CENTRIC
PROJECT
CENTRIC
YEAR
2025–PRESENT
TYPOLOGY
MASTER PLAN
AREA
50,000 M²
STATUS
NEAR FUTURE
LOCATION
MERCEDES, MONTES DE OCA, SAN JOSÉ
COSTA RICA
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CENTRIC REIMAGINES TROPICAL URBAN DENSITY AS A POROUS, MIXED-USE DISTRICT WHERE CITY, LANDSCAPE, AND COMMUNITY CONVERGE ALONG THE RECOVERED TORRES RIVER.
CONCEPT
Centric is conceived as a contemporary urban fragment within the evolving metropolitan fabric of San José, Costa Rica. It responds to the need for greater density in tropical cities while preserving environmental performance, spatial quality, and a strong relationship with the public realm.
The project allows the public urban realm to extend into and merge with the private urban realm, erasing conventional boundaries between public and private spaces. Five mixed-use buildings rise from a shared urban base, forming a model of tropical vertical urbanism adapted to environmental, climatic, and social conditions.
Central to this vision is the recovery of the Torres River, an urban waterway long denied and abandoned by the city. Centric restores its ecological, social, and public value, integrating it into a publicly accessible landscape. Density becomes a spatial strategy for reconnecting city, nature, and community while supporting compact growth and a more resilient metropolitan future.
PROGRAM
Located along Boulevard del Este, Centric brings together five mixed-use buildings with residential and commercial programs, parking, circulation, public amenities, plazas, and collective spaces.
A shared urban base acts as a social interface where the public urban realm extends into and merges with the private urban realm, erasing boundaries between public and private space. Commercial programs and plazas create a porous ground plane that reinforces pedestrian continuity and connects the development to its context.
The massing responds to site constraints, solar orientation, urban context, natural light, and ventilation. Landscaped terraces, planted courtyards, and vegetation regulate the microclimate and connect architecture with the tropical ecosystem.
Crucially, the project rescues the Torres River, long neglected and denied by urban growth, restores its ecological, social, and public value, and integrates it as a publicly accessible landscape for residents and the wider community.
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