The design for the new Pachacamac Park is based on a strategic approach, with a multi-phase strategy that seeks to create a self-generating park, a self growing green space that emerges from the city borders and will eventually grow to create a closed, green loop around the desert.
As a first step, we propose a series of balconies next to the perimeter of the city that create the defined edge of the park, hold the different programs for the site and enable the visitors to experience the desert from a distance. From these parks, a series of traces in the sand will go towards the center of the park, and join the different balconies. These traces, that are emphasized through dry stone walls and scarce vegetation, will guide the visitors through the desert, encouraging them to make their own paths along the desert. This way, the park will change with time, new paths being created and abandoned as the park changes with time. This allows for a more tactile, direct relationship between the visitor and the landscape. With the help of a series of water towers (that create water from the fog in the atmosphere) and a sustainable water management system, we create a basic infrastructure for the park to grow by itself, completing eventually the spaces between the balconies. The park will become a green oasis for the city, a temperature-regulating self-sustainable ecosystem that intertwines itself into the city and the landscape.
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