Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
The landscape holds up the collective and
the individual memories.
The human landscape construction is an
activity that has been leaving traces on the
territory.
Contemporary Landscape Architecture
project can be an element that attaches
open spaces memories.
INTRODUCTION
Landscape traces
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
World Trade Center Memorial
(by Peter Walker and Michael Arad)
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Landscape Architecture design
Parc de Lancy
(by Georges Descombes)
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
Close-up aerial view
RESULTS
Site location and aerial views
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
A long time ago
RESULTS
Before the site intervention
Past and present
After the site intervention
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
Paço de Alcáçovas (Alcáçovas Palace) – 14th century
RESULTS
Alcáçovas notorious
architectural elements
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
Spatial relationship
Site intervention area
Medieval urban fabric
RESULTS
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
Chafariz Grande
(16th century)
RESULTS
Lavadouro Público
(19th century)
Memory dimension
Poço Novo
(16th century)
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
Rossio do Poço Novo lost its main function.
It’s no longer necessary:
• To supply the population with the well water;
• To wash clothes on the public washing place;
• To give water to the animals.
This place, today, is just part of the collective
memory of this people.
RESULTS
Functionality
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
RESULTS
Memory diagram
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
RESULTS
Design vectors
Genius loci
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
RESULTS
Paving
Granite blocks
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
Mixture of gravel with resin
(permeable pavement)
RESULTS
Paving
Granite slab
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
Regeneration plan
Permeable areas
RESULTS
Terraced gardens
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
Poço Novo
RESULTS
Fontinha
Recovery and preservation works
Chafariz Grande
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
Transformation works
Sketch for Lavadouro Municipal (Public washing place) with a new covering
RESULTS
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
Water plays a key role in this contemporary
Landscape Architecture design plan.
It’s by using the water that we’ll try to
represent the past atmosphere.
RESULTS
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
After
Before
Genius loci preservation
Chafariz Grande
RESULTS
Fontinha
Poço Novo
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
RESULTS
Urban green structure
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
RESULTS
Historical and architectural
heritage link
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator
We may establish a paradigm that enables
us to disentangle a palimpsest of
memories, allowing us to «hear» the
memory of the place.
RESULTS
A palimpsest