ARCHITECTURE ON REVOLUTION

“Architecture can’t force people to connect, it can only...
​remove barriers and make the meeting places useful and attractive.” - Denise Scott Brown

Location: Mexico City, Mexico 
Date: 2018

Inequity can be seen throughout neighborhoods in Mexico City such as Santa Fe where segregation issues between the rich, who live in gated communities and high-rise condominiums, and the poor, who lack adequate access to basic utilities, are widely visible. Due to this, university students have started a movement. This form of protest is the catalyst that ignites the revolution, which aims to reclaim the privatized public land that has been overtaken by the wealthy. As initial form of protest, students have assembled structural space-frames, transported and deployed these units via pig-shaped blimps, as interventions of disruption. Subsequently, a recycling center program is implemented to provide educational opportunities of how to salvage from the old. Inspired by Lebbeus Woods’ theory of post-war architecture, “the post-war city must create the new from the damaged old”, various phases occur over time that deteriorate current boundaries, in order to alter the uneven hierarchical system that exists.