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Parque Dualidad

Competition: Arquine Contest No. 16: "Umbral de las Américas"

Architects: Sofía Bribiesca, Paulette Ramírez, Jorge Velázquez & Fernando Maytorena

Date: February 2014

Tutors: Carlos González & Manuel Falcón (Tecnológico de Monterrey)

Software: AutoCAD, Rhino, Lumion, Photoshop & Illustrator

        With 1,5 million of people and with an extention of 880m2, Tijuana is the most populated city of Baja California, Mexico. It is considered the most occidentalized city of Latin America. Each year, more than 18 million cars cross the Tijuana/San Ysidro check point – twice the number of cars in Sao Paulo and four times the cars in Mexico City – plus the 9 million people that cross the border by foot. Also, around 70,000 people are deported yearly from the United States to Mexico, most of which end up living in irregular settlements with deplorable conditions and have a really hard time reincorporating to the labor market.

      Parque Dualidad works both as an urban proposal focused on redesigning Tijuana's planinng into a transit-oriented development and as support hub for the most vulnerable sector of deported people, women. The project looks to tackle some of the city's main issues: urban movility, social segregation, a lack of public space and a high unemployment rate.

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