Consultants

Team ( 1 )

MILLENIA ENGENHARIA E CONSULTORIA LTDA is a small company that exists since 1997.In 2008, it joined with another small company older than Millenia but kept the name Millenia. It just joins a small number of very qualified expert consultants, working mainly with Public Transportation Projects with special emphasis on BRT.It keeps also strong relations with other small and medium size consulting companies to work out big projects. Keeping the company small is intentional to direct all efforts only to highly specialized tasks. Their main strength is to develop new ideas, training of local teams and technology transfer to local experts.

 

Team members:

Paulo Sergio Custodio, General Manager, Brazilian, is an Independent Consultant with more than Thirty years experience in urban and regional transportation planning, transportation simulation models, integrated land use and transportation models, transportation systems and BRT planning and design. He has worked in many important companies both public and private like the Sao Paulo Metro, Sao Paulo Traffic Engineering Company – CET, Sao Paulo Research Institute and so on. He presently is directing a BRT project for Sao Paulo (Brazil) and advising the Institute for Transportation & Development Policy (ITDP) on projects in Jakarta (Indonesia), Hyderabad and Delhi (India), World Research Institute/Embarq in BRT projects in Mexico City and is presently working on the BRT project of the City of Queretaro (Mexico). He also is acting as expert consultant for the revision of the operations for Transmilenio in Bogota (Colombia). Paulo Custodio has a Bachelor Degree in Civil Engineering (1971) from University of Sao Paulo and a Master of Sciences in Transportation (1974) from Northwestern University (USA).

 

João Carlos Scatena, Partner, Brazilian, is Civil Engineer, graduated in 1972. He has more than Thirty-five years experience working with transportation planning, especially in MRT and urban public transportation. His top position was Head of the Planning Department of the MRT Company in São Paulo, which he exercised for more than ten years. He has international experience working in Mexico, Venezuela, Indonesia, South Africa and China. His expertise involves data analysis, surveys, mass transportation planning, transportation planning modeling tools, project evaluation.

 

Remi Jeanneret, consultant, French, holds a master degree in geography from Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne University in1989. After working six years in France for the consulting firm Territoires Conseil Associes, he moved to Brazil and developed many modeling projects as a consultant for different private and public organizations, principally in Sao Paulo, and in others Brazilian cities like Belo Horizonte and Fortaleza. He actually acts as an expert on demand analysis for the development of BRT projects and transportation plans in cities of different countries including Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, China, India, Indonesia and Tanzania.

 

Elkin Bello Quintero, consultant, Colombian, B.S. in Civil Engineering from Los Andes University (Bogota, Colombia 2003) .5 years of professional experience in public transportation and urban planning, bus operations and design of urban road infrastructure projects in Colombia (TransMilenio and Metroplús BRT systems), Tanzania (DART BRT design) and China.

 

Eduardo Germani, consultant,Brazilian, has a bachelor's degree in Mechatronics Engineering and a Master's degree in Transportation Planning from University of Sao Paulo. In his nineteen years of professional experience, Eduardo has been involved in an extensive list of transportation planning projects in several countries in Latin America, working for both private and governmental sectors. Over the past five years, he has intensively worked with UN and World Bank in planning and implementation of BRT systems in Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia and El Salvador.

 

 

 

 

Team ( 2 )

Gehl Architects’ vision is to create cities that are lively, healthy, diverse, sustainable and safe - and thereby improve people’s quality of life. Gehl Architects believe that a good city is a city where the human scale in city planning is well-looked after. By allowing the aspirations for the public realm to drive the design process, public spaces can serve as a place for all, while embracing the unique qualities and amenities of the specific urban context: A city should open up, invite and include people, through its activities and possibilities ensure multiplicity and diversity. Gehl Architects design sustainable environments that extend beyond the use of sustainable materials to advocating walking, cycling and alternative transport.

 

Gehl Architects - Urban Quality Consultants offer expertise in the fields of urban design, city planning and architecture, targeting a lively and widely used public realm as a key to experiencing quality in cities. Gehl Architects strives to prioritize the human dimension in planning as well as the built environment’s effect on social interaction between people. Gehl Architects provide consultation to private developers as well as city and regional authorities, developing design solutions based on detailed analysis of the existing social and built context in the form of public Life and Public Space Surveys. In this way, design and planning solutions are based on a comprehensive understanding of people’s use of public space and the way people experience urban quality.

 

 

Gehl Architects have given life to a diverse group of projects worldwide, some of them are:

 

(1) London-Victoria Interchange

A station for national rail services, a tube station serving two London Underground lines, the Gatwick Express terminal and two heavily frequented bus terminals make the environment in and around Victoria Station one of Europe’s most hard working station environments.

Gehl Architects have assisted in preparation of a public space framework to complement an existing master plan for major redevelopment of the wider station environment. The work has focused attention on the creation of a high quality network of public spaces that redefines Victoria Station as a beautiful and inviting gateway to London.

(2) Lisbjerg
Lisbjerg is a former agricultural village now transforming into a suburban town for the nearby city of Aarhus.

Gehl Architects participated with Friis & Moltke in the design competition creating a master plan for the new Lisbjerg and the design of the new Lisbjerg School. We suggested an urban setting which would generate public life ascending in a street with slow pace of pedestrians and the following necessity of local trade and public activities alongside it, thus making a centralized main street with an equal focus on pedestrians and urban life as well as through going traffic.

(3) Cherrywood

A private developer engaged Gehl Architects to provide urban consultancy for this 300-hectare new town development, estimated to be home to 30,000 residents and place of work for another 12,000.

Gehl Architects were initially hired to lead the preliminary phases of the design process, bringing together a diverse group of architects, engineers, planners, and numerous local authorities to develop a coherent and agreed upon vision for the development. Subsequently Gehl Architects have continued involvement in the project, further collaborating with stake holders and the design team to produce a Development Framework for the new town.

 

 

The Gehl Architects Team

Jan Gehl
Architect MAA, Int FRIBA, Hon. FAIA, Professor Litt
Founding Partner: GEHL ARCHITECTS – Urban Quality Consultants
1960 B&M Arch, School of Architecture, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
1960-66 Practicing Architect, Various offices.
1966 Research Position, School of , R.D.A. o F.A
1971 Lecturer and Senior Lecturer of Design, D.o F.
2003-2006 Professor, Director: Center for Public Space Research, D.o F.

National and international prizes:
Sir Patrick Abercrombie Prize for exemplary contributions to Planning and Territorial Development from the International Union of Architects, 1993
EDRA / Places Research Award, 1998 (Environmental Design Association, USA)
Dalicarlika-Prize for public space planning, Sweden, 1999
Prize of the Danish Pavers Guild, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2000
Australia Design 2005 (w/of Melbourne)
N.L. Høyen Medal for contributions on and Teaching concerning The Arts
International Fellow, Royal Institute of British Architects (2007) (Int. FRIBA)
Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (2008), (Hon. FAIA)

Books
Life Between Buildings, Republished by Danish Architectural Press, Copenhagen 1996 and 2001. Also published in Denmark, USA, Norway, Holland, Japan, China, Korea, Italy, Taiwan, Czech Republic, Germany, Spain and Bangladesh
Public Spaces and Public Life, 1996, 2003 with Gemzøe. Danish Press, 1996. (Winner of EDRA/Places 1998)
New City Spaces, with Gemzøe, Danish Press, 2001 and 2004
New City Life, w/Gemzøe, Kirknæs & Søndergaard, Danish Press, 2006

 

David Sim

Architect SAR/MSAM from Edinburgh College of Art, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland (with studies at Lund University Sweden and Royal Academy of Fine Arts Copenhagen)
Scottish architect David Sim is a Director at Gehl Architects. His Masters Degree was a collaboration between Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland and Lund University, Sweden. Additionally he studied Landscape Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He has practiced the UK, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. Well-known in Swedish professional circles as an educator, he has taught at architecture and design schools the world over, while his work at University expanding and developing teaching methods has led to a number of pedagogical awards and distinctions. While in Lund, David also researched and developed patterns for greater density and diversity in urban areas. This research has been successfully applied in urban design projects and competitions. David continues his work as an educator at Gehl both with professionals and the public, giving lectures and guest critiques, as well as facilitating workshops and other planning events. His main area of work at Gehl is master-planning and urban design, collaborating with other professionals in the planning and building process, applying Jan Gehl’s theories to large-scale projects.

 

Kristian Skovbakke Villadsen

Kristian brings both national and international experience in Urban design to Gehl Architects, where he has been since 2005.
Kristian has a masters in architecture from AA - Aarhus School of Architecture - from the department of Landscape Urbanism. Combined with his education at the Aarhus School of Architecture, Kristian studied a year at Art History at AU – Aarhus University. Kristian is still involved in the academic world through DIS Copenhagen, where he works as an external lecturer, lecturing a course in European Urban Design Theory.
At Gehl Architects Kristian works as a project manager with design responsibility on urban design projects. The projects involve design and competitions, new town revitalization strategies and user group workshops, development of strategy plans and strategic city plans for new cities, public space plans and space programs. Kristian has a special focus concerning urban regionalizing and identity in a metapol city structure.