Architectural Park of senses The project for the Natural Observatory of Monsanto is based on the recovery of the ancestral relationship between human and nature. This recovery is done in 5 pavillons, each one triggers one of the 5 senses in order to feel the nature.
TOUCH
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Touch. Two simple walls generate an interior space seen as a corridor where the path is invaded by nature.
Hearing. A circular fence. The wall of this environment create a space of deep concentration excluding the unnecessary noise by preserving the essence of the nature: its sound. Smell. Two spaces. Firstly, a fence that isolates the space from its context, where nature is smelt. Secondly, the greenhouse which extracts this smell from nature.
SIGHT
Sight. A tower opened in three differents levels. Firstly, the interaction between man and nature. Secondly, the natural life over the treetops. Thirdly, the landscape intended as a set of natural environments and a place where man lives and carries outs his actions.
Taste. An orange garden. Central point of the entire project, where human and nature meet themselves by planting, raising and feeding.
SMELL TASTE
A timeless observatory as a scenario of explorations and interactions is placed in a commun and constantly changing space. The landscape and the architecture become a vehicle of the return to an ancestral relationship between human and nature.
HEARING
The panoramic restaurant is finally reused as one of the doors of the Architectural Park of senses.