Contemporary Landscape Architecture

design Landscape traces

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

World Trade Center Memorial Parc de Lancy

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

MATERIALS AND METHODS

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

Close-up aerial view

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

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

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

Pao de Alcovas (Alcovas Palace) 14th century

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

Site intervention area

Medieval urban fabric

RESULTS
Contemporary Landscape Architecture
design Memory dimension
as a collective memory regenerator

Chafariz Grande Lavadouro Pblico Poo Novo

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

Rossio do Poo Novo lost its main

function.

Its 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 Memory diagram
as a collective memory regenerator

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

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

RESULTS
Contemporary Landscape Architecture
design Paving
as a collective memory regenerator

Mixture of gravel with resin Granite slab

(permeable pavement)

RESULTS
Contemporary Landscape Architecture
design Regeneration plan
as a collective memory regenerator

Permeable Terraced
areas gardens
RESULTS
Contemporary Landscape Architecture
design Recovery and preservation works
as a collective memory regenerator

Poo Novo Fontinha Chafariz Grande

RESULTS
Contemporary Landscape Architecture
design Transformation works
as a collective memory regenerator

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.

Its by using the water that well

try to represent the past
atmosphere.

RESULTS
Contemporary Landscape Architecture
design Genius loci preservation
as a collective memory regenerator
Before
After

Chafariz Grande Fontinha Poo Novo

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

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

RESULTS
Contemporary Landscape Architecture
design A palimpsest
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