Territorial Strategies for the Metropolitan Zone of Mexico City

Located on the west side of Mexico City, the Álvaro Obregón borough suffers from a lack of water supply, environmental pollution and disconnection to the city. This project aims to reduce problems by organizing a set of 5 multiscale mobility layers that consolidate the site while offering replicable water-educational treatment stations.

From territory to neighborhood, Moving the environment:\nMexico City has ceased to be a compact urban agglomeration. With 20 million inhabitants our approach must rely on multiscale strategies that show an overview of the present integrated by natural and social conditions. This project reconfigures the Álvaro Obregón borough by overlaying 5 mobility/environmental scales where 32km express metrobus reforest preexisting high-speed roads on the site perimeter, 15km cable cars connect the ravines in a north-south direction, 20km express bus communicate neighborhoods with parks east-west direction, 40km roads determine recycling programs in sidewalks and direction of streets, and finally 44 stations along city blocks and ravines articulate public space, services, community and water treatment infrastructure.\nEducation as the smartest investment, The water cycle:\nThe San Borja ravine replicable model makes its water cycle visible in order to engage local community with this natural process by creating 3 steps along the ravine: Rainfalls capture, irrigation/filtration to the environment, and neighborhood distribution. Lost elements like agriculture and reabsorption surfaces are reintroduced to conform new social environments that activate economy to ensure long-term transformation for each ravine into a water-educational treatment complex.\nControl emissions new era, Flexible public transportation:\nSan Borja intermodal station uses a minimum ecological footprint to maximize its positive impact by collecting/regulating rainfalls inside its own flexible structure, adjustable to host a multipurpose program, public and civic space. With mobility fees and services at key locations, it covers its operative cost as well as the maintenance of the local landscape while generating a rate of return by its water distribution system to the neighborhood.