Twilight Zone: Celestial Urban Park
Option Studio: Transient Ecologies
Advisor: Danilo Martic
Location: Coquimbo, Chile
GSD, Landscape Architecture
Fall 2022
Option Studio: Transient Ecologies
Advisor: Danilo Martic
Location: Coquimbo, Chile
GSD, Landscape Architecture
Fall 2022
Chile faces rapid cultural transformation
in a time of globalization, migration, and climate change. These transient phenomena have
disconnected Chileans from traditional and indigenous ways of connecting to the
landscape and one another. This project seeks to connect indigenous cosmology, the
festival of la
Pampilla, and a desalination plant on a mismanaged site. The region is proposing a new desalination plant that will provide the community with potable water. This proposal uses the hard surfaces of the plant to create new civic spaces along the coast. By shifting the festival from the heavily compacted soil to the sunken desalination plant's roof, the site's ecology can recover, and the community gains a new urban nature park.
