INTERNATIONAL IDEAS COMPETITION

aMur
The Berlin Wall, the wall between Tijuana and San Diego, the wall between Israel and Palestine. The wall was originally conceived as a dividing element. This project wants to redefine the concept of wall: from separation to element of union, from physical barrier to permeable surface, from dividing object to meeting- and exchange place, where people can rediscover the deep sense of community. Our wall is a bridge. It winds for three km along the Cuernavaca railway that crosses Mexico City, visually and physically connecting distant neighborhoods. The wall consists of a reticular structure based on a hexagonal module and its triangular submodule. It hosts the typical functions of a road but on different levels: railway - cycle path - pedestrian path. The cycle- and the pedestrian path allow people to look at the city from a different point of view, along the entire length of the railway.

The wall-infrastructure is connected to the urban plan at certain strategic point and it adapts promptly to the context, stimulating the reactivation of small local businesses. Along the linear park the ground is designed with a pattern that generates different levels by specific areas, serving as outdoor meeting places in summer and as rainwater harvesting collectors during rainy periods, thus changing the perception of public space. aMur wants to be an instrument of reactivation of social dynamics in peripheral areas of the city, a wall that unites.

PLACE: Mexico City – Mexico
YEAR: 2016
PROMOTER: Municipality of Mexico City, in collaboration with Mexico City Institute of Architecture and Mexico City Association of Architects (CAM-SAM)
PROJECT: Archiground, Mirco Monti, Marco Olgiati and Alberto W. A. D’Asaro.
LM: 3000

INTERNATIONAL IDEAS COMPETITION

aMur
The Berlin Wall, the wall between Tijuana and San Diego, the wall between Israel and Palestine. The wall was originally conceived as a dividing element. This project wants to redefine the concept of wall: from separation to element of union, from physical barrier to permeable surface, from dividing object to meeting- and exchange place, where people can rediscover the deep sense of community. Our wall is a bridge. It winds for three km along the Cuernavaca railway that crosses Mexico City, visually and physically connecting distant neighborhoods. The wall consists of a reticular structure based on a hexagonal module and its triangular submodule. It hosts the typical functions of a road but on different levels: railway - cycle path - pedestrian path. The cycle- and the pedestrian path allow people to look at the city from a different point of view, along the entire length of the railway.

The wall-infrastructure is connected to the urban plan at certain strategic point and it adapts promptly to the context, stimulating the reactivation of small local businesses. Along the linear park the ground is designed with a pattern that generates different levels by specific areas, serving as outdoor meeting places in summer and as rainwater harvesting collectors during rainy periods, thus changing the perception of public space. aMur wants to be an instrument of reactivation of social dynamics in peripheral areas of the city, a wall that unites.

PLACE: Mexico City – Mexico
YEAR: 2016
PROMOTER: Municipality of Mexico City, in collaboration with Mexico City Institute of Architecture and Mexico City Association of Architects (CAM-SAM)
PROJECT: Archiground, Mirco Monti, Marco Olgiati and Alberto W. A. D’Asaro.
LM: 3000