Design Engineering:Soft Infrastructure, Parque Texcoco in Mexico City
Abstract：Within the new emerging conditions that the so-caled urban regions are confronting today, new forms of practice and new forms of engineering must be deployed. Texcoco Ecological Park is an example of how a city could be able to re-imagine and negotiate a territory embedded with territorial and ecological complexities. Located at the ultimate ecological zone of Mexico City, it reveals and explores how architecture in the traditional way can no longer sustain the forthcoming complexities of the Metropolitan Region. Through both lenses, Texcoco Ecological Park aims to generate the largest urban park in the world, while simultaneously addressing the current water crisis that Mexico's Valey is facing. Being water the main organizer, the park looks at two main strategies key for addressing some of the most chalenging features of the valey. Such are to be "balanced" and "multitask." Simultaneously, the site emerges as a Soft-Infrastructure, a more complex construct that may become more than just a mono-functional support system. Finaly, it acknowledges four essential systems for the future of the region: Habitat, Program, Mobility/Accessibility and Energy.
Keywords：Texcoco Lakehydro-geographysoft infrastructurestorm water cultivationbalancedmulti-task
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：8( 78-85 )