Thomas Glassford/José Parral
Project
Process
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process). Photo by Lola Cuenca.
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process). Photo by Lola Cuenca.
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process). Photo by Lola Cuenca.
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process). Photo by Lola Cuenca.
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process). Photo by Lola Cuenca.
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process). Photo by Lola Cuenca.
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process). Photo by Lola Cuenca.
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (process). Photo by Lola Cuenca.
Proposal
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Thomas Glassford and José Parral, La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana, inSite_05 (proposal).
Related Material
Project
La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana (The Corner/Tijuana Beach Gardens) was commissioned by inSite as an urban rehabilitation project for the area of Playas de Tijuana where the border fence extends into the Pacific Ocean. The Tijuana bullring, the border fence, and the Playas de Tijuana’s tourist corridor define the renovated area. The intervention was not so much an “artistic” project per se; rather, it was conceived as a response to the ecological crisis and the dysfunctionality of urban planning projects in both countries, and was intended to facilitate the recovery and development of communal areas. Thomas Glassford and Jose Parral took on the challenge of designing the park project and immediately focused on aesthetically transforming the area into a recreational zone with ecological sensitivity. To this end, they refrained from overlaying the area with new artistic or cultural monuments and, instead, sought to respond to the particular conditions of the landscape and its historical importance as a site of demarcation between Mexico and the US. The challenges involved in negotiating the creation of the garden were manifold, and included preventing the increasing erosion of the land, limiting traffic circulation, improving basic services, and, above all, generating new patterns of growth and urban restructuring while respecting the area’s natural environment. The design of ‘La esquina/Jardines de Playas de Tijuana’ renders more visible the ecological interconnectedness of the region.
Curators: Osvaldo Sánchez and Tania Ragasol
Venue: Playas de Tijuana
Acknowledgments
Production team
Sergio Soto
Jesús Serrano
Guillermo Sariñana
Oscar Mendoza
Dolores Cuenca
inSite production
Daniel Martínez
Márgara de León
Joy Decena
Zlatan Vukosavljevic
Esmeralda Ceballos
Individuals acknowledgments
Roberto Espinoza
Gabriel Boils
Javier Ramírez
Oscar Romo
Greg Abbott
Anne Marie Tipton
Laura Silvan
Karen Levy
Fernando Padrés
Rodolfo Anguiano
Manolo Escutia
Gabriela Guinea
Clay Phillips
Luis Miguel Auza
Annie Sartor
Mike McCoy
Tom Polkalski
Ron Saenz
Serge Dedina
José López Hurtado
Melquiades Reyes
J. Arturo Herrera Solís
Daniel Sánchez
Felipe Camberos
Osvaldo Cuadra
Julia Bendimez
Roberto Castillo
Alfonso López
José Manuel Valenzuela
Haydeé Jiménez
Ernesto J. Jiménez
Bruce Hanson
Joaquín Martínez Leal
Lina Ojeda
Ezequiel Ezcurra
Organizations
Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve
International Boundary and Water Commission
Comisión Internacional de Límites y Aguas
Grupo Ecologista Gaviotas, A.C.
Proyecto Bio-regional de Educación Ambiental
Proyecto Fronterizo de Educación Ambiental
Delegación Playas de Tijuana
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia en Baja California
Vecinos de Playas
Patronato de Recuperacion de Areas Verdes, A.C.
Sponsors
RECON Native Plants, Inc.
Fraccionamiento Real del Mar
Casas GEO Baja California
United State Embassy in Mexico City
XVIII Ayuntamiento de Tijuana
Gaviotas Grupo Ecologista A.C.