Las Mercedes Park: An Urban Acupuncture System

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.