A map is a context. This project is about contextualization. This process has helped me understand where landscape architecture currently sits as a discipline and offers hints as to where it might go in the future. The function of this mapping is as much about re-shaping an understanding of landscape architecture as it is about understanding landscape urbanism. Like architecture and city planning, landscape architecture is a discipline in constant flux, redefining its role with and relationship to parallel fields of thought and within broader disciplinary contexts. Over the last few decades it has become apparent that landscape architecture has emerged as a discipline strongly capable of reshaping urban space. Ideas regarding landscapes as active, dynamic, operational systems have paralleled the discipline’s growing relevance within an urban context. In this time landscape urbanism has emerged as a reaction to landscape architecture’s role within our changing world. For landscape urbanism to contribute anything of value to the future of urbanism, or to the design disciplines, it needs to be contextualized within the larger framework of which it is part, without this context landscape urbanism has no relevance. Where it has come from must be critically assessed as a way to understand its intentions and potential future. Landscape urbanism may expand architecture’s boundaries to include elements of landscape thinking, but it does not expand the boundaries of landscape design. Its attempt to generate a new approach for urbanism is innovative as architecture, in its effort to expand the discipline’s understanding of site, but as a design discipline, or a strategic approach to thinking, landscape urbanism is not innovative.

A map is a context. This project is about contextualization. This process has helped me understand where landscape architecture currently sits as a discipline and offers hints as to where it might go in the future. The function of this mapping is as much about re-shaping an understanding of landscape architecture as it is about understanding landscape urbanism. Like architecture and city planning, landscape architecture is a discipline in constant flux, redefining its role with and relationship to parallel fields of thought and within broader disciplinary contexts. Over the last few decades it has become apparent that landscape architecture has emerged as a discipline strongly capable of reshaping urban space. Ideas regarding landscapes as active, dynamic, operational systems have paralleled the discipline’s growing relevance within an urban context. In this time landscape urbanism has emerged as a reaction to landscape architecture’s role within our changing world. For landscape urbanism to contribute anything of value to the future of urbanism, or to the design disciplines, it needs to be contextualized within the larger framework of which it is part, without this context landscape urbanism has no relevance. Where it has come from must be critically assessed as a way to understand its intentions and potential future. Landscape urbanism may expand architecture’s boundaries to include elements of landscape thinking, but it does not expand the boundaries of landscape design. Its attempt to generate a new approach for urbanism is innovative as architecture, in its effort to expand the discipline’s understanding of site, but as a design discipline, or a strategic approach to thinking, landscape urbanism is not innovative.

El proyecto se ubica en Chorrillos, Lima, Perú en el borde inferior de la Costa Verde, desde su origen este fue un pueblo pesquero donde el principal comercio fue la compra y venta de pescados. Posteriormente, durante la época neoclásica, fue el balneario Limeño más concurrido, coexistiendo ambos sectores productivo-recreativo. Lamentablemente, luego de la Guerra del Pacífico, Chorrillos quedó en ruinas, sin embargo, los pescadores volvieron a asentarse y construyeron un mercado pesquero según las necesidades que se presentaban. Actualmente, el mercado sigue funcionando, pero de manera precaria, con una infraestructura deficiente que repercute en el oficio de la pesca. En el 2007, se realizó un concurso de ideas para la construcción de un mercado pesquero con espacios de esparcimiento, este no se implementó, pero quedó en evidencia el potencial del lugar para convertirse en un centro pesquero y turístico. La característica más interesante del terreno es que se encuentra en un entorno natural, por la parte posterior están los acantilados de la Costa verde y por el frente el Océano pacífico. Por ello, el proyecto necesita ser una conexión entre la naturaleza y la ciudad. Para lograrlo se aplicaron los criterios de los paisajes operativos, como resultado se logró la continuidad del entorno hacia el proyecto. En síntesis, el proyecto de tesis comprende el desarrollo de un mercado y puerto pesquero artesanal con espacios complementarios que sirva tanto para los pescadores como para los ciudadanos y revalorare el lugar. / The project is located in Chorrillos, Lima, Perú in the bottom edge of Costa Verde, since its origin it has been a fishing village where the principal commercial activity has been buying and selling fish and shellfish. Later, during neoclassical age, it was the most concurrent watering place of Lima, where both sectors productive and recreational were coexisting. Unfortunately, after the War of the Pacific, Chorrillos was left in ruins, however, fishermen came back to settle and build a fish market according to their currently needs. Nowadays, the market is still operating but in precarious conditions and deficient infrastructure affects the fishing labour. In 2007, a design contest for the construction of a fish market with public areas was held. Unluckily, these proposals were not implemented. Nevertheless, the high potential of the place to become a fishing and tourist center was left in evidence. The most interesting characteristic of the terrain is that it is located in a natural environment. Costa Verde’s cliffs and Pacific Ocean are at the back and on the front of the terrain respectfully. Therefore, the project needs to be a connection between nature and the city. To accomplish that, operative landscapes criteria was applied. In result, the continuity of the environment towards the project was achieved. In summary, the thesis project comprises the development of an artisanal fishing market and harbour with complementary spaces that serves both fishermen and citizens and reassess the area. / Tesis