Trama Verde translates to "Green Trajectory". The project proposes to reanimate San Jose's urban river corridors in connection with parts of the train track network of the abandoned Banana Train railroad system that used to link the city with both the Atlantic and the Pacific coast, offering an interesting alternative to the congested inner city roads or "Grey Trajectory". Such network could function as an urban lung to deliver oxygen to the city as well as a green infrastructure providing spaces for urban agriculture and recreation within the sub-urban periphery.
Trama Verde has become an official planning tool for the governmental planning process of the Greater Metropolitan Area in Costa Rica (PRUGAM) which is co-financed by the European Union (EU). A first train system that is crossing the city in east-west direction has been inaugurated in 2006; another part of the network is being developed as an alternative circulation corridor for bicycle and pedestrian transport in order to create an alternative for the individual motorized transport that is blocking the GAM's arteries day by day.
Various of our projects like El Pochote, P.N.S.G.A.M., C.C.M.E.C. or the Parque Metropolitana La Libertad respond to the idea of an intelligent green built environment.
Credit
Oliver Schütte and Marije van Lidth de Jeude with project specific support.
San Jose, Costa Rica, 2004 – 2009.