03:_PREDICTION

Flamengo Park Renovation Proposal

Nature: Academic Role: 100% Individual Course: ARC363 - Landscape Architecture Studio III Instructor: Behnaz Assadi Date: Sep. 2021- Dec. 2021 Location: Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

The site is the Museum of Modern Art, located in the Flamengo Park of Rio de Janeiro. By understanding the history of the site and its current condition and analyzing environmental data, we know the biggest challenges facing the site in the future are global warming, sea level rise, and pollution. Furthermore, this land which came from reclaim will be submerged in 80 years through prediction. Therefore, the project plans to transform the park into a new wetland landscape park with a new vegetation strategy while attempting to preserve the museum and monuments of cultural and artistic significance.

Park Construction Process

2. FUTURE DEISGN STRATEGY

Future Section

The future plan and section can see the new wetland park with new circulation system to face the flooding, and replanting phytoremediation aquatic plants with rich mangrove forests along the site to clean the water.The two main buildings, MAM Museum and the Pracinius Monument will be kept becoming a cultural and art center in the park. Areas around the buildings became public gathering green spaces on site with landscape, with an additional public square beside the bay.

There is a clearer view of how the wetland gardens work with the circulation paths above in this detailed plan, and through the section cutting through the wetland, we can see all the details of the perennial and aquatic plants, such as rich cattails, hornwort, duckweeds, water lilies and mangroves.

Proposed Wetland Nerwork

Waterfront Viewing Space before Flooding Waterfront Viewing Space after Flooding

Through the design of this wetland park responding to future environmental change, a variety of plants and marine life combine with the circulation system and urban landscape to create a harmonious wetland landscape.

In this park, visitors can view a landscape that combines nature and human design while visiting museums and monuments to learn more about local art and history. Although we cannot completely stop environmental change, we can respond to it as best we can through strategies to improve and maintain it, enriching the ecosystem, raising ecological awareness in the city, and continuing the possibilities of the modern landscape.