In a context shaped by neo-capitalist logics and productivity-driven cities, this project questions where life truly fits. It imagines an industrial district centered on care, social reproduction, and visible production processes, proposing a regenerative alternative to inequality and environmental decline. It argues for an energy transition grounded in protecting diverse forms of life in cities today.

This project explores housing as the nucleus for transforming urban dynamics. Developed in three stages, it begins with a building and its immediate surroundings, then expands to integrate adjacent housing, a workers’ hospital, and a water-treatment plant. The result is a replicable cellular system of micro-communities that generate resources and reshape the city from home outward.

Versailles and the chinampas represent opposite paradigms of interaction with water. Versailles, as a hydric machine, symbolizes human dominion over nature: its artificial and centralized hydraulic system manifests the absolute power of Louis XIV in controlling a natural environment transformed into a spectacle. In contrast, the chinampas are a man-made water organism and climate regulator that integrates the dynamics of the ecosystem to sustain and amplify life. While Versailles imposes a hierarchical logic, the chinampas exemplify a symbiotic relationship; this comparison reveals how water technologies reflect governance models: anthropocentric domination versus reciprocity with the environment and its climate.

This community dining space invites both children and adults to rediscover imagination through shifting scales and simple, buildable forms. Durable, low-cost materials—concrete block, polycarbonate sheets, wood, aluminum, and steel—shape light, open volumes that counter claustrophobia and anxiety. The project creates a playful environment.

This project restructures an existing bay by reinforcing it with steel beams and scaffolding that transform it into a walkable space. The new building rises from these supports, revealing how past and present depend on each other. Inspired by theatrical backstages and restoration scaffolds, the design exposes overlapping times and structures, questioning how and why we assign value to memory