Master Plan Jojutla de Juárez

After the 2017 earthquake in Mexico, the project proposes an alternative way to revive the city: by rescuing the river, linking the residual spaces along it with the areas where the seism has collapsed structures, shaping a network of public spaces along the river and weaving it to the people into an integrated organism capable of a more resilient future.

To prevent natural hazards, to protect the people and the natural environment, to connect the city. The proposal is a plan conceived under these 3 strategic lines which are translated to specific projects, following the idea of integrating the urban and social fabric trough the water:\nTo prevent by respecting the federal settlements margin law, avoiding the reconstruction in the border and preserving the existent green areas making them more accessible and appropriate for the public use, taking the most detectable elements of the site like local materials and vegetation to convert unused spaces as the flood zone south the locality into a wetland with phytodepuration plants to heal the place and get the people back to the beauty of the place they live. \nTo protect by consolidating the river slopes to reduce the constant erosion and to implement a green buffer in the disaster area, generating a walkable riverfront for the city, opening a new opportunity for the riverside housing to get merge into the main income activity of the city -commerce by activating an economic flow in this zone. On the other hand, the new Riverwalk is a gabion structure with the double function of reinforcing the riverbank while implementing a new walking route by the river during the dry period. This promenade has the capacity of blur during the rainy season. If the river operates with a rainy and a dry season, so the project.\nFinally, to connect and activate existent and intervened borders through pedestrian bridges and a temporary crossing like the rocky passage that adequate a passage by adding some rocks in between the existent ones into the river that vanishes when the water level rises. The plan also considers two pedestrian bridges for reactivating the circulatory system of the city while transforming the perception of the river as a frontier to an articulation axis for encounter and coexistence places. As consequence, the intervention links the historical, administrative and economic centers through the river, giving the community new spaces of collective prod, laying the foundations of a more prosperous and happier city.