THE ROLE OF CONTEXT IN  LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE  DECISION MAKING



CINDY HOUEIS          N ATHALIE ESTEPHAN    RAZANE HANNA    TINA EL MOHEB

   IS  IT   NECESSARY FOR  A  LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PROJECT TO  BE CONTEXTUALIZED IN  ORDER TO  BE LABELLED SUCCESSFUL?

CONTEXTUAL APPROACH: 

THE WAY IN WHICH PEOPLE - ANYWHERE, EVERYWHERE - UNDERSTAND AND  ENGAGE WITH THEIR WORLD WOULD DEPEND UPON THE SPECIFIC TIME AND PLACE AND HISTORICAL  CONDITIONS

CONCEPT IMPOSED APPROACH: 

DESIGN APPROACH BASED ON THE CREATION OF A PROJECT THROUGH  IDEAS, THOUGHTS, PERSONALITY,  IMPRESSIONS, ABSTRACT FORMS AND SHAPES... WHICH IS THEN APPLIED  TO A CERTAIN SITE WHERE THE DESIGNER HAS THE OPPORTUNITY TO T EST HIS CONCEPT

CONTEXTUAL  APPROACH

«MAKING OF DESIGN LANDSCAPES IS A PRIMARY FORM OF CRITICAL ACTION IN SOCIETY, ‹EMBODYING A  CRITICAL REFLECTION ON, A VALUE JUDGEMENT OF THE INHERITANCE AND CONTEXT TO WHICH PERTAIN.  WORKS IN THE LANDSCAPE ARE SITUATED IN BOTH SPACE, TIME AND TRADITION, AND INEVITABLY BECOME  THE SITE OF FUTURE REFLECTION AND EXPOSITION›».

- JAMES CORNER, CRITICAL THINKING (    1991 )

“ A     CONTEXTUALIZED CONCEPT IMPLIES SITUATING LANDSCAPE WITHIN THE GEOGRAPHICAL ENVIRONMENTAL, CULTURAL AND POLITICAL FRAMEWORK .”

-JALA MAKHZOUM I,      LANDSCAPE IN THE MIDDLE EAS T:       AN INQUIRY   2002 )

RESPOND TO THE NEEDS OF THE SITE

DESIGN DEPENDING ON SITE CONDITIONS, NOT A TABULA RASA PHASES :

_ SITE SPECIFIC AND CONTEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE 

                   NARRATIVE AND HISTORY OF A SITE  CULTURAL AND SOCIAL ASPECT

ECO LOGICAL AND HYDRO LOGICAL ASPECT  LANDSCAPE TYPOLOGY

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS: CLIMATE AND TOPOGRAPHY

_ ANALYTICAL AND INTERPRETIVE THINKING

_ CONCEPTUAL DESIGN

_ D ESIGN DEVE LOPMENT

                 

CASE  STUDY-Club  Med  Restoration  by  EMF  |  Capes  de  Creus,  Spain

                     

                      

CASE  STUD Y-Moses  Bridge  by  ROAD  Architects  |  Halsteren,  Holland





CONCEPT  IMPOSED  APPROACH

« THE SECOND MODEL, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AS AR T, HAD EMERGED FROM THE TEACHINGS AND  PRACTICE OF EDUCATORS SUCH AS PETER WALKER WHO WERE CONCERNED TH AT THE DESIGN PROCESS  HAD  BECOME  TO ANALYSES—ECO LOGICAL ,                                   SOCIAL, AND BEHAVIORAL —TH AT THE ART OF  MAKING THE  LANDSCAPE VISIBLE, BEAUTIFUL, AND  HAD BEEN MADE SUBSERVIENT TO THE  LANDSCAPE’ S FUNCTION».

- MICHEL CONAN, ENVIRONMENTALISM IN  LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE (    2000 )

“INSTEAD OF A STYLE THAT MATURED FROM CERTAIN REGIONAL OR CULTURAL TRADITIONS, THE PRODUCT LINE OF THE GLOBAL DO- I T- YOURSELF CHAINS IS NOW A MAIN INFLUENCE ON THE APPEARANCE  OF THE LANDSCAPE. ALL THIS LEADS TO A ‘ TAL LANDSCAPE’ IN CONTINUOUS CHANGE: “… INSTEAD,  WE FIND  A  LOOSENING- UP A CULTURAL DE- CENTRALIZ ATION WHERE  STABLE CAN BE  BUI LT. ”

-MARTIN  ,                                                                                       DE  LANDSCAPE  AS EVO LUTIONARY SYSTEMS

CASE  STUDY- The  Red  Gar  den  by  Vladimir  Sitta  |  Sydney ,  Australia

CASE  STUD Y-MoMA  Roof  Gar  den  by Ken  Smith  |     New  York,  USA

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