Following the Sacred View designs Balatik Community Park from the barangay’s own worldview: “Woven within every Barangay exist ancestral knowledge that tells the story of the land of a thousand islands… All we must do is observe.” Their site analysis notes agriculture as a major livelihood in Santo Tomas and flooding during heavy rains — conditions the park design works with.

This is a student design proposal, developed for the LA 4621L capstone studio’s February 2026 study trip — it is a design, not built work.

Their work

• Read their full final design book (PDF, Google Drive) →
• See the whole Lubao project — all four sites and all nine capstone teams →

Their capstone poster

Open the poster in Google Drive →

The site today

From the trip

Video from the February 2026 Lubao studio trip. More footage is on the Lubao hub.