"The Stadium is a Celebration of Life" /

"Life at its Purest State"



The Site

Park La Carolina is as for today one of Quito’s greatest urban parks. Located at 0 Latitude, 2800 meters, the park stretches a mile long from north to south, offering a wide range of activities and facilities to its citizens including playing grounds, sports courts, fields and picnic areas. However, with redevelopment in some areas of the city, the old airport is soon to be replaced with a new urban park similar to Central Park in length which will offer public walk able paths, plazas and new areas of recreation. This means that park La Carolina which was Quito’s most famous park is soon to be forgotten by some unless something is done to reinsert life and energy to it without the necessity for competing with the new upcoming park.



The Driving Force

The world cup, the Olympic Games and any other kind of international events often serve as a strong catalyst for urban development, the construction of new infrastructure and sport venues which over history have gain a place of importance around the globe as city icons. That is to say, sport facilities can be perceived as having the power to attract socioeconomic forces to its given place while they also embrace a cultural experience later to be exposed and shared with the entire world.

Given how these events and sport complexes pose huge influences over a city, it is important for local authorities to consider more efficient methods of construction in which natural resources of a determined place are used at its best. Also, regional design must also be carefully thought out as means of setting precedence for the future of the local architecture.

With the insertion of a new national stadium to the city of Quito not only the city will benefit from it, but the entire country itself as well, since it will open up opportunities for its advancement, while it will help promote its richness in biodiversity and the different ecosystems that interact in this specific location. Therefore, the new national stadium calls for a design that keeps and serves the country’s natural characteristics that make it unique among others. It should articulate a notion for ecological design from which people can relate to as their public sporting venue as well a common place of interaction in which man and nature can connect themselves while in the city.