Architecture and transformation in Mexico City's UNAM University Campus
Por:
Leal, Alejandro, Cruz, Bruno, Perez-Duarte, Alejandro
Publicada:
1 abr 2021
Resumen:
Architecture in permanent transformation is the starting point of this
article, focused on the interaction between material and social aspects
of a case study on modern Mexican housing, observing the building's life
in relation to its inhabitants. The Multifamily Apartment Building for
Teachers (Multifamiliar para maestros), a faculty housing building at
the UNAM campus, is a mid-twentieth-century experimental housing
project, developed at the beginning of Mexico City's densification.
Today it is registered in UNESCO's World Heritage Sites. The case study
sheds some important insights into the transformations of a spatial
modern utopia facing inhabitants' needs. Numerous differences were
detected between the original idea behind the building's architecture
and the reality of its users today, revealing not only the ambiguous
nature of the building but also problems derived from the country's
accelerated modernization. The results show contrasting approaches of
the intermediate space between the building's conception, and the
constant process of becoming a home, where the scope of its habitability
is negotiated.
Filiaciones:
Leal, Alejandro:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
Cruz, Bruno:
Univ Motolinia Pedregal, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
Perez-Duarte, Alejandro:
Inst Tecnol & Estudios Super Occidente, Tlaquepaque, Mexico
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