When larger cities leave less and less room for the unplanned, the unexplored, and the yet-to-be-imagined, they risk becoming more uniform, offering homogeneous spaces designed around similar ideals. Our site is a closed-off interchange with high ecological value, offering the potential to become a recreational and educational environment for the local community.
The area carries a long history of education, physical activity, mobility, and cultivation. Grounded in this past, we examine how a place can reconnect to its origins and be reimagined as a new kind of space that connects green corridors with the area’s heritage of education and physical activity. This is achieved within an environment where the design and former use of the site become part of an educational narrative about nature’s resilience and evolution over time, with human intervention as a component of the site’s progression.