The world's first botanical garden was created in Padua in 1545. It still preserves its original layout – a circular central plot, symbolizing the world, surrounded by a ring of water – and from 1997 it is in the World Heritage List of Unesco. Now the Botanical garden of Padua is expanding its historical site with a project that will be finished in 2012. Innovation and tradition: this is the leitmotif of design choices. The new botanical garden, with a series of restoration projects already completed, is designed to connect the ancient historical and cultural institution with the experimental exhibition of the new building, giving this particular urban garden features distinctive and unique in the world. In keeping with the architectural design, the project investigates the possibility to create a virtual space that connects and makes dialogue between precious historical documents (such as the famous herbarium of Padua), a significant section of our plant world (the botanical heritage of 'garden’), a man-made context strongly defined both by architectural and urban, both by landscape and regional planning, and finally the territorial productive activities related to the plant world. Augmented reality, virtual reality and interaction mobile information systems must be applied in a project thought to the needs of a modern urban community and oriented to the dissemination of scientific knowledge and to the promotion of environmental awareness.
Un disegno per l'Orto botanico di Padova: ObPD3 uno sguardo che muove dal passato al presente
BORGHERINI, MARIA MALVINA
2011-01-01
Abstract
The world's first botanical garden was created in Padua in 1545. It still preserves its original layout – a circular central plot, symbolizing the world, surrounded by a ring of water – and from 1997 it is in the World Heritage List of Unesco. Now the Botanical garden of Padua is expanding its historical site with a project that will be finished in 2012. Innovation and tradition: this is the leitmotif of design choices. The new botanical garden, with a series of restoration projects already completed, is designed to connect the ancient historical and cultural institution with the experimental exhibition of the new building, giving this particular urban garden features distinctive and unique in the world. In keeping with the architectural design, the project investigates the possibility to create a virtual space that connects and makes dialogue between precious historical documents (such as the famous herbarium of Padua), a significant section of our plant world (the botanical heritage of 'garden’), a man-made context strongly defined both by architectural and urban, both by landscape and regional planning, and finally the territorial productive activities related to the plant world. Augmented reality, virtual reality and interaction mobile information systems must be applied in a project thought to the needs of a modern urban community and oriented to the dissemination of scientific knowledge and to the promotion of environmental awareness.
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