Around the archive city. Master Plan "Parque de las Canteras" by Mendaro Arquitectos

The Mendaro Arquitectos project located in the State of Oaxaca, Mexico, turns out to be a park that serves as a precedent in the development and attraction of urbanism in Oaxaca.

Master Plan "Parque de las Canteras" by Mendaro Arquitectos. Photograph by Elena Marini Silvestri and Fausto Nahum Pérez Sánchez.

Mendaro Arquitectos made this park stand out thanks to the extraction of stone, which caused the accumulation of water, and by interlacing several points of the environment.

Description of project by Mendaro Arquitectos

THE PARK OF THE CANTERAS: A GARDEN OF CULTURE, SPORT, BUSINESS
AND LEISURE.

The uniqueness of the park is what comes from its bowels: from it came the green quarry which was used for the construction of the city of Oaxaca. The extraction of the stone has The accumulation of water emerged and they have the right to manifest themselves with all their force. It can not be any garden, the cavity built Oaxaca and some shape the stone in its primitive appearance must be shown.

This project sets a precedent and generates a new focus of attraction and development in the urbanism of Oaxaca. It puts in value the equipments that the city and its Citizens need, humanizing and enriching themselves from the memory of this place.

This Master Plan of 13 hectares, has intertwined the environment with:

. The history and its analysis.
. The culture and its dissemination.
. The business and commercial relationships.
. Leisure and sports
. Oaxacan crafts and folklore.

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Master Plan "Parque de las Canteras" by Mendaro Arquitectos.

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Architects

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Ignacio Mendaro Corsini.

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Team

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Mendaro Arquitectos S.L. Project.- Arq. José Ignacio Montes Herraiz, Arq. Anabel Gómez García, Arq. Maribel González, Engineer Omar Peñaloza Mendoza, Architect Alberto Arteaga. Maqueta.- Arq. Luis Martínez Zúñiga. Construction address.- Arq. Anabel Gómez García, Ing. Omar Peñaloza Mendoza, Ing. Eder Ávila Robles, Ing. Francisco Ricárdez. Arq. Janet Isabel Bautista. Residents of work.- Arq. Maribel González and Arq. Luis Martínez Zúñiga.

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Collaborators

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Advisory Architect.- Daniel López Salgado. Dro.- Architect Daniel López Salgado, Engineer Cuahtémoc Rafael Hernández Sibaja, Ing. Darío
Vasconcelos Martínez and Arq. Daniel Valencia. Gardening and landscaping.- Dº Alejandro de Ávila, Pina Hamilton and Alfredo Saynes. Construction companies.- PAGASA, CODESA and SINFRA. Suppliers.- CEMEX, EUN Group, Schindler. Lighting.- Noriega illuminators. Structure.- PROESI S.C. Metallic structures.- VAYPESA. Facilities.- Ing. Abelino León García, Ing. Geovanni Día Sierra and Ing. Gerardo Canalizo Estrada. Hydraulic installations.- CARAPIA S.A. Special installations.- RADAGA

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Promoter

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GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF OAXACA and FOUNDATION ALFREDO HARP HELÚ OAXACA

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Budget

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1,163 million Mexican pesos / 61 million USD / 50 million euros

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Areas

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13 Ha

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Dates

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Approval of the Master Plan for the rehabilitation of the Parque de las Canteras.- March
of 2014.. Modified from the Master Plan for the incorporation of the Convention Center, Fairground and Business Center in the Parque de las Canteras.- January 2016. Inauguration of the first phase (Historical Archive and Sports Forest).- November of 2016. Inauguration of the second phase (Convention Center, Trade Fair Center and Center of
Business).- December 2017. Inauguration of the third phase (open-air auditorium, Teatro de la Roca, Paseo de Water, Access door and service area, gardening, Puente de las Pozas, ect ...).- In execution.

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Location

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Mexico, State of Oaxaca, Santa Lucía del Camino, 71228, Parque de las Canteras.

Ignacio Mendaro Corsini

Ignacio Mendaro Corsini. Born in Marquina, Vizcaya in 1946. Architect by the School of Architecture of Madrid ETSAM 1974. Associate Professor of the Department of Projects of the ETSAM from 1976-1998. Visiting Professor in the Project Department of the School of Engineering of Cagliari, Sardinia between 2004 and 2007.

He has been a lecturer and invited professor in several national and international universities, recently: I International Congress of Illumination of Monuments (Mexico City 2012) International Meeting of the Architectural Patrimony "Renewal in Continuity" celebrated in Lima, Peru in 2010, Guest of honor to the conference at the French Society of Architecture (SFA) 2010; International Seminar of the Architectural and Urban Project in Cagliari 2010.

ENDESA AWARD 2011 FOR THE BEST SUSTAINABLE RESTORATION with the integral intervention in the Manuel Silvela mansion as the headquarters of the Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office, Madrid. CAM AWARD best geothermal installation 2012 with the Mansion of Manuel Silvela, Madrid, work installed by Eneres. 2013 ASPRIMA PRIZE for the Integral Rehabilitation of the Mansion of Manuel Silvela, Madrid.

Published on: March 21, 2019

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