Contemporary Landscape Architecture design

as a collective memory regenerator Landscape traces

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
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator Landscape Architecture design

World Trade Center Memorial Parc de Lancy

(by Peter Walker and Michael Arad) (by Georges Descombes)

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator Site location and aerial views

Close-up aerial view

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Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator Past and present

A long time ago Before the site intervention After the site intervention

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Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator Alcáçovas notorious
architectural elements

Paço de Alcáçovas (Alcáçovas Palace) – 14th century

RESULTS
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator Spatial relationship

Site intervention area

Medieval urban fabric

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Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator Memory dimension

Chafariz Grande Lavadouro Público Poço Novo

(16th century) (19th century) (16th century)
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Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator Functionality

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
Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator Memory diagram

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Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator Design vectors
Genius loci

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Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator Paving
Granite blocks

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Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator Paving

Mixture of gravel with resin Granite slab

(permeable pavement)

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Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator Regeneration plan

Permeable areas Terraced gardens

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Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator Recovery and preservation works

Poço Novo Fontinha Chafariz Grande

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Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator Transformation works

Sketch for Lavadouro Municipal (Public washing place) with a new covering

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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
Before
After Genius loci preservation

Chafariz Grande Fontinha Poço Novo

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Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator Urban green structure

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Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator Historical and architectural
heritage link

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Contemporary Landscape Architecture design
as a collective memory regenerator A palimpsest

We may establish a paradigm that enables

us to disentangle a palimpsest of
memories, allowing us to «hear» the
memory of the place.

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