Evelīna Ozola

  1. Haarlem waterfront

    09-10/2009

    MSc1 R&D Studio project at TU Delft

    The city is bound together by a network of boulevards, where the North-South connections follow a landscape or its edge and the West-East connections run across multiple sceneries. In the future the major part of development will take place on the eastern part of Haarlem as it is in urgent need for change and located closer to such economical anchors as Amsterdam and Schiphol airport. On the West side development should be limited in order to preserve the strip of urban landscape - valley between highway N208 and forest.

    Form of the city can be improved by reinforcing the longitudinal connections - river Spaarne and roads that connect Waarderpolder and Schalkwijk to the surroundings. Haarlem itself gives a good advice on North-South connections: Leidsevaart and Rijksstraatweg ar well functioning examples to learn from. Longitudinal connections are supported by lateral that bring the key spaces of the city together in one system. The most important potential connector is river Spaarne.

    Waarderpolder

    • strengthen longitudinal connections to the South
    • introduce residential function by multiplying houseboat harbours enclosed by miniature parks
    • connect the houseboat harbours by a route that leads to a new yacht harbour and the green wedge in the North
    • create spatial pockets on waterfront by placement of buildings
    • industrial function can be gradually replaced by office and residential use

    Spaarndamseweg

    • extend the cut-off lateral street lines to Spaarndamseweg to strenthen spatial connections
    • create nodes of representation of important inland elements on waterfront - from public buildings to informal meeting places
    • ensure an uninterrupted riverfront promenade

    Schalkwijkerweg

    • enhance existing water system
    • condense the vague park
    • distribute sports fields evenly over the area
    • create a new urban front facing the river
    • use water system and sports fields as framework for building typology
    • introduce a new East-West connection for better integration of Schalkwijk within city

  2. Music and arts school in Saldus, Latvia

    07/2007-01/2009

    MADE arhitekti - Linda Krūmiņa, Miķelis Putrāms, Evelīna Ozola, Uldis Sedlovs

    The site for the new school is located in a green belt within Saldus city that stretches by river Ciecere. In a different way from city’s central urban fabric and periphery’s residential districts, important public buildings - sports school, bus station, church, Saldus district council, market - are placed here with notable free space around them. The volume of music and arts school keeps distance from surrounding buildings and forms a common entrance square together with the council building.

    Music and arts schools operate independently, but they share the lobby, cloakroom and concert hall. Visual communication between students of different schools is ensured by courtyards on the second floor. This link is essential for broadening the limits of each discipline. They also provide natural daylight for rooms in the middle of the volume - libraries and rehearsal rooms. Classrooms are planned around the perimeter of the building, rehearsal halls have higher ceilings and are placed in the middle of the school.

    Load bearing constructions are made of concrete, external walls of solid wood panels in MHM system and U profile glass on the outside. The wooden panels help to balance air humidity and temperature in the classrooms - as it is important for the musical instruments and artists materials. The distance between panels and glass is used for ventilation inlets and outputs and contributes to the inner climate of the building.


  3. Riga's Northern passage. Left bank.

    09-12/2006

    Graduation project at Riga Technical University, advisor - Marc Ryan.

    Riga’s Northern Passage deals with areas adjacent to the planned river Daugava’s Northern crossing that would complete city’s highway ring. Project considers the possibility of expanding Riga’s central part whilst keeping city’s compact nature intact. It defines a northern border beyond which dense urban fabric is replaced by natural territories and smaller groups of buildings. The potential of an international transport corridor and the areas it crosses is explored. If properly studied and taken advantage of, it could provoke a transition into a new stage of development for the city.

    Project critically evaluates the policy of Riga Development Plan 2006-2018 and offers an alternative strategy for city’s road network, use of land and relation to natural territories. Proposed location of Northern corridor differs from the official project - it has been brought closer to the large scale residential districts of the left riverbank in order to make it more convenient for the inhabitants. In the Development Plan it has a transit highway character and serves mainly the port. Riga’s Northern Passage proposes to add extra importance to the Northern corridor by combining it with Rail Baltica international railway with stations on both riverbanks and in Riga airport. From these points all other districts of city are easily accessible.

    The concept for Daugava’s left bank consists of three dominant factors: determination to preserve Spilve meadows as a unique natural area, presence of river and impact of international level road infrastructure. These factors are turned into functional programmes that connect the key objects: a hippodrome, Kremeri nature reserve, a science museum in a former factory, an exhibition venue, Spilve railway station - the old airport building transformed into an entrance pavillion to station, continuing the building's life as an international traffic hub. Triangle, formed by main roads around the station with a concentration of international traffic flows underground, becomes Business triangle with the highest building density in the area.


  4. Kengarags - Rumbula - Darzini

    02-05/2006

    Study project at Riga Technical University, groupwork - Mārcis Dejus, Michal Matejicek, Evelīna Ozola, Andris Rubenis

    The project site lies in the southeastern part of Riga by one of city’s main roads - Maskavas street. It consists of three large areas: Kengarags, Rumbula and Darzini. Kengarags is one of the first large scale soviet era housing districts of Riga; Rumbula hosts warehouses, factories and vast fields of outdoor car sales; Darzini used to be one of the allotment garden areas in Riga, today most of the little garden lodges have been rebuilt into single family homes and the area has obtained a suburban character.

    Goal of the project is to create a spatially and functionally balanced environment that would provide the inhabitants not only with housing but also with possibilities for work, education, shopping and recreation. The existing distribution of functions was analysed. They were divided into strip-like functions (residential, office, industrial, commercial, green land use), line-like functions (roads) and point-like functions (educational, cultural and health care institutions, sports fields etc). Then new functions were introduced and new land use proportions calculated.

    Project proposes to redirect transit movement from Maskavas street to Lokomotives street that lies next to the southeastern railway and has a better link to other city highways. By doing so, Maskavas street would become a more humane boulevard of local importance.

    The compositional principle - strips, perpendicular to Maskavas street, - has been used in both functional zoning and in distribution of the built volume. This structure breaks up the monotone straight line of Maskavas street. Building heights and densities decrease when approaching the riverbank where green areas take over.


Evelīna Ozola

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