
KUSKAT
PROJECT
KUSKAT
YEAR
2024-2025
TYPOLOGY
MIXED—USE
AREA
4,100,000 M²
STATUS
SCHEMATIC DESIGN
LOCATION
SAN SALVADOR,
EL SALVADOR
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MASTER PLAN KUSKAT IS A REGENERATIVE URBAN FRAMEWORK FOR APPROXIMATELY 410 HECTARES ACROSS LA LIBERTAD ESTE AND SAN SALVADOR SUR. CONCEIVED AS A TECHNICAL AND NORMATIVE INSTRUMENT, IT RETHINKS CONVENTIONAL PLANNING THROUGH FOUR SELF-SUFFICIENT CENTRALITIES CONNECTED BY A LANDSCAPE-LED MOBILITY NETWORK. THE PLAN ACCOMMODATES APPROXIMATELY 38,460 INHABITANTS IN A COMPACT VERTICAL CITY WHILE PROTECTING FORESTS, ADAPTING DEVELOPMENT TO STEEP TERRAIN, RESTORING HYDROLOGICAL CYCLES, AND BALANCING DENSITY WITH ACCESSIBLE GREEN SPACE, SUSTAINABLE MOVEMENT, AND LONG-TERM SOCIAL WELL-BEING.
The proposal treats topography, forest, and water as active urban infrastructure. Development follows the terrain to limit unnecessary earthwork and reinforce ecological continuity. A sponge-city approach integrates infiltration, retention, planted corridors, and permeable open space so that rainfall can be slowed, absorbed, and returned to natural systems rather than rapidly displaced downstream. Kuskat proposes a regenerative alternative to fragmented metropolitan expansion.
Its compact, polycentric structure reduces pressure on protected land, shortens everyday journeys, and expands access to landscape and public space. Forest conservation, sponge-city hydrology, low-impact mobility, and topographic adaptation operate together as a single resilience strategy.
By giving each centrality its own character and everyday services, the plan supports social proximity as well as ecological performance. Density becomes a tool for preserving land, strengthening community life, and creating healthier relationships between inhabitants, infrastructure, and the wider territory.
Land use is structured to reconcile urban intensity with environmental performance. Protected forest occupies 29% of the site. The remaining 71% forms the development area and is planned at 50% coverage: 35.5% of the total site is built area and 35.5% is green space. This distribution supports a high-density vertical city while retaining a substantial, connected open-space system.
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