01742nmm a22002657a 4500 ES-BaAUN 20230221102922.0 221102| ||||go||d|||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 2575-5374 ES-BaAUN eng ES-BaAUN LDB Arquitectura architects. Las Mercedes Park: An Urban Acupuncture System urbanNext, November 16, 2018. 450 words. LDB Arquitectura, Middle Density, Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms Active Public Spaces, Adaptive system, Built landscape, City development, City views, Collective identity, Concrete, Costa Rica, Design, Geometry, Greenery, Infrastructure, Intervention, Landscape, Lighting design, low cost, Neighborhood, Park, Playground, Project, Resources, San José, Sustainable, Territorial Approach, Topography, Urban Paradigms, Urban strategy Photography: Oscar Abarca, Roberto D’Ambrosio and Luis Diego Barahona There is a strong urge, today, to value urban interventions that optimize financial resources and encourage the sustainable development of cities. For current economic, ecological and logistic reasons, it is important to ask the question: How can we build a city with the minimum? The answer favors the creation of urban acupunctures. This attitude brings to mind Richard Buckminster Fuller’s idea of “doing more with less” and encourages what could be called “urban minimalism”, leaving out everything that is not essential. Architecture City San José, Costa Rica Costa Rica https://urbannext.net/las-mercedes-park/ Access to info ddc CF 0 2002 2002 0 0 ddc 0 0 9876543210 9876543210 2023-02-21 0 2023-02-21 2023-02-21 CF