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Ecological Corridors System
for a City of 100,000

The plan is derived from a Traffic and Transport plan

designed by one of the associated offices in 1999
that instrumented a simplication of a circulatory
system rather complex because of an almost platonic
trace of the urban fabric. The mayor of the city had
the political will to apply sustainable measures in a
city that technically permited a great percentage of
pedestrian and bike movements.
The general plan is geometrically very simple in the
strategical level since the original city traced in 1933
developed a centrifugal urban pattern. The housing ar-
eas are located in the perimeter while the main com-
mercial and services areas happen, still, at the center.
Taking advantage of wide street sections the plan gets
to the detail in prototypical crossroads, streets, and
public spaces.
Ecological Corridors
System
for a City of 100,000
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE (SUPERIOR INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN)
1ST PRIZE IDEAS COMPETITION & SCHEMATIC DESIGN

México is not a country of architectural competitions and Chihuahua

is no exception. ISAD as a school of architecture tried to put an example
of free discussion and confrontation of ideas for its future campus
located in a vacant area in the west of the city with an open design
competition. Given the location of the school, and the program itself,
the main guidelines were: design a strong indoor-outdoor relationship
by the use of a series of enclosed courtyards and provide a flexible and
open structure that privileges the exposure of works to the community
favoring full visibility of studio space. The surrounding landscape is
brought into the school by openings in between the main courtyard
while the lenght of the lot is used as a permeable collection of natural
pavements and vegetation that in the near future, as the city arrives,
will become an oasis of the natural landscape, while achieving
presupuestal viability.

COMPETITION RENDERING
 CONSTRUCTION SITE ON DECEMBER 2007

SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
(SUPERIOR INSTITUTE OF ARCHITEC-
TURE AND DESIGN)
1ST PRIZE IDEAS COMPETI-
TION & SCHEMATIC DESIGN
ECOLOGICAL CORRIDORS FOR THE CITY
OF CHIHUAHUA, CHIHUAHUA.

During 2003 the minicipality of Chihuahua decided

to update the downtown plan of the city which dated
back to 1999. Among the main interests for the
update were the recent adquisition of new territorial
reserves property of the state within the area. The
largest addition to the plan besides the adaptation
of public interests and programs to the new public
grounds was the design of a corridor system which
was schematicly determined in the first plan.
The main criteria was to shift from a purely traditional
pedestrian approach to a fuller and richer concept
integrating alternative mobility -in bikelanes- and
specific criteria for every urban element and prototypi-
cal urban design.
ECOLOGICAL CORRIDORS FOR THE CITY OF CHIHUAHUA, CHIHUAHUA.
BINATIONAL BORDER CROSSING STATION IN
ANAPRA, CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO - SUNLAND
PARK, NEW MEXICO, USA.
Competition entry.
The site had already been the explorative place for the exchange
program between ISAD and UNM in 2002 and 2003 in which
Gabriel Diaz Montemayor participated as exchange professor. Pro-
fessor Christopher Calott of UNM proposed the project to Miquel
Adria, “Arquine” magazine editor, and it become one of the most
successful competitions of the still short history of the journal.
Our proposal had a programatic approach as we found out later
confronting it with the winning entries, which relied more in the
conceptual abstractions of the border. Our project was in a way,
a practical adaptation of the seductive power of the object and
the landscape conceived by a design team of northern Mexican
border-crossers. The main idea was a floating no-nation neutral
space above the fence, from where pedestrians could enjoy a
moment of comtemplation of the border fact while hovering over
it with filtered light and views into the natural enclosure of the
landscape.
DOWNTOWN CIUDAD JUAREZ
PUBLIC SPACE MASTER PLAN

The downtown area of Ciudad

Juárez is at the same time the main
turistic atraction for Americans
walking from El Paso downtown,
the main traditional market area,
the main government and religious
buildings area, and the enclave for
drugs, prostitution, and crime.

The city called for a plan enhancing

the public space structure of the
area. We proposed an estrategi-
cal approach in a timeline favoring
flows from the border, renovating
traditional public spaces (like the
Benito Juárez Square), and pro-
posing new ones. Every space is
thought as a connecting stage into
another one, from the border sta-
tion area, into the main acequia or
agricultural waterway at the center,
into the emblematic center that is
privileged by the widening of a Zo-
calo in between colonnial buildings.
DOWNTOWN CIUDAD JUAREZ
PUBLIC SPACE MASTER PLAN

PROPOSED PUBLIC SPACE: Organized in three stages.

Project 2005, construction 2005-2007 (first stage partially completed).
 PUBLIC SPACE FIRST STAGE
Project 2005, construction 2005-2007 (Partial).
MISION DE GUADALUPE
SQUARE STAGE II

MISION DE GUADALUPE
SQUARE STAGE I (built 2007)
BICENTENARIO SQUARE

BENITO JUAREZ SQUARE (built

2005-2006)

DOWNTOWN CIUDAD JUAREZ PUBLIC

SPACE MASTER PLAN
BENITO JUAREZ SQUARE.
Project 2005, construction 2005-2006.
Re-Construction of the Plaza Juarez in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua

Like the revolutionary past President of Mexico, Benito Juarez, a newly

re-constructed plaza that bears his name envisions a bold new future for
Mexican public spaces. Plaza Juarez in Centro Ciudad Juarez is a 20,000
square meter public project marked by a dynamic arrangement of site spe-
cific geometries and programs that entirely replace the former plaza, a static
Porfiriato-styled classical composition. This daring reconfigured public
space provides a fresh interpretation of the requisite apparatus for urban life,
while serving as the catalyst for the regeneration of a deteriorated Downtown
zone.

Designed by Gabriel Diaz Montemayor, Benito Rodriguez Cuesta and Ro-

drigo Seanez Quevedo, three young architects and professors at the Instituto
Superior de Arquitectura y Diseno in Chihuahua, the design for the Plaza
Juarez reflects their intellectual and professional commitment to the investi-
gation of new spatial paradigms for the contemporary Mexican City. Reject-
ing the historicist notion of the closed hierarchical “garden” as the model
for an appropriate landscape architecture, these architects produced an
assemblage of flowing open spaces to create a series of urban forums. The
program for this new plaza is the City itself. The design organization is de-
rived from direct responses to existing and desired programmatic elements
acting upon the plaza. Along the plaza’s northern boundary, a new linear bus
station is fashioned out of vertical metallic shades and concrete, providing
shelter and access portals to the plaza, from the principle avenue. A wide
east-west paseo bisects the length of the plaza, anticipating a connection to
a new train line into the city. The paseo ends in a long sloping amphitheatre
created by a gentle 3 meter depression in the plaza floor and surrounded by
steps which act as seating. Nearby, three vacant cinema buildings are no
longer in operation. The amphitheater restores this end of the plaza as a site
for performance and urban spectacle, thereby resonating with the collective
memory of the city.

The subversion of the classical “garden” hierarchy is most evident in the

decision to fully reveal, for the first time, the 15-meter tall columnar monu-
ment to President Benito Juarez, which in the old plaza was obscured within
a tree canopy. The new scheme avoids direct frontal and axial relationships
to the monument in favor of tangential and completely open views of this im-
portant historical element. This is achieved through the selective elimination
of a portion of the formal trees in the original plaza and through the eradi-
cation of the classical path system. Instead, articulated islands of garden
landscape and trees are preserved, allowing the visitor to more freely par-
ticipate in the activities of the plaza. The experience of the landscape itself is
heightened when parallel stripes of inexpensive concrete pavers, or horizon-
tal concrete benches, are interrupted to accommodate a stand of existing
trees or sloping lawn. Most significantly, the experience of the Benito Juarez
monument from a position 3 meters below its base summons a dramatic
new scale, hierarchy and relationship with the viewer.

In constructing this thoroughly contemporary landscape, Diaz, Rodriguez

and Seanez give this Mexican city a new interpretation of the public realm.
Clean, open and without historical precedent, the plaza is heralded by resi-
dents of this chaotic border city as a great success. The re-constructed
Plaza Juarez challenges Mexico to investigate new spatial paradigms for the
revitalization of its cities and its public spaces.

Christopher Calott AIA. 2006.

Text originally published in Arquine magazine Summer 2006.
 MISION DE GUADALUPE SQUARE.
Project 2005. Partially built 2006-2007.
 MISION DE GUADALUPE SQUARE.
Project 2005. Partially built 2006-2007.

The square substitutes a surface parking lot that occupied the former cus-
toms patio for years. The main ideas of the project were:

-To maintain formal & functional unity with the public space master plan. Fol-
lowing the design patterns and material palette employed in the initial project
of the Benito Juarez Square.
-To provide and strenghten pedestrian connections accross the square rein-
forcing circulations provoqued by the traditional market district contiguous to
the southern boundary of the square.
-Respect and integrate the prexisting railroad custom shelters as well as
the BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) station in between. Today this bus stop is not
functioning, but, when it does, it has the full potential to become the main
public transportation connection between the southern housing areas and
the downtown sector.
-Establish a respectful relationship with the historic buildings of the old cus-
toms museum (Museo de la Antigua Aduana de Ciudad Juarez) & the water
authority.

The design is organized in a parallel fabric of concrete axis -strips- contain-

ing hard and soft areas in the shape of gardens and concrete pavers. To fur-
ther enhance spatial definitions and hierarchies in the square, the concrete
strips elevate and slope confining program and concept.

Today, the built half of the Mision de Guadalupe square has become a vital
element of the reactivation of Ciudad Juarez original center point for develop-
ment.
SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY PLAN
(PSMUS) FOR THE CITY OF CHIHUA-
HUA. DIAGNOSE.
The municipality of the City of Chihuahua called
for a competition of the Sustainable Urban
Mobility Plan for the metropolitan area and its
regionalconnections. Our competition entry was
organized around the previous urban planning
and urban design experiences of our local work
and the work of our partner firm Escala del
Norte. The international interdisciplinary team
was headed by Cal y Mayor, transportation
consultants from Mexico City, and TTC transpor-
tation specialists from Brazil, NUSTATS surveyers
from the United States, among others. The main
responsibility for our firm was the development
of the urban diagnose and prognostic, as well as
the architectural design for the proposed trans-
portation corridors, public space,and immediate
urban actions.

In the case of the urban diagnose. The Depar-

ture from existing urban plans and field studies
overlaid with detailed transportation origin and
destiny became one of the main products to
confirm the infunctionality of the city as a mobil-
ity system. Chihuahua is today one of the least
dense urban areas of Mexico, a condition perme-
ated with the proximity to the US and a
healthy economy in relationship to the rest of the
country.

The model created by density, urban structure,

land use, public space, natural landscape, infrae-
structure, and growth patterns became the base
to further explore urban alternatives in the urban
prognostic chapter.

One of the main conclusions of this study was

that the mobility problem of the city is directly
derived from the urban patterns employed today.
One of segregation of space in opposition to the
open interconnected city.
SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY PLAN (PSMUS). PROGNOSTIC.
The second stage of the urban chapter for the mobility plan was to a series of potential
future scenarios for the city of Chihuahua.
The first one is the realistic one, the tendential, where the actual urban behaviour of the
city is projected to the next 20 years. The result of this projection proved to be sufficiently
dramatic, thus justifying the need for the implementation of new urban politics. The city of
Chihuahua proved to be unsuitable to keep on going with a centrifugal urban development
pattern where great investment on infraestructure is far superior than what’s actually avail-
able and disproportioned to most of the low income housing conditions which make up the
majority of the market.
The second scenario was the ideal condition. A city where centripetal growth prevails over
expansive patterns. A city where density is embraced, sustained by efficient public transpor-
tation systems and infrastructure, enhanced and made possible by public space systems.
The third -named factible- scenario was the exploration of a mixture between traditional
expansive development and the application of densification urban politics such as the ap-
plication of massive or semi-massive public transportation networks.
This intermediate scenario became the sought condition to further justify a qualification of
mobility in the city, understood as one of the first steps into an integral sustainable city.
SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY PLAN (PSMUS). MOBILITY ALTERNATIVES.
The third chapter in which our office participated in the PSMUS was part of the proposal for urban actions and the public
transportation system. The proposed system is based in the BRT (Bus Rapid Transit ) model as
the main structural line along urban corridors -following the north - south main axis of the city- which are interconnected
to the whole urban area by a traditional system of buses like the onee in use today.
The main corridors articulate to secondary corridors and with a system of bikelanes, linear parks, and public space. The
strategy works then as a system collecting people from the housing areas into the work/commerce/service areas further
establishing the logical relationship between origin and destiny. All the non-motorized corridors will be furnished with
outdoor furniture, lightning, vegetation, as well as bus stops / shelter building becoming the cornerstone elements of the
new urban image and function of the city and of which the architecture
was responsibility of our office. The main criteria for every new urban element in the public realm reacts with low maint-
einance materials, an open character in order to promote safety, and ecological criteria addressing materials and solar
orientation.
CHIHUAHUA CITY TRADITIONAL MARKET REVITALIZATION.
The city of Chihuahua called for the first time to an open design competition to renovate the
traditional market area of the city, just one block away from the emblematic center con-
formed by the colonnial baroque cathedral, the main plaza (central as in the Law of Indies),
and the Municipal Presidency. However, the market has a deteriorated image that has
lowered the service level that today focuses in low income shoppers.
We proposed a scheme inspired, respectful, and inducive of the freedom and color of
Mexican traditional markets like this one. By choosing a neutral pavement pattern making the
main street pedestrian but at the same time open to cargo vehicules that supply the small
stores. By highlighting with color a sloped section of the street, and by 3 extensions of new
open public space extending from 4th St. Connecting with transportation corridors and 2
market buildings.
CHIHUAHUA CITY TRADITIONAL MARKET REVITALIZATION.
EXISTING CONDITION 2005 COMPETITION RENDERINGS 2005-06 BUILT CONDITION 2006-07

EXISTING CONDITION 2005 COMPETITION RENDERINGS 2005-06

SACRAMENTO PARK. CHIHUAHUA, CHIHUAHUA. 2007.
The city of Chihuahua has just reopened its former river front to the Sacramento river with the construction
of a new avenue following the river bank on its west side. For hundreds of years the relationship between
the city and the river was one of blending and dissolving urban form into the river in the shape of farms
and orchards. In the XX century this shifted into the opposite, a negation of the natural resource, therefore
the river became one of the most important illegal and legal dumping grounds for the city. The importance
of the new avenue is that it made this condition visible being therefore corrected.
The site was configured by the new avenue. It is highly visible from this element and from the city due
to its proximity with the Quinta Carolina hacienda. Today a ruin but in the future one of the largest public
spaces and cultural equipments of the northern half of the city, where most of the low income population
lives.
With the described site conditions, the city choose the site to nationally start a public space program
inaugurated by the president in early 2007.
The program includes gardens, hard public spaces, and playgrounds. Conceptually, the design is divided
in two halves. The one in contact with the neighborhoods contains the program, while the one in relation-
ship with Sacramento avenue and river organizes tree grooves and urban elements as if ordered in one of
the former plantations that formerly occupied the site, in an effort to maintain and establish a pattern in
that boundary where a logical relationship happened but unfortunately was lost.
FRATERNITY HOUSE GARDENS AND OUTDOOR SOCIAL SPACES IN
ALABAMA.

Found within the campus grounds of Auburn University this fraternity property has been
deteriorating in recent years. A group of former students has organized to renovate a
character of publicness and openess lost in recent years.
One of the main stimuli for the project was how to negotiate with the empty space of the
former dormitory wing, temporarily covered with a bocce field.
The terrace contained by the L scheme of the complex blends and slopes into the present
void of the dormitory now a lawn in between the parking lot and the buildings. A series
of parallel axis of trees and bushes materializes the connection between the generous
open space and the hard surface of the parking lot as the main tailgating space during the
football season.
 URBAN LIGHTHOUSE AND LINEAR PARK IN CHIHUAHUA.
Private competition entry for a new development area west of Chihuahua City.
The main components of the program were an emblematic roundabout access
point and around it, the disposition of commercial spaces and public open
plazas that connect to a desert wash. This linear element stretches to the north
and east, determining the conditions for urbanization around it. The proposal
seeks to integrate the symbolic sculptural - programmed roundabout with the
dry river, extending connections between the new subdivisions, providing pub-
lic space, a jogging and biking corridor, while protecting the natural condition
and ecology of the drainage system, maintaining the expressive vegetation of
the wet season.
URBAN LIGHTHOUSE AND LINEAR PARK IN CHIHUAHUA.
URBAN LIGHTHOUSE AND LINEAR PARK IN CHIHUAHUA.
PROJECT INFORMATION & CREDITS: • CENTRAL COURTYARD AND GARDENS
• PARKING
ECOLOGICAL CORRIDORS FOR THE CITY OF DELICIAS, CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO. Areas:
Location:: BUILT AREA OF 62,350 SQ. FT. IN A 6.17 ACRES PROPERTY.
CIUDAD DELICIAS, MUNICIPIO DE DELICIAS, CHIHUAHUA. Year:
Project:
Competition: 2004. Construction: 2006-2008.
Done in colaboration with Escala del Norte S.A. de C.V.
ARQ. RODRIGO SEÁÑEZ QUEVEDO. LABOR (Then DI+EZ Architects). ECOLOGICAL CORRIDORS FOR THE CITY OF CHIHUAHUA, CHIHUAHUA.
ARQ. GABRIEL DÍAZ MONTEMAYOR. LABOR (Then DI+EZ Architects). Location:
ARQ. JOSÉ ANTONIO GARRO VELÁZQUEZ. Principal. Escala del Norte S.A. de C.V. CENTRO URBANO DE CHIHUAHUA, CHIHUAHUA, MÉXICO.
ARQ. BENITO RODRÍGUEZ CUESTA. Partner. Escala del Norte S.A. de C.V. Project:
Colaborers: Done in colaboration with Escala del Norte S.A. de C.V.
ADRIANA RAMOS HINOJOS. Architect. CARLOS REYES NOGUEIRA, LUIS CASAS GARCÍA. JOSÉ ANTONIO GARRO VELÁZQUEZ. Principal. Escala del Norte S.A. de C.V.
Architects in training. EDUARDO CARRILLO RUBIO. Ecological & vegetation consultant. BENITO RODRÍGUEZ CUESTA. Partner. Escala del Norte S.A. de C.V.
Client: GABRIEL DÍAZ MONTEMAYOR. LABOR (Then DZ Architects).
Municipality of the city of Delicias, Chihuahua 2001-2004. RODRIGO SEÁÑEZ QUEVEDO. LABOR (Then DZ Architects).
Program: Colaborers:
Urban system of ecological corridors. Enlargement and improvement of pedestrian circula- CARLOS REYES NOGUEIRA, EVER SEPÚLVEDA MARTÍNEZ. Architects in training.
tions, inclusion of bikelanes, and urban elements & vegetation criteria. Client:
Year: Municipality of the city of Chihuahua 2001-2004.
Plan 2002. Partially built 2002-2003. Year:
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE (SUPERIOR INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN) Project: 2003-2004. Partially built in 2006-2007 following the programmatic criteria.
Location:
CHIHUAHUA, CHIHUAHUA, MÉXICO.
BINATIONAL BORDER CROSSING STATION.
Location:
Project:
ANAPRA, CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO - SUNLAND PARK, NEW MEXICO, USA.
GABRIEL DÍAZ MONTEMAYOR / RODRIGO SEÁÑEZ QUEVEDO LABOR (Then DZ Architects).
Project:
Colaborers:
GABRIEL DÍAZ MONTEMAYOR. LABOR (Then DZ Architects).
DIANA SANCHEZ LUGO, VICTOR LOZOYA PORTILLO, CARLOS REYES NOGUEIRA, Architects in
training. RODRIGO SEÁÑEZ QUEVEDO. LABOR (Then DZ Architects).
CONSTRUCTION PROJECT BY COA ARCHITECTS (CARRERA ORTIZ Y ASOCIADOS FROM Colaborers:
CHIHUAHUA, CHIHUAHUA. VICTOR MENDOZA CARDOZA. Architect in training. Renders.
Client: Competition:
SUPERIOR INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN OF CHIHUAHUA. Organized by Arquine, International Magazine of Architecture & Design.
Program: Year:
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN FOR 500 STUDENTS: Project: 2004.
• DESIGN STUDIOS
• CLASSROOMS
• DIRECTION AND ADMINISTRATION
• AUDITORIUM
• LIBRARY
• COMPUTER ROOM
• CARPENTRY AND WELDING
• SANITARY SERVICES
• EXHIBITION AREA
• CAFETERIA
DOWNTOWN CIUDAD JUAREZ PUBLIC SPACE MASTER PLAN. PLAZA CHIHUAHUA CITY TRADITIONAL MARKET REVITALIZATION.
BENITO JUAREZ, PLAZA MISION DE GUADALUPE. PLAZA DEL BICENTE- Location:

NARIO. The traditional market sector of the city of Chihuahua determined by Libertad St., Ocampo
Location:
Ave., Julian Carrillo St., & Independencia Ave.
Project:
Downtown area of Ciudad Juarez.
Proyect: GABRIEL DÍAZ MONTEMAYOR. LABOR (Then DZ Architects).
Done in colaboration with Tres Sesenta S.A. de C.V. RODRIGO SEÁÑEZ QUEVEDO. LABOR (Then DZ Architects).
GABRIEL DIAZ MONTEMAYOR. Architect & Landscape Architect. LABOR (Then DZ Architects). Colaborers:
RODRIGO SEANEZ QUEVEDO. Architect. LABOR (Then DZ Architects). ADRIANA RAMOS HINOJOS. Architect. Reforma Market Project.
BENITO RODRIGUEZ CUESTA. Architect/MUD. (360) LORENA AGUIRRE COUGANOUR, VÍCTOR M. MENDOZA CARDOZA. Architects in training. CAR-
Colaborers: LOS REYES NOGUEIRA. Architect/rendering. JUAN DIEGO DIEZ DE SOLLANO. Practicioner.
Engineering:
Oliver Galvan Sagredo. Architect in training. LABOR (Then DZ Architects).
Victor Mendoza Cardoza. Architect in training. LABOR (Then DZ Architects). Mario Portillo Cordero. Mechanical Engineering.
Engineering: Gabriel Navarro Perez. Civil Engineering.
Mario Portillo. Mechanical engineering. Aaron Arras. Electrical engineering.
Raymundo Meza. Lightning. Client:
Pedro Ignacio Hernandez. Structural Engineering. Competition organized by the Municipal Planning Institute of Chihuahua (IMPLAN). Con-
Client: struction project: Municipality of the city of Chihuahua 2004-2007.
Municipality of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. Program:
Year: Commercial corridors in a traditional market area. In a programmed space dating back to the
Project: 2005-2006. Construction: 2006-2007 (Partially completed). XVIII century.
Public Space.
SUSTAINABLE URBAN MOBILITY PLAN FOR THE CITY OF CHIHUAHUA. Ambulant vendor spaces.
Location: Year:
The city of Chihuahua and its regional connections. Competition project 2005-2006. Construction Project 2006. 1st stage construction
Plan: 2006-2007.
CAL Y MAYOR ASOCIADOS S.A. DE C.V. Main consultant.
NUSTATS. Surveying consultants from USA.
TTC. Transportation consultants from Brazil. SACRAMENTO PARK.
ESCALA DEL NORTE S.A. DE C.V. Urban specialists and local coordinators from Chihuahua. Location:
LABOR. (Then DZ Architects) Urban specialists. SACRAMENTO LOOP, Between the Quinta Carolina Hacienda and the Sacramento River. City
Client: of Chihuahua, Chihuahua.
The municipality of Chihuahua 2004-2007. Project:
Year:
RODRIGO SEAÑEZ QUEVEDO, GABRIEL DÍAZ MONTEMAYOR, VICTOR MENDOZA CAR-
Plan 2005-2007. Implementation to be started 2008.
DOZA, ADRIANA RAMOS HINOJOS. Architects. LABOR TEAM (Then DZ Architects).
JOAO XAVIER MIGUEL, SARA FARRACHO. Landscape consultants.
Colaborers:
Aldo Farias, Diego Irigoyen. Practicioners/renderings.
Client:
Municipality of the city of Chihuahua 2004-2007
Program:
Park with sports areas, gardens, tree grooves, services, and parking.
Year:
Project: 2007.
Photo: Agricultural outskirts of Chihuahua City. 2006.
Provided by the State Housing Institute (Instituto Chihuahuense de la Vivienda) or IVI.

FRATERNITY HOUSE GARDENS & OUTDOOR AREAS.

Location:
Auburn University Campus, Auburn, Alabama, USA.
Project:
MICHAEL ROBINSON, GABRIEL DIAZ MONTEMAYOR. Architects and Landscape Ar-
ANDREW COLE. Landscape Architect. ADRIANA RAMOS HINOJOS. Architect.
chitects.
Client:
PHI DELTA THETA Fraternity @ Auburn University.
Year:
Project: 2007.
URBAN LIGHTHOUSE AND LINEAR PARK IN CHI-
HUAHUA.
Location:
City of Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico.
Project:
RODRIGO SEAÑEZ QUEVEDO, GABRIEL DÍAZ MONTEMAYOR,
VICTOR MENDOZA CARDOZA, ADRIANA RAMOS HINOJOS.
Architects. LABOR TEAM (Then DZ Architects).
Client:
CTU, Corporacion Tecnica de Urbanismo.
Year:
Project: 2007.
LABOR. Landscape, Architecture, Border.
LABOR. (Paisaje, Arquitectura, Frontera)

ADRIANA RAMOS HINOJOS. Architect. adriana.ramos@laborstudio.com

RODRIGO SEANEZ QUEVEDO. Architect. rodrigo.seanez@laborstudio.com
GABRIEL DIAZ MONTEMAYOR. Architect and Landscape Architect. gabriel.diaz@laborstudio.com
Partners
VICTOR MENDOZA CARDOZA. Architect in Practice. victor.mendoza@laborstudio.com
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