XOCHIMILCO
Water Capture Reclamation + Housing

Project Description

Social Housing in CDMX (Mexico City)

What's the most critical factor dealing with social housing in Mexico City? This was the most important question throughout semester. Throughout the history of mankind, there are a set of basic human needs that we have. Shelter, being one of them, then access to resources like food and water. Throughout time the kind of competition or allocation of those resources has been challenged by certain external factors and so one being, the fact that only people with economical needs have access to certain resources or based upon people class status or other kinds of socially created sets of criteria that started to bear heavily on people's ability to able to access shelter and able to access to clean water, and this is kind of epitomize in challenges that have been occurring in Mexico City. Because the perversion of clean water as an index of the infrastructure that doesn’t exist. Has been kind of, one of the most prevalent forms that has caused difficulties there. My project is in Xochimilco, Mexico. My design proposal is, I will design a model that allows my project to coexist in balance with the surrounding environment. Design in different ways, able to integrate like water capture reclamation, energy production and for the Indigenous people of the Nahuatl Tribe who are living on the site.