Landscape Analysis Arrábida

Client: Private
Location: Arrabida, Portugal
Area: 10 hectares
Phase: under-construction
Year: 2020

This example of landscape analysis shows a specific way to read the land and its surroundings, the type of vegetation and soil, the landform, water resources in order to have a general overview of all the potentiality of the site characteristics and how to design the project with awareness for a sustainable settlement of a family home in countryside.

The second step is to start to draw the main lines of the project, access, water management, habitations, definition of the uses of spaces (animal, vegetable garden, orchard…)