The lady in the wood

Francisco Leiva Ivorra (ES)
José Luis Campos Rosique (ES)
architects
Marta García Chico (ES)
landscape engineer

Europan 8 Sintra

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An understanding and appreciation of the landscape leads to an operation, plastic micro-surgery.  The incision made by the road infrastructure, pre-established by the planning, is the seed of an orographic proposal for connection with the existing urban structure. The result is a large continuous public space, the amplification of the park, which shapes these inhabitable spaces, thus conserving the essence of the landscape. The park becomes a place of sensations. It spreads its magic and loses its limits. Barbecue, pond, Japanese garden, Christmas lights, picnic places, rock fills, fountains, vegetable patches, swings, gnomes. An intervention is made in the inhabitable infrastructure according to certain rules of use, which protect the public space and allow for a variety of micro-landscapes tamed by the users in their respective private patios.

Site informations

Sintra

Synthetic site file EN

This project is connected to the following themes

Housing - Community

Housing is presented as an inhabited ground inside the public park. Through a kind of “plastic micro-surgery”, the private units emerge from small cuts which open up a private sphere forming “colonised micro-scapes” within the public area of the park.

Nature - Hybridity / Juxtaposition

The project propose a fusion of the built and the ground that is cut with large wales like rifts in the landscape to let the light go through .

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