Ecuadorian firm URLO Studio has been selected as the winner of the ideas competition for the southern articulating axis of Quito, a contest aimed at urban renewal in the Ecuadorian capital through the development of micro-centralities along the 13-kilometer tourist route.
Organized by the Municipality of Quito through the Metropolitan Institute of Urban Planning (IMPU) and the Pichincha Architects Association (CAE-P), the competition notes that the spatial, environmental, economic, and social potential of Quito's southern railway axis "has been underutilized." Consequently, it sought proposals "that integrate and recognize the presence of this historic infrastructure within the city and its potential as an integrating and articulating public space."
These are the winning projects:
