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Residential Landscape / Mixed-use Masterplan
Public Competition
Mendoza, Argentina, 2020
Piedemonte explores the idea of inhabiting the pre-mountain range: a territory where city, riverbed and Andean landscape meet.
The masterplan proposes the consolidation of the area as a new territorial reference, preserving the stability of natural systems while strengthening cohesion between landscape, housing and public life. The project works with the specific conditions of the site through moderate topographical movements, creating differentiated areas that adapt to the terrain, the views and the environmental character of the Piedemonte Andino.
The proposal is organised through three complementary systems.
The Biospheric Reserve occupies the higher topographical areas of the site. It concentrates the original nature and visual depth of the Andean foothills, incorporating eco-tourism, educational, agro-cultural and sports activities within a protected landscape.
The River Park acts as a mediating strip between housing and hill, mountain range and city. Conceived along the dry riverbed, it becomes an open public park for commercial, gastronomic, recreational, cultural and leisure activities, transforming the river condition into a civic landscape.
The Eco Blocks and Eco Towers consolidate sustainable mixed-use residential development through ribbons and vertical pieces placed to maximise views, public life and environmental integration. Together, they support the idea of living within a reserve: a way of inhabiting the edge of the city through landscape, density and ecological continuity.
Location: Mendoza, Argentina
Program: Residential and mixed-use masterplan
Area: 30 ha
Year: 2020
Design: Karla Montauti, Leandro Crook and Gabriel Ramírez
Advisors: Leandro Castillo Caro — Landscape & Sustainability; Julieta Senn — Regulations
Team assistance: Melany Vergés, Carlos Joel Fernández and Lucas Pablo Bertoli
Video: Pablo Zapata