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2017
with Maria Arquero, McLain Clutter, Dhara Mittal & Nishant Mittal
This project documents the unique spatial, social, and political structures enabling irregular settlements in Chimalhuacán, a municipality of more than 600,000 residents partially built in the desiccated Texcoco Lakebed, to the east of Mexico City.
Our contention is that this ostensibly informal development is in fact carefully planned and executed as a means of social, political, and spatial control of disenfranchised populations by the politically motivated "social organization" Antorcha Campesina.
We contend that Chimalhuacán’s development has ensued through intricately designed patterns intended to segment the municipality into a cluster of mutually exclusive enclaves. Each enclave is a unit of control, dividing the municipality into statistical abstractions of population in order to suppress collective consciousness.
read more at EXTENTS and MAde Studio
Exhibited in the Hong Kong/Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism: “Cities Grown in Difference.”