Moved Earth : Designing Landscapes with Discarded Fill by Chiara Geroldi

Moved Earth explores discarded fill to construct designed landscapes from a designer's perspective. Some geologists estimate that humans now move more earth than natural processes. The 20th century saw an increase of `made ground' and of discarded fill production, accompanied by the fact that an `away' for waste disposal no longer exists. So far, discarded fill materials have been addressed predominantly in a technical way. This book shows how discarded fill offers opportunities to construct significant designed landscapes, with designers playing a positive role in a multidisciplinary environment. Legible constructedness can communicate the nature of these landscapes, in contrast with approaches that tend to hide this aspect in natural-looking landscapes or through camouflage. Moved Earth addresses issues of design, form, and aesthetics; materials and meanings; openness and closure; processes and material movements; technical aspects; and the role of the designer. Thirty-one international examples and four case studies are included, ranging from an unconstructed project for an artificial island with a garden hill envisioned by Alvise Cornaro in Renaissance Venice to three contemporary projects: Spectacle Island (US) designed by Brown Richardson + Rowe; Sigirino Depot (Switzerland) by Atelier Girot; and the Tejo and Trancao Park (Portugal) by PROAP/Hargreaves Associates. Moved Earth offers readers a unique insight into the opportunities discarded fill offers designers and is essential reading for landscape architects.
Binding: Paperback / softback