01 | Introduction
Topic Definition
“Nature to culture” in landscape design means treating the natural environment not as a backdrop, but as a medium through which a city’s history, traditions, and collective identity are made visible and lived.
Nature — plants, water, topography, materials — becomes the language through which culture is told.
Nature births culture – and as all children, culture gives it back to nature. This perfect lifecycle is what we aim to bring to our design.
How can we increase biodiversity while maintaining the current human occupancy and creating a connection between culture and nature?
Understanding the context and the different actor profiles
01 | Introduction
Site Plan
Our Scope of Design
We decided to focus on 5 main areas in the site: 1. High canopy street corridor, enclosed, continues stretch 2. Eastern Superilla – Seasonal gathering and activation, 3.Western Superilla – civic gathering space mirroring the street, 4. Open civic node – human occupancy hinge between street and park 5.Park adjacenet zone – a dense ecological zone, where planting where planting continuity with existing park can create an unbroken green interface.
01 | Introduction
Actor Profiles
Trees
Humans
Insects and Bees
02 | Strategic Design
1. Read the land through art
Catalan paintings and poetry already encode the ecological memory of this place.
2. Make nature culturally legible
People protect and care for what they can name and recognise. We place species that appear in the poems people know .
3. Human gathering activates ecological habitat
Using human moments as ecological triggers
Analyzing the Paintings
Matrix analysis
Using a ComfyUI workflow, we have generated AI images that reimagine the streets of our site. We then extracted the sections from these images to study the canopy %, enclosure ratio, sight lines, etc.
