Vertical Park / Jorge Hernandez de la Garza
Architects: Jorge Hernandez de la Garza
Location: Coyoacan, Mexico
Design Team: Rodrigo Ambriz, Michael Smith, Erik Cosio
Project Year: 2009
Images: Jorge Hernandez de la Garza
Mexico City is a metropolis where zones are meshed as commerce and life often converge to create dynamic spaces of interaction and interconnectivity. Unfortunately, these zones are being pushed to the periphery as modern development increases delineation to create islands of program disconnected from the pulse of the city. With all its potential for profit, this march of capitalism poses a threat on the cultural and sustainable potential of the city; as zones separate, so do our lives as significant time and energy is spent in transit. Meanwhile, green space is increasingly devoured by steel and concrete.
In response with these demands, we have designed a module, highly structural and flexible in order to provide horizontal and vertical stacking along with diverse insertions to create a mesh not unlike that seen in the periphery. Located in Coyoacan, Mexico City, the project is to revive the calcification of modernity. The module affords not only spaces for living and working but for urban farming, water reclamation, and solar energy collection. As the modules rise vertically to create a high-rise structure, they also spread horizontally in order to create canopies for street level commerce. To provide a more sustainable response to the potential demands of the city, these modules can be rearranged, relocated, and remodeled throughout Mexico City and potentially throughout the world.
Although some may argue that such massive replication would destroy the aims of the project by increasing visual and spatial homogeneity, the flexibility of the project allows the structure of the model to be configured with such diversity that new programs, skins and layouts can be applied in order to adapt to the given region.
Vertical gardens never convinced yet……it never worked, it’s still just an illusion!
a tower? with those open gardens? it will help spreading the flu!
СВЕЖО ТАК все путно, молочаги…
MJ23, WHAT A BRAIN!
Blah, Blah, Blah…Architectural BS!
some firms have too much time on their hands.
Ground control to major tom…ground control to major tom…take your protein pills and put your helmets on…
some have time for too many firm hands.
Is this a joke?
Waste of time.
Ecological dreams.
Draft first year of college where there is no much knowledge such as the complexity of the habitability of the space, without much awareness project of the trade.
What an stupid idea.. obviously it’s not going to work
this is a shelter for homeless people!!
It does seem like it’s not gonna work, at least not like this, but I think there’s not much difference between a really crazy idea and a really great idea. It might provide the right type of inspiration or a missing link for someone else, or their next attempt might hit the nail right on the head.
No need to be so pessimistic, is there?
garbage¡
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I really like this project. And by the way, everebody said to Victor Hugo that the submarine is the stupidest ideea ever, and I think this is the same thing. I really like the artistic form and open space. Jorge Hernandez de la Garza, you did good work, you and your team.