SCIENCE CITY.

MENTION PRIZE
A TIMELESS MIRAGE.
Architect: Francisco Jorquera
Francisso : Jorquera
Country: Spain
The plan for the Science City is arranged in six   blocks or sectors. Each of them refers
to some of   the characteristics included in the generic concept of city; besides, each one
poses o variant of the   relationship between architecture and its containing program and
technologies. V
This is not meant to represent a linear sequence of development and progress, but to
highlight that there are different approaches or mental stages that may act
simultaneously (both in science and in architecture) and lead to different solutions.
Each sector is type of settlement association with a temporal or evolutionary cliché.
This variation in the types of organization allows the different uses and the different
points of view to be accommodated so that science, technology and architecture can be
raised in a more abstract, more rudimentary or more playful way, depending on the
case. Thus, each block contains its own proportion of scientific; ‘cultural’ or
‘exhibition’, depending on the subject to represent.
1-   TREES PAVILION. PROVISIONAL SETTLEMENT.
This sector, with a minimum area, represents an inevitable residue of the direct
relationship of the human environment with nature (a long-term paleo   lithic), It includes
a temporary pavilion in which a kind of spontaneous prehistoric high-tech is applied.
2- BOTANICAL GARDEN, MYSTIC GARDEN:
An landscape of idealized nature drawn by a transcendental aspiration. The link of this
metaphor of an utopian past to the botanical garden is evident.