Landscape Carpet

International Design Competition for Central Open Space in MAC, Korea - Shortlisted.

LANDSCAPE CARPET is a global reflection about the concept of landscape and, therefore, about the existing con-nection between landscape and nature. As a matter of fact, we intend landscape as something different than nature: nature is a category that exists regardless of human acts; at the contrary, landscape is a human construction {artifi-cial} that represents a re-reading of nature itself and, consequently, its re-interpretation. Artificiality in the landscape concept is much more evident if we consider that the term ‘landscape’ contains, in many languages, mainly those of latin origin, the same linguistic root as ‘town’ , and this is a remark of the existing similarities in two anthropic actions {for example, in Italian the word paesaggio restrains the same linguistic root as paese, just like in Spanish paisaje contains the root pais. The landscape we refer to is, therefore, an artificial nature; a different nature, thought and built by mankind. In this perspective, LANDSCAPE CARPET is a compendium of Korean nature: a list of main landscape features of this land that we frame and we narrate in the very center of Sejong.

LANDSCAPE CARPET is a list of 4 natural categories of the korean landscape: Lakes; Fields, Mountains and Woods. These categories are the starting points of a process of architectural sampling that, starting from the natural element, comes to the definition of the architectural form.

Alessandro Console, Gina Oliva, Claudia Streuli

Landscape Carpet by Alessandro Console in Korea, South won the WA Award Cycle 2. Please find below the WA Award poster for this project.