AA Visiting School Mexico City: Urbanism

The unit was addressed the issue of urban disruption and topography as a possibility to engage with social, infrastructural, and cultural issues. The research was conducted at the Barrancas of Mexico City. A sequence of scale revealed different issues within, and qualities associated to valley as geographical system scattering large metropolitan areas - micro basin as an urban and ecological element in relation to infrastructural network - sequence of public, green and cultural spaces in the slope - stair, contention walls and canals as basic support for the body and articulation of the topography. The process combined analytical maps using geographical information system and experiential surveys using Debord’s derive to discover the spatial qualities of the site.