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LAAPLandscape+architecture arquitectura+paisaje
est. 1999
Pedro Camarena and Mariola SordoMexico D.F.
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Route of Friendship
Periferico Sur, Mexico City
LAAPLandscape+architecture arquitectura+paisaje
est. 1999
Pedro Camarena and Mariola SordoMexico D.F.
ROUTE OF FRIENDSHIP
Category: speculations/representationsLocation: Periferico Sur
Surface: N/AProject Year: 2010
*Contributors: Luis de la Torre
dms 19° 18’ 17” S / 99° 5’ 12” W
elevation 2240 m / 7349 ft
The 22 sculptures were built in 1968 by artists around the world for the Olympiad Mexico 68. From the need to relocate the sculptures of the Path of Friendship due to construction work of the South-ern Urban Highway, the Board
of the Ruta de la Amistad, AC, invited LAAP to generate ecolog-ical restoration projects to replace the degraded urban environment. The idea is to rescue not just the sculptures, but its surrounding en-vironment and original landscape. Exotic vegetation that blocked the
view of the sculptural elements were removed. Native plants were reintroduced to accelerate the pro-cess of restoration on the basaltic mantle. The project helps to form a biodiversity corridor south of the Cd. De Mexico.
“The sculptures help us admire the
landscape, and both help us remember
our history”—Pedro Camarena Berruecos
Plant Restoration
