Paper presented at the CIAB 11. XI Congreso internacional arquitectura blanca. Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain. (authors: Javier Rivera Linares, Débora Domingo-Calabuig).
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ABSTRACT
The Freeway Park in Seattle in the USA, made in 1976, is a paradigmatic work, published and recognized, that expresses the materialization of movement in the work of landscape architects Lawrence Halprin and Angela Danadijeva. In the park, everything is dynamic and is organized as a choreography of its components: the green infrastructure is intertwined with the highway that it covers, there are multiple movements of people, there are waterfalls, the exuberant vegetation seems to dance in large planters… all movement. This communication explains that this movement, this dance of components, is made possible based on the materialization of a single material with different f inishes: exposed concrete. It will be reinforced concrete that will take the form of structure, support, pavement, stairs, ramps, fountains and ponds, urban furniture, retaining walls, f lowerpots and planters, becoming the architect of movement in the Freeway Park.Concrete; Wood Shuttering Panel; Stone; Natutal; Warmth.
