Paisagismo contemporâneo: estratégias para o projeto de praças

Abstract

The landscape today is the greatest area of conceptual and formal trials involving the field of architecture. In the last decades of the twentieth and early twenty-first century, attended to the more radical proposals for landscape design in creating outdoor environments at all scales. These changes aim to create a new nature, closer to humans, more suitable for scale and contemporary taste. From the 1980s, the landscape design have become more extensive and took more freedom with regard to the concepts and strategies for projecting. The aim of this paper is to discuss the theoretical foundations of contemporary landscape and their effects on design strategies applicants in a recent study of Brazilian landscape. The methodology was chosen: (i) a research literature review of historical character, this investigates the influences of the modern landscape in contemporary new designs in the international arena, and Brazil, there is the influence of architecture concepts on the contemporary landscape and address the aspects and disciplines working closely together in the design of contemporary landscape design, which are the functional aspect - related to urban design, the aesthetic - relating to art and architecture and contemporary aspect Environment - related to environmental comfort and concern about global warming and environmental sustainability, (ii) analysis in three areas (functional, aesthetic and environmental) of eight squares - two squares in four Brazilian cities: Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, in the southeast, and Recife and Maceio, in northeastern Brazil. Although there is a difference provided by the history and heritage of each region, contemporary designs have a unit with regard to the creation of artificial environments, with great influence of architecture which are more consistent with the formalism, technology, entrepreneurship and contemporary poetry. This paper aims to contribute to the formation of clearer thinking about the fundamentals of landscaping and a professional practice less stereotyped, avoiding projects based on mere formality.