Hala Chmaitelly Landscape Designer Founder and Principle of Surfaces Design

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1 Hala Chmaitelly Landscape Designer Founder and Principle of Surfaces Design Down Town Beirut, Foch, Urugway Street, Qara Bldg. 4 th Floor P.O.Box Chouran Tel: Mobile: hala@surfacesdesign.com hala.chmaitelly@gmail.com hc23@aub.edu.lb PROFILE LANDSCAPE DESIGN / LANDSCAPE PLANNING AND MANAGEMEMT / HORTICULTURE / SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPES / DESIGN REVIEW AND ANALYSIS / CLIENT RELATIONS Design sustainable landscapes with an emphasis on horticulture and softscape designs. Manage and plan the landscape component of large scale urban projects. Collaborate with International multi-disciplined team members and stakeholders. Lead landscape design teams to achieve coherent, well balanced, innovative and sustainable projects. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2004 Present Part time Lecturer American University of Beirut Department of Landscape and Ecosystem Management GA Teaching Assistant LDEM 216, LDEM 228, LDEM 246, LDEM Part time Lecturer LDEM 246, LDEM 212 Summer 2013 Part time Lecturer LDEM 216 Spring 2014 Part time Lecturer LDEM 216, LDEM 248 Fall Part time Lecturer LDEM 246 Spring 2015 Part time Lecturer LDEM 222 Fall Part time Lecturer LDEM 222

2 1996 Present Founder and Principle of Surfaces Design Urban Landscape Design and Landscape Horticulture Planning and Management based on holistic management of cultural and natural components of a landscape Ecological design using native flora and other landscape material that require low irrigation and maintenance processes, and blend perfectly with the surrounding environment creating sustainable projects Landscape Architecture design and execution of privately owned gardens of residences, and other institutional projects, to insure perfect harmony with the architecture and Environment. Selected Landscape Planning Projects: Bab Ali, Najaf Iraq Landscape planning and architecture of sqm open spaces of commercial and residential clusters of Bab Ali Commercial Zone/ Business Center governmental and residential planning project Team: Design Management: Millennium Development SARL Bab Ali, Najaf Iraq Landscape planning and architecture of 6 urban parks ranging from sqm to sqm for a governmental and residential planning project Shatt AL Arab Basra, Iraq (on-going) Landscape Planning and architecture of 35km coastline creating parks and streetscape for a government and touristic planning project SA1304, Design and Upgrade of Riyadh Kheikh jabber Roads Landscape Planning and architecture of Typical Interchanges and Streetscape King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy, KSA 2

3 Landscape Planning Management of K.A.CARE, Riyadh, KSA. Member of the Urban Design Management Team to produce a comprehensive Masterplan for the above project and assure that the Landscape Planning component proposed responds to the sustainable design guidelines defined. Urban Planners: Gensler and Associates Washington DC. Landscape Architects: Moriyama & Teshima King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy, KSA Landscape Design Concept of the 9km boundary of K.A.CARE with Riyadh Mekka highway Elaboration d une charte de territoire durable pout le haut Metn The Landscape Consultant collaboration of Dr. Jala Makhzoumi, EDESSA, MADA, ECO-MED; client Ile de France Municipality, CGLU/BTVL. Preparation of a charter for the preservation and restoration of sustainable landscape character for high Metn Region. Ahlam Project Kfardebian, Lebanon Landscape Consultant in collaboration with Landscape Architect and Golf Expert Deiv Kilby, for the Design of a Nine Holes Executive Golf Course within the urban setting of 1 Million Square meters Urban Project. Team: The urban planners:urbi /Habib Debs Financial Consultants and Development Managers: FFA Private Bank. Medini Project - South Johor Malaysia Landscape Concept Design Management of the public spaces, streetscapes and drainage canals for Iskander Financial District (land area 1.5 million square meters), and the Lifestyle and Leisure Clusters (land area around 5.5 million square meters) in an urban planning project in South Malaysia facing Singapore, Member of the Urban Design Management Team. Team: Design Management: Millennium Development SARL Urban Planners: Gensler and Associates Washington DC. Selected Ecological Landscape Design and Horticulture Projects Hima Ebel, Ecological park sqm - Edebl Essaki - South Lebanon Tebnine Sports Center 1000 sqm, Tebnine - South Lebanon SOS Children Village 1000 sqm, Ksarnaba Bekaa Valley, Lebanon Selected Landscape Architecture Projects Najjar s private garden - Fih Koura 3000sqm 3

4 College Protestant Francais - Masterplan of school openspaces and Central Garden of school campus Beirut 4000sqm Saab Twin villa gardens Hadath el Jebbeh - North Lebanon 2500 sqm Abou Dagher villa gardens Mrouj Mount Lebanon 7000sqm OTK villa Beitmerry Mont Lebanon 2500sqm Skaff Garden Rabiyeh, Lebanon 2000sqm Mangrove Village Compound Entrance, Abou Dhabi, 1000 sqm Sheikh Masnad Villa, Doha Qatar, 500 sqm ECQ Headquarters, Lusail City, Qatar, 1000sqm VIP Residence Summerland Kempinski, Lebanon 500sqm EDAFAH FRASER PLACE Hotel, Business Gate, Riyadh - KSA 2000sqm KMC villa Halate, Lebanon 8000sqm Barakat Residence Mar Chaaya, Broumana, Mount Lebanon 1000sqm Well Spring Learning Community1000sqm Daher Residence Adma, Lebanon2000sqm Khoury Residence Adma, Lebanon 2000sqm Hatem Residence Baabdat Lebanon 3000sqm Al-Kharafi Residence Sawfar, Lebanon 7000sqm EDUCATION American University of Beirut (A.U.B.) Master of Science in Plant Sciences Urban Landscape and Nature Conservation Research: Urban Floral Diversity in the Eastern Mediterranean: Beirut Coastal Landscape Bachelor of Science in Agriculture 1989 Diploma of Ingenieur Agricole 1989 PUBLICATIONS "Holistic Conservation of Bio-Cultural Diversity in Coastal Lebanon : A Landscape Approach" Journal of Marine and Island Cultures- Elsevier June Hala Chmaitelly, Carine Lteif, Jala Makhzoumi (Authors) Bridging terrestrial and marine ecosystems, Mediterranean coastal littorals are important floral and faunal habitats and an important component of the traditional Mediterranean landscape mosaic. The expanding urban footprint in Mediterranean littorals is increasingly threatening semi-natural sites and agriculture in coastal landscape. This paper proposes a holistic 4

5 landscape approach to the sustainable planning of coastal littorals. The town of Damour on the Mediterranean coast of Lebanon is taken as a case study. Landscape approach to the conservation of floral diversity in Mediterranean urban coastal landscapes: Beirut seafront International Journal of Environmental Sciences May Hala Chmaitelly, Salma Talhouk, Jala Makhzoumi (Authors) The research recommends the conservation of spontaneous landscapes, the propagation of naturalized floral species and their reintroduction in managed landscapes especially in public amenities. "Gardens of Beirut", by Dr. Jala Makhzoumi (Author), currently being published Contribution by text and in site surveying and typical plant species identification of the Vernacular Gardens of Beirut and production of planting plans of surveyed gardens PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIAL AFFILIATIONS Lebanese Order of Engineering and Architecture American University of Beirut Alumni Association Complete portfolio is available upon request 5