MYSTIC LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

• DOI: 10.37572/EdArt_31032547513

• Palavras-chave: Rupestral registers, rock basins, mystic landscape

• Keywords: Rupestral registers, rock basins, mystic landscape

• Abstract:

  Mystic Landscape Architecture will refer here to geological phenomena, comprising zoomorphic and anthropomorphic shapes, encircled by anthropic compositions, as rock basins, menhir type rocks with inscriptions, dolmens and walling groups of diverse styles. Such architecture is dispersed through 3 geographical areas covering about 8 square kilometers in its totality, while presenting a dense type of information, not yet classified due to its different nature. Because the object of study (for a post doctorate with the University of Porto), only foresees the ba- sins (180), they are being measured and positioned through topographic methods. However, departing from the principle that architecture imposes a social and psychological influence in human beings, the study intents to depict possible correlations between variables like shapes, sizes and orientation of basins drain channels, in their relationship with the figures, and within the general matrix being de- signed (for application of factor analysis). To obtain reliable results, however, it is necessary to guar- anty the general safety of the landscape as a conjunct, which is not being supervised and/or con- trolled. While waiting permission for archaeological research (4 years already), some of the sites are being prepared to facilitate access to tourism, as presenting a new type of landscape, unexpected in the Azores (allegedly discovered in XV century). In such circumstances, it runs the risk of becoming seriously damaged.