Informal Implants | el cielo armando hashimoto · surella segú project realized with the sponsorship of FONCA
Chimalhuacán is a city on the east end of the metropolitan area of Mexico City that has been under demographic pressure due to a high immigra- tion rate. The mechanisms of informal urbanization are fully at play mak- ing clearly visible the stages from consolidation closer to the hill to initial settlements at the limit of the open sewage canal. Chimalhuacán is now and undifferentiated territory in continuous refor- mulation where scarcity of services, economic activity, public spaces and green open areas, render a dormitory city that, according to projections, will still grow 80% by the year 2020. The project here offers strategies that recognize the mechanisms of informal urbanisation and use them to operate effectively within the pre- existing conditions aforementioned. The interventions are never thought of as finite. The implants adapt to the existing structures and a symbiosis gets established between the possibility of housing growth and the need for more services. These points of departure have an influence on the ensuing development of the city, but they do not impose it. The decisions are more local than global.
There is no visualization of a final state other than an urbanism more catalytic and less regulatory.
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