The Eternal Witness of Lima - Interpretation Centre on San Cristobal Hill Part 1 Project 2025 Carlos Alonso Flores Ordinola National University of Engineering | Peru The project is located in a natural setting transformed by urban sprawl, on San Cristóbal Hill — traditionally known as Usharu — Lima's principal geographical and symbolic landmark. Regarded as the city’s protective Apu (a sacred Andean spirit), the hill represents a confluence of religious spirituality and the Andean worldview, preserving cultural practices that remain alive in the collective memory.Situated in the Rímac district — the second territory occupied after the founding of the historic centre — the site holds significant historical and heritage value. Nevertheless, it remains disconnected from the city, with no strategies to integrate its cultural richness into urban development.In response, the project proposes an interpretation centre as a space for encounter between landscape, memory, and identity. Thanks to its strategic location, it can become a metropolitan-scale viewpoint, capable of activating processes of territorial revaluation and collective appropriation. The proposal aims to reconnect the community with its ancestral geography, revealing its cultural meanings through an architecture that not only observes the territory, but also interprets, celebrates, and re-signifies it. Tutor(s)