Archello Awards · Winners Announced
Archello Awards 2024 · Winners Announced
Archello Awards 2024
Winners Announced

Everybody's Park

Grupo de Diseño Urbano as Landscape Architects

Imagine an urban site located in the western hills of the Valley of Mexico in Mexico City. The site was excavated for for 50 years: an open air quarry for the extraction of sand, gravel and sandstone, resulting in an enormous hole; a void at some points 70 meters deep in an impacted area of 40 hectares. 
Imagine that years later the surrounding urban community wants to convert the great cavity into a Park. Community and Authorities debate for many years if it was to be a place for housing or a public green open space. The city argues that does not have the economic resources to finance the park. 
Imagine that after many negotiations debates and meetings a settlement comes to fruition where 70% of the area would be dedicated to a public park and surrounding infrastructure and 30% to private apartments. The developers would be in charge to build the park and infrastructure at the cost for the developable land.
This is the framework of a social, political, and economic context that support the possibility of creating a new park of 29 hectares in Santa Fe; an edge city of accelerated growth without parks or public space. La Mexicana Park is a large-scale landscape and architectural project, which aims to recycle and restore and environmental wound, transforming into a green, recreational, community, playful and accessible space for everyone: children, young people, adults and seniors.

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