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This axonometric shows a southern view of the project as if looking from the Sierra Madre Range. The logic of the road network of the site matches smoothly the ones at its edges. In a similar way the building scale transforms along the territory in order to match the buildings that are posted on the sides. In regards of the granularity of the blocks and individual plots, a similar fade out takes place.
Entire process of iteration of the Urban Ecotone
The rich and complex set of lifestyles, people and urban ideas surrounding the site presents the ideal opportunity to rethink Monterrey not as a closed system, but as an open one, which “brings together people who differ by class, ethnicity, religion or sexual preference … a city that is to a degree incoherent.”
Influence of street patterns, building typologies, densities or land uses on Sector 1
Mexican cities present today a very high level of socio-economic inequality, translated in an acute phenomenon of spatial segregation. The most apparent symbol of the ever-increasing gap of wealth, power and status is the eruption of gated communities in all cities, that often come as a reaction to the feeling of threat and vulnerability emanating from violence, and usually associated to informal settlements.
In the Mexican city system, most sectors of the population tend to barricade themselves from the rest of the city, spreading the construction of walls that cut off communities. These walls create sharp borders, signalling the inside from the outside of a community, and, as the urban sprawl increased exponentially in the last few decades, opposing neighborhoods with different ideas of community and livelihood tend to confront each other, separated only by a fence.
This thesis has for aim to study and understand the reasons behind the current situation of cities in Mexico, anchored in the historical, cultural, political and economical scenes at a national level, and then at the level of the northern industrial city of Monterrey, which constitutes the case study.
From there, a site of interest, La Loma Larga, serves as an example of confrontation between wealthy neighborhoods and impoverished area. As that specific site hasn’t been completely urbanized nor fenced yet, this thesis explains the reasons behind it, and lastly propose a solution to urbanize it in order to alleviate the most extreme symptoms of urban segregation.
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Author
Salvador Hernandez Gazga
Thesis Supervisor
Toni Kotnik
Thesis Advisor(s)
Pia Fricker, Saija Hollmén
Year of Publication
2019
Keywords
urban design, inequality, spatial segregation, parametrics, informal settlements, gated communities, Monterrey, Mexico