Project
Amazon Park

Category 
Best Project of Public Space by Student

About the project
What if our workspaces worked as a cultural center? Not only creating new public spaces for the city, but also increasing employee performance by making the office experience better. Amazon Park is the Amazon headquarters in the Dominican Republic. With a design based on the nerves and cells of a leaf, the project works as a public plaza where users can meet, serving as a reference point for the community and adding value to the area where it is located. The double facade acts as a heat filter and natural light entry and ventilation, which we learned its importance during the Covid-19 pandemic. It has a series of buildings that are connected to each other through high-rise pedestrian bridges, fostering creativity with that connection between the exterior and the interior spaces. We believe architecture is art, expressed all over the project, especially with the main stairs, that work as a stair, as a piece of art and as hidden furniture, adding even more to the user experience.

Location
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Project design year
2022

Extra visual materials (photos, videos etc.)
https://youtu.be/zmHtq_rUYs0

Applicant and author of the project
Raquel Cecilia Gomez Fiallo, third year Architecture student in UNIBE, Dominican Republic. With Passion, dedication and innovation Raquel Gomez seeks to create spaces for everyone, helping our cities evolve while adapting to changes and taking care of the environment.