evolutionary processes

land scape architecture

evolutionary processes Prof. Antonio di Campli

USAC, Turin, 18 june 2012

Evolutionary processes. Urban space as a darwinian machine

evolutionary processes

Anuradha Mathur, Dilip da Cunha, MississippiFloods

James Corner (1961) Evolutionary Processes

James Corner, Fresh kills Parkland, Staten Island, New York, 2001

At 2,200 acres, Freshkills Park will be almost three times the size of Central Park and the largest park developed in New York City in over 100 years.

The park (890 ha)is planned on a reclamation area occupied by landfills and abandoned industrial buildings The park is defined interweaving of different environments through a process of recolonization able to set up a variety of stratified ecosystems through: a distribution network for water (threads) areas of protected habitat for special crops (islands) permeable surfaces governing the erosion and transformation of the land (mats).

The equipment and collective structures, of various kinds, are strategically placed according to the arrangement of the different ecosystems.

The evolution of the park is planned in several phases: recovery of the natural original infrastructure and adaptation.

fluidity

ecology

continuity balance time

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