Telsiope's close. Landscape architecture for the former gasworks precinct in Warsaw : a sustainable brownfield regeneration

According to the distinction released by CLARINET-Project Report: “Brownfields are sites that have been affected by the former uses of the site and surrounding land, are derelict and underused, […] mainly in developed urban areas, and require intervention to bring them back to beneficial use.” Still having as main background operative summary from CABERNET-Network: “The regeneration of the growing number of brownfields in Europe is an essential part of improving European global competitiveness in a sustainable way” [and] to fully realize sustainability goals, more attention needs to be paid to achieving social and cultural benefits.” The former-Gasworks precinct in Warsaw offers the opportunity to stress the “capability of memory” applied to vacant areas surrounding the city-centre: a common situation available across Europe as a scenario in urban regeneration-process. Focus in the renewal of Wola-district Gas-Works, is the existing landscape now turned to host gathering facilities for neighborhood. A landscape corresponding to existing buildings re-introduces wet-lands, to call former untouched nature to experiment “the Third landscape” or “non-places”. Heritage and Infrastructure; geometry and topography; large and small –scale, are the categories selected to perform townscape and infrastructure, finally re-addressed to Architecture. Proposal of refurbishment consist former Gas-tanks as a new landmark of site, converted into garden of remembrance. Finally, considering the geological aspects of the site, due to preserve the existing morphology, addictions are developed as underground complex, providing the “yard of Warsaw”, or the Telsiope’s close.