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CDMX, Mexico
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Other Projects by Fernanda Canales
The Shelter
CDMX, Mexico
The project originated as part of a festival focused on gardening and landscape design, conceived to reactivate the neglected Botanical Garden of Chapultepec in the heart of Mexico City. Initially planned as a three-day intervention, the installation remained in place for over three months due to a strong response from the audience interested not only in observing a series of installations within a park, but also in becoming part of a public space capable of fostering new forms of engagement.
The intervention is composed of 550 recycled wooden pallets and its purpose is to transform the way people interact with a space that is rarely used and only passed through. The idea is to draw visitors into the least-used part of the Botanical Garden, creating a space for relaxation and recreation that encourages diverse activities. It is an installation made of stacked pellets, allowing visitors to use the structure in various ways: as a place to rest, to play, to climb, or to ascend via ramps that become climbing walls. The curved shape of the walls serves as an extension toward the garden's entrance, then as an enclosure or refuge in the center, and as an amphitheater in the most secluded part of the forest, resembling a kind of cave open at both ends. The relationship between the artificial and the natural, between the forest and the wooden platforms, generates a dialogue with the public and encourages active participation with the artwork.
With an internal diameter of 8 meters and a maximum height of 4 meters, the structure generates a continuous, spiral movement that frames and reorients views of the existing landscape, emphasizing the surrounding vegetation. Rather than introducing a new garden within the garden—or a temporary botanical display that would contradict the intrinsic temporality of plant life—the project operates as a framing device for the existing environment. By foregrounding what is already present, the intervention reveals the latent history of the site and creates a spatial framework that allows users to inscribe their own bodily experience within it.
The intervention is composed of 550 recycled wooden pallets and its purpose is to transform the way people interact with a space that is rarely used and only passed through. The idea is to draw visitors into the least-used part of the Botanical Garden, creating a space for relaxation and recreation that encourages diverse activities. It is an installation made of stacked pellets, allowing visitors to use the structure in various ways: as a place to rest, to play, to climb, or to ascend via ramps that become climbing walls. The curved shape of the walls serves as an extension toward the garden's entrance, then as an enclosure or refuge in the center, and as an amphitheater in the most secluded part of the forest, resembling a kind of cave open at both ends. The relationship between the artificial and the natural, between the forest and the wooden platforms, generates a dialogue with the public and encourages active participation with the artwork.
With an internal diameter of 8 meters and a maximum height of 4 meters, the structure generates a continuous, spiral movement that frames and reorients views of the existing landscape, emphasizing the surrounding vegetation. Rather than introducing a new garden within the garden—or a temporary botanical display that would contradict the intrinsic temporality of plant life—the project operates as a framing device for the existing environment. By foregrounding what is already present, the intervention reveals the latent history of the site and creates a spatial framework that allows users to inscribe their own bodily experience within it.
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