living and constantly changing scheme

The proposed scheme (green fabric) is a living and constantly changing scheme. It changes with the hours of the day (light intensity and the shadows cast by the trees over the space), with the seasons (rainy-dry, winter-summer, flowering and tree sprouting times, planting or harvest seasons, etc.), with planned natural succession processes (growth of vegetation and trees, new trees replacing old ones, etc.), and with the types of recreation practiced by today's users and future generations.

Linear forests. These are the main north-south connectors; they offer routes, picnic areas, and benches in the shade of trees, with long views and play areas in their open counterparts. It is an alternating play of light and shadow, of protection and exposure.

Reserve and urban agriculture area. Zone for the concentration, retention, and capture of rainwater runoff. It is crossed from east to west by walkways and aqueducts following the existing tree lines. They can host arboretums and outdoor native botanical gardens. Agave and native cultivation areas. Courses in arboriculture, bird watching, walks, rest.

Environmental education area and live butterfly garden. Education, tours, observation, courses, conferences, and practical workshops.

Reforestation and native forest. Walk, courses, outdoor classrooms: yoga, tai-chi, etc.

sustainable and educational scheme

It aims to be a sustainable and educational scheme: use of native plants, renewable energy, and resources in an explicit and visible way for everyone; it exhibits or brings to light natural processes (runoffs, flood zones, aqueducts, recharge zones, presence of birds, islands, planting, harvesting, and reproduction processes, relationships with the distant context, etc.) for the appreciation, information, and learning of its visitors in an interesting and attractive way.

Northern sports park. Local and state sports competitions. Classes, training.

Spring plaza. Existing northern access, complemented by interactive-educational children's play areas, children's open-air theater, storytelling.

Sensory Cooling and Industrial Allusion

To be truly sustainable, a landscape must contemplate strategies or actions that encompass and integrate the four aspects: community/socialization, environment, economy, and art. Some strategies present in the park are:

Community/socialization: The park features 10 zones that differ by the type and intensity of social or recreational activities conducted there. These activities and forms of space appropriation are flexible to future changes according to users' requirements. The most active recreation areas - of an "urban" character or city-related - are grouped in the north, while passive recreation areas and those in closer contact with nature are in the south. Linear access plaza. 

This constitutes the social heart of the park. The linear or arts plaza welcomes visitors with the aqueduct fountain. It hosts information modules, exhibitions, performances, and product markets. Shaded by trees and equipped with benches for resting and observing. It intersects in its central part with the ring of the jacaranda walkway that frames and contains the central lake park.

Lake Park: This is the large multi-use green area where mass events such as concerts, open-air cinema, kite and dog competitions, sunbathing, etc., take place. The circular walkway, shaded by jacarandas, offers a space to rest and observe everything happening inside; it is the great connector of different zones, structures, and circulation systems accessible directly from this ring. This zone includes an iconic-sculptural element that can become the symbol of the park, the 360º Metropolitan Viewpoint, offering views and information about the entire metropolitan and natural area surrounding the park, allowing the user to appreciate from above the natural systems and urban connections of which the park is a part in the city.