Jardim com rochas e jardim em rochas: rock garden

• Author(s): Fonseca, Matilde de Oliveira Martins Rosado
• Date: 2015
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/8529
• Origin: Repositório da UTL
• Subject(s): garden; rock garden; sustainability; japonese garden
• Document Type: Master thesis
• Language: Portuguese
• Advisor(s): Lecoq, Nuno Cara de Anjo; Kong, Mário Ming
• Contributor(s): Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa

Description

Mestrado em Arquitectura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de Agronomia

This paper aims to make known in Portugal the concept of "Rock Garden", where it came from, the influences that suffered, what are its benefits and how we can design a "rock garden" in our country. With Eastern influences, the rock gardens are like a patchwork of cultures culminating in gardens that are valued for their natural sustainability. Generally the concept of "Rock Garden" is associated with barren gardens, monotonous, where green is the predominant color and where vegetation comes down to cacti. However, this thesis explains how this idea, though not wrong, can be adapted to make colorful rock gardens, with a variety of native species. Therefore it would bring benefits both economically and environmentally friendly for our country. At a time when sustainability and economism are themes in vogue for our future, it is important that these areas are a habitat to new living beings, that they can be framed in the surrounding landscape and, above all, that they can be its natural extension. The role of landscape architect is essential in order to integrate human intervention along with nature through his knowledge