Cracking Park

Cracking Park is a landscape urbanism project, that colonizes territory combining elements of petrochemical production processes with a vegetation natural system to build an extensive landscape network, in which all elements are under a rigorous position and distribution system, forcing two appartently opposite systems to coexist in order to propose new and innovative ways of thinking and designing productive landscapes in urban contexts. Morphologically, it integrates a linear, growing and continuous organisation of the productive protocol with a concentric and focal organisation of the ecological park, seeking to generate horizontal continuity but creating focal points of concentration that differentiate this linearity. The project seeks to question the organisation of a productive plant, where the form and the layout of the different stages of the process remains rigid despite the multiple changes and routes that occur in the plant. In this way, it assumes the formal and organisational character of an ecological park, based on morphological adaptability and different environmental qualities, absorbing wasted areas by the varying sizes of the elements, improving the quality and fruition of the entire site.