“We believe we are a country, but the truth is we are just a landscape”— Nicanor Parra. Built in 1915, the coastal road triggered massive urban expansion, resulting in a fragmented landscape. The hanging dune of Concon - an important naturally-occurring geological formation - has existed for millenia. Today, it has been parcelized for real estate development and its geological presence has vanished in public memory. Lack of protection and proper maintenance resulted in a poor edge condition, threatened biodiversity, and micro-sandslide shrinking dunes 12m in height in decades. This project propose a paradign shift, transforming the surrounding road and abandoned buildings into a park and trail system to protect the remaining dunes and eventually become a catalyst for resiliency. The shifts will ripple out from Concon City, becoming the coastal trail that highlights Chile’s 4,000-mile coastline.
