Horizons Park
URBAN CONFLUENCE — San Jose, CA
DESIGN COMPETITION, Summer 2020
A horizon is the furthest reach of our vision, a glowing edge, a perfect sliver, a fissure where the present meets an unknowable future. Horizons Park embodies this moment, creating a place to celebrate the region’s extraordinary history and visionary future. Horizons Park’s iconic forms scribe this gesture into land and sky.
The Horizons Park destination is profoundly anchored to the land while generating a visceral sensation of being pulled to the future, towards new horizons. The program is an intentionally open plan, invoking iconic regional landscapes: headland, mountain, orchard, redwood forest. Natural forms reveal themselves as architecture and place: plaza, meadow, playground, amphitheater, pavilion. Headland becomes pavilion, mountain becomes theatre. Public spaces bring leading-edge technologies in support of accessible, democratic civic arts and education programming.
Horizons Park is an iconic, optimistic, global destination. Its flowing horizontals literally and figuratively carry visitors to the sky . . . a confluence of form and idea, agriculture and technology, light and land, creek and river, past and future.
PROJECT CREDITS
Artist: Stephen Glassman Lead Designer: Freesia Torres Project Director: Aaron Slavin Visualization: Chris Walker