The site where Grutas S. Vicente Park sits presents a dramatic context. It is a platform located at the stream edge and bounded by a waterfall and a cliff. This platform had an occupation with farmed land. It is part of a landscape system constructed with farming terraces and which characterizes the specifics of the context. The landscape design aimed to create a place for recreation that offers itself as a lookout/platform facing the Atlantic ocean. The park was conceptualized as part of the Volcanism Museum as its open space. The building contents’ interpret the volcanic phenomenon and the park reveals its associated hydrologic processes and vegetation. The water and the vegetation became the park structural elements.
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