The Green Line Landscape Project is being developed trying to integrate the environmental and the landscape aspects so as to contribute for a better quality of the vehicles and pedestrians traffic, integrating the surroundings with the road, the constructed landscape and the environment.

Basic Premises:

- Help the maintenance and enrichment of the remaining native forest coverage on the domain zones;

- Contribute to the road safety through the vegetation management, distinguishing curves, intersections and reducing the night obfuscation.

- Reduce the maintenance and conservation costs, enabling the combat to erosion and the consolidation of road body areas.

-Use of vegetation not only as an environmental and esthetic element to beautify the path, but also as a marker and determiner element of the spaces;

- Placement of species in a varied form so as to break the monotony of the course, always taking into consideration the safety, visibility and comfort aspects to the driver;

- Respect to the population adjacent to the highway, introducing the vegetation so as to minimize the environment dryness presently existing, adding to the remaining areas, squares, benches and trees that will bring better quality of life to the population;

- Use of vegetation as an acoustic barrier in denser urban points and that also minimize the most degradated constructed landscape;
Methodology:

- Characterization of the vegetation around the job by means of on-site inspections with the analysis of the remaining native forests, therefore producing a list of local species, that integrate the landscaping project of the job;

- Field visits, in an interdisciplinary team formed by landscape architects, forest engineers and civil engineers;

- Identification of areas that present impacting aspects, inside and outside the highway domain zone, to present a proposal for their recovery;

- Research of the all the technical material pertinent to the subject.
For the project development, five separate sections were identified, according to the occupation and landscape characteristics:

Section 01:
Av. Pedro I - Bifurcation MG-424

Section 02:
Bifurcation MG-424 - Urban area adjacent to the highway

Section 03:
Urban area adjacent to the highway - Vespasiano Interchange

Section 04:
Vespasiano Interchange - Lagoa Santa Interchange

Section 05:
Lagoa Santa Interchange - Confins Airport

MONUMENT SQUARE

- The sculpture - mark of the Green Line, is inserted in a landscape set with approximately 13.500 m2 area.

- Parking lot for 09 vehicles, including a parking place for handicaps;

- Boulevard formed by a triangle with red non-kid ceramic floor, of 1.000 m2 area, symbolizing Minas Gerais' flag, and paths that interconnect the footbridge to the bus stop located close to the viaduct;

- Landscaping set formed by varied species of palm trees close to the viaduct.

Technical Data:

Triangles:
- height: 3,45m
- equilateral with 4,0 m side, 15 cm thick and 40cm wide.
- rectangle: 3,45 high and 4,00m base, 15cm thick and 40cm wide.
Sac-41 apparent steel structure:13 pieces at every 10,00 m.

Metallic sheet: it is 10cm thick, green and starts 1,00m high from the ground and 2,00 wide and ends 5,00m high.

Floor: grass and beige apparent concrete until it meets the side paths, following the direction and thickness of the polygons.

COORDINATION / TECHNICAL RESPONSIBLE:
Geraldo Cançado Filho - Architect

TECHNICAL TEAM:
Mirelli Borges Medeiros
Landscape architect

Thaís Bustamante de Monti Souza Landscape architect

Wagner Antunes Teixeira
Forest Engineer

Sandra Maria Reis de Carvalho - Architect

DER SUPERVISION - ENGINEERING BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Andréa Greiner da Cunha Salles
Architect