Waterscape in Hjari Veraldar The 'Last Habitable Edge of the Earth'
Iceland is a geologically active land and home to some of the world’s most active volcanoes and the largest glaciers in Europe. Due to its harsh environmental circumstances, its inhabitants’ living conditions are unpredictable. Icelanders live in a sort of ‘rescue mood’, ready to face a variety of n...
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ftunivfirenzeojs:oai:ojs2.oaj.fupress.net:article/14179 2024-02-11T10:05:08+01:00 Waterscape in Hjari Veraldar The 'Last Habitable Edge of the Earth' Nickayin, Samaneh Sadat 2023-10-25 application/pdf https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ri-vista/article/view/14179 eng eng Firenze University Press https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ri-vista/article/view/14179/12195 https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ri-vista/article/view/14179 Copyright (c) 2023 Samaneh Sadat Nickayin https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Ri-Vista. Research for landscape architecture; Vol. 21 No. 1 (2023): Paradoxes of water; 124-141 Ri-Vista; V. 21 N. 1 (2023): Paradoxes of water; 124-141 1724-6768 Waterscape Geothermal energy Placemaking Hazard protection info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2023 ftunivfirenzeojs 2024-01-16T23:08:30Z Iceland is a geologically active land and home to some of the world’s most active volcanoes and the largest glaciers in Europe. Due to its harsh environmental circumstances, its inhabitants’ living conditions are unpredictable. Icelanders live in a sort of ‘rescue mood’, ready to face a variety of natural disasters, such as avalanches, flooding, heavy storms, eruptions, landslides and earthquakes. In this northern sea island, water is the most influential element in culture, language, economy, leisure, landscape, planning strategy, and islanders’ everyday life. Water comes in all forms, both as a provider and a threat. Based on this premise, this commentary is a synthesis image of the forms of water from an outlander point of view, reading an alien landscape in which the forms of water are one of the most enchanting interpretation experiences in the landscape. This anecdote is a narration of the forms of water concerning urbanisation, land and human in different subtle layers of Icelandic culture, economy and landscape design Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Firenze University Press: E-Journals |
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Iceland is a geologically active land and home to some of the world’s most active volcanoes and the largest glaciers in Europe. Due to its harsh environmental circumstances, its inhabitants’ living conditions are unpredictable. Icelanders live in a sort of ‘rescue mood’, ready to face a variety of natural disasters, such as avalanches, flooding, heavy storms, eruptions, landslides and earthquakes. In this northern sea island, water is the most influential element in culture, language, economy, leisure, landscape, planning strategy, and islanders’ everyday life. Water comes in all forms, both as a provider and a threat. Based on this premise, this commentary is a synthesis image of the forms of water from an outlander point of view, reading an alien landscape in which the forms of water are one of the most enchanting interpretation experiences in the landscape. This anecdote is a narration of the forms of water concerning urbanisation, land and human in different subtle layers of Icelandic culture, economy and landscape design |
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Waterscape in Hjari Veraldar The 'Last Habitable Edge of the Earth' |
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Ri-Vista. Research for landscape architecture; Vol. 21 No. 1 (2023): Paradoxes of water; 124-141 Ri-Vista; V. 21 N. 1 (2023): Paradoxes of water; 124-141 1724-6768 |
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