Background: Interface Loop of Pico
Vegetation System
Exotic forest Pasture Native vegetation Interface zone
Interface Interventions Exotic Forest and Native Vegetation Interface
Native Vegetation and Pasture Interface
Exotic Forest and Pasture Interface
In slope areas Grids of vegetation will be built to support the body of the slope, thus minimizing the risk of movement. Top layer vegetation Top soil in-fill Geocell grid Geo-textile
（ Intervention Strategy，Mingyu Xu, Landscape Architecture Design Exploration Part 1, 2021）
Land-use
Interface Area
Native Vegetation Dominant Area
Exotic Vegetation Dominant Area
Exotic Forest and Native Vegetation Interface
Native Vegetation and Pasture Interface
Pasture
Intervention Zone
Exotic Forest and Pasture Interface
Slope Area
Volcanic Landscape Transfortation to Volcanos
Planting Strategy
Existing Volcano System
Interface of Native Vegetation Area and Pasture
Main Fast Endemic Tree Species： Location
Native Vegetation Area
Erica azorica Hochst. ex Seub. (ERICACEAE) One of the first species to recolonize various habitats after human activity. Much used for wood and fuel， their old trunks usually have endemic communities of epiphytic mosses.
Main Endemic Shrub Species： Morella Faya
Pasture
Ferry Route
Road
Major Entrance of Pico Island
Volcanic Landscape
Endemic Species for Birds Potential dominant in 400-1500 m in Pico. Nitrogen fixation by M. faya could alter patterns of primary succession on young, nitrogen-deficient, volcanic soils. The fruit is an edible drupe.
Vaccinium cylindraceum Azores blueberry Endemic Species for Birds Usually above 400 m, it may appear up to 1800 m. It is a frequent member of the laurel forest. It can also be found scattered in grasslands and on slopes of sandy and slag deposits.
Mobility Analyse Route to peak
Native Tree Layer Native Shrub Layer
Interface of Exotic Vegetation Area and Pasture
Main Endemic Tree Species： Location
Volcanos Registration place for climbing Pico Most convenient road to peak
Pasture
Exotic Forest
Ilex azorica Loes. (= Ilex perado Aiton ssp. azorica (Loes.) Can be seen as isolated specimens or in hedgerows. Formerly encouraged by farmers for winter cattle feed. The trunks are often covered with mosses and other species.
Volcanic Landform
Main Bordering Tree Species： Cryptomeria japonica D. Don
Fast- growing species and bred to develop at a fast pace, legal felling age is of 30 years, timber with great economic. Invasions will hindered by the edge response of the adjacent patches, with a dense wall of bordering vegetation that reduces interior light levels and wind speeds. (Brothers & Spingarn 1992).
Design Concept Landscape architecture should not only be instrumentalized for the purposes of finding solutions. Instead, it can reveal conflicts within our values, formulate questions that challenge the status quo, and create a space for discussion and debate.
Main Endemic Shrub Species：
This practice hoping to renew and enhance the expression of landscape, which is to extend and refresh the tradition. It respects and extends the dialogues, reinforce the particular of time and place and make connections. It is also to discover and imagine new metaphors, to tell new stories, and to create new landscapes. Excavation below our conventional sight-level to recover the veins of memory that lie beneath the surface.
Frangula azorica V. Grubow (RHAMNACEAE） It is a species that occurs in the native forest of the cloud zone and in the laurel forest. In some clearings, dense stands of young individuals appear, demonstrating the good propagation capacity of the species.
Native Tree Layer Native Shrub Layer Bordering Tree Layer
Interface of Exotic and Native Vegetation Area
Main Fast Endemic Tree Species： Location
Native Vegetation Area
Vegetation Intervention System
Volcanos Syetem
Reorganized Routes
Exotic Forest
Laurus azorica (Seub.) Franco One of two predominant species in Azores. Evergreen tree with dense crown, key member of laurisilva forest and also home to the Azores Bullfinch Pyrrhula murina, Europe’s most threatened passerine.
Juniperus brevifolia Azorean juniper (Seub.) Antoine
Landscape Sequence
Distribution from 500 to 1500 m. It is the characteristic element of the cloud forest communities native to the Azores, also characterised by the presence of a large number of vascular plants and rare bryophytes.
Main Fast Endemic Shrub Species： Picconia azorica
Native Tree Layer Native Shrub Layer Bordering Tree Layer
Picconia azorica plays an important ecological role as a keystone species (Martín et al. 2008), being the only tree endemic to the Azores that is confined to the vegetation below the laurel forest. Pure or old stands are rare.
Volcanic Landscape System
Layout
Volcanic Landscape Transformation and Creation Existing Volcano Transformation:
Climbing and Viewing
New Volcanic-shape Terrain Creation：
Existing Terain
Admiring from Hillfoot
Entering the Caldera
Master Plan
Proposing Terrain Existing Mountain
Proposing Volcanic Terrain Master Plan A'
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1 Corten Steel Bridge 2 Viewing Platform 3 Tunnel 4 Lava Plaza 5 Path of Existing Caldera
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Detailed Site Plan 2
Corten Steel Bridge Viewing Platform Tunnel Balsatic Rock Drains Shrub Pond Corten Steel Bench Balsatic Rock Curbs Corten Steel Curve Bench Proposing Shrub Layer Existing Native Trees
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I concerned about the material that generated from the site and where will they go. This design balanceing the cut and fill while manipulating the terrain. Reuseing the material that have strong connection with the time and site: the basaltic rocks that as the product of volcanic activities; using Corton-steel that have the colours of lava and will weathering through time of exposures, it will record the passage of countless visitors, a silent testament. The detailing design of plaza with endemic vegetation pool also symbolises the rebirth and circulation of new life in this lava field.
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Section B- B'