L architecture, history, nature and culture have been linked in a project designed for a rural community more emblematic of the country by the feat of the Mirabal sisters. It’s tata Ecoparque of Peace, an architectural proposal of three young professionals who won a competition to build an eco-cultural park in Ojo de Agua, Salcedo. In 15.867 meters donated by the Foundation Hermanas Mirabal, located next to the memorial museum to honor the heroes will rise salcedenses the Ecopark La Paz, which highlights three elements that will trail the names of Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal .
They trails are part of an eco-cultural route linking the museum of the sisters, which was the home of Patria Mirabal; the monument with its sphinxes and called Cerro de la Cruz or Rock of New World, where the flower grows identifying community, which has the scientific name of Salcedoa mirabaliarum. The architects Michelle de la Cruz, Paloma Hernandez and Oliver Guillen won the contest organized by the Leon Jimenes Group, Fudancion the Mirabal sisters, the Botanical Garden Rafael Moscoso Puello, the Provincial Technical Bureau, Inc., the City Council of the Municipality of Salcedo and Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources.
“As the concept is ecological, as well as historical, They had to include a route through the museum, then go ecopark, which has a museum and three other roads or trails that represent each sister, and allow approaching the wall giving information on the nature, “says Hernandez. The arrangement of the streets and housing environment farmers who are a vital part of the landscape of Ojo de Agua in the proposal comes from the architects, who understand that a work such must see the whole community. A research center, that provides, among other things, the origin of the flower that symbolizes Salcedo is part of the project. Michelle de la Cruz who has learned about an advertisement in a newspaper contest, cut and taught their peers. Put your hands up to work and delivered the work that earned the highest merit. The construction of the works is the challenge. The sponsors are confident that this year will get the funds to start.
AGREEMENT WITH THE ENVIRONMENT
Secretariat of the environment depends to a great extent the realization of the work, because it was the same entity that released the partnership agreement it signed with community entities in the province of Salcedo to create the ecopark. “This project is a public and private effort to make available to the community of predominantly endemic species Salcedo Dominican Republic, contributing to environmental education not only of salcedenses, but of all who visit the country,” said then Secretary of the Environment, Max Puig. The agreement provides technical support from the Ministry of Environment for operation, management and environmental consultancy center, through the technicians of the institution and the National Botanical Garden. On the occasion of signing the agreement, Miltiades Mejia, director of the National Botanical Garden, said the ecopark will become a center for genetic studies of local flora, because in the live environment Salcedoa mirabaliarum, which he described as a genus new to science discovered in Rock of the New World, in the Northern Andes, dedicated to the Mirabal sisters, born in Ojo de Agua, Salcedo.
