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Honorable Mention

La Mexicana Park

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City
Mexico City
Nationality
Mexico
Group
Mario Schjetnan
Representative Designer
Mario Schjetnan and Víctor Márquez
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Mario Schjetnan

Honorable Mention

Mario Schjetnan

Mario Schjetnan is an expert specializing in urban design, landscape architecture, and architecture.

About Project

La Mexicana Park is located in an area that has been used as a quarry for 50 years. Though original plan was constructing a large-scale apartment complex, local residents took the initiative to have negotiations with the municipal government and private developers for 10 years and finally designed this large-scale park.

La Mexicana Park is the most safest park in the city without any crime taking place for the last three years. It also became one of the famous places in the city, attracting two million visitors per year since the opening of the park.

Since the park is operated with the rent from convenience facilities, it does not require any municipal budget. Therefore, it proves that a large-scale bottom-up design project can be financially independent.

Judging Comment

A bottom-up initiative through a multi-pronged approach, a strategic design innovation project based on the reuse of waste in the Indonesian slums of Bandung.