The absence of transitions and interstitial spaces for social integration has divided the city, due in large part to a discourse that exacerbates the reality of insecurity to justify a fortress mentality of greater isolation, thus reinforcing a vicious cycle of urban fragmentation. To stop this continuing deterioration, this project proposes the study of the dimensions of the spatial concept of transition for its application in spaces that promote urban integration, seeking a vital balance between the opening to public space and the security perceived by its users.
Testing the potential of this concept present from the most private to the most public of environments, this architectural project of mixed uses and the urban intervention around it, are located to the east of the Independencia neighborhood to reinforce the axis of existing public spaces that connects with the center of Monterrey. Through its different scales, the project arises from an algorithmic design process that starts from mappings and an analysis of its context, and that is based on collective housing modules organized around interstitial spaces in a three-dimensional support grid.
This way, this mixed use project achieves to provide public community spaces for its context, while also procuring the privacy of this collective housing proposal, verifying the urban integration potential of transition-based strategies.
IN COLLABORATION WITH: David Alfano Martínez.
