{"id":28035,"date":"2026-03-18T17:10:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/interventions\/urban-oasis-university-landscape-as-wellness-infrastructure\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:10:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:10:35","slug":"urban-oasis-university-landscape-as-wellness-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.landuum.com\/en\/interventions\/urban-oasis-university-landscape-as-wellness-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban oasis: University landscape as wellness infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Urban oasis: university landscape as wellness infrastructure, discover how the Ibero campus transforms into a living infrastructure that merges architecture and landscape to create comfort. Through a resilient and participatory design, this WW+P project invites us to rediscover the landscape as refuge and community.<\/p>\n

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In the context of a dense, fast-paced city like Mexico City, university campuses represent a strategic opportunity to create urban oases: green spaces that offer a pause, foster well-being, and facilitate reconnection with nature within university life.<\/strong> The intervention of the green areas at Universidad Iberoamericana\u2019s Santa Fe campus, developed by WW+P, is based on this premise: transforming the university landscape into an ecological infrastructure that articulates community, well-being, and living spaces.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The intervention activates approximately 3.9 hectares of the campus\u2019s green areas through a \u201ccommon thread\u201d that connects plazas, gardens, corridors, and small squares into a coherent, legible, and accessible sequence.<\/p>\n

We recognize that the architecture of the Ibero campus is distinguished by a contemporary and monumental language<\/strong>, built from precise volumes, clear geometries, and the use of red brick as a unifying identity hallmark. Based on this reading, our proposal for open spaces seeks to integrate respectfully and naturally into this character<\/strong>, reinforcing the continuity between interior and exterior, activating remnant areas, and generating green zones, gathering spaces, and pathways that accompany university life.<\/p>\n

Thus, the landscape not only articulates space and engages in dialogue with surrounding buildings, but also strengthens institutional identity and a sense of belonging<\/strong>, incorporating signage and furniture elements that extend and consolidate this visual language.<\/p>\n

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It is not merely about incorporating vegetation, but about designing systems capable of regenerating bonds: between people, between architecture and territory, and between society and nature.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Escalinatas de la cafeter\u00eda \u201cEl Cubo\u201d remodeladas\/Renovated stairways at ‘El Cubo’ cafeter\u00eda
Fotograf\u00eda\/Photography: Ana Morodo<\/p><\/div>\n

The design is based on three typologies of open space aimed at encouraging permanence: activation, contemplation, and learning landscapes.<\/strong> Each zone responds to one or more of these categories according to its specific identity and character. Active plazas, reflection gardens, experimental orchards, open classrooms, and didactic trails<\/strong> form a system that promotes diverse forms of appropriation.<\/p>\n

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Bancas nuevas colocadas en corredores\/New benches installed in corridors
Fotograf\u00eda\/Photography: Ana Morodo<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nueva paleta vegetal de corredores\/New plant palette for hallways
Fotograf\u00eda\/Photography: Ana Morodo<\/p><\/div>\n

The intervention responds not only to a formal logic, but also to an environmental vision that guides its design. This urban oasis is understood as a living system.<\/strong> The landscaping strategy is based on principles of ecological resilience: the selection of native, low-maintenance species adapted to temperate forest and arid ecosystems, supporting biodiversity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It also includes reducing water consumption, soil restoration, and the creation of microhabitats. Rain gardens, infiltration zones, and permeable surfaces were incorporated, allowing the campus to function as an urban sponge<\/strong>, capturing and managing stormwater.<\/p>\n

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Corredor afuera del edificio de administraci\u00f3n\/Corridor outside the Administration Building
Fotograf\u00eda\/Photography: Ana Morodo<\/p><\/div>\n

The proposal was developed through a participatory methodology<\/strong> involving key users and university technical teams, integrating architecture, landscape, engineering, horticulture, and graphic design. This interdisciplinary collaboration translated institutional values \u2014well-being, community, social justice, and environmental care<\/strong>\u2014 into concrete spatial decisions.<\/p>\n

At a time when cities face climate, social, and mental health crises<\/strong>, the notion of the urban oasis takes on an urgent dimension.<\/p>\n

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It is not merely about incorporating vegetation, but about designing systems capable of regenerating bonds: between people, between architecture and territory, and between society and nature.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Mobiliario nuevo en corredores\/New furniture in hallways
Fotograf\u00eda\/Photography: Ana Morodo<\/p><\/div>\n

The Ibero campus green areas project demonstrates that even in consolidated contexts, landscape can reconfigure the urban experience through everyday life.<\/strong> By integrating ecological infrastructure, public space, and environmental pedagogy, the campus becomes an active refuge within the metropolis: an oasis that does not isolate, but connects.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Mobiliario nuevo en corredores\/New furniture in hallways
Fotograf\u00eda\/Photography: Ana Morodo<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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