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NURSERY SALES: Mahoney’s Gardencenter, Winchester, MA, USAAssist customers with selection, give designing advices, educate them on topic such as planting and plant care and set up nursery displays 2015 June - Present

INTERN: LA21 Landschaftsarchitektur, Berlin, GermanyWork on details in AutoCad for landscape design of a hospital, such as sections, planting and lighting plans2012 December - 2013 February

INTERN: Brod-Kilian Freie Landschaftsarchitektin, Dresden, Germany Make visualization for a residential area, make planting plans. Take part on a spring exhibition called Flora Design2012 October - 2012 December

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: Speciálterv Építőmérnöki Kft, BudapestDraw sections of the bike circle of Lake Balaton with ArcGIS (2014)

CORVINUS UNIVERSITY OF BUDAPEST: Master’s Degree, Landscape Architecture (2011-2014)Thesis: Developing opportunities of bicycle tourism between Budapest and Lake Balaton

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: Speciálterv Építőmérnöki Kft, BudapestDraw sections of the hungarian part of EuroVelo 6 with ArcGIS (2014)

UNIVERSITÄT FÜR BODENKULTUR WIEN (BOKU): Landscape Architecture, ERASMUS Scholarship (2012)

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: Mátrai Csaba, Major of SzabadbattyánDesing a bike resting place with an orchard in Szabadbattyán (2014)

CORVINUS UNIVERSITY OF BUDAPEST: Bachelor’s Degree, Horticultural Science (2006-2010)Thesis: Bulbous ornamental plants in public spaces

THESIS AWARD 2014: Chamber of Hungarien Architects (2014)

FIRST PLACE: Flora Design competition, Dresden (2013)

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ArcGISAutoCAD

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FREELANCER LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT: Budapest, HungaryDesign a bike resting area for the Municipality of Szabadbattyán and work in cooperations with Speciálterv Architecture Office 2014 June - 2015 May

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Contents

Resume 2Contents 3Bicycle trails between Budapest and Balaton 4Bike resting place design in Szabadbattyán 8Sections for EuroVelo6 (Rajka-Budapest) 10Krankenhaus Hofheim 12Klinik Northeim 14Alaunpark Resindential Area, Dresden 16FloraDesign 2013 Competition, Dresden 17A nature trail design I. 18A nature trail design II. 20Nagyberek, the waterworld 22Developing conception of the riverside 24Rural developement in Szirák 26

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Bicycle trails between Budapest and Balaton

Relief

Evaluation

Summarized evaluation

Type of landuse Protected areas Accessibility Landscape valuesProtected landscape zones Point of interests

Not suitable Suitable

My thesis was written about devel-oping bicycle tourism between Bu-dapest and Lake Balaton. There is a significant perspective in it because of the 1364/2011. (XI. 8.) govern-mental decision about the develop-ing priorities of bike routes. My study area is assigned by the proposed Bu-dapest–Balaton cycle path and its surroundings which is enclosed by the boundaries of the settlements within 10 kilometers. I had evaluat-ed the proposed cycle path and the study area from the aspect of suit-ability of implementing circular day cycle routes. It was performed by a program called ArcGIS -which helps to handle geographic information- and evaluated by raster grids. Every grid recieved a score by the signifi-

cant viewpoints of developing cycle routes as the relief, the type of land cover, the protected areas, the pro-tected landscape zones, the accessi-bility, the landscape values and the informations of attractive places and useful datas of POI’s. I suggested for the cycle path to be set up by biking facilities, information network, rest-ing areas and plant alleys regarding the traffic, the quality of the road and the relief. According to the summa-rized evaluation I proposed four cir-cular day cycle routes with shorter alternative paths on my study area. Those tracks help to get to know the values of nature, culture and landscape of the surrounded area.

5Suitable

Proposed circular day cycle routes

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Bike resting place design in Szabadbattyán

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Szabadbattyán is a small town in Hungary, between the capital Bu-dapest and Lake Balaton where the proposed bike path will go through. Supposedly significant bike tourism will characterize this route in the future. That was the reason to build up a resting place designated in the neighborhood of Kula tower which is one of the main attractions in the town.The resting place was already under construction including the paving as well, when I get involved in the project. I have designed the green surface around the building and figured out which street furniture, bike facilities, information board would fit, and where to place them. By choosing the plants the theory was to use resistant, fruit landrac-es, which could be harvested by the bikers during the season, like ap-ple, pear, raspberry and blueberry.

Malus domestica Vitis vinifera Rubus fruticosus Rubus idaeus Hosta sp. Lavandula angustifolia Hypericum calycinum Vinca minor

Plant selection

Details

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Sections for EuroVelo6 (Rajka-Budapest)

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EuroVelo 6 is one of the EuroV-elo routes which goes from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea. The Hungarian part of it goes along the Danube river from Rajka to Mo-hács just like the Roman ‘Limes’ and protected as a Natura 2000 Site. The quality of the route and the lev-el of connected services are under continuous development. Current-ly the Speciálterv Építőmérnöki Kft works on its development, there-fore was I assigned to make sec-tions for the Rajka-Budapest part. I made drawings with ArcGIS for 8 alternative routes with the sig-nature of altitude, distance, inter-sections and the borders of the settlements to help their analysis.

Budapest

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Krankenhaus HofheimDuring my internship in Berlin the LA21 Landscape Architecture Office has mainly hospital designing pro-jects. One of them was the Kranken-haus Hofheim where the entire out-door facility package was designed in cooperation with the architects. The construction was made in two stages. The first one, the main build-ing was completed with the main entrance than in the second one the other part of the building was planed to be done with the outdoor facilities, like a park, a garden for education and healing, water fea-ture, greenroofs and parking lots. In this project I made lighting plans for the park, sections for supporting angles and for the healing garden and double checked many details.

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Klinik NortheimDuring my internship in Berlin by the LA21 Landscape Architecture Office the other ongoing project was for Klinikum Northeim. The parking place and a courtyard of Albert-Schweitzer-Klinik were de-signed. For the functionally placed and nicely designed flowerbeds perennials, grasses and some bulbs were used like Euonymus, Spirea, Miscanthus, Tulipa and Narcissus. Decidous trees and shrubs give the vertical shape for the park-ing place. In the courtyard I have chosen plants which are nice dur-ing wintertime as well, just like Viburnum ‘Pragense’ or Cotone-aster salicifoilus ‘Herbstfeuer’.

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Alaunpark Resindential Area, DresdenMarion Brod-Kilian’s land-scape architecture office has the Alaunpark residential area open space design project dur-ing my internship. This housing estate on the outer edges of the Neustadt district used to be a military area, but now is being brought back to life. The new residential area is being built with attractive, family-friendly houses including high-quality open spaces. I made visuali-zation for the outdoor spaces with Google SketchUp to show the ideas to the procurer. It is based on CAD drawings and build up in 3D concentrating for the main building. I rendered the pictures with Kerkythea.

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FloraDesign 2013 Competition, DresdenAt Marion Brod-Kilian’s land-scape architecture office the other ongoing project was the FloraDesign Competition. It was an innovative springexibi-tion and took place at the Alt-marktglerie in the citycenter in January 2013. The motto was biodiversity. There were sev-en plots, all together about 180 square meter. I designed a single spot regarding a top-ic, intercultural garden with mandala forms. I provided the basic plans for the planning, cooperated in the whole plan-ning process, and helped to choose the right plants. Finally I made visualization for a plot and helped with the posters.

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A nature trail design I.

The nature trail design was a pro-ject for the municipality of the 11th district in Budapest. This is a forest in the periphery of the city which is used for leisure activities by the locals, like walking or riding. Therefore my project mate ad me designed trails for different pur-poses. The longest one (red) is a

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common trail, everybody can use it. The blue one goes in the val-ley, without high altitude, so it is accessible for old people and fam-ilies with baby carriage as well. The orange one is made for the bikers and riders, so they can use the forest as well without having problem with the other visitors.

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A nature trail design II.

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Ideas

Sign board design

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Nagyberek, the waterworldThe landscape

The ideas

The plan

Nagyberek is situated on southern bank of the Lake Balaton. It used to be a formal bay of the lake, therfore it is a swampy area with many ca-nals which still play an important role in the ecological system of the lake. There are small scale vine-yards, villages, some farms, a huge hunting area and old tramways.A huge problem of the area is the de-creasing population. The aim of our team is to figure out how to develop the area which has a huge touristic potential, a great location and many natural values. The Nagyberek gives us great opportunity for half- or one-day tours by walk, by bike, by a kayak or just using the old rails.For the rural development the area should be involved in the tourism of the Lake Balaton. We figured out a service package, which in-cludes bike renting, boat renting, drasine trail, nature trail, visiting center and information system.

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Nagyberek bike path

Resting place

Water trail

Bike renting

Rail trail

Boat renting

Beach

Tramway

Trainstation

Nature trail

Other bike pathes

Draisine trail

Toilett

Overlaped bike pathes

Visiting centre

Shop/Restaurant

Plank trail

Sights

Legend

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Developing conception of the riverside

Section of the residential area by the Danube

Camping by the Danube

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Soroksár is district of Budapest and located on the bank of Danube River. The project is a devel-oping conception of the riverside which was proposed by the Municipality of the XXIII. district.The designated area is separated to residential, commercial and recreational area with many dif-ferent functions like riding school (existing already, just included in the design), playgrounds, camping area, a walkway along the river giving possibility for angling or simply walking. The ex-isting bikeroad would stay in the middle of the area because that is a part of EuroVelo 6 and play a significant role in commuting as well therefore it is better to separate it from the walkway.A riverside is always important for the people and for the settlements, it is a valuable area therefor it should be developed in a sustainable way, with a lot of green area, water connections and minimalized traffic.

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Rural developement in Szirák

Current streetview

Proposed streetview

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Szirák is a small village, situat-ed in the middle of Hungary, northeast from Budapest by the Cserhát-mountain. The de-veloping conception is made by the cooperation of the Cor-vinus University of Budapest and the Municipality of Szirák. The main goal is to develop and integrate the system of the green area and the open spaces. The biggest contrast is between the Castle and the village. The Castle is built around 1690, currently is totally renovated and used as ho-tel. There are several monument in Szirák which are not in a good condition, need for renovation and some of them new functions too. Just like the manor-house, the old restaurant and the prison.

Developing conception of the Church area

Fraxinus ornus ‘Mecsek’

Aesculus carnea Vitex agnus-castus Viburnum opolus ‘Roseum’

Syringa vulgaris Lonicera pileata Ajuga reptans‘Atropurpurea’

Geranium sanguineum

Plant selection

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