Trueque, Truco, Trato
Master of Urban Design
Spring Term - University of Michigan
Location : La Viga Canal, Mexico City
Redevelopment of the Benito Juarez Airport gives the city of Mexico an opportunity to cultivate a huge mass of land into a new center of advancement. Thinking on a city level, this chunck of undeveloped mass now gives an opening to create a hub for commercial development and its supportive communes. Reversed City see the opportunity to establish different nodes within this enclave and connect them through transit stations. The Reversed City takes an opportunity for an urban level green connection for the City. It acts as a connector as well as a continuous stretch for the landscape to flow from the ecological reserve to other parts of the city.
The Walls - Commercial and Residential, rise from the landscape and merge into the landscape. They are designed not only as the separators, but actually a part of landscape that emerges from the greens. The functions are distributed into tiers which form hierarchical porous structural placement.