The landscape as an experience: a methodological strategy

Abstract

The notion of landscape involves various disciplinary fields such as geography, ecology, art, architecture and urbanism, in which their different approaches are linked to the specificities of each field. It is up to the urban architects, the landscape according to the perspective of the design, comparing these fields and seeking to understand these approaches in their synthesis process for the proposal of places. To this end, they develop strategies that involve readings that seek to encompass the complexities of the territories subject for intervention proposals. In the contemporary context, project processes have gained space seeking to access the landscape as a phenomenological experience, which agencies its goal-oriented and subjective aspects. This article aims to discuss the issue of the research method in a field of knowledge that develops studies on the city and its landscape, and urban life. To this end, it presents a methodological strategy of landscape design that aims to articulate the materialized reading by the attendance of this territory through the perspective of the walker to the readings based on cartographic representations and quantitative, legal, and historiographical information. Its readings enhance, through experience, indeterminate places of the contemporary city and the practices of the everyday sphere. The strategy was tested by the Working Group of The Urban Parks of São Carlos (GTPU) by choosing as study object a stretch of the Monjolinho Stream watershed, in the city of São Carlos, State of São Paulo, which resulted in the proposal of the Parque da Orla do Monjolinho.