Towards a livable landscape

This project forms a landscape system through parks at both local and regional scales in cooperation with productive plots, so the territory and inhabitants' relationship will be constantly transformed. In this way we recognize the aesthetic, recreational and cultural value of the natural environment.

We propose to reconnect urban and natural dynamics of the territory, by using green infrastructure, while regrouping its inhabitants with more and less urbanized lifestyles for its mutual enrichment and knowledge of the ecosystem of the city. In terms of resources management, water is supplied and distributed for irrigation and domestic use throughout channels that traverse the neighborhood, rainwater is collected in sunken parks that at the same time prevent flooding. Earth provides food which in local scale reduces the pressure over other ecosystems of food supplies, while reducing carbon emissions involved in its transportation. Circuits for non-motorised mobility and the joint of the neighborhood with the city decrease fuel consumption. In terms of economy, neighborhood productive activities are great income opportunities for the families, while keeping a communal tenure as it is happening in commons nowadays, this will allow to produce local spaces in a cooperative way meanwhile it manages the land under collective arrangements in an overview of development that will be built in the process. This tends to happen because housing production in Jojutla de Juarez is a slow process, people built their housing in accordance with the growth of family members and its prosperity. In terms of landscape, forming a landscape system through parks and housing at both local and regional scales, in cooperation with plots of farming production, the territory and the inhabitants' relationship will transform constantly throughout the year and time. The common landscape will root in the collective imaginary of the day to day experience until becoming the cultural landscape of Jojutla de Juarez.