24.10.08 - Charles Waldheim Participating as a Juror for the Concurso Internacional Parque del Lago in Quito, Ecuador
Charles Waldheim will be serving as a juror for an international design competition in Quito Ecuador. The Concurso Internacional Parque del Lago in Quito have received over a hundred and twenty entries from around the world. Charles is one of five jurors who over the next few days will select the winning scheme. The other jurors include: Jordi Borja Sebastià, Director of Project Management in the City University of Catalonia (UOC), Henry Williams Carrion, Architect and Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Quito PUCE, Rosa Gren Kliass, Landscape Architect, and Anuradha Mathur, Associate Professor at the School of Landscape and Architecture of the University of Pennsylvania.
About the Competition
The Metropolitan Municipality of Quito, the Corporation for Environmental Health “Vida para Quito” and the Architects’ Association of Ecuador – Pichincha Province, are implementing the Open International Competition for Ideas in urban planning, architecture and landscape architecture for the design of Quito´s Lake Park (Parque del Lago). The Competition Site is currently the location of the Mariscal Sucre International Airport, in the cities’ north.
The above mentioned Competition seeks to obtain holistic proposals that allow: the reconfiguration of the urban development policies and tendencies of the northern zone, the promotion of urban improvement processes, the solution for the limitations of northern Quito’s transversal connectivity (east – west), the reduction of environmental liabilities, the promotion of the recuperation of the landscape and urban environment, and the generation of well-being and social integration in public spaces.
The Competition constitutes an invitation directed to all national and international professionals, tied to the professions of architecture, city planning, landscape architecture, urban design, etc., in order that in an open manner, all actors may participate and take part in the design of a future public space of special transcendence for the city of Quito.