Collaborative Design Planting Design Working Group 24

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Landscape at the Historical Site of El Escorial (Spain)

Name	Landscape of the historical Cerca Real (Royal Wall) Territory at El Escorial
Location	El Escorial (Madrid)
Country	Spain
Authors	Francisco Felipe-Martínez, Le Trang Nguyen, Irina Slobozeanu

Landscape and/or urban context of your case

• Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

In the XVIth. Century, when the Royal Monastery of St. Lawrence at El Escorial was built by Philipp II built (the contruction of the 4 Ha bulding took from 1563 to 1584) the same king decided to enclose the whole Monastery lands and related territories, as well as several already existing or new constructed palaces and mannors, by a 55 km long granit and gneis stone wall. It was renovated in 1793, and in 2006 the Regional Government of Madrid entitled the Royal Wall (Gran Cerca or Pared Real) and tjhe whole enclosed Historic Territory, monuments and gardens as Cultural Protected Item (BIC). In 1961 a part of it carried already the protection figure of Protecte Picturesque Landscape. The UNESCO entitled the Royal Monastry and Historical Site of El Escorial as World Heritage Site in 1984. The Monastery and related palaces, mannors and lands include some of the most relavant grdnes in Sapin.

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  Historical Territory of the Royal Wall

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  Protected Landscape & Historic Territory

What are the objectives of your design?

Please give a short written argumentation (not more than 150 words). It is ok if you have different or even contradicting objectives within your group. Just make it explicit at the beginning of your process

Analytical drawings

Please add four analytical sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes) of your case. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing.

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Projective drawings

Please add four projective sketches/drawings (or montages/schemes), of course with an emphasis on planting design/vegetation aspects. Every group member needs to contribute at least one drawing representing his/her individual ideas.

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Design Synthesis

Please analyse the individual approaches presented so far and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (you may use the SWOTanalysis model). Try to create a synthesis and represent it with a plan and some sketches. You can still use drawings/sketches.

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Summary of the collaborative process

Please reflect on your collaborative design process. Which potentials have you encountered? What was most difficult? What does collaborative design mean for you? (approx 150 words).

Image Gallery

You may add a series of images/photos in addition to the sketches/drawings

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References

* Please make sure that you give proper references of all external resources used.

* Do not use images of which you do not hold the copyright.

* Please add internet links to other resources if necessary.

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