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Port-City Integration

Clients: Municipality of Mazatlán

Architects: Nuria Salvador (Politécnica de Valencia), Natalia Sánchez (Universidad de Guadalajara) & Fernando Maytorena (Tecnológico de Monterrey)

Date: February 2015

Tutors: Etienne Falk (ENSAS) & María Brito (Universidade do Porto).

Location: Mazatlán, México

Software: SketchUp, Rhino, Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign

 

         Mazatlán, a city in the south coast of Sinaloa, serves as a thriving commercial port & as an important touristic destination. These two economic activities boosted the city's growth in the last decades, which resulted in an unplanned development of urban infrastructure. Thanks to the recently constructed Mazatlán-Durango highway, the city's portuary activity is expected to grow eightfold in the next decade, leading to the need for new port infrastructure, hence turning obsolete the current one. In order to prevent new unplanned development in the new urban void, the municipaliy of Mazatlan sought help from different architects & urban planners.

             Port-City Integration project focuses on attacking some of Mazatlán's main urban problems: 1) The lack of public space; 2) Unsustainable urban movility; 3) A degraded connection between the historical city center & the industrial port area. The soon-to-be abandonded portuary infrastructure gives place to massive surface right in front of the sea, and next to the city's historical center; certainly, an area with huge potential to raise the quality of life of Mazatlan's inhabitants, and further enhance the city's potential for tourism.

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