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Project • By Circuito • Student Housing
Alamo
Outside the big cities, university education options are practically nonexistent, so in the provinces, migration to the capital cities becomes a necessity for young people in search of opportunities. The city of Pachuca, as the state capital, has academic and economic support from the public administration, which allows it to have a university capable of receiving students from all over the state and its surrounding areas. Students, given the lack of supply, have opted to live in houses of social interest and share it among friends, during their stay in this housing the lack of income does not allow them to pay all the services such as internet, water and electricity so the maintenance and furniture are unaffordable.
The "Alamo" project be... More
Project • By Dellekamp • Rural
Apan Prototype
This project is one of 84 experimental proposals for “Del Territorio al Habitante”, a program designed by the Center for Research for Sustainable Development (CIDS) to help improve rural housing solutions in Mexico with the goal of responding directly to the given site (and territory). Each proposal was designed by a different architecture firm and was meant to be self-produced, meaning that each firm had to oversee the construction and development of their own proposal with a budget provided by the CIDS. Thru this program, Laboratorio de Vivienda was created in Apan, Tlaxcala where 32 of the housing prototypes were built as part of a master plan created by MOS Architects. The purpose of this development was to study the relationship betwee... More