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SALINAS SWIMMING POOLS | CÂMARA DE LOBOS – MADEIRA | PORTUGAL
with Paulo David arquitecto

winner of 2008 Barba Rosa European Pubblic Award –  V Landscape Biennal Barcelona

 

CONCEPT

The designed landscape resulted from the understanding of landscape as a cultural process, rather than a mere physical occurrence. Therefore specifi c landscape construction strategies, as well as constructive processes, were critically reused to inform the change of use. The drawing process did not search for mimesis, but it aimed for coherence in the way of constructing and dwelling the landscape. The site transformation incorporates traditional techniques and production systems to construct the landscape, in order to adapt it to the site-specifi c geomorphic conditions of Madeira’s landscape. ‘Poios’, walls, up-levelled canals, vineyard trellis, meadows, banana groves, were introduced through contemporary design thinking and drawing processes, representing a new interpretation for the use of the place.

 

PROJECT DATE 2003 (design) 2006 (construction) | CLIENT Developing Metropolitian Society | SITE Madeira Island, Portugal | AREA 17.000 m2

 

TEAM

authors: Paulo David and João Gomes da Silva

general coordinator: Paulo David

landscape architecture coordinator: João Gomes da Silva

landscape architecture team: Victor Beiramar-Diniz, Kerstin Hauswald, Sebastião Carmo-Pereira, Catarina Raposo, Paula Gomes da Silva

infrastructures: Kplano and Teixeira Trigo Lda (Restaurant)