Mountains in Symphony
Rewilding the Summer Pasture Mosaic for Cohabitation in the Pyrenees
H. Jiang (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
E.A.J. Luiten – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
D. Tan – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
M. Parravicini – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
Rewilding in this project is understood as a method of ecological restoration and land management that cultivates wildness within the inhabited pastoral
landscape of the Pyrenees. It reconfigures the open mountain pasture system toward negotiated cohabitation among humans, livestock, wildlife, and self-willed ecological processes. The open mountain pasture(OMP) mosaic is understood as a cultural-ecological system historically sustained by the interaction between cultural legacies and ecological processes: pastoral rhythms, paths, grazing, and maintenance provided disturbance, while the resulting mosaic in turn became the ground these practices depended on. As pastoral presence weakens, this continuity is disrupted. By reorganizing disturbance, succession, movement, access, and perception, the project proposes a spatial framework through which the mosaic can continue in a transformed state, allowing ecological processes and cultural legacies to support each other again. The project develops this framework through three levels. A dynamic zoning of
Use, Negotiating, and Letting-go modes redistributes disturbance and succession across the OMP mosaic; a set of graded coexistence interfaces reorganizes
where human use and bear activity meet; and actor-based interventions give shepherds, wildlife protectors, and visitors routes through which cohabitation
becomes legible, usable, and meaningful. Rewilding in a cultural landscape is thus shown as a designed condition of negotiated cohabitation.