Landscape Efficacy

Designed on the eastern site of the decommissioned Dal Molin military airport, in suburban Vicenza, the ca. 60-hectares Parco della Pace is the result of a long history of social resistance, contestation of power relations, exploitation of natural resources, and of appropriation by nature of an abandoned infrastructure. The article discusses the park’s design strategy in terms of the close the close connections it explores between a landscape architecture project and the idea of time. The park addresses both the site’s history, to enhance a sense of context, and its future developments, governed by ecological processes initiated, or artificially recreated, by the design itself.