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FL-STS: Reinhabiting the Mexican Countryside

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Programme
Unit UG11
Year 3
Award
  • Bartlett School of Architecture Medal, BSc

In a future where closed borders coincide with extreme digital connectivity, non-state actors such as tech companies, NGOs and wealthy individuals hold more power than ever. As the Global South faces climate induced crises, such as the overpopulation of cities and mass water and food shortages, these non-state actors have begun to see opportunity in tackling global issues.

Project C has been created by a non-state player named FL Systems, to find ways to reinhabit the now deserted Mexican countryside, and to overcome the major issues surrounding the environmental and economic factors of living outside of megacities.

Following the initial construction of a one-man home, a larger settlement will be built. A system of cells, each hosting up to 40 people, connects across the desert and explores the relationship between the simultaneous facilitation of human lives, and non-human information networks, in an unforgiving environment.

Through the investigation and development of desert living in rural Mexico, it is hoped that the strain on cities is decreased and people can begin to take back the land they have lost over the past 80 years.

Plan and Section

The building functions to mitigate the extreme temperatures found in the desert. Orientated for the best sun/shade distribution and arranged in a common city typology, the building takes inspiration from various methods of desert living.

Día de los Muertos (Film)

Día de los Muertos (Film)

Following an inhabitant through the Day of the Dead celebrations presents how life might be within this tech-company designed community.

Exploded Isometric

The exploded isometric shows the cells relationship with its landscape and varying levels of the structure.

Inside the Cell

Inside the Cell

Showing moments of the workings of the cell, from areas of human inhabitation to posthuman automation.

Connecting the Cells

Viewing FL-Systems project from the exterior presents the multiple cells and connections that are required to create a functioning city.

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The Bartlett
Summer Show 2022
01 – 16 July 2022
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