San Patricio del Cañar Sports and Cultural Park







The project was developed within the framework of a design competition promoted by the Municipality of San Patricio del Chañar, sponsored by the Argentine Federation of Architects' Associations (FADEA), and organized by Regional 1 of the Architects’ Association of the Province of Neuquén (CAN). The competition aimed to generate proposals for the development of a new urban green space to function as a Sports and Cultural Park for the city.
According to the competition brief:
"San Patricio del Chañar is a town located in the Argentine Patagonia, within the department of Añelo, in the province of Neuquén. The city has a low-density urban profile, with a high degree of parcel consolidation, consisting predominantly of single-family homes not exceeding two stories (6 meters). The surrounding territory is defined by a strong productive matrix, composed of a mosaic of agricultural plots protected by perimeter rows of poplars. Despite this productive richness—and somewhat counterintuitively—the city itself has very little land designated for recreational green spaces. This underscores the strategic value of the 8 hectares designated for the new Park, envisioned as the heart of a future urban green infrastructure system."
Within this context, the proposal conceives the Sports and Cultural Park as a key urban element, with the potential to become part of a broader network of open spaces organized along Roberto Gasparrini Boulevard. This boulevard is envisioned as a potential green public axis that could structure the city along a north-south orientation, linking the new park in the north with the Neuquén River in the south through a series of interventions and public spaces conceived as an integrated urban system.