Landscape memory.

Landscapes of memory.
The layers of re-usable space, timeless nature, and history. Dirt Studio
Author: Seada Besic

This paper is an attempt to explain the intention between re-usable space, timeless nature and history- the landscapes of memory. To understand the ways it plays a part in the way we think, see, work and design. How the space around us becomes a way in which we move through and how it negotiate the paths we take. How the timeless nature is ever changing, and how the history of a place helps it develop into a place with quality, meaning and memory.
The research is in the mean to find this link between these elements. The link is important for the reason that it works with a way of understanding the motion of time. How this time impacts the landscapes within our realms, and becomes a new beginning in the environment.
Post-industrialism is a description of how the space, nature and history have been brought together. The Landscape Park in Duisburg-Nord, Germany, designed by Latz and partners, is one project that its primary goal was to connect the layers of re-usable space, nature and history of the site. The old industrial space was re-developed into a major park with maintaining the sites industrial past. The idea wasn’t in the use of ripping out and creating something new but rather acknowledging the site’s history and re-development of the destroyed nature.
The research attempts to un-cover the relationship between these elements and the forms that should be inherited in the industrial history and developed into a new design which creates a new layer of memories.
My aim is to understand how these elements when put together become a whole different perspective. To reveal how reusing and remembering landscapes becomes extremely important. To understand and explore the beauty and power of nature. To understand the landscapes that utilize existing formations and history of a site and assist the past, the present and engage the public who use the space. To understand the link between re-usable space, timeless nature, history and the landscapes of memory.

Keywords: timeless nature, elements, memory, history, formations

Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park:

Image 1.

A painting by Salvador Dali expresses the space and memory

Image 2.

Willi Baumeister

The abstract connects the elements of form, space and memory.

Image 3

Claude Monet.

A painting that express the space, form and history

Extracted terms:

timeless nature - The forces and processes that produce and control all the phenomena of the material world.

elements- component of another thing

memory- retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions

history- all that is preserved and remembered of the past.

formations- the act or process of forming or the state of being formed

Bibliography:

Kirkwood N, 2001, ‘manufactured sites: re thinking the post-industrial landscapes’ Published by Spoon Press, New York, USA. Pgs. 156-157

Zulaika, J 2003 ‘Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa: museums, architecture, and city renewal’ Center of basque studies. Reno Nevada, Printed in the USA pg. 231

Berger, A 2008, ‘Designing the reclaimed landscape’ published by Taylor and Francis New York, USA

pg.5

Smith. K, Amidon. J, 2006 ‘landscape architect: urban projects’ Princeton architecture press, Printed in china. Pg. 18

Margaret A. Rose 1991 ‘The post-modern and the post-industrial: a critical analysis’Cambridge university press, published in New York pg.331

Image credit list:

Images 1- http://www.archidose.org/Sep00/091800.html

Image 2- Schiebler R. ‘Dali’ Prestel, London

Image 3- Phaidon, 1994. ‘The art book’ Printed in China.

Image 4- Heinrich, H. 2000, ‘Claude Monet’ Printed in Germany.