The proposal delves into the opportunity that the informal/formal state of flux presents both as a process of production of space and as a porous existing milieu at this moment of housing crisis. What is fundamentally needed is a new understanding of the social collective. From this point on, we need to recalibrate the relationship between the public, the collective and the private.
The metropolitan area of Mexico City, has a population of approximately 22 million inhabitants. More than 60% of its surface has been urbanized by means of informal settlements that consolidate over time. From some of these neighborhoods, 48 lots were selected to be used as pieces to be rearranged. The installation recognizes the constantly transforming common space, as the articulator and enabler of an alternative urban vision.
More than a finalized and impeccable piece, the installation serves as a ground to continuously recompose a vision formed by relating existing unconnected sites on the periphery of Mexico City through their open space. It invites visitor participation to imagine a spatial vision based on a shift in the usual process of consolidation of informal settlements through the potential of common open domestic space.