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In recent decades, the relationship between soil and water has been at the center of many landscape architecture projects and, more in general, of urban transformation. With an ever-increasing recurrence, the interventions reflect on the positive effects of this dialectic, to the point of making it the constitutive element, both in terms of morphologies and of the reciprocal conditions of quality and resilience, combining ecosystem effects and cultural values. This paper thus examines some cases where the use of these elements has assumed the role of “raw material” in those design processes where they are called to specifically question the relationship between nature and human settlements. Three case studies, which with different declinations represent turning points and paradigmatic passages in this context, are here analyzed: the Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam, the Cheong Gye Cheon canal in Seoul, and the Candlestick Park in the San Francisco Bay.
Fabio Di Carlo; Alfonso Giancotti; Luca Reale. Re-Inventing Water–Ground Relations in Landscape Architecture Projects. Sustainability 2020, 12, 10358 .
AMA StyleFabio Di Carlo, Alfonso Giancotti, Luca Reale. Re-Inventing Water–Ground Relations in Landscape Architecture Projects. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (24):10358.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFabio Di Carlo; Alfonso Giancotti; Luca Reale. 2020. "Re-Inventing Water–Ground Relations in Landscape Architecture Projects." Sustainability 12, no. 24: 10358.
Among the many significant contributions France has made to contemporary landscape architecture, Michel Corajoud counts as one of the towering figures and his Parc Départemental du Sausset as one of the great park visions of the 1980s. In France, and beyond, Corajoud has emerged as one of the protagonists of the great era that this decade has come to be considered in landscape architecture. He was the primary promoter of teaching landscape in France, the creator of the first landscape architecture school (ENSP at Versailles), a visionary and able designer of large projects. If Parc de la Villette can be considered the most significant project of this period, in terms of innovation of public open spaces, Parc Départemental du Sausset is, for its large and complex vision, an exemplary model of a periurban park that combines rural fringe, suburban settlements, and urban infrastructure with an ecological sensitivity that had not previously been envisioned in other parks. Sausset is a project that works on all scales of the landscape, from the garden to the natural park, and to agricultural fields. It makes multiple references to French landscape history. It presents itself as an ever-changing place, where landscape processes, with their evolutionary dynamics, can be perceived and witnessed by its users. Above all, Sausset is a park that successfully defines the philosophical dialectics between modernity and post-modernity by expressing a tension between innovation and the revival of a strong tradition.
Fabio Di Carlo. Michel Corajoud and Parc Départemental du Sausset. Journal of Landscape Architecture 2015, 10, 68 -77.
AMA StyleFabio Di Carlo. Michel Corajoud and Parc Départemental du Sausset. Journal of Landscape Architecture. 2015; 10 (3):68-77.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFabio Di Carlo. 2015. "Michel Corajoud and Parc Départemental du Sausset." Journal of Landscape Architecture 10, no. 3: 68-77.