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El Terreno Community Garden in Mexico City
30 Jul 2021
Architecture and Landscaping: VERTEBRAL
Location: México City, México, North America

El Terreno Community Garden
El Terreno is a community garden and educational center project that was initiated during the COVID-19 outbreak. The project is located on a hill of rich soil, minerals, and stones, providing the ingredients of an urban orchard for growing flowers, aromatic plants, and vegetables. The project was developed as a way of enabling youth in the community to remain connected to social stimulation, while simultaneously receiving an environmental education. Additionally, the project provides a closer connection to the cycles of food production and sustainable living.
To be consistent with the project

VERTEBRAL constructed a unique pavilion from recycled materials used in their previous constructions. It was important for the firm to successfully build a 100% recyclable building, but also a space built using materials, modules, and units uniquely thought out through new processes developed for this particular project. In explaining El Terreno, the Mexico City-based architects said: ?We focused on avoiding any user predispositions when entering this new space, designed for plurality and versatility. It is a space that can only gain significance through user engagement, and through the cultivating and sharing of n...