Jardim Botânico de Coimbra: contraponto entre a Arte e a ... - artez
Jardim Botânico de Coimbra: contraponto entre a Arte e a ... - artez
Jardim Botânico de Coimbra: contraponto entre a Arte e a ... - artez
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em relação com a sua gran<strong>de</strong>za e com o seu<br />
rasgado traçado”. Com esta disposição, “o<br />
observador colocado junto do lago encontrar-se-ia,<br />
sem per<strong>de</strong>r o abrangimento visual<br />
do conjunto, numa primeira zona mais<br />
íntima, limitada pelas sebes mais altas e respectivas<br />
pirâmi<strong>de</strong>s talhadas no buxo, em<br />
vez <strong>de</strong> ter diante <strong>de</strong> si um campo raso, guarnecido<br />
<strong>de</strong> maciços <strong>de</strong> flores e arbustos ao<br />
sabor da ocasião e da fantasia dos jardineiros<br />
– e, quando colocado na periferia – teria<br />
a visão do anfiteatro <strong>de</strong> sebes que atenuaria<br />
o mau efeito das cavas para substituição<br />
<strong>de</strong> espécies”. Em segundo lugar, criar-se-iam<br />
“gran<strong>de</strong>s zonas <strong>de</strong> relva e flores vivazes”. Em<br />
terceiro lugar, colocar-se-ia “uma estátua –<br />
lined the “box”, they also ad<strong>de</strong>d “irregular<br />
slabs of stone, with roughly hewn surfaces”<br />
used for the sills, steps and walls 24 .<br />
The contracts were awar<strong>de</strong>d in 1945 and<br />
must have been near conclusion by the end<br />
of the following year since, in June 1946, an<br />
invitation to ten<strong>de</strong>r was issued for a complementary<br />
construction, namely the bridge<br />
connecting the gar<strong>de</strong>n with the mata. The<br />
project, which was also signed by Cottinelli,<br />
involved rebuilding in a new style the old<br />
bridge that connected the western si<strong>de</strong> of<br />
the central quadrangle to the arboretum,<br />
while also improving the spot by “‘disciplining’<br />
what is presently no more than a plot of<br />
land with haphazard relief and a few foot-