Conservation practice at the historic garden of the modern ensemble of SUDENE: a didactic experience in the architecture and urbanism undergraduate course at Federal University of Pernambuco

Abstract

The historic gardens are a living heritage and, as an ephemeral artwork​, they are linked to the plant condition and require constant care to not lose their patrimonial values, along with their authenticity, integrity and significance. Thus, the objective of this article was to synthesize the main discussions and results obtained in the discipline Workshop of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscaping 2A - Landscape Architecture of the undergraduate degree in Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Pernambuco, a pioneering experience directed to the understanding and conservation of historic gardens, a theme that still has been little explored in the undergraduate courses of architecture and urbanism in Brazil. The Garden of the Superintendence for Development of the Northeastern Region – Sudene, designed by Roberto Burle Marx in 1972, it was chosen as an object of study for being part of a modern ensemble formed by a group of buildings and a garden and for being a landmark of modernism in Brazil, which, due to a series of issues, faces a broad process of decharacterization. At the end of the workshop, a preliminary study had been drawn up, with a set of guidelines, which will support a restoration project for the garden.