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*BOTÁNICA CASTIZA*

2016. etsam

architectural design 7

ud. Lapuerta, professors Nieves Mestre + Emili Manrique

final mark 9/10

#LandscapeFixingMadrid. That was de aim of the semester: to develope a project capable of fixing some issue in the city of Madrid, wherever and whatever it is. Transfering identities between the Botanical Garden of Madrid and the Retiro Park. Both are two green areas inside the city but reality is that they are two different urban structures: the Botanical Garden works as a private institution, a place where visitors can walk around without appropriation of the place.. people stay, observe, but actually they (we) don't consider it as an extension of our domesticity; The Retiro Park represents the biggest exit of public space in the city, people use it like it is a part of their daily life.

The botanical Garden is treated from its limit, from the wall, building an archipelago of islands where people can go and use it, but also can keep learning in the same way as they do inside de garden. The Retiro Park is treated from its identity, becoming a great 'Botanizador', a device inside the water tank where grow different species from the botanical garden in order to enrich the vegetal layer of the park. 

'Retirizar el Botánico y Botanizar el Retiro'.

Adrián Montoro

2019

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