Imagine the past and future of Mexico City: Dreams of Fiber/Timber, Earth, Concrete - Parametric Architecture

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Dreams of Fiber/Timber, Earth, Concrete is an architectural installation that was featured successful the Mextrópoli Architecture and City Festival betwixt September 21-25, 2022. The installation presents stories from the past and contiguous by utilizing 4 materials astir Mexico City. The usage of the materials is simply a captious adaptation betwixt tradition, history, and imagining caller possibilities. The installation invited the visitors to retrieve the city’s history.

The installations see 2 pavilions:

The archetypal 1 is “Dreams of Fiber/Timber,” which reflects connected the past and aboriginal of Mexico City. Built from the city’s iconic rollercoaster, La Feria’s Montaña Rusa’s wood materials and the pavilion adapted accepted Mesoamerican creation form, papel picado, besides known arsenic perforated insubstantial oregon pecked paper. The pavilion invited the ancestors to walk to the present.

La Feria’s Montaña Rusa was built successful 1964, was unfastened till 2019, and had an important spot successful millions of people’s memories. Similar to different large-scale municipality projects built successful Mexico City successful the aforesaid decade, the roller coaster captured an epoch of monolithic socio-economic transitions and the consequent improvement of civic infrastructure.

Located connected the country of the historical Plaza de la Alameda, the pavilion creates a caller municipality abstraction for gathering and reflection. Activating the abstraction astatine night, the pavilion’s lighting plan emerged from dialogues with the Otomi artisans who produced the amate insubstantial for the pavilion.

The 2nd pavilion, “Dreams of Earth/Concrete,” explored the aboriginal of Mexico’s affordable housing. The pavilion was created nether the concern of New Story, an planetary nonprofit enactment that pioneers solutions to extremity planetary homelessness, and Échale, a societal endeavor based successful Mexico that offers lodging solutions done the integral improvement of communities.

Dreams of Earth are created by ceramic vaults 3D-printed and produced successful CDMX with section materials. These are placed betwixt precast factual beams arsenic imperishable formwork for the precocious compression slab. The geometric flexibility of 3D printing facilitates the wide accumulation of customized ceramic vaults tailored to the disposable materials. The blocks person been produced successful collaboration with section ceramic manufacturers utilizing accepted clays and firing processes. The blocks are lightweight and optimized to minimize worldly usage and manufacturing time.

Dreams of Concrete explores the aboriginal of affordable lodging successful Mexico done operation methods with debased worldly impact. The horizontal operation of the extortion takes arsenic its starting constituent the existing joist and vault system, optimizing the signifier of the prefabricated reinforced factual joists to minimize the usage of worldly and its associated biology interaction by 50%.

The resulting elegant geometry, sculpted by sections of varying width and depth, is achieved utilizing computational plan methods developed by researchers astatine MIT. Its manufacture is carried retired utilizing fiberglass molds, which let aggregate casting cycles. Dreams of Concrete combines section operation techniques with caller integer manufacturing technologies, resulting successful a pavilion that combines industry, societal enterprise, and academia arsenic a exemplary for a much sustainable built environment.

Project Info

Grupo Mota-Engil, Project Team: Onésimo Flores, Sergio Haua, Ivar Castillo, Jorge Cerrilla, Oscar Vera, Gemi González
MIT Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism Director: Sarah Williams.
Project Team: Alberto Meouchi, Jariyaporn Prachasartta, Doris Qingyi Duanmu, Niko McGlashan, Deni López, Illana Strauss and Enrique Casillas. Construction: La Invencible. Research and Design of Dream Tickets: Claudia Ortiz Chao, Maria Moreno, Carina Arvizu, Carlos Flores and Santiago Fernandez
MIT Digital Structures Director: Caitlin Mueller
Project Team: Edu Gascón, Tim Cousin, Mohamed Ismail, Sandy Curth, Kiley Feickert, Leslie Norford.
In Collaboration with: ECHALE, New Story, Manufactura, Anfora Studio, Formas de Fibra de Vidrio.
MIT Future Urban Collectives and Collaborating Artist Marisa Morán Jahn Director: Rafi Segal
Collaborating Artist: Marisa Morán Jahn.
Project Team: Maria Rius Ruiz- NUA Arquitectures, Patricia Dueñas Gerritsen, Jungmin Lee, Karla Mejias. Structural Engineering: Caitlin Mueller, Edu Gascón, Tim Cousin. Construction: Mextropoli/La Invencible
ECHALE, Project Team: Francesco Piazzesi, Gretel Uribe Campos, Eduardo Piedrola, Eduardo Banda, Fernanda Herrejón, Javier Velasco, Gustavo García.
New Story Project Team: Victor Mendoza, Sandra Prieto
Manufactura, Co-Founders: Dinorah Martínez Schulte, Edurne Morales, Eduardo Barba, Elena Fierro
Project Director: Dinorah Martínez Schulte
Project Team: Aleida Rahel Merkel, Ivan Ramos, Jared Zarate, Irma Valdes, Jorge Orduna
Anfora Studio, Project Team: Saul Rivera, Sofia Priscila, Sara Flores, Amaury De La Rosa, Polette Guerrero
Formas de Fibra de Vidrio, Project Team: Jacinto Hernández Espindola