The garden-form and landscape architecture: socio-spatial practices and cultural hybridities

The garden shape expresses ideas and plays different roles in the landscape. It mixes, associates and hybridizes the environment, culture and art. It materializes in space through objects and actions that align themselves through uses, functions, symbols of all kinds, thus revealing the idea of ​​place. The garden-form is distinguished when nature is previously framed, and it designs scenarios of specific scales, different ambiences and different styles that, in addition to creating places, leave marks that penetrate, one by one, in the different layers of history. The material and immaterial content manifested in the garden-form, the result of negotiations signed between society and nature through culture, results from the contact zone created by socio-cultural and space-time exchanges that, once associated, emerge as essential elements to the invention of sights. Therefore, if the garden is a continuous exercise of appropriating nature in its raw state to shape it, it is essential to keep in mind that the garden's originality, that is, the garden form, as a built space and founded place, it is only guaranteed from a modus operandi that resizes the environment and translates into it, through different orders of intervention, multiple (and unexpected) hues, whose appearance is nothing more than an overlapping of strata of times and spaces in the creation of the place, which, here, gains the dimension of an invented landscape. Therefore, with each layer added to the environment, each invented place, man tries to expand his dominion over nature. Based on the preview of the potential relationship established between culture and nature, the proposal of this research project aims to analyze the dimensions of a transhistorical order and traverse trans-spatial paths whose results account for perceiving the processes of invention of landscapes, these processes being referenced by the application of multiple garden forms, contingent upon modi operandi using "associations, hybridizations, subtractions, compositions" that, over time, (re) designed and architecture of multiple landscapes that serve man as a support and reference in the daily life of the city contemporary .