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![Severe wildfires have devastated the landscape of Mount Ymittos, posing a threat to the municipalities of Athens. However, in an increasingly warming world, fire should be seen as an ally instead of an enemy.]()
![The design focuses on the threshold between urban and natural environments and uses the main firebreak road to provide space for social performance, as well as to protect the city from wildfires.]()
![Ymittos’ landscape penetrates the public realm, adapting to the needs of surrounding land use to invite people to an everyday escape, prioritising pedestrian connectivity over vehicle circulation.]()
![By creating a landscape mosaic that is cultivated by fire rotationally, this project enhances the habitat’s biodiversity, allowing vegetation to flourish and reproduce.]()
Oikos of the Pyrocene: Ecology / Economy in the Age of Megafires
Oikos of the Pyrocene envisions a future where Ymittos will no longer be a problematic Mount on the outskirts of contemporary Athens that threatens the expanding suburbia with destruction from wildfires. Ymittos will become a key metropolitan landscape that hosts social practices and promotes the ideals of pyrodiversity.
The design focuses on the threshold between urban and natural environments and uses the main firebreak road to provide space for social performance. The surrounding landscape is patched to protect the city from explosive wildfires and to enhance biodiversity. Existing social groups from surrounding municipalities are given stewardship of the land to strengthen the local economy and to construct innovative methods of forest maintenance, preparing the land for a balanced coexistence between humans & non-humans, from now on, amid the Pyrocene.
The Fierce Nature of Mount Ymittos
Severe wildfires have devastated the landscape of Mount Ymittos, posing a threat to the municipalities of Athens. However, in an increasingly warming world, fire should be seen as an ally instead of an enemy.
Site Investigation and Concept
The design focuses on the threshold between urban and natural environments and uses the main firebreak road to provide space for social performance, as well as to protect the city from wildfires.
Touching the City
Ymittos’ landscape penetrates the public realm, adapting to the needs of surrounding land use to invite people to an everyday escape, prioritising pedestrian connectivity over vehicle circulation.
Approaching the Summit
By creating a landscape mosaic that is cultivated by fire rotationally, this project enhances the habitat’s biodiversity, allowing vegetation to flourish and reproduce.
Oikos of the Pyrocene Animated Masterplan
Oikos of the Pyrocene Animated Masterplan
The Bartlett
Autumn Show 2022
27 September – 7 October
Autumn Show 2022
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