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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

URBAN + PUBLIC REALM

GARDENSCURRICULUM VITAE

Smoky ValleyMontreal, Canada

Université de Montréal

DunkelhölzliZurich, Switzerland

SZL

Morin-Heights, Canada

Polyfeld MuttenzBasel, Switzerland

SZL

Diemen-ZuidDiemen, Netherlands

Bureau B+B

Tête GVAGeneva, Switzerland

SZL

Symphonie d’ÉrisMetis, Canada

Miscellaneous

VectorworksAutoCADAdobe Creative Suite Microsoft OfficeSketchUp

SKILLS

FrenchMother tongue

EnglishProficient level

SpanishLimited working proficency

VietnameseLimited working proficency

Dominik BückersStudio Vulkan+41 43 336 60 70

Arjan VergeerBureau B+B+31 6 54 31 88 39

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EDUCATION

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B. Sc. Landscape ArchitectureUniversité de Montréal B. Sc. Animal ScienceMcGill University

D.E.C. Health SciencesCollège Jean-de-Brébeuf

chieuanh.levan@gmail.com+1 (514) 705-6454

EXPERIENCE

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Landscape architecture internSite survey, research, landscape analyzes and studies, conception, technical drawings, vizualisations, models, presentationsSchweingruber Zulauf Landschaftsarchitekten (SZL)Zurich, Switzerland Landscape architecture internIdemKarres en BrandsHilversum, Netherlands

Landscape architecture internIdemBureau B+BAmsterdam, Netherlands

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This project is located in the heart of the Laurentian Mountains, in the southern province of Quebec. Working along with the architect, we decided on how and where the new cabin house should be implemented to optimize the setting in this wild and virgin forest and to minimize the impact on the site’s ecosystem. The cabin house is surrounded by the typical rough, rocky and mossy landscape found in this mountainous region, and it is embraced by tall pine trees. This landscape slowly changes on the hillside of the house and drops into a warm and flowery meadow. A few poplars and birch trees, typical trees from the boreal forest, scatter on the west side of the small field. The landscape intervention wants to be simple, yet reminiscent of the Canadian landscape.

1Preliminary design of the project

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2View from the meadow on the cabin house

Team: Daniel La France (architect), Anh Truong (designer)Year: 2015

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Dunkelhölzli is one of Zurich’s community gardens. It is located on the west side of the city, at the edge of the Ütliberg’s forest. Part of the mandate is to rearrange the family gardens while creating a recreational space for the neighbourhood and while considering the different regulations regarding the protection of the forest.Different shapes, arrangements and volumes were studied onto a model to establish the most optimal, useful and enjoyable space.

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1The model served as a base to play with different shapes for the community gardens, and with different volumes and equipment.

2The complete preliminary design

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Client: Grün Stadt ZürichProject leader: Michael GersbachYear: 2013

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This garden installation is a proposal for the Metis International Garden Festival where the theme was held on the “buzz”. The visitor is invited to discover a disorderly and incongruous botanical ensemble with curious and explosive structures, lush vegetation and unexpected geology. Colourful plants like the Santolina, the Alternanthera, the Solanum jasminoides et the Echevaria grow unknowingly on confusing, shaggy and tremendous “living rocks”. The floor is lined with various creeping thyme and little periwinkles, but also with gravel and concrete. The visitor can take a hazardous stroll on this marbled floor of changing suppleness. Other perennials and bushes add up to the irregularity of the scattered volumes in this garden. The visitor is seduced by this rich, spectacular and chaotic ecosystem that harmoniously balances organic and mineral textures.

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2Axonometric view of the garden

3Perspective on the shaggy and botanical “living rocks”

Client: Metis International Garden FestivalTeam: Sarah LacombeYear: 2014

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The mandate of this project is to provide a vision for a part of the city of Geneva for the next fifty years, in collaboration with architects, traffic engineers, land surveyor engineers and real estate consultants. This part of the city is particular due to its location near the airport, and due to its forthcoming densification and gentrification. Our vision was to provide a safe, enjoyable and ecological environment while maintaining a good connection between Geneva’s airport and centre.The main landscape concept is to reconnect the urban tissue which is broken by big infrastructures, such as highways and boulevards, with green links starting from the Rhône and drawing up towards important green structures located on the opposite north-eastern side. A series of secondary green links mesh with this network to connect important public spaces and urban polarities with safe and enjoyable transit spaces for pedestrians and cyclists. The feasibility of this vision was then put under study, in relation to the parcel lines, property owners, costs and financing, to project how the different neighbourhoods will be activated and how this vision could operate in the near and far future. This study will allow the city to anticipate further studies and to guide the pursuit of new developments. could operate in the near and far future. This study will allow the city to anticipate further studies and to guide the pursuit of new developments.

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1Master plan for 2050

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Client: État de GenèveTeam: KCAP, Ernst Basler + Partner, hkd géomatique, i-consultingYear: 2014

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4We were invited to take part of the jury for the “Micros-Labos Urbains”, a workshop between l’HEPIA (UAS) and the city of Geneva to create ephemeral installations as part of a first step towards our vision.© État de Genève

2Detailed projection of the main green link, the Natural Green Link.

3Diagram showing the different parameters taken in consideration when studying the feasibility of the Natural Green Link.

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DIEMEN-ZUID

Diemen-Zuid is located at the south-east from Amsterdam. We were asked to study different possibilities for the urban development of this densifying neighbourhood. With its proximity and good connection to one of the Netherlands’ metropolis, Diemen-Zuid’s mobility and traffic issues have been growing moderately. Its position enclosed between the river, the highway and the train tracks makes it difficult for the urban tissue to expand and disgorge the traffic. With traffic engineers, we offered different structural solutions for a better connections and traffic flows, as well as pleasant and safe spaces.

1Diagrams of historical analysis of Diemen-Zuid

2Adaptation of the new main road of the neighbourhood

3Safe pedestrian and cyclists zone and semi-public front gardens to residential buildings

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Client: Gemeente DiemenProject leader: Arjan VergeerYear: 2012

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POLYFELD MUTTENZ

Muttenz is an old industrial neighbourhood near Basel. With the implementation of the new polytechnic school, this neighbourhood will be activated and gentrified with new housing, businesses and public equipment. Our intervention was solely on the public realm, the landscape concept focused on the main streets and the connecting secondary roads. We also came up with a toolbox and a set of rules to guide the development of the streets and the implementation of future buildings.

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1Different street widths were studied in relation to the sidewalk, the parcel line and the building line.

2Axonometric diagrams showing different rules and options depending on the implementation of future buildings.

3Axonometric projection of the street with different implementations.

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Client: Gemeinde MuttenzProject leader: Sandra SchlosserYear: 2014

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Le Parc des Écluses is a piece of land created by the junction of two canals in the Old Port of Montreal. It is part of the industrial heritage of the port’s early 20th century infrastructures. The design for this project is based on the script development of an undefined route that puts emphasis on the monumentality of the grain elevator and its particular historical experience and atmosphere. History is recalled by the simplicity and the bold, brutal character of the materials. The industrial sound of a near-by refinery and the intermittent fog also reminds us of the time when all the port’s machinery used to resonate in the background. During the glorious industrial days, this area was even called “Smoky Valley” because of all the smoke created by the industry. The parcours eventually reaches a greener area, The Garden. It contrasts the rough and industrial atmosphere found at the beginning of the parcours, and creates a duality with a fresher and more peaceful side of the parcours. It also emphasizes exceptional views on Montreal’s skyline and the St-Laurent River; and it offers recreational and free spaces.

Bachelor’s final projectTeam: Sarah LacombeYear: 2011

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3The canal’s water tank reflects the grain elevator, it is The Mirror of this monumental heritage. The fluidity of the water contrasts with the brutality of the structure.

4The Garden offers recreational and free spaces. The near-by refinery generates a sound that reminds us of the industrial time.

1Concrete vertical plans lead an undefined route with framed and emphasized viewpoints on the surrounding city, the river and the grain elevator.

2This walkway called The Ice is a reminder of the ice sheets that used to break onto the city’s edge.

5Bird’s view of the project with the mineral area in front of the grain elevator and the garden in opposition. © Sarah Lacombe

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1Master plan for publication of Nieuwegein “blooming” city centre in the Netherlands.Office: Bureau B+B

4Schemes and sections for a cemetary in Trondheim, Norway.Office: Karres en Brands

5Adaption of the renaturalization of a pond in Vejle, Norway.Office: Bureau B+B

2Projection of the relationship between public and private spaces as part of a urban planning competition in Aalst, Belgium.Office: Bureau B+B

3Using a model to study the design of a residential project in Hoensbroek, Netherlands.Office: Bureau: B+B

Throughout the internships, I also worked on several projects and competitions where I learned to work within a team, to develop concepts, produce graphics while respecting tight schedules and deadlines.The following pages are a miscellanea of projects I have worked on.

MISCELLANEOUS

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CHIEU-ANH LE VANlandscape architectchieuanh.levan@gmail.com+1 (514) 705-6454