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ATLAS OF BORDERS
Typology: Research
Grant: “Young Creators Program” / Sistema Creación - Previoulsy FONCA
Location: Mexico City
Date: 2024 - 2025

The project proposes a set of ‘borderline infrastructures’ to address the challenges of urban growth and environmental degradation in Mexico City's natural protected areas. It aims to create an atlas of edge structures, developed from a thorough field research to detect and analyze the conflicts between natural and built environments.


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The main objective of the atlas is to provide a catalogue of zones designed to solve the edge problems between environmentally categorized areas and built-up areas. These spaces could manifest as infrastructures for rainwater harvesting, waste collection, reforestation, the creation of public spaces, among others. These boundary structures not only aim to mitigate the impact of urban growth but also to protect and preserve natural environments. 

Far from proposing a single answer, the project takes shape through a series of visual representations intended to spark questions, provoke reflections, and open possibilities for imagining new ways of inhabiting and coexisting with natural environments.
It opens pathways to re-signify landscapes that have long existed under pressure, mismanagement, or neglect.

The project approaches the border as a space of resistance and calls for new forms of architectural intervention. It investigates how design can guide and temper urban expansion while revealing the overlooked ecological potentials that require both rehabilitation and recognition.
Atlas of Borders 

Mixed media / Graphite on Paper, collage over digital photograph   
43x32cm 
Hand Drawn

Atlas of Borders

Clay Models 
︎ Ariadna Polo  


Atlas of Borders / Contained Landscape I

Mixed media / Graphite on Paper, collage over digital photograph   
43x32cm
Hand Drawn

Atlas of Borders / Extended Landscape I

Mixed media / Graphite on Paper, collage over digital photograph   
43x32cm
Hand Drawn
Atlas of Borders 

Mixed media / Acrylic on Paper, collage over digital photograph   
43x32cm
Hand Drawn