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Sky Park
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YEAR
2012
Liverpool Department Stores, the largest department store
chain in Mexico, contracted Thomas Balsley Associates to design a green roof
and park to be placed over its new flagship location in the upscale Mexico City
neighborhood of Interlomas. In an area that currently suffers from a dearth of
public open space, the new Sky Park gives locals a retreat from urban life and
serves as a green roof prototype for future big-box retail developments in
Mexico. The rooftop park’s extensive program is distributed around a food
market and consists of discrete precincts for children’s play, teenagers,
husbands, events and fashion shows: a terrace, event plaza, lawns and intimate
seating.
By circumventing the food court, a promenade accommodates
both circulation needs and movable café seating, establishing an armature for
additional nodes of activity and use. Further out in the radius of the plan,
the entire rooftop is ringed by a landscape of indigenous planting, flowering
trees and shrubs, vines and perennials. Landform modulations and complex
subsurface accommodations have allowed for 14” caliper specimen oaks to be
strategically placed throughout the park where scale and shade are best
introduced.
The palette of materials for the rooftop is cool and
restrained: the promenade is a rich wood deck and the seat walls that carve out
spaces are a pure white pre-cast concrete. Steel reaches skyward in the form of
a shade structure, vine trellis, and feature wall. The serpentine and stepped
teen court looks onto an illuminated glass walkway that will become a fashion
runway for monthly events. Water is
another important element that is carefully incorporated into the park to
animate and buffer spaces, to provide a compelling sense of play and whimsy,
and to introduce an air of serenity and mystery. Water runnels and a mist
forest sculpture activate the play area, fog formations cool the air and add
nighttime drama to the fashion runway.
chain in Mexico, contracted Thomas Balsley Associates to design a green roof
and park to be placed over its new flagship location in the upscale Mexico City
neighborhood of Interlomas. In an area that currently suffers from a dearth of
public open space, the new Sky Park gives locals a retreat from urban life and
serves as a green roof prototype for future big-box retail developments in
Mexico. The rooftop park’s extensive program is distributed around a food
market and consists of discrete precincts for children’s play, teenagers,
husbands, events and fashion shows: a terrace, event plaza, lawns and intimate
seating.
By circumventing the food court, a promenade accommodates
both circulation needs and movable café seating, establishing an armature for
additional nodes of activity and use. Further out in the radius of the plan,
the entire rooftop is ringed by a landscape of indigenous planting, flowering
trees and shrubs, vines and perennials. Landform modulations and complex
subsurface accommodations have allowed for 14” caliper specimen oaks to be
strategically placed throughout the park where scale and shade are best
introduced.
The palette of materials for the rooftop is cool and
restrained: the promenade is a rich wood deck and the seat walls that carve out
spaces are a pure white pre-cast concrete. Steel reaches skyward in the form of
a shade structure, vine trellis, and feature wall. The serpentine and stepped
teen court looks onto an illuminated glass walkway that will become a fashion
runway for monthly events. Water is
another important element that is carefully incorporated into the park to
animate and buffer spaces, to provide a compelling sense of play and whimsy,
and to introduce an air of serenity and mystery. Water runnels and a mist
forest sculpture activate the play area, fog formations cool the air and add
nighttime drama to the fashion runway.
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