LOOKING BACK AT LANDSCAPE URBANISM: SPECULATIONS ON SITE
By: Julia Czerniak
PREMISE:
To think about landscape is to think about site – To think site is to think landscape.
By: Julia Czerniak
PREMISE:
To think about landscape is to think about site – To think site is to think landscape.
The full potential of site in landscape is often overlooked. Its specified organisational systems, performative agendas, formal language, material palettes, signifying content - to generate landscape design work.
Reasons - equating sites with building lots, bound by legal demarcations ad property owenership, instead of large complex landscapes, relational network of artefacts, organisation and processes that operate at multiple spatial and temporal scales - neighbourhood, city, region of which the site is a part.
Potential - by drawing from an expanded field of information, impact can be on a larger area - eg. Cleaning storm water before it is released into a watershed - making ecological sense.
Landscape Urbanism – understood here as conceptualisation of and design and planning for urban landscapes that draws from an understanding of landscapes disciplinarity – history of ideas, functions – ecologies and economies, formal and spatial attributes – natural and cultural organisations, systems and formations, and processes – temporality which impact many scales of work. It also suggests a particular culture of and consciousness of the land that refrains from the superficial reference of sustainability, ecology, and the complex processes of our environments in favour of projects that actually engage them. There is a concern of not only how the landscape performs but also of how it appears.
Reference Projects:
1. OMA/ Bruce Mau – Tree City
2. Hargreaves & Assoc. – Guadelupe River Park, Byxbee Park
3. Peter Eisenman/ Laurie Olin – Rebstockpark Masterplan, Frankfurt
Reasons - equating sites with building lots, bound by legal demarcations ad property owenership, instead of large complex landscapes, relational network of artefacts, organisation and processes that operate at multiple spatial and temporal scales - neighbourhood, city, region of which the site is a part.
Potential - by drawing from an expanded field of information, impact can be on a larger area - eg. Cleaning storm water before it is released into a watershed - making ecological sense.
Landscape Urbanism – understood here as conceptualisation of and design and planning for urban landscapes that draws from an understanding of landscapes disciplinarity – history of ideas, functions – ecologies and economies, formal and spatial attributes – natural and cultural organisations, systems and formations, and processes – temporality which impact many scales of work. It also suggests a particular culture of and consciousness of the land that refrains from the superficial reference of sustainability, ecology, and the complex processes of our environments in favour of projects that actually engage them. There is a concern of not only how the landscape performs but also of how it appears.
Reference Projects:
1. OMA/ Bruce Mau – Tree City
2. Hargreaves & Assoc. – Guadelupe River Park, Byxbee Park
3. Peter Eisenman/ Laurie Olin – Rebstockpark Masterplan, Frankfurt
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