Nesting on a tangle of flows

Designed to respond variably to time-based flows, a new piece of hybrid infrastructure articulates a new connection node in the city of Santiago. A dense fabric is woven with intense programs, ranging in scale from civic to private, solving existing needs and posing new possibilities.

In the metropolis of Santiago, the interaction between the Costanera Norte highway and the urban fabric is problematic. In the Lo Saldes interchange, the situation is complex. The node that articulates distant and diverse places of the city, locally splits the largest urban park in the city from the urban network and the Rio Mapocho 42K park network. There is the possibility of recovering the lost urban continuities through the insertion of a new system of flows that integrates to the preexistence, creating new, complex and ambiguous situations. Focusing on flow systems, the financing system and spatial and structural systems will allow potential operations to be tested to assess their feasibility. Designed to respond variably to time-based flows, a new piece of hybrid infrastructure articulates a new connection between the metropolitan park and the city. A device that can be inserted into the mono-functional road network to make it work multi-functionally is proposed. A new urban stratus takes place in midair and will allow new possibilities of urban life, in an ambiguous, indeterminate and intermediate field of action between park and city. A dense fabric is woven with intense programs, ranging in scale from civic to private, solving existing needs and posing new possibilities.