Landscape ascents

DS2_ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO 2, MILANO POLITECNICO - 2014 2015

Prof: Remo Dorigati, Juarez Corso, Massimilino Spadoni

Assistant: Barbara Brollo, Paola Mongiu, Haitham Nabil, Pier Rizzardi, Sibil Struli

landscape
There are two main meanings for the word landscape: it can refer to the
visible features of an area of land, or to an example of the genre of painting that depicts
such an area of land.
Laboratorio
di Progettazione dellArchitettura

il paesaggio,
urbano
e territoriale
[1] Landscape,Abitare
in both senses,
includes the physical
elements
of landforms such as (ice-capped) mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers,
Docenti:
Paolo
Mestriner,
Andrea
Savio,cover
Massimiliano
Spadoni
lakes, ponds and
the sea,
living
elements
of land
including
indigenous vegetation, human elements including different forms of land use,
buildings and structures, and transitory elements such as lighting and
weather conditions.
A complex system composed by the elements of a place, a territory, that
is made of phisycal, biological and cultural items.

ascension
noun [ in sing. ]

the act of rising to an important position or a higher level: his ascension

to the ranks of pop star.
(Ascension)the ascent of Christ into heaven on the fortieth day after the
Resurrection.
ORIGIN Middle English (referring to the ascent of Christ): via Old French
from Latin ascensio(n-), from the verb ascendere (see ascend) .

space, time and landscape

The landscape is a system made by several elements (cities, rivers, mountains, hills, infrastructures, etc.)
The connections among these elements changes the meaning and the
perception of the landscape and the surroundings.
The landscape is seen as a great disorder, leaving the freedom to
choose a personal meaning
Claude Lvi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, 1955

connections
The landscape is not a natural data, but a cultural construction.
Its aspect depends from the culture that shapes it. It could have differnt
ways of see it, tells it, represent it.
The landscape is made by the connections among its elements

time
different type of time makes different type of landscape
A landscape description, bringing inside a certain amount of temporality, is always a tale: theres somebody in movement, that describes a
moving landscape, and each element of the landscape is loaded with of
its temporality, or we might say it could be described in a different kind
of present and future.
I. Calvino

John Constable, the hay wain, 1821

Thomas Hearne, the landscape, 1794

interferences
different times brings different sights and different landscapes

Robert Smithson, Monument of Passaic, New Jersey, 1967

Giancarlo Mazzanti, Public Library, Medellin, 2007

SACRO MONTE DI VARESE / XVIII CENTURY/ VARESE

PANATHENAIC PROCESSION/ V CENTURY B.C./ ATHENS

LANDSCAPING OF PHILOPPAPOS HILL / DIMITRI PIKIONIS / 1954-57 / ATHENS

RUTA DEL PEREGRINO / DELLEKAMP ARQUITECTOS (MASTERPLAN) / 2008-2011 / MEXICO

BOM JESUS DO MONTE / CARLOS AMARANTE / XVIII CENTURY/ BRAGA, PORTUGAL

SANSSOUCI PALACE / FRIEDRICH WILHELM DITERICHS / XVIII CENTURY / POSTDAM, GERMANY

ESCALERAS DE LA GRANJA / TORRES - LA PENA / 2000 / TOLEDO, SPAIN

BOA NOVA RESTAURANT / ALVARO SIZA/ 1958 / LECA DA PALMEIRA, PORTUGAL

JARDI BOTANIC/ CARLOS FERRATER/ 1995-1999 / BARCELONA, SPAIN

Projects List
- SACRO MONTE DI VARESE / XVIII CENTURY/ VARESE, ITALY
- SACRO MONTE DI VARALLO / XVII CENTURY / VARALLO SESIA, ITALY
- PANATHENAIC PROCESSION / V CENTURY B.C. / ATHENS, GREECE
- PHILOPAPPOS HILL / DIMITRI PIKIONIS / 1954-57 / ATHENS, GREECE
- RUTA DEL PEREGRINO / DELLEKAMP ARQUITECTOS / 2008-2011 / MEXICO
- BOM JESUS DO MONTE / CARLOS AMARANTE / XVIII CENTURY / BRAGA, PORTUGAL
- SANSSOUCI PALACE / F.W. DITERICH / XVIII CENTURY / POSTDAM, GERMANY
- ESCALERAS DE LA GRANJA / TORRES LA PENA ARQUITECTOS / 2000 / TOLEDO, SPAIN
- BOA NOVA RESTAURANT / ALVARO SIZA / 1958 / LECA DA PALMEIRA, PORTUGAL
- JARDI BOTANIC / CARLOS FERRATER / 1995-99 / BARCELONA, SPAIN

Links & Bibliography

- www.robertsmithson.com
- CASABELLA N.763
- CASABELLA N.638
- ALBERTO FERLENGA/ DIMITRI PIKIONIS 1887-1968, ELECTA, MILAN, 1999
- INAKI ABALOS / PICTURESQUE ATLAS, GG, BARCELONA, 2005
- EL CROQUIS N.68/69, ALVARO SIZA 1958-1994, MADRID 1997
- http://www.archdaily.com/82174/ruta-del-peregrino-phase-i-completed/
- http://www.abitare.it/it/featured/ruta-del-peregrino
- http://www.rutadelperegrino.com.mx/
- http://vimeo.com/53622132