Parque El Jaguar is a complex, large-scale intervention that deals with the protection of natural and cultural heritage, while upgrading the infrastructure through which this territory is experienced. It is multiscalar and dispersed, and at the same time, architecture is highly consistent. From museum architecture to the adaptive reuse of an airfield runway and to very subtle viewpoints, the project embraces the spectacle while resisting the commercialisation of the landscape. Rather than staging the site as a consumable panorama, it invites visitors into immersive experiences, individual and collective, that deepen the engagement with the ecology of the place. The project also inhabits the contact zone where the tropical forest meets the sea with a series of smaller and remarkably precise interventions. Through consistent architectural gestures and carefully handled proportions, it provides a sophisticated public experience and serves as infrastructure for the processes of protection. - from the award statements
