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Gustafson Porter, Swiss Cottage Open Space, London, 2006 Landscape masterplan clearly showing how Gustafson Porter has woven together trees, park elements and water to create a haven from the nearby traffic nodes that is fully accessible to pedestrians. Their scheme included the overlaying of two conceptual approaches: the materiality of place (that is, the regional landscape) and a firm engagement and interaction with the past as well as the present. They promptly hired an archaeologist as part of the team, so setting a design agenda that fully recognised the ancient remains that had been excavated 5 metres (16 feet) below ground – a process that revealed a richness of texture and content, from its medieval foundations up through its Roman street grid and the retaining walls of the Hellenistic period that ran along the immovable contours of bedrock. As a result, no less than three mosques, three cathedrals, and the Mary (Nourieh) shrine (visited by both Muslim and Christian females in turn) emerged, looming over the deep traces of Lebanon’s history. This initial excavation meant that the fragile zones to the southwest could be protected, but in other areas to the north the past was reinterred, preserving the archaeology and allowing for new garden layouts. This is not a memorial garden, yet the initial, motivating concept shared by both the clients and the designers was ‘the idea of Lebanon’s journey from a fragile puzzle shattered by war to a country gaining unity and peace under the will of its people’. These ideals still hold today, and are more relevant than ever, though badly impaired, not least of all in the collective mind of the communities that sought to build a new future for Lebanon. The Hadiqat As-Samah garden is thus a source of major healing for all. No singular, prioritised view is forced upon visitors – sectional variation is used to manipulate light and shade creating an overwhelming impression of serenity and even of the sublime. In 2002, Gustafson Porter was commissioned by Solidere to develop a concept design for the landscape of Beirut’s Old Shoreline Walk. A year later they were invited to proceed to design development. The underlying principles of the concept design were retained. A dynamic, evolving, linear experience runs along the path of the Old Shoreline Walk, leading through a series of new open spaces (four squares: All Saints Square, Shoreline Gardens, Zeytoune Square and Satiyeh Garden) that evoke memories of the old city that have been forgotten or destroyed, yet all set within the framework of a modern city space. The old shoreline had become submerged and lost, reducing the urban fabric and its meaning. The new 69
Gustafson Porter, Hadiqat As-Samah (Garden of Forgiveness), Beirut, 1999– The proposed 'placement' of pools and new plantings. The archaeological layering as expressly revealed and duly incorporated in the planned garden and pool overlays. 70
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