Concept, Evolution and Symbiosis of Landscape Microcosms - from Convent Fences to Suburban Villas

Abstract

Landscapes have always played a fundamental role in shaping local, regional and national identity. They involve a combination of productive needs, cycles, and rhythms of growth that challenge morphologies, flows, and continuities. As an integral part of the landscape, human beings intervene and add utilitarian, symbolic and artistic dimensions, recording memories and defining identities. Sensations, experiences, sounds, aromas, flavors, and surroundings are associated, offering harmony and repositioning in the world. Experience and layout, regardless of place, time and cultural context, reveal spaces where aesthetic and spiritual satisfaction, production, and recreation are reconciled. Contextualized interpretations of the ways in which the landscape has been used and occupied give rise to unique places where landscape and architecture complement each other harmoniously. The multiplicity and spatial diversity stand out, in which buildings, gardens, productive areas and woodlands are organized to create versatile places where production and recreation share the same space, invading each other, and where nature is an object of pure contemplation. This results in a model for transforming the landscape, as it promotes the multifunctionality of the landscape: production, protection and recreation. Beyond the conception of a structure that organizes a space and sculpts the territory, giving it a certain character and partiality, conditions are generated for the character of the place to emerge - the creation of the ideal landscape. Considering the heterogeneity and multiplicity of variants that make up the landscape, we expanded the reflection by studying the structuring, compositional and program principles of the Convent Fences and Suburban Villas, their relationships and strategies of implantation and integration in and with the landscape. Universes that are a way of enriching and deepening contemporary culture.