1997 | |
To rehabilitate
an existing but deteriorated public space, a design proposal was required.
The project is basically a ground design, where a square-triangle net
is implanted. It is a subtle intervention that changes completly the character
of the place (from a terrain vague into a garden). The net nodes are lit
and serve as anchorages to furnishings as chairs, boards and lamps. The
net is rather difficult to understand at first sight from the pedestrian
point of view, but when experienced from the inside, it gives a sense
of order. Slender trees are placed in the centres of the squares to produce
a second, more visible orthogonal net. The whole ground is floored with
reinforced plastic decks which are grass permeable. The whole net becomes
solid and concave in the middle, to produce a shallow pond. This project
was developed with German Lemus during 1997, its construction was finished
in June 2002. |
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