ISLANDS OF ADVENTURE PARK

PUBLIC COMPETITION
Disign: Bassico. Gabriel Martinez, Jose David Rodas, Jorge Gaviria. + Mario Rodriguez (www.bassicoarq.blogspot.com)
Team: Luis Gaviria, Paola Alvarez, David Martinez.
City: Neiva, Huila, Colombia
Year: 2009
Distinction: Second place

"Any understanding of the natural environment is enhanced by early experience as a multitude of living forces" M. Heiddegger

The rapid growth taking place in urban settings today and the concentration of rural population in the cities make these increasingly denser and sometimes more are losing their reserves and connecting spaces with the natural environment. Our proposal to develop islands of adventure parks in the city of Neiva is a tribute to the understanding of the natural environment as a multitude of living forces and the form of settlement of indigenous communities that once converged old and lived in the area of low, medium and high Magdalene. Exalt the narrow bond of communion that established those communities, between the physical earth plane and the astral plane, manifested by signs and marks on the ground that seemed constellations or charts, and the building of sculptural monuments in strategic locations sought to reach heaven.

The park is an extension of urban water systems and cross-town, its nature, parks and institutions. It complements the urban life, an encounter with the water and sky. The malecon, as the boundary of the city`s public space is the first contact with the park, a visual screening approach for natural dense vegetation of the islands, where above it is suggested the project. Access is generated as a projection of the cra 7, cultural and institutional axis ends in the square of meeting, multi-functional public space that is part of the city. Respect for the landscape and character of the project to restore the link with nature and the sky of the cultures that inhabited the river basin in its entire course, makes the intervention is grouped in the flooding areas, while respecting the natural ecosystem of the river and its natural feature of the landscape modifier. The park is a changing experience.

Disign: Bassico. Gabriel Martinez, Jose David Rodas, Jorge Gaviria. + Mario Rodriguez (www.bassicoarq.blogspot.com)
Team: Luis Gaviria, Paola Alvarez, David Martinez.

ISLANDS OF ADVENTURE PARK by Jorge Gaviria in Colombia won the WA Award Cycle 5. Please find below the WA Award poster for this project.