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9.27.10 Servicios Ecosistémicos Parque Ecológico Lago de Texcoco — PROJECTS

Images by Landscape Arch Fabiola Vargas and Arch Alicia Mallen

The intervention strategies aim at restoring the site, allowing short- and long-term processes to be carried out. Through reforestation, re-vegetation and the re-introduction of species, the purpose is to encourage recovery of the lost eco-system.

These intervention strategies also have to focus on the functioning of the eco-systemic services (benefits that human populations obtain from the eco-systems). Human well-being grows through these services, thanks to the biodiversity of an eco-system.

The park will hold a rich diversity of wildlife habitats and botanical communities, extraordinary natural scenarios for recreation and relaxation. Through ecological innovation and creative design, new biological communities will prosper and will restore the site.

The restoration of ecological systems and recovery of the natural cycles of the valley’s hydrological process are proposed through reinforcement of the existing infrastructure and the introduction of important regulation areas.

In collaboration with: Jardín Botánico Nacional, Departamento de Ecología, UNAM, Biogeoquímica Ambiental UNAM

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IÑAKI ECHEVERRIA is an architect and landscape urbanist based in Mexico City. His eponymous firm, founded in 2008, has been awarded numerous high profile commissions, both public and private such as El Parque Ecologico Lago de Texcoco (35,000 acres). Once completed it will become the world’s largest urban park. It involves over 150 specialists from multiple fields all directed by Echeverria’s office. The Papalote Verde Children´s Museum in Monterrey, scheduled to open to the public in winter 2012, will become Mexico’s first Platinum Leed certificate. A museum devoted to sustainability and environmental education, it has already become a cultural landmark in Mexico’s industrial heart. Echeverria’s multidisciplinary approach provides unique and specific solutions to complex conditions ranging from grand scale environmental remediation, public reclamation projects and landscapeurbanism planning to design, architecture and art installations. In these investigations a bottom-up collaborative approach to design is always privileged. Is working with the largest luxury retailer in Mexico and designing technological centers nationwide for a national employer’s association (coparmex). The practice’s scope includes international competitions and proposals such as the Taichung Gateway Park, the Pfeffeberg Underground in Berlin or a public space strategy for Ciudad Juarez. The office also takes on private commissions like the Tres Vidas House in Acapulco, Amapas Appartments in Puerto Vallarta or Sonora offices in hip-neighborhood Condesa. Iñaki Echeverria holds a Masters degree from the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, a Professional degree from UNAM in Mexico and studies in Art History from UCBerkeley. He is a professor of design at Universidad Iberoamericana and director of the Berlin Summer Workshop at Aedes Network Campus Berlin. Echeverria is a visiting juror and lecturer in several universities in the United States such as Columbia, Sciarc, Upenn and Harvard. We are always seeking talented people, if interested please send CV, Portfolio and Letter of Intent to studio@inakiecheverria.com .

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