VICENTE LOPEZ, NORTH  BUENOS AIRES SHORE PARK, ARGENTINE executed 2000
de la Plata River Bay
Project and Direction of Works
Shore Area

Projected MASTER PLAN 5 km long park.
Executed work 500m long.
Project and direction

Project Team
Cadau-Gimenez-Galvez, Lorenzo-Eiroa associated architect
Pages-Rausch design architects
Lucia Giapapietra landscape designer
State Officials: 
Major: Intendente J. Garcia.
Public Works: Silvina Mosca
Planning Director: Jose Herran
Work development: Sheiland


Work developed by the Municipality of Vicente Lopez, after  an open  competition for a master plan won by the team Cadau Gimenez Galvez.
Associated to the winning Team of this Competition in 1994 as designer and Director of Works.

Two Sectors developed out of a 5 km long Master plan. This two Sector were the  North area at Lincoln Schools and the South area, Club Municipalidad.
SEQUENCE STUDY-PROJECT AND DIRECTION OF WORKS.

TOPOGRAPHY:
Systematization of certain ground movements, accumulations of different types of soil strata (stone-bedrock-dirt-grass). These movements are planned in scale of actions and regarding perpendicular interventions to relate the Park and its perspectives to de la Plata River. These limits outline the ranges of measurement of interventions with the topography, that are systematized in their different repeated configurations but changing in its form (each repetition varies in angle, it curvature)   establishing by this way, gradual differentiations.
Crossed relations with other studied systems.

TOPOGRAPHY-STREET
Through the movement of the street blocks mesh and the previous study of this feasibility,   the border of the street could be banked for formalizing this special relationship and through this way to allow other smooth diversity. The vehicles can park to see the river, but they are not seen from the shore (at the time these slopes create a barrier to the continuous traffic) and in turn for their measures in height, they allow visual continuity with the landscape.
 
TOPOGRAPHY- A. WILLIAMS MONUMENT- FORESTATION
Related to the topography, appears in the landscape a modern monument that bends certain continuity among some inserted parts and sectors of both systems. By framing the landscape and producing a discontinuous but integrated space, the curvature of the vaults of the monument are in continuity with this landscape. This work is extended to the FORESTATION system (relations with arboreal-mass-gramineous framing perspectives towards the monument).
TOPOGRAPHY-BUILDINGS
Certain Continuities were worked out in order to place buildings within the landscape. These service buildings depressed in relation to the level of the landscape, they attempt to settle down certain  permeability framing the west of the park.