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Beneath the continuous urban fabric, the need to identify or generate permeable spaces becomes a priority, allowing water to return to the subsurface and thus continue its natural cycle, restoring hydrological balance within cities.

This collaborative essay proposes the creation of a field of attraction that draws the visitor inward, passing through a foreground that alludes to the urban, the built, and the altered. Upon crossing a threshold—pulled by an intangible force that invites exploration of the interior—the project seeks to produce a strong visual and sensory contrast, revealing a completely different landscape that envelops and guides the visitor, just as the space itself directs water toward a point of infiltration.

It is a demonstration of the diversity of ways in which a garden can be conceived: a garden that is habitable and ecologically functional, a rain garden and a dry-season garden, a space for reflection and wonder. A space that invites us to reconsider our relationship with water and with nature.

The plant selection is inspired by the native vegetation of Chapultepec Hill and its surroundings, as well as by key species from Aztec medicinal traditions.

Plants stand as witnesses to time and history, as teachers of adaptability and resource optimization.