADICTIONS.
DRAWING ON A vARIED AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY ACADEMICAL BACKGROUND, I HAvE DEvELOPED A CRITICAL AND PERSONAL APPROACH TO PLANNING AND DESIGN ISSUES.
IN MY WORK, I ALWAYS TRY TO PUT COMPLExITY AND SENSITIvITY (TOWARDS USERS, SOCIAL ISSUES AND ENvIRONMENT) AT THE vERY HEART OF THE URBAN DEvELOPMENT PROCESS.
BESIDE CULTIvATING AN EvER-EvOLvING THEORETICAL AND RESEARCH-BASED KNOWLEDGE, I AM NOW LOOKING FOR A DEEPENING OF MY PRACTICAL ExPERIENCE IN URBAN INTERvENTION.
Education
Degrees
2013-2014 Urban Design Postgraduate Diploma, University of Westminster, London (UK)2008-2010 MSc in Urban Studies, University of Lausanne (Switzerland)2005-2008 BArts in Human Geography, University of Geneva (Switzerland)
Awards
2010 Master thesis project awarded with the Price of the Faculty of geosciences and environment of the University of Lausanne for excellence in research;
Complementary training
2014 Urban Design Field Trip, Univeristy of Westminster, urban sketching course, Montpellier (France);2010 "Creating new urban space", University of Lausanne/Institute of Urbanism of Grenoble/ University of West England, workshops of urban project, Lausanne (Switzerland)/Grenoble (France).
Work experience
2011-2013 Urban plannerDepartment of construction and planning 1, State of Fribourg, Fribourg (Switzerland)
2011-2012 Occasional lecturerInstitute of geography and sustainability 2, University of Lausanne, Lausanne (Switzerland)
2011-2012 Urban planner / urban designer (6 months internship)Division of urban planning and environment 3, City of Pully, Pully/Agglomeration of Lausanne (Switzerland)
- Analysis, control and monitoring of local development plans;- Technical and legal counselling to local authorities, urban planning firms and landowners;
- Contribution to the lectures of the module "sustainable urban planning and urban project" of the MsC in Urban Studies;
- Development of a design guidelines handbook for the local street-network ;- Collaboration to the development of design proposals for the improvement of local structural landscaped axis; - Elaboration of analytical surveys about the quality of local public space furniture and pavement materials.
IT & languages
Softwares Adobe creative suite (Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop), ArcGIS, qGIS, Google SketchUP, vectorworks.
Language skillsItalian: mother tongue, french: mother tongue, english: IELTS 7.5, german: basic knowledge.
2 Institut de géographie et de durabilité (IGD)1 Service des constructions et de l’aménagement (SeCA) 3 Division de l’urbanisme et de l’environnement (DUE)
RESUME
URBAN ANALYSIS
AS A PREREqUISITE OF EvERY URBAN PLANNING OR DESIGN ACTION, I
BELIEvE IN THE CAPITAL IMPORTANCE OF A SENSISTIvE AND DEEP URBAN
ANALYSIS.
THE USE OF A WIDE RANGE OF METHODS AND TECHNIqUES ALLOWS TO
RECORD ESSENTIAL FEATURES OF THE CITY (URBAN BLOCKS AND BUILDINGS
TYPOLOGY STRUCTURE, LEGIBILITY, TOWNSCAPE AND PUBLIC REALM
qUALITIES AND DEFICIENCIES, MOvEMENT PATTERNS AND ECONOMICAL
vITALITY, FOR INSTANCE). THE SYSTEMATIC RECORD OF THE "ESSENCE" OF
A PLACE REPRESENTS A SOLID BASE TO INFORM A RESPECTFUL AND GENTLE
INTERvENTION ON THE ExISTING URBAN REALM.
THIS PAGE SHOWS A SAMPLE OF ANALYTICAL OUTPUTS DEvELOPED FOR A
DESIGN PROJECT (UNIvERSITY OF WESTMINSTER, 2013) AIMING AT THE
REDEvELOPMENT OF THE "BORUGH AREA" (SOUTHWARK, LONDON).
Built
form
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acti
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epres
enta
tion
Sequ
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l stu
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town
scap
e ana
lysis
Exist
ing "u
rban
arm
atur
e"
vehicular movement
New Urban block
Green open space
Activity focusGreen linkPedestrian link
Landmark
FRAMEWORKS AND STRATEGIES
Func
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l stra
tegie
s & st
rate
gic p
rincip
lesUr
ban
desig
n fra
mewo
rk
THIS PAGE INTRODUCES POSSIBLE WAYS OF REPRESENTING STRATEGICAL ISSUES AND
PROJECT IDEAS.
ON THE TOP, AN URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK DEvELOPED FOR A PROJECT (UNIvERSITY
OF WESTMINSTER, 2014) AIMING THE REGENERATIONT OF THE "SOUTHALL GASWORKS"
(EALING, LONDON) IS DISPLAYED. ON THE BOTTOM, FUNCTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR
MOvEMENT/LANDUSE AND DEvELOPMENT PRINCIPLES FOR THE SAME PROJECT
("SOUTHALL GASWORKS" REGENERATION) ARE ILLUSTRATED.
GOOD AND EFFICIENT LOCAL-SCALE AND DETAILED URBAN DESIGN CAN ONLY BE ACHIEvED IF A
STRONG AND COHERENT STRATEGICAL vISION IS PREvIOUSLY DEvELOPED. IN THIS PERSPECTIvE,
IT IS vITAL TO ANCHOR EvERY PROJECT INTO A SOLID, LARGE-SCALE AND CONTExT-SENSITIvE
FRAMEWORK.
MORE PARTICULARLY, I BELIEvE THAT GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE AND MOvEMENT NETWORKS HAvE
A FUNDAMENTAL LINKING AND INTEGRATIvE POWER. FOR THIS REASON, I ALWAYS PUT THESE
TWO ELEMENTS AT THE HEART OF MY PROJECT STRATEGIES.
500m
300m
BoulevardPlaza Green link Canal walk
Boulevard Residential street Green open space
Crossrail multimodal plaza
Listed Watertower
Former gasworks tower recycled in an urban farm
THE PROJECT IS STRUCTURED AROUND THREE STRATEGICAL PRINCIPLES: SMART
ECOFRIENDLY MULTIMODALITY , URBAN AGRICOLTURE AS A CATALYST OF URBAN IDENTITY
AND LOCALLY ROOTED GREEN URBANITY. TO ACCOMADATE THE PROJECT OBJECTIvES,
A CAPILLARY GREEN MATRIx IS INTRODUCED WITHIN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD AND THE
SURROUNDINGS OF THE CROSSRAIL STATION SHAPED INTO AN ACTIvE GATEWAY.
I BELIEvE THAT WHAT DISTINGUISHES A SUCCESSFULL MASTERPLAN IS ITS CAPACITY TO
EFFICIENTLY RESPOND TO THE CONTExTUAL ISSUES AND CONSTRAINTS OF A SITE AND REvEAL
THE LOCAL POTENTIAL AT THE SAME TIME.
THIS PAGE SHOWS SAMPLE DRAWINGS ELABORATED FOR A DESIGN PROJECT UNIvERSITY OF
WESTMINSTER, 2014) AIMING THE REGENERATION OF THE «SOUTHALL GASWORKS» (EALING,
LONDON).
MASTERPLANNING
Maste
rplan
Long
secti
ons
3D m
odel
of th
e buil
t stru
cture
ON THE BOTTOM, A CODING METHOD USED FOR THE MASTERPLANNING (UNIvERSITY OF
WESTMINSTER, 2014) OF THE «SOUTHALL GASWORKS» SITE (BOROUGH OF EALING,
LONDON) IS SHOWN. THE DEvELOPED CODE SUGGESTS TO DIvIDE THE PROJECTED
NEIGHBOURHOOD INTO A LIMITED NUMBER OF TYPOLOGIES OF URBAN BLOCKS AND
STREETS. GUIDELINES AND DEvELOPMENT INDICATIONS HAvE THEN BEEN FORMULATED
FOR EvERY TYPE OF SPACE.
WELL-DESIGNED URBAN ENvIRONMENTS ARE NOT ONLY ACHIEvED THROUGH APPLICATION OF
RIGID FORMS OF PLANNING. IN SOME CASES, DEFINITION OF «SOFTER» INSTRUMENTS, LIKE
DESIGN GUIDELINES OR URBAN CODING FOR INSTANCE, CAN CONSTITUTE vALID MEASURES.
THIS PAGE SHOWCASES ExAMPLES OF SUCH DESIGN OUTPUTS. ON THE TOP, A SAMPLE OF
GUIDELINES FOR THE DESIGN OF INCLUSIvE AND qUALITY-ORIENTED PUBLIC SPACES IS
PRESENTED. THIS BROCHURE HAS BEEN ELABORATED AS PART OF MY MASTER THESIS
DISSERTATION IN URBAN STUDIES (UNIvERSITY OF LAUSANNE, 2010).
GUIDELINES AND CODING
Desig
n gu
idelin
es (s
ample
)Ur
ban
block
s and
stree
ts co
ding
(sam
ple)
THIS SECTION PRESENTS vISUALISATIONS PRODUCED DURING THE ELABORATION OF TWO
PERSONAL URBAN PROJECTS : ON TOP, THE REGENERATION OF A DISUSED RAILWAY EDGE
IN FRIBOURG; ON THE BOTTOM, A GREEN SPINE DESIGNED FOR THE DEvELOPMENT OF A
GREENFIELD AREA IN GENEvA (SWITZERLAND).
I FIRMLY BELIEvE THAT CONTEMPORARY URAN SPACE NEEDS TO BE DESIGNED TO FULFILL THE
COMPLExITY OF PEOPLE NEEDS. DURING A PERIOD OF PROJECT BUILDING, IT IS IMPORTANT TO
PRODUCE IMAGES CAPABLE OF GIvING EFFICIENT INDICATION OF THE ExPECTED CHARACTER OF
A NEWLY DESIGNED ENvIRONMENT TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DEvELOPMENT
PROCESS.
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CHARACTER VISUALIZATION
