The project proposes an open strategy for the development of the site, rather than a closed composition complete in itself. A series of infrastructural spines cross the site acting as connectors for the new communities on both sides and establishing a series of landscape fields or carpets running between them. In this way a new field system is established, derived from a synthesis between the existing and historical landscape conditions and the responses to the specific requirements of the brief. The geometry of the new field system is derived from the most established of the existing hedgerows, creating a dialogue with what has gone before. Due to the inherent openness of the strategy this landscape infrastructure has the capacity to change and adapt through future dialogue with the clients and users.
The infrastructural spines take the form of three elevated walkways that allow for easy circulation through and across the park. A raised “promenade vegetal” is created, giving the visitor a series of wide and constantly changing views. Their form recalls a sense of aqueducts or bridges and the way in which they charge the surrounding landscape. All the other structures for the park are subordinated to these spines. A series of pavilions containing changing rooms, public toilets, kiosks and cafes are placed in the undercrofts.
