Landscape Architecture

What this category covers

• Parks and water
• Plazas and public squares
• Gardens and ground planes
• Outdoor living and shade

Heritage projects in this category

The projects below are the heritage case studies this category grows from.

Landscape · Landscape Architecture

1 Big Round Pond Park

Barren and fertile: landscape design for the common areas of the El Pla housing scheme in Prats i Sansor, La Cerdanya, where a huge circular pond stores rainwater and becomes the meeting place of the park.

What it teaches: The areas to be landscaped were old barren fields where only grass could grow.

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Landscape · Landscape Architecture

1 Buried Cistern Plaza

Cheap and rich: a public space with a temporary parking lot and a buried rainwater tank in Ciutadella, Menorca, a contemporary take on the island’s traditional way of saving water.

What it teaches: The challenge of this very low-budget arrangement of an empty plot by the old cemetery of Ciutadella was the maximisation of its public service.

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Landscape · Landscape Architecture

1 Slab 4 All Garden

Generic and specific: the parking lot and pedestrian access of the Albufera d’Es Grau Natural Park Interpretation Center in Menorca, built from one concrete slab that becomes pavement or bench.

What it teaches: The initial proposal posed a unique generic solution: the realisation of all the elements of the parking lot and the pedestrian accesses with one single piece, a reinforced concrete slab made ‘in situ’, able to become either pavement or bench. In the end, some specific situations could not be solved by the global rule: the pavement of the main entrance and the parking lot became exceptions to the general rule.

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