Alessandra Baldo (ARB registered)
Email: Alesbaldo@hotmail.com
09/2009-01/2017
(M.Arch)
PROJECTS
Ebony HorsE Club
nEw HorsE Club
Studio: Fereday Pollard
Site London (UK)
Program: Reactivation of urban green space
The site was previously run as Surrey Docks Adventure Playground, managed by Southwark Council.
The primary objective of the proposal is to provide a local amenity, to raise aspirations and improve life skills, education and wellbeing of young people, from disadvantaged communities within the borough, through horse management, horse riding and youth work activities. The project comprises;
A new horseriding arena
Two paddocks
Stables to accommodate up to 10 horses and ponies
Horse stalls
Haybarn
Cycleparking
Access for deliveries and servicing, including space for a horsebox/ minibus to be stored for intermittent use
Skipandrefuse facilities
Associated landscape works including tree planting
The existing building (clubhouse) on the site does not form part of this planning application and sits outside the red line boundary.
bradford intErCHangE station sqaurE and PoCkEt Park
Studio: Fereday Pollard
Site Bradford
Program: Urban development
Bradford Interchange Transforming Cities Fund (TCF)
is a City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council (CBMDC) led project, currently at the detail design (RIBA 4) stage. The Preferred Way Forward (PWF) for this project is to provide a new gateway to the city, providing a new station entrance from Hall Ings following demolition of the multi-storey NCP car park, with improved aesthetics and a new canopy structure over the station entrance.
The key objectives of the project are:
-Make Bradford Interchange a destination within the city.
-Create a gateway to the city from the station.
-Improve the user experience and first impression for visitors to the city
-Increase trade to the area and support business growth
oast HousE (rEvit) nHs and rEsidEntial dEvEloPmEnt
Studio: Turkington Martin
Site London (UK)
Program: Mix use redevelopment scheme
The development comprises a mixed use development for a new NHS Health and Wellbeing Centre, 184 residential flats, workspace and the refurbishment of the Oast House to provide community / arts /workspace
The landscape design for the Oast House site aims to provide a balance between the functional paved areas required for the operation of the development and the desire to maximise the quantum of planting to create a rich and varied place to live and the opportunity to have contact with nature.
The design also acknowledges that public access is encouraged through the site between Kingston Road and Station Path. The principal route is through Oast House Square, although an alternative, more discreet route is possible through the residential garden. It is the intention that this remains open to the public.
The strategy is to cluster the parking and the below ground refuse storage to limit the areas required for vehicle access and turning. Beyond these, are pedestrian only gardens, public square and planted courtyards. Oast House Square is conceived as a flexible paved place, subtly divided with paving and planting into different outdoor rooms.
nEigHbourHood dEsign for rEsidEntial
Studio: Turkington Martin
Site London (UK)
Program: Public Square and First floor podium
The landscape and public realm proposals are based upon the principles established within the specific context and the building typologies of this new component of the village.
Effectively create a new neighbourhood which though clearly part of the GMV family, has a distinct character.
I’ve started working on this project directly on construction detail for Final stage. Here some example of the detail worked on.
A previous version of GF-FIRST FLOOR link
View of the Cultural Yard
View of the Cultural Yard
View of the NHS
Section through Cultural Yard
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rEfurbisHmEnt for a urban Park
Job: Turkington Martin
Site London (UK)
Project: Playground and Park improvement
Concept Public Garden
Reigate & Banstead Borough Councillors have approved the funding to project and design proposals for Merstham Recreation Ground Refurbishment. The emerging design has been informed by the feedback gathered since September 2020, from the community through a number of routes, such as surveys and discussion groups.
The main facilities are placed all together in a central location to be convenient to users and to keep a large space for sports pitches. The proposals include a new play area, youth space, parkour course ,outdoor gym, picnic areanand community orchard. This helps define the Recreation Ground as a central ‘green heart’ in Merstham.
Playground design development
Ambitions for the new play area are:
• Accessible for all - achieve ‘Plan Inclusive Play Areas’ gold accreditation
• Delivering fun, challenging play, to allow all stages of development and to be able to enjoy the space together
• Use of natural elements and formal equipment
• Sensory play opportunities: use of colour, texture, sound, smell
• Robust and easy to maintain.
woolbEding gardEn
dEtail dEsign for a gardEn
Studio:
Site:
MRG + Heatherwick
London (UK)
Program
Public Garden
Together with Heatherwick Studio and The Woolbeding Charity, we have designed a garden that evokes a diverse range of natural environments found along the historical Silk Road.
The aim is to create an immersive experience of these different habitats, not simply by planting the same plants in the gardens, but by interpreting the environments that have been used as inspirational references through the design of new topographies plateaus and rock formations. Specifically, I’ve worked on the hardscape design and detail from RIBA Work
Stage 3 to Stage 5. S These included the Ha-ha wall design and elevation, the footpath along the public garden and slate path in the Heatherwick designed glasshouse. Construction has just started on site.
Site Piacenza (Italy)
Project: Urban Revedelopment
Concept Market sqaure
The project site is located in Piacenza, Italy. The concept idea is to develop a connection between the rural outskirt of the city “two disconnected landscapes”, specifically located in the north and south. This idea is achieved through the use of the nodes and empty spaces located in the urban grip, thus that the voids do not divide the void links! Specifically, I’ve dealt with developing the first node located between the agricultural field and the city, in the south area. In the space is located a big supermarket, the idea is to use a big square as a dedicated market space, but the entrance of this space is designed as an urban backdrop, thus to create an ideal the connection between the historical city and the fields
Two disconnect landscape
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urban squarE for a rEsidEntial arEa
Job TBS
Site: Dublin (IE)
Project Urban square
Concept: Mixed-use Area
The subject site (Belcamp lands) is located off the Malahide Road, near Dublin City Centre. The site comprises an existing house (with associated additions) and walled garden accessed by an internal access road. Much of the site is relatively level. However, the lands to the south of Belcamp Hall is divided by the Mayne River, the course of which forms a substantial change in level between the main site and the adjoining lands and contains significant woodland.The main aims within the valley area include: Provide public access along the river valley and provide greater ‘visual’ connection to the ponds.
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tHE sPaCE of tHE objECts: ProPosal of a linEar Park to tHE PisCinola-sCamPia nodE
Site Scampia,NA (Italy)
Project: Urban Park
Concept Mixed-use Area
The Project is located in Naples in the neglected quarter of Scampia.
As shown by the analysis this place thanks to the undergroung station is well connect to the city center, however the station is never been completed entirely.
We can see how this quarter is completly sorrunded by hight velocity speed, this indicates a poorly connetion to the sourrander quarter, that it creates isolation.
From the analysis we can say that there are a great number of young people and it has one of the bigger green area in Naples.
In Scampia is placed the foumous builgings complex “Le Vele” which even if they are negleted buildings, they are the symbol of this area!
The poject aim is to create a pedestrian connetion with the surrounding through the creation of a linear park which allows different use thanks to its structure, that can change depending on the required purpose.
ConCept of folding ground
ConCept of flows to define spaCes
ConCept of grouping the
Morning afternoon
Same spaces different activities
