"Wisitors do not come to the Parqe do Flamengo to escape the city, to dream and lose themselves in nature"1
The contents of the area is a two-speed highway with pedestrian crossings, areas for cultural and recreational activities, including stages, parking, picnicareas, resturants, an aqarium and big sports fields - basketball, volleyball and tennis courts, and a marina with boats.
The park lies on land that is reclaimed, beeing a transition area between the sea, the city and the mountains.
The ground is moulded in different levels - this isolate the park visualy and acoustically form the main road and seperate the different activities from each other. The terrain is also worked inside the park in a way that the park become adventurus, with encloves protected form the wind and the sea. Along the paths there are clumps of thick bushes and shady trees.
Beacause of the great numbers wisiting into the weekends, aproxomately more than 150 000, one of the lanes of the highway is closed on Sundays - the walkers and syklist enter and cirkulate inhindred by trafic. The pedestrian bridges and underpasses have gentle slopes and enough light for people to feel comfortable using them. The plantings intend a balalce of solids and voids, bouth for the park and the highway. Today the park is an area of lational heritage and by thus protected.
More reading and refference:
1. page 68
Montero, Marta Iris. "Roberto Burle Marx - The Lyrical Landscape". University of California press. Berkley. Los Angelses 2001
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