Reinventing Landscape in Postindustrial Sites: Three Sites Revised

摘要

As the economic value of a landscape diminishes it often becomes derelict and abandoned. This reality coupled with the fact that the cost of redeveloping postindustrial areas generally exceeds the potential value generated by its re-development, has faced landscape architects, urban planners, and other planning professionals with one of the major problems of the contemporary city: How to redevelop those post-industrial landscapes? The analysis of the design strategies that may be used in the reclamation of these landscapes is an essential component of the answer to this question. In recent years, several design strategies have been presented in numerous international design competitions. However, precise methodologies addressing different design strategies and the different benefits of using each one of those in landscape reclamation have not been presented. This paper addresses three different, but complementary design strategies that have been used in the redevelopment of former canning factories in the Arade Valley, Algarve. To exemplify each strategy, three different redevelopment projects will be studied, highlighting their main strengths and how the use of specific approaches has contributed to increase the success of the proposed designs.