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RESSUSCITATED HERITAGE : TANGER a Garden in the City Jan. 12, 2014

  • a view on Merkaba Bab Essalam

  • Agave Attenuata

  • Hawai Hibiscus

  • Papyrus theater

  • View on theater and house

    •        In their book A garden on the strait, Louis Lazaroo and Eugénie Denarnaud,two young landscape designers show how they worked on a site  that needed saving, repeatedly visited for many years by botanic lovers for its exceptional biodiversity.  

    Two and a half hectareas of formerly horticultural and food producing terrasses, are now transformed into a garden mixing biotopes from all over the world, irrigated by many resurgences and springs.


    Louis Lazaroo illustrated the book with his meticulous drawings. His graphite drawings show the outskirts of Tanger and their diversity and abundant vegetal architecture. The very aim of their project, still going on, is to understand the garden as part of the greater landscape that surrounds it and these sketches help a lot.

    Eugénie Denarnaud illustrates the luxurious végétation already in place through a careful collection of plants, organized as an herbarium all along the book.

                                                                                                        

    Eugénie tells us about Bab Essalam :

    « In this developping city, Bab Essalam becomes one of the rare and most precious places. We wish this two and a half hectarea garden to be kept as a whole so that this part of Tanger keeps one of the those very few sites of preserved nature

    Qaria district, Dradeb, Bremel, Oued El Yihoud, Boubana, and Old Mountain districts, formerly far from downtown are now invaded by a high urban development. The neighbouring beach of Merkala makes them an attractive location for housing, hotels, restaurants. While the Dradreb Souk Eucalyptus wood is slowly disappearing, the western districts gain on former meadows, day after day.

    Public and private areas of protected nature need surviving in the historical districts of Marshan and Old Mountain. Quaria, with its cementery and its narrow streets is part of Tanger’s identity and deserves being protected. This side of the Marshan has to be considered as a breathing place in the heart of the City, a transition between the Old Mountain and the City.
    A middle-sized garden, Bab essalam still is a wonderful frame for bio-diversity and has to be protecte from the wild urban development. These more intimate gardens belong to the common heritage of the City the same way as the huge wild nature areas of Perdicaris Park,  Spartel Cape and the Portuguese road or even remarkable places like Djebel Musa natural Park. No matter if they are small of extended, private or publicly owned, the biodiversity sites, the footpaths, the animal tracks do belong to the landscape in Tanger.

    By having this garden protected, we wish to highlight this rich landscape. The garden, even if a private one, is open on the landscape. It is part of this landscape and tells us a hundred year history of man and nature.

    It also helps learning about the fauna and flora as part of Tanger’s daily life. It might be open, one day, to appointments with public visitors willing to discover the plants they have seen grow wild along the strait, on Tanger’s wastelands or in the oueds’farming plains. »

     

        EUGÉNIE DENARNAUD : a winter in Tanger

    A Movie school at Paris III University, then the National Superior School of Landscaping in Versailles, an artist and a DPLG Landscaper in Paris, Eugénie has always felt a citizen of Tanger, loving the city, its culture and landscapes. There, she starts learning arabic and continues at the National School of Eastern languages and civilization in Paris.

    Apart from her photo and video creations she is fascinated by the living and botany, especially the notion of Greater Landscape through geographic definitions, with her works on Tanger and the Great Landscape of Gibraltar.

    The phenomenon of nature’s transformation, space resilience, and the dynamics of transformation of the living are the base of her work and her artistic production.

    The city transformation between 2000 and today has inspired her many artistic projects she lets us discover in her blog : http://champslibres.tumblr.com.

     

    LOUIS LAZAROO

    First a designer, he sets aside the object to study Public space at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage of Versailles.

    Ever since, he has been working on urban sites as a DPLG landscape designer through different media. He mostly works at redefining the XXI Century garden and studying plants moving and transfer.

    His drawings help him memorize and interiorize a garden to better share its essence.

    Eugénie DENARNAUD / Louis LAZAROO / Paysagistes Dplg /  106 rue de Turenne 75003 Paris/                     

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