Parque do museu: projeto paisagístico para o Parque Educacional Professor Raimundo Teixeira da Rocha

Abstract

Despite having 35% of its area covered by Zonas de Proteção Ambiental – ZPA (Environmental Protection Zone), the city of Natal- RN still holds a deficit in green spaces with infrastructure to attend visitors. With the rise of urbanization, these green spaces become ever more important. It is necessary to provide urban centers with areas that, at the same time, bring citizens closer to nature and educate them about the importance of preserving the environment. From this perspective, the Parque Educacional Prof. Raimundo Teixeira da Rocha (or Parque do Museu Câmara Cascudo) presents itself as a viable possibility to enrich Natal with more green spaces of public use. The importance of this park comes mainly from its institutional relations with the Camara Cascudo Museum (MCC) and the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), also from its central location at Tirol, and from the several Environmental Education activities that take place. This project seeks to contribute with efforts to spread, value and integrate the park, by proposing a Landscape Design based at the requirements imposed by the Management Plan. In order to achieve this goal, first the benefits of green spaces for cities, the characteristics of contemporary urban parks and the relationships between parks and museums were studied. Then knowledge about the urban and natural context were gathered, as well as knowledge about the Museum and the Park itself. At last, all of this information were applied at the conception of a Landscape Architecture Project that glimpses the future and worries about the social and ecological dimension of space.