Landscape and heritage Integration Generalife Theatre, Spanish Association Award for Parks and Gardens

The Council of the Alhambra and Generalife has won the Award XX Alhambra by the Spanish Association of Parks and Public Gardens in accordance with the jury’s decision released on LX National Congress in Malaga between 7 and 11 May last. The work that has earned the award was “Integrating landscape and heritage of the new Teatro del Generalife”, work in the service of gardens, forests and Huertas has been working since the completion of construction in 2005.
After extensive refurbishment carried out the amphitheater for the improvement of its facilities, capacity and comfort of the spectators, and accessibility, were addressed to landscapers and landscape integration, work continued until immediate groves, Paseo de los Nogales and transition spaces orchards.
Guideline all these actions essential plant composition has been keeping the identity horticultural equipment Annex space and landscape recovery relationship between the Alhambra, the Albaicin and the Generalife own.
The forms and materials evoke new amphitheater space that is inserted gardener: flat roofs of buildings, stepped transition between different blocks built, floor and wall colors … remember the immediate terraces and terraced orchards and rammed with which are formed.
The vegetation used also maintains a close relationship with that found in cultivated areas and gardens nearby. Cypress, bitter orange, pomegranate and myrtle preside different environments generated.
In tune with the color tapestries Patio de la Acequia, herbaceous perennials and evergreen, and subarbustivas cover more than 770 m2 of terraces of buildings, offering at any time of year a considerable visual appeal. The pictorial effect this space often seduces the viewer by the balance and beauty of lights, shapes, textures and colors that come together as if it were an impressionist painting.
The action also extends the Paseo Low or Nogales, removed existing visual displays of aged cypress are replaced by a carpet of color and aromatic playing with the distant horizon of the city and Sierra Elvira, allowing materially revalue growing areas , demonstrate the importance they had already in medieval times as gardeners living spaces of the city palate, and retrieve visual and aesthetic dialogue between the city, the Alhambra and the Generalife almunia.