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La majoria dels parcs construïts en el segle XX són la continuïtat d'una inèrcia generada en el XIX, on el paisatge és incorporat com a element decoratiu. Els parcs públics són llocs de contemplació, on el paisatge construeix un escenari per a l'oci, llocs on caminar, seure i sentir-se fora de la ciutat industrial, i per tant, prop de la natura.
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How can we envision a park for the 21st century? What role should it play in the contemporary city? What should its programmatic content be? Public spaces are the primary vehicles for collective participation within the fabric of the city. A city without varied and exciting public spaces would be little more than an automated fabric of individual cells and private lives. The challenge today is to keep public space integral to the city’s structure and use. Most of the parks built in the 20th century continued the 19th century inertia, understanding landscape merely as a decorative element. Urban parks were contemplative areas, where landscape was used to build an envelope for leisure - this being understood as walking, sitting and getting a sense of being far away from the industrial city and close to nature. The parks for the 21st century respond to a new understanding of the city, and consequently they should be active urban components, key elements in the city configuration on its daily life. They should be incorporated as activity and production nodes, and hence not only as thematic pedestrian pathways. The incredible potential of the site relies on its location near to both the city center and the lake; its natural landscape components (lake, beach, waterfront, Alps’ view and more) hold remarkable value which should be transformed into opportunity. Its current condition as an urban remnant (lack of program, topographic barrier and problematic scale) can be transformed to shape a new point of interest. Understanding and incorporating the complexity within the urban context, as well as looking for the right strategies to embrace the qualities of the existing landscape, is key in order to link the site to the urban structure and transform it into a new node of energy for the city, the new Neuchâtel.
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¿Cómo podemos imaginar el parque del siglo XXI? ¿Qué papel debería jugar en la ciudad contemporánea? ¿Cuál debe ser su programa? Los espacios públicos son los principales vehículos para la participación colectiva en la vida de la ciudad. Una ciudad sin variados e interesantes espacios tendería a no ser más un tejido automatizado de vidas individuales, privadas. El objetivo es pues, mantener el espacio público como una parte integral de la estructura y los usos de la ciudad . La mayoría de los parques construidos en el siglo XX son la continuidad de una inercia generada en el XIX, donde el paisaje es incorporado como elemento decorativo. Los parques públicos son lugares de contemplación, donde el paisaje construye un escenario para el recreo, es decir, lugares para caminar, sentarse, y sentirse fuera de la ciudad industrial, y por lo tanto, cerca de la Naturaleza. El parque del siglo XXI refleja una nueva comprensión y planeamiento de la ciudad, y son incorporados como componentes urbanos activos, elementos clave en el diseño de la ciudad y su vida cotidiana. Los parques deberían entenderse como nodos de actividad y producción, y en consecuencia, no sólo como paseos temáticos peatonales. El increíble potencial del terreno de Neuchâtel reside en su ubicación, cerca del centro de la ciudad y el lago; su riqueza natural y de paisaje (lago, playa, playa, vistas a los Alpes y más ), son valores extraordinarios que deberían volverse una oportunidad. Su condición actual como vestigio urbano (falta de programa, barreras topográficas y dificultad en la gestión de su escala) puede intervenirse para ser transformado en una nueva atracción. Comprender e incorporar la complejidad existente en el contexto urbano, así como definir una estrategia clara frente al paisaje, es clave para vincular este lugar a la estructura urbana y convertirlo en un nuevo nodo de centralidad de la ciudad, de la nueva Neuchâtel
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How can we envision a park for the 21st century? What role should it play in the contemporary city? What should its programmatic content be? Public spaces are the primary vehicles for collective participation within the fabric of the city. A city without varied and exciting public spaces would be little more than an automated fabric of individual cells and private lives. The challenge today is to keep public space integral to the city’s structure and use. Most of the parks built in the 20th century continued the 19th century inertia, understanding landscape merely as a decorative element. Urban parks were contemplative areas, where landscape was used to build an envelope for leisure - this being understood as walking, sitting and getting a sense of being far away from the industrial city and close to nature. The parks for the 21st century respond to a new understanding of the city, and consequently they should be active urban components, key elements in the city configuration on its daily life. They should be incorporated as activity and production nodes, and hence not only as thematic pedestrian pathways. The incredible potential of the site relies on its location near to both the city center and the lake; its natural landscape components (lake, beach, waterfront, Alps’ view and more) hold remarkable value which should be transformed into opportunity. Its current condition as an urban remnant (lack of program, topographic barrier and problematic scale) can be transformed to shape a new point of interest. Understanding and incorporating the complexity within the urban context, as well as looking for the right strategies to embrace the qualities of the existing landscape, is key in order to link the site to the urban structure and transform it into a new node of energy for the city, the new Neuchâtel.
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