Parque Quetzalcóatl

Parque Quetzalcóatl is outside of CDMX on its west side. The park is one of the most unusual architectural-landscape projects in Mexico: a privately initiated ecological park combining art, landscape architecture, and experimental “organic architecture”. The park is designed and built by Javier Senosiain, a Mexican architect, who is the pioneer of this movement. The park is generally closed to the public, it'll open in about 5 years from now. However the operators/builders are running private tours in it, and we succeeded to get spots in one of those. The park is an interesting combination of architecture (reminds me Gaudi) and landscape engineering. There are apartments in the park, two of them are available on AirBNB's OMG category. To complicate all this there is an awful lot of symbolism and references to the Mesoamerican and Aztec mythology and cosmology, art, habitat. A combination of mythology and ecology. The snake is a returning motive in the landscpe, even the aprtment building is part of a giant snake.

The apartment building:

We didn't enter the apartment complex, but we did explore the other parts of the park. The park has buildings, thst are anything but standard. In the Aztec myths there are 3 kingdoms: the mineral/cave kingdom, the plant kingdom and the animal kingdom. For each Senosiain dedicated a separate buildong. Mineral Kingdom:

Plant Kingdom:

The Animal Kingdom is not ready yet, but the building and the view from it are impressive anyways:

Us in the park: