Case Study Montevideo 2

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Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes?

This project assumes the complexity involved when operating in landscape architecture. Many dimensions, scales and times are involved. It considers the memory in order to build the identity towards the future. It is optimistic about the integrator potential of the discipline and its products.

Landscape is conceived as an interface. An interface between people and their environ, a field of relationship between different people and the space for a collective construction of the future based on the traditions and local history and –at the same time- establishing multiple connections to the rest of the world.

Landscape and/or urban context

History The city of Montevideo was funded in 1724, as a key point in the process of colonization of South America by the spanish. The city of Las Piedras by its north was funded in 1744. The process towards the independence of the country starts in February 1811 when the gauchos start to fight for it, being a part of the Hispanoamerican Independence Revolution. In 1764 José Gervasio Artigas is born. He will be a patriot, a national hero. Artigas will leader the independence process. He starts his career at the spanish army but in 1811 he renounces and joins the revolutionary army whose aim was to get the independence from spanish power. He gathered a group of revolutionary men in the city of Mercedes (300 km far from Montevideo) and they left for Montevideo. Near Montevideo –where today is located the Artigas Park at the city of Las Piedras- they met the spanish men comited to defend their colony. The 18 of May 1811 the revolutionary army led by Artigas defeats the spanish army for the first time in South America. Today the city of Las Piedras is one of the most important of the department (state) of Canelones and is part of the metropolitan region of Montevideo. The park is peripheral respecting to Las Piedras and –at the moment of the Competition- has some pre-existing elements of monumental character and questionable relationship with it.

Cultural/social/political context

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In 2007 the first leftist government of the department of Canelones calls for a Contest of Ideas for the transformation of the park towards the bicentenary of the battle in 2011. Many proposals arrived but the first prize was won by a group of young architects called Fabrica de Paisaje (Landscape Factory).

Spatial analysis of area/project/plan

• What are the main structural features?
• How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

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Analysis of program/function

• What are the main functional characteristics?
• How have they been expressed or incorporated?

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Analysis of design/planning process

• How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
• Were there any important consultations/collaborations?

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Analysis of use/users

• How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
• Is the use changing? Are there any issues?

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