4 Fernanda Canales Arquitectura, Mexico City Fernanda Canales re-focuses the relationship between housing and the city through renewing existing or abandoned structures, promoting mixed-use and multi-purpose buildings and community-centric design. Buildings weave into existing fabric, using simple materials, natural light, cross ventilation, re-densifying Mexico’s urban centres. Informal housing, 70% of Mexico’s buildings, is validated as a typology. Vecindad Monte Alban , Mexico City, 2020. In 2020 Mexico had nine million households in need of adequate housing and five million abandoned homes. Vecindad Monte Alban fits 24 units with six configurations on three levels into an established neighbourhood with considerable vacancies. This is an interpretation of traditional vecindades where apartments surround a central patio where amenities – kitchens and bathrooms – are shared. Each unit has alternative access points, circulation space is through common patios and terraces, and skylights open dwellings in four or even five directions.
top: different types of apartments, the six unique typologies range from 70m 2 to 90 m 2 right: unused or abandoned sites of odd configurations into which housing can be placed, increasing density and thus contributing
to hollowed-out neighbourhoods
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images and text drawn from https://www.reurbanhousing.com/studio-gang where there are more images, text and diagrams. See also https://studiogang.com/ neighbourhood evolving from a suburb to something of greater density. It is a mixed-use, mid-rise 12-storey residential tower with an interesting structure: stacked concrete panels form columns, bays, sunshades and balconies. Loads are taken to the ground in a series of stems, from which balconies are like leaves extending living space and introducing a visual open-air social/ spatial network across the façades. 5 Studio Gang, Chicago plus New York, San Francisco, Paris This is an architecture and urban design practice that collaborates with a wide range of disciplines both inside and outside traditional design fields. Design is used as a medium to connect people with each other and their environment. City Hyde Park , Chicago, 2016 is located in a
The building’s balcony stems act as columns that take gravity loads to the ground.
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