Pop-Up Green Park Invades the City of Lima, Peru

In the historic downtown area of Lima, Peru, a new <a href="http://inhabitat.com/2010/09/18/photos-inhabitat-celebrates-parking-day-coast-to-coast/" target="_blank">pop up green space</a> has invaded the urban landscape. Invasion Verde, or Green Invasion, is an installation by architects Genaro Alva, Denise Ampuero, Gloria Andrea Rojas and industrial designer Claudia Ampuero, created as part of <a href="http://www.gransemanadelima.com/" target="_blank">Gran Semana de Lima</a> - also known as Lima's Great Week. A number of public activities are planned and will be complimented by a series of select installations positioned around the city. However, one of the selected works that has really caught our eye is this installation that uses <a href="http://www.inhabitat.com/recycled-materials" target="_blank">recycled plastic and tires</a>, lots of grass and beautiful flowers to create an impromptu public park.

Invasion Verde or Green Invasion is a pop up park in the historic center of Lima, Peru.

The park was part of the Gran Semana de Lima, or Lima's Great Week, which is a nine day celebration of music, art, food and culture.

Green Invasion was designed and installed by green architects Genaro Alva, Denise Ampuero, Gloria Andrea Rojas and industrial designer Claudia Ampuero.

The artistic installation was one of five projects chosen from 137 proposals.

The project consists of a series of natural grass mounds along with furniture crafted out of recycled tires and plastic.

The pop up park is located in the historic center of Lima on a paver lined pedestrian street called Pasaje Encarnacion.

Drought tolerant flowers and plants were used in the installation for the nine days.

The designers of the park hope that visitors will take home ideas that will inspire them to create more public parks in their own neighborhoods.

Lima, which grew rapidly, failed to incorporate enough green and open space into their city at the offset.

The World Health Organization recommends that every person living in a city has 8 sq meters of recreational space. Currently, Lima has just 1.98 sq meter per capita.

This means there is a shortfall of 4,800 hectares of recreation space for the citizens of Lima.

By comparison some surrounding Peruvian cities do meet the recommendation: San Borja (8.4 m2/cap.), La Punta (9 m2/cap.) and Santa Maria del Mar (10.01 m2/cap.).

Green Invasion is meant to help overcome the shortfall of green spaces in the city and use recycled materials in a sustainable manner.