Readings from the "In and Out" of Sites for a Global and Dynamic Geomorphological Approach

The project for the urban Park of Chaudfontaine (BE) represents an experiential ground where we had the opportunity to congiugate change in different ways: physical, perceptual, environmental, cultural, historical, technical, infrastructural, popular, political, etc. The park, revealing itself as a common unit between landscape, city and public space, becomes a pilot area witnessing the experiential thickness that this type of green spaces reachs. Reading the park as a palimpsest (A. Corboz), where man as heavely intervened and where natural forces are continuosly transforming the site, makes this fragment of territory the starting point for explaining a project methodology based on : "Observation", linked to methods of the Italian geaographer Dematteis: "Dynamic reading" of traces engraved on site's soil (Derrida, Assunto, Muratori) or historical permanences; "Interpretative writing" that uses the interaction of all architectural (human action) and landscape's (natural action) signs, as indicated by the European Landscape Convention. From these three united main actions derives a project approach that practices full interaction between City Planning, Urban Design and Landscape.