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If sculpture and painting are eloquent testimonies of man's creative spirit and of his innate love for beauty, architecture is his eternal witness (Doctor Atl).

The beautiful terrestrial landscape of Mexico City has for years been an inspiration for great artists of Mexican culture, such as Diego Rivera, José María Velasco and Gerardo Murillo “Doctor Atl”, among others. The environment surrounding the city has always had an intense bond with its inhabitants; however, today, it seems to be an ambiguous memory in the collective imagination.

This project takes up the silhouette of the landscape surrounding Mexico City to make a reinterpretation and develop an abstract piece, based on a prefabricated system, which when multiplied, composes a geometric landscape that evokes the beauty captured in the great paintings of the Mexican territory.

The layout of the volumes responds to the study of pedestrian flows and generates a kind of microsquares that change scale according to the number of people they concentrate. We proposed that at these points some urban objects should be housed that would react to the needs of public space: rest, play and protect themselves from the sun.

The installation, as a whole, became a sculptural space that recalled the democratization of public space and made visible the environment that we have always had in mind.