Peri-Urban Farming: Occupying Voids in Ciudad Juarez

The main problématique of the site -Ciudad Juarez and the graduation studio was to investigate into the various issues contributing to the emerging phenomenon of abandoned housing in Mexico. In addition to poor urban planning, there is a fundamentally flawed system in the manner in which social housing is conceived, designed, produced, inhabited...

A denaturing of the non- places: The redefinition of the urban voids of the escalator area in Hong Kong

The city produces spaces that could be termed as voids, due to a momentum of a design which tends to fill with clear functions and meanings each corner of it. As the city develops, within the limits of it appear as an integral part, spaces that lack of a clear role. Their meaning is continuously open to the formulation and often emerges ...

Innovation Backbone: A new economic zone in Rio de Janeiro’s urban voids

The goal of this research is to develop an strategic intervention that could enhance Rio de Janeiro’s economy in an inclusive manner. Why? Because Rio has been developed under a process of socio-spatial segregation which has engendered high urban criminality, obstructing the city’s enormous potential as a leading international destination. In...