The objective of the research program was to propose strategies towards an upgrade and consequent rehabilitation of the National Garden of Athens.

The Labyrinth

According to Bareaud’s original layout of the National Garden of Athens, two labyrinths seem to have been constructed, one central to the National Garden, while the second one at its sout part. Traces from the central one have been lost, whereas the small hill created to host the southern labyrinth exists until today.

Originally designed as a series of concentric cycles which constitute the pathways and the vegetation areas, resides still at the same spot, but its original character has been lost. The original vegetation has been originally planned as a whole made of its parts- dwarf pine trees which used to make up the labyrinth ‘walls’. Today, since the trees have been replaced with pine trees reaching in average 30 meters in height, their relation to the ground has been lost and cannot function as constituting elements of the labyrinth’s ‘green walls’.