About the team
Petra Sala and Donald Lambert run the Urbis office with great enthusiasm. The team consists of various professionals, often combined with one or two freelancers who we cannot do without. We also train young talent so you'll find a trainee or apprentice in our office as well. We all have our special skills, but we're also able to help each other and step in where needed. This makes us a great strong team that provides excellent quality and a great working environment!
About the people
Donald Lambert
senior urban designer / partner
Donald founded Urbis in 1987. Since then he worked on a great number of assignments, with a focus on the existing city. With more than 500 projects from small scale urban developments to complete regional studies, Donald is one of the most experienced people in the field.
Projects Donald worked on are the re-development of Bijlmermeer Amsterdam, the master plan for the Scheveningen Harbour and Katwijk Harbour. He participates as a senior advisor in several monumental or local committees throughout the country.
Petra Sala
senior urban designer / partner
Petra is highly experienced in all aspects of urban design. She loves working on small local projects as much as on complex large scale assignments. Research, design, but also developing the professional field and spacial quality are important to her. She is therefore experienced in many work fields; urban design, studies, tenders, but also as a committee member or supervisor. Het network is widely spread and she is well informed on new developments in the workfield.
Audrey Coert
senior landscape and outdoor area designer
Audrey is a true landscape designer. In 2009 she started her own business 'Land-made' for landscape design. While working on different scaled projects, she developed many skills. She worked on designs for a harbour area, community gardens, school yards and downtown areas. Audrey's green qualities are essential to our urban projects.
Esther van der Sluys
technical designer
Esther developed her skills in various companies and (local) governments. Her talent is to draw up plans from sketch to design. She makes drafts for quality plans and plot passports. She worked on urban design Heerde, viability study and urban planning Leimuiden-west, project Groenewoud and elaborations on the landscape planning of Meerpolder Berkel-Rodenrijs.
Lennart van Heijningen
odesigner
Lennart is a creative designer who likes to think on inventive and efficient solutions to transform areas into attractive living environments. Improvements in sustainability in the existing city is always an important issue, as well as the connection between small and large scale levels. Lennart passionately shares his ideas, which we all appreciate at Urbis.
Yvonne Groeneveld
officemanager
Since April 2019 Yvonne runs the office; from finance to procurement, from human resources to insurances, Yvonne handles it.
With more than 20 years of experience in office management in several industries, Yvonne is now getting to know the urban design business. Thanks to her communications background she does most of the written communication and checks our texts in Dutch and English. As she is our first contact person you probably already had a conversation with her, or received her emails.
Stephanie Appenzeller
architect
Stephanie has been connected to Urbis since many years. Besides at Urbis, Stephanie works as a professor in Architecture at the TU Delft. At Urbis Stephanie works on the architectural designs of our projects in Luxemburg. We are happy to be able to use her native language German in our communication towards our Luxemburg clients.
Margot Schouls
Intern
Margot is a 3rd year student in Architecture at TU Delft, who is currently doing her internship at Urbis. She assists in our projects so she can become acquainted with the work in an urban design office. She likes creative assignments like model making, drawing and making presentations. She will investigate the visions and strategies of urban design offices during her internship.
Soudabeh Rajaei
urban design trainee
Soudabeh follows a two year traineeship with the Professional Experience Program. During this program she works at four companies, of which Urbis is the third. Soudabeh participates in several projects at Urbis and she focuses mainly on the spacial qualities in the public areas. She also seases oppportunities to study Dutch legislation and urban procedures. In the meantime she enhances her design and analytical skills.
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