Văcărești area – The memory of a „place” of urban, historical, social and symbolic-community pressures
Văcărești area – The memory of a „place” of urban, historical, social and symbolic-community pressures

Summary/Abstract: The research will explore the evolution of the current Văcărești Protected Landscape and its surroundings in Bucharest, in terms of place memory, which has been an area of urban, historical, social, symbolic and community pressures since the communist era. The evolution of the Văcărești Monastery area, followed by the construction of the lake, led to the deepening of an already deep “wound”, visible in the urban morphotypology, producing a drama for the inhabitants of the area.The analysis of the historical evolution of the urban fabric highlights all the pressures to which the area of the current park and its vicinity were subjected, but also all the constraints that those who built here later did not have, or did not take into account – from the demolition of the houses for the construction of the lake to the constructions that were recently made in the area. Although since 2015, the area has been declared a protected landscape through the sustained efforts of the association, volunteers and specialists, the pressure on the park continues today.The paper aims to investigate how this area can become a real “development vector”today, from an urban-functional point of view, which could be its future evolution and how it can be (re) brought and preserved symbolically to its architectural-historical past, in the conscience of the community, at the level of the quasi-natural, anthropic and cultural landscape

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