SOMOS

Adolfo

Project idea

SOMOS is a Multisensory Observation Site for Remembering, for Healing.
The idea behind this project is to create a Regional Park where buildings with different and complementary functions will be integrated.
The inspiration for the resulting forms stems from necessity, but also responds to the culture, identity, and nature of the site. Furrows are indentations or valleys that separate ridges; they are reliefs or lines… on the skin, the fingertips bear traces; in agricultural soil, repetitive and clustered furrows; and in natural soil, reliefs and curvilinear forms. Abstracting from all of this, isolating the essential to form a concept through the use of Fragmentation as a design strategy, where the whole is divided into unequal parts and implicitly contains the concept of abstraction, thus representing the turbulent times, uncertainty, fear, despair, repression, and hunger of the site's history.
The past and the future converge in the functions contained within the object.

Project description

SOMOS is structured in the following parts:
A Natural Park, restoring the site's native landscape and reforesting with native species to regenerate a favorable habitat for wildlife.
A Community Green Corridor, buffer areas with community facilities.
An Interpretation Center and its complements, containing: an Exhibition Pavilion, an Art Gallery, an Immersive Audiovisual Performance Hall, a Plaza of Remembrance, Commercial Spaces, a Concert Hall, Rooms and Classrooms, an Amphitheater, a Shade House, and Parking.
A No-Innovation Area, a place for reflection, conserving the existing landscape while avoiding modifications.
An Urban Bio Corridor, providing access to nature for urban equality, creating invisible connections between flora, fauna, neighborhoods, and people.
A Park of Remembrance, a site for contemplation, tribute, testimony, and remembrance of the victims.
A Learning Park, an educational and cultural hub. Repurposing existing buildings.

Technical information

The buildings are constructed with reinforced concrete and steel for the structure, reinforced concrete and masonry for the exterior walls, and a steel frame for the interior walls. The exterior cladding and finish are made of Corten steel, also known as weathering steel, a type of very strong steel composed of nickel, chromium, and copper.