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Culture | Santa Ana | 2025 | Area: 32 Ha
Revealing what has long remained concealed
When a park interrupts the everyday and returns the ordinary to the collective. Located in the fragmented heart of Santa Ana, between highways, gated communities, and commercial centers. The park positions itself as an urban suture.
More than green space, it operates as social infrastructure, reconnecting communities that have grown physically close yet socially distant.
Despite being bordered by a major highway, the park holds the potential to become an active urban edge—visible, symbolic, and civic. Its extended perimeter and limited access points are reimagined not as constraints, but as opportunities to transform the threshold into a place of encounter. Immersive pathways, contemplative wetlands, open-air amphitheaters, research niches, and running circuits intertwine nature and city life, shaping moments of pause and movement within a coherent landscape framework
The City’s Pacific Threshold
From Route 27, Lorne Ross has the opportunity to consolidate itself as a portal. An urban gesture of arrival for those entering the city from the Pacific. Its strategic opening toward the highway reframes the journey into an experience: a clearly defined access accompanied by welcoming public spaces that introduce a renewed urban landscape. The park does not merely exist; it acts as connector, edge, and gateway—opening Santa Ana toward a freer, more integrated future.
The house opens generously toward the pool and surrounding gardens, creating spacious, airy environments deeply connected to the outdoors. The home is best experienced through movement, ideally barefoot, allowing inhabitants to feel the variety of textures that shape the project: the warmth of wood, the roughness of stone, the solidity of concrete, and the softness of fabrics
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