Abstract

In the Madrid Río Park, two very different approaches to landscape design have been juxtaposed and coexist. The first project_designed by the group composed of MRío and WEST 8_was a staged space based on a rereading of several sites by the evocation of a series of symbolic figures in the city and territory. The second, by the Ecologistas en Acción group, utilized a process of ‘naturalization’ of the Manzanares to bring about a formless configuration of the river. Today, Madrid Río Park is the expres sion of the two very different projects, created ten years apart, enacting two strategies, each with its own very different language and aesthetic outcome; such is the profound complexity of the urban public space created, that the park has become a major case study. This essay will try to analyse its dual soul by addressing the notions of the ‘formal’ and the ‘formless’.

摘要

在马德里里奥公园，两种截然不同的景观设计方法并存并存。由MRío和WEST 8组成的小组设计的第一个项目是一个分阶段的空间，其基础是通过唤起城市和领土上的一系列象征性人物来重新读取几个地点。第二个项目是由生态学家埃森（Ecologistas enAcción）小组利用曼萨纳雷斯（Manzanares）的“自然化”过程来实现河流的无形构造。今天，马德里里奥公园是两个截然不同的项目的代表，相距十年而创建，制定了两种策略，每种策略都有各自不同的语言和美学效果。这就是公园所创造的城市公共空间的巨大复杂性，公园已成为一个主要的案例研究。