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Cuernavaca Railway Linear Park, Mexico
Cuernavaca Railway Linear Park, Mexico
(Radius of mobility)
(Landmark)
(Green Areas)
(Corridors)
The project actions are developed and framed in 5 objectives very clearly:
The red line: At a time when new walls are proposed that separate Water Follies / water cared for and celebrated:
and divide, in a place of almost unbreakable parallel borders, we build We celebrate water; we elevate it and make it more present. The
a line that sews, that unites, an anti-wall and anti-border gesture, water follies build an emergent and omnipresent gesture in the
which suggests a system permeable edges. It is a line that plays at park. Green and water, Mexico's debts with its people and its territory,
ground level, rises smoothly, sews parts, points and builds accents, are the elements that emerge and accentuate the route over the
interweaves and connects. The red line is programmatic and linear park. are the resource-elements within the park's irrigation
functional, it integrates the benches, linearly developed children's plan; To these are added the rain gardens developed along the route.
games. The follies are small constructions, generally of Romanesque
character, used to harmoniously enhance the routes of the garden or
park walks where they were erected, such as bridges, pavilions,
caves, waterfalls, roundabouts, among others (ARQHYS Magazine,
2012) .