AMBIENTUL SUSTENABIL ÎNTRE TEHNOLOGIE ŞI EXPRESIVITATE
THE SUSTAINABLE AMBIENT BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY AND EXPRESSIVITY

Summary/Abstract: Contemporary urban planning puts an increasingly higher emphasis on the public space. Many companies have specialized in arranging public spaces designed as areas of great interest – vital to the city. Being expressly defined by its inner functions, the space becomes a receptacle for all sorts of activities. The public space refers to an open area accessible to all people (regardless of race, age or social level). It can be regarded as a place for meetings ... but, the composing elements are much more numerous. Perceived from the pedestrian’s perspective, being the one traversing it, this must meet a number of features: RELAXATION – SOCIAL AND CULTURAL EXCHANGE – VERBAL AND VISUAL INTERACTION; it is, therefore, an animated space, diversified, safe, in which sensorial experience must prevail. Under the European Landscape Convention on October 20001 , Chapter 1, Article 1 a, the LANDSCAPE designates a part of the territory whose nature is the result of the action and interaction of the natural and human factors. ROSARIO ASSUNTO proposes an approach to the landscape concept in relation to the space concept. “LANDSCAPE is the space that represents the object of the aesthetic experience, as a matter of aesthetic judgment”2 . The changes of the Twentieth Century concerning the LANDSCAPE accelerated dramatically due to the unprecedented development of the technical processes. New landscapes appear. The existing ones are being destroyed. The landscape (the urban area) to which we are referring, acquires at the beginning of the XXI century a predominantly ecological tint. The European Landscape Convention focuses on the ecological approach along with the preservation of the social and cultural function in order to protect and promote it. Today, more than ever, we are seeing new approaches that are generating an extension of the concept.

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