Cinema en Plein Air Festival, at the the PdlV. The Park serves an open-air cultural center, conceptualized as one large user-defined space that is completely open for interpretation. What new programs are appropriate for my site?
Even though most traditional picturesque parks are unprogrammed and usually mean for user definition and interpretation, there is usually still some semblance of desired activity.
Frederick Law Olmsted, the master of the picturesque, proposed that "in the park the city if not supposed to exist." 20th C urban parks contradict this notion, with the concept of the park, which can no longer be separated from the city
PdlV is a parks designed as much for urban entertainment and social interaction as for individual contact with nature. I like the overall narrative of the PdlV concept. I see my project as more of a infrastructure able to absorb and adept to different programs and functions and to interweave these with city life.
As Smithson pointed about in his musings about Central park....
"A park can no longer be seen as 'a thing-in-itself', but rather as a process of ongoing relationships existing in a physical region - the park becomes a 'thing-for-us.'"
La Villette is anit-contextural, it has no relationship to it's surroundings, history, or landscape precedent... I understand how this works in a land-locked urban plot, but is it possible to follow this mindset for my project, based on it location (i.e. i can't ignore the sea...)!
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