Photos by: Luis Gallardo
Linear City is the result of stretching the physical properties of a material, as well an investigation and manufacturing process to its limits. This was achieved by analyzing the Corian’s performance and exploring its main properties: hardness and translucency.
A trial and error method was implemented to test the material resistance, through the use of the most advanced laser cut technologies. Likewise, in order to achieve a random effect, a manual/crafted process had to be added to the initial technological/industrial processes
Finally, lighting was added to the object, to exploit the translucent properties of the material. By using over imposed layers alternated with light, deepness and three-dimensional effects were achieved, which change according to the time of day. A double function, which fluctuates between lamp and latticework, is therefore obtained.
The achieved combination of arranged voids and solids combined with light resembles, in a conceptual level, a linear city.
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Images by Landscape Arch Fabiola Vargas and Arch Alicia Mallen
The intervention strategies aim at restoring the site, allowing short- and long-term processes to be carried out. Through reforestation, re-vegetation and the re-introduction of species, the purpose is to encourage recovery of the lost eco-system.
These intervention strategies also have to focus on the functioning of the eco-systemic services (benefits that human populations obtain from the eco-systems). Human well-being grows through these services, thanks to the biodiversity of an eco-system.
The park will hold a rich diversity of wildlife habitats and botanical communities, extraordinary natural scenarios for recreation and relaxation. Through ecological innovation and creative design, new biological communities will prosper and will restore the site.
The restoration of ecological systems and recovery of the natural cycles of the valley’s hydrological process are proposed through reinforcement of the existing infrastructure and the introduction of important regulation areas.
In collaboration with: Jardín Botánico Nacional, Departamento de Ecología, UNAM, Biogeoquímica Ambiental UNAM
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Floating over the Nabor Carrillo Lake, this building is part of the overall strategy of the Texcoco Lake Ecological Park. It can be accessed through a system of docks and walkways surrounding the different volumes, and allowing a great variety of panoramic views of its aquatic context.
The mass volume of the Museum combines a series of blind walls and lattices that enhance its texture and create contrast between solid and void. The program is divided into five concrete structures that lay on the lake bed.
Areas such as this will promote activities seldom performed in the city; boating and sailing sports, mountain cycling, as well as flora and fauna observation. These activities will help create a new relationship with the water and promote environmental awareness on the project.
By creating a social basis with an environmental backdrop, inhabitants are provided with public spaces for recreation purposes enabling them to get closer to an environmental area.
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Developed to commemorate the 200 Anniversary of the Mexican Independence, the environmental remediation strategies proposed for Parque Bicentenario where the first step in the process of redesigning a new future for the old Azcapotzalco oil refinery.
Today, the strength of a park proposal is not based on its image design, but in the design of its adaptability, flexibility and performance; in how robust is its environmental base. Therefore the proposal is not based on the design of a Park but in the design of STRATEGIES for the park. This approach opposes the traditional master planning methodology, given it implements a bottom-up design approach.
The overall concept responds to the immediate urban context; the highest intensity program is located at the edge, close the subway station. The lower intensity architectural program is located in the center of the park, resembling an oasis. Finally both programs are linked by a series of paths and walkways offering visitors multiple interpretations of the project and site.
Parks are social catalysts; claiming these areas as an urban infrastructure capable of restoring social structures is of upmost importance.
