Transgressing the social scheme of industrialized housing________________________________________________________________________
In Mexico City, the uncontrollable urban sprawl together with the government’s inability to provide qualitative housing solutions resulted on simplistic residential developments that deprived users from the minimum habitable conditions.
This project proposes a transgressive answer to this challenging urban, social and political context, providing a place where users, schools and private enterprises can work jointly.
Located at the Benito Juárez International Airport, which will be in disuse by 2018, the design scheme focuses on sustainable principles and Mexican tradition, whilst taking maximum advantage of the weather characteristics.
The master plan invites the user to walk around the complex and interact with their neighbors at different levels, regenerating the social life; and a flooding-friendly composition that retakes the chinampas agricultural methods for harvesting vegetables and flowers at a low cost. The project offers the possibility for inhabitants to acquire skills to produce housing components, construction materials and food items to be either sold at the local market or used for their own benefit, thus promoting social dialogue and enabling a Mexican Society to create better low income scenarios.