"PARQUE DE CULTURA URBANA"

The Urban Cultural Park [Parque de Cultura Urbana - PARCUR] restoration project is part of the greater Chapultepec’s eco-cultural development plan called “Construction of the Bosque de Chapultepec Cultural Complex”, under the leadership of the renowned Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco Félix.

The project restored two iconic facilities that had long been abandoned, the aquatic park “El Rollo”, opened in 1979, and “Atlantis”, the first commercial dolphin aquarium in Mexico City. These empty spaces were transformed into recreational and cultural venues that would encourage a wide range of activities and be accessible and inclusive to all people.





The landscape design team developed an inclusive plan to build a variety of amenities including a skate park (bowl and street plaza), footpaths, exhibition areas, a café, an open-air forum, an agora cinema, a parking area, restrooms and a great number of walls that welcome graffiti artists to create a site of artistic expression.

Professional urban skateboarders and celebrated graffiti artists joined the project to incorporate their vision and experience in the construction of each space, to ensure their expertise and their sense of identity was expressed throughout the process. In a time of global ecological and political anxiety, creating spaces of community, culture, sport and artistry is needed to bring people together, and this is what the “Parque de Cultura Urbana” is all about.