Landscape projects: Scale and place

Abstract

The landscape project entails a necessary understanding of the space in which action is taking place. It also requires the interiorisation of processes and structures that necessarily fall outside the scope of the project but which have an unmistakeable influence over it. Hence, it is of great importance to work constantly on the change of scale in order to understand to what extent our intervention affects the system, and how this simultaneously influences our space of action. However, this game of physical scale is not enough. The concept of temporary scape should be incorporated as an aspect inherent to the actual materiality of any land. Understanding that landscape is the result of processes taking place over time is essential in order to approach any intervention project coherently.