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Climate and Health AR3011B.

Participatory Architecture of Medium Complexity.

AD2025

Climate and Health

CONTENTS Health and Wellbeing in the Built Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 AR3011B. Participatory Architecture of Medium Complexity.

Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Chicago: Urban History and Contemporary Challenges . . . . . . . . 12 .

AD2025 25 Mon.-Fri. 9:00-15:00 hrs. Classroom: Architecture Lab Tecnológico de Monterrey, Querétaro. EAAD. Escuela de Arquitectura Arte y Diseño.

Studio Brief . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Teaching Team

Research / Design Question . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Rodrigo Pantoja. Diana García. Pedro Mendoza. Yetzi Tafoya. Andrea Parga. Viviana Barquero. Daniela Cruz. Santiago Luján. Carlos González. Udo Muchow.

rpantojac@tec.mx dgarciace@tec.mx pmendozah@tec.mx yetzi.tafoya@tec.mx andrea.parga@tec.mx viviana.barquero@tec.mx dany.cn@tec.mx santiago@goma.haus carlos@goma.haus info.arqum@gmail.com

Lines of research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Assessment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Competences Tec21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Teaching Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Academic Directors Viviana Barquero. Daniel Savedra. Alessandra Cireddu Lesly Pliego.

The Studio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

EAAD Division Director. Department Director. National Director of the Architecture Program. Program Director.

Alliances

Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

IIT - Illinois Institute of Technology / Rogelio Cadena, Justin DeGroff, Dirk Deninson.

Editorial Design: Luisa Medina + Rodrigo Pantoja.

HEALTH AND WELLBEING In the Built Environment

According to Arch4Change, creating healthy spaces that actively promote wellbeing is essential. Health and wellbeing extend far beyond the mere absence of disease—they encompass social, psychological, and emotional dimensions of human life. It is an approach that recognizes the profound influence of the built environment on human health—shaping not only how we live, but how well we live. This theme explores how the built environment affects not only individual users but also the broader community, with a focus on ensuring that these impacts are consistently positive. This is a complex and interdisciplinary topic, inherently linked to all other climate-responsive design themes. As such, certain aspects naturally overlap with other thematic areas, underscoring the interconnected nature of sustainable design. https://www.arch4change.com/themes/health-and-wellbeing.

HEALTH AND WELLBEING In the Built Environment

In today’s context—marked by strained healthcare systems, especially in the wake of COVID-19, and demographic shifts such as an aging population, rising levels of obesity, and increasing mental health challenges—a more holistic approach to health is urgently needed. We must move beyond the prevention of illness and embrace strategies that actively foster wellbeing. This theme is also closely aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), which offer a global framework to address social, economic, and environmental concerns. Several of these goals directly relate to health and wellbeing—most notably, Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing, which aims to ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for people of all ages and abilities.

https://www.arch4change.com/themes/health-and-wellbeing.

MIES CROWN HALL AMERICAS PRIZE MCHAP

The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize at the Illinois Institute of Technology, founded in 2012 in Chicago, is a biennial award recognizing excellence in built works of architecture in the Americas. MCHAP defines excellence in a holistic sense: it evaluates how works of architecture integrate natural, built, and human ecologies to enhance the quality of the places where we live. The works MCHAP celebrates inspire, educate, and challenge their users, the international design community, and the wider public. With sensitivity and intelligence, these projects achieve a formal, material, social, and environmental synergy. They realize opportunities for architecture— understood through both what architecture is, as a physical structure, and what it does, in the experiences and connections it creates. The prize is a platform bringing nominators, jury members, students, faculty, practitioners, and clients into an essential dialogue about what architecture makes possible. The result is a rich array of outputs: engaging events and symposia, inventive studios and workshops, and sophisticated, globally recognized publications.

Pete Seiger, 2023.

https://www.mchap.co/about 10

CHICAGO: URBAN HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES Chicago emerged in the 19th century as a strategic commercial hub due to its location between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. After the Great Fire of 1871, the city reinvented itself as a laboratory of architectural innovation, becoming the birthplace of the skyscraper and a cornerstone of modern urbanism. Its industrial growth attracted a diverse population, but also fueled inequality and segregation.

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CHICAGO: URBAN HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES Today, Downtown faces critical challenges:

Social Persistent inequality, displacement, and lack of affordable housing.

Urban Post-pandemic office vacancies, fragmented land use, and declining pedestrian activity.

Economic

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Reliance on the corporate sector, vacant retail spaces, and pressure to attract investment without triggering gentrification.

Environmental The need for climate adaptation, green infrastructure, and urban resilience.

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CHICAGO: URBAN HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES Revitalizing the urban core requires integrated strategies that promote inclusive, mixed-use densification, sustainable mobility, public space regeneration, and planning centered on equity, public health, and economic sustainability.

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STUDIO BRIEF

Transforming Graffiti Island Health, Culture ando Connection Across Urban Boundaires Once a bustling center of commerce and meatpacking, the Fulton River District declined sharply after deindustrialization. Today, major developments such as Bally’s Casino and the vibrant Fulton Market Corridor signal a new chapter for the area. Our studio will focus on the district’s northern half—51 acres poised for transformation—asking: How can we embed health and wellness into the places we live, work, and play, and reconnect residents to natural and cultural assets despite strong physical boundaries?

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Nicknamed “Graffiti Island” for its colorful murals and street art, the site is framed by the I-90 Expressway, the Ohio Street ramp and bridge, and the north branch of the Chicago River. The master plan will reimagine vacant properties and adapt historic warehouses into housing, retail, parks, and public spaces, with a strong emphasis on sustainability, equity, and community well-being. Students will develop innovative architectural and urban strategies, exploring adaptable living models, energy-efficient systems, and inclusive designs. Collaboration with the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), developers, and designers will be central. Fieldwork includes site visits and charrettes in Chicago, a study tour of Detroit’s urban revitalization, and reciprocal visits in Mexico City and Querétaro, culminating in an international design review. A local family has purchased several properties with the aim of revitalizing the city and restoring its vibrant, sustainable, healthy, dignified, connected, and affordable lifestyle. While there are plans for revitalizing the area, these plans do not necessarily consider social, environmental, and inclusion aspects. What are the elements that will serve as driving forces? What will be the new face of this neighborhood? How can we foster a vibrant, affordable, and inclusive neighborhood while considering economic sustainability and the health and well-being of its users and visitors?

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THE STUDIO Projects for the Future City is an effort to address climate justice by exploring the sociocultural and ecopolitical dimensions of the climate crisis in the Mexican context. For the last two years, the studio has investigated four topics: hydric stress, energy transition, urban heat island, and soil degradation. Exploring these climate design themes led us to define a new set of issues that will be addressed for the next two years to complete the climate justice mosaic, outlining the desirable possibilities of addressing multiple facets within the local challenges. The opportunities rely on designing actions that address the scale and impact of climate change challenges regarding food and water security, especially in the Global South. Our discipline’s question is how to shift from a ¨spectator role¨ to understanding and acting on climate justice. This question leads us to guide the design studio: Can urban climate-responsive design interventions engage different faces of climate injustice?

RESEARCH - DESIGN QUESTION Can urban climate-responsive design interventions engage different faces of climate injustice? The studio explores how architecture and landscape architecture can contribute to the construction of more healthy and resilient environments facing climate change. And what role do climate-responsive design and urban recycling plays in transforming into healthier, more connected, and equitable environments? Image generated by AI.

LINES OF RESEARCH AND STRATEGIES #watermanagement #care #technologyandinnovation

#bluegreeninfraestructure #nbs #climateadapative

3. Food Availability and quality. Objective: To study the relationships between food systems and urban ecologies to regenerate the degraded landscape. Moreover, the transformation of industrial land and brownfield sites into productive spaces through agricultural systems in urban and periurban areas.

1. Thermal stress. Objective: To explore strategies for the transformation and adaptation of spaces (open and closed spaces) to thermal stress and extreme weather events.

Key issues: Public space, social resilience, regenerative design.

Impact: Improve security and resilience of vulnerable communities.

2. Impact of extreme weather events. (increasing floods, droughts and storms). Objective: To explore strategies for the transformation and adaptation of built areas increasing resilience and regenerate the degraded landscape.

Key topics: Productive green corridors, urban biodiversity, water management, microclimates and air quality improvement.

Impact: Improve security, environmental improvement and urban quality of life.

Key topics: Degraded soils, phytoremediation, productive green roofs, hydroponic and aquaponic systems adapted to industrial contexts.

Impact: Improve food security, availability and reduce the carbon footprint of food supply.

4. Water availability and air quality. Objective: To study the relationships between water systems and urban ecologies to regenerate the degraded landscape.

Key topics: Productive green corridors, urban biodiversity, water management, microclimates and air quality improvement, vector and waterborne diseases.

Impact: Create multifunctional landscapes that combine NBS, water management strategies and air quality for environmental improvement and urban quality of life.

LINES OF RESEARCH AND STRATEGIES #watermanagement #care #technologyandinnovation

#bluegreeninfraestructure #nbs #climateadapative

5. Spaces for wellbeing and health. Objective: Involve local communities, workers and key stakeholders in the co-creation of spaces for wellbeing and health.

Key issues:

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Participatory design, social resilience and circular economy.

Impact: Strengthen the social fabric and promote community integration through active and social spaces.

METHODOLOGY - Topic Definition. - Definition of general research question. - Methodology. - Calendar.

Agenda

Territorialization

Futures

Project

- Problem Definition. - Definition of research question

- Understand the spatial, economic, social and ecological dynamics in the territory (site), multiscalar - Diagnosis based on specific research questions. - Definition of critical areas.

- Definition of a frame of reference for the desirable future. - Definition of strategies (pericity and systemic impact). - Definition of architectural-urban programs. - Relate critical areas, strategies and programs to generate a project portfolio.

- Site analysis. - Project strategies. - Design premises. - Programmatic alternatives and location criteria. - Definition of landscape, construction, structural and installation criteria. - Project communication.

Tools - Comparative cases of analogous studies. - Literature review: scientific articles, books and previous studies.

Tools - Layer mapping of territorial dynamics. - QGis Maps. - Stadistic analysis. - Interviews, surveys. - Participatory diagnosis workshops with the community. - Perceptual mapping - Validation with external experts. - Thematic manuals.

Tools - Dystopian vision. - Utopian vision. - Manifesto.

Tools - Site mapping. - QGis. - Graphics. - Digital models. - Digital presentations. - Participatory diagnosis workshops. - Validation with external experts.

METHODOLOGY The design studio is based on an academic methodology of transversal learning groups. The scopes transcend the architectural-constructive project by first producing a socio-spatial diagnosis of the site that generates a spatial vision that will eventually develop a design proposal. The challenge takes place in five phases over 17 weeks. Phase 01 Phase 02 Phase 03 Phase 04 Phase 05

Diagnosis. Alternatives for the future: Vision. Programming and volumetric variations. Development of the architectural project and its criteria. Project Communication.

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ASSESSMENT To be eligible to pass the block, students are required to complete all forms of evaluation and must show a reasonable level of competence in the course. When evaluating course activities, students are expected to have a firm understanding of the content; to analyze and synthesize in depth, to have the ability to process complexity and to integrate complex strategies and design, accompanied by solid communication skills. The evaluation is broken down as follows:

Evidence 01: Mid Term Presentation (phase 1-4)

50%

Evidence 02: Project development (phase 5)

45%

External Evaluation:

05%

TOTAL:

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CALENDAR S1 Agosto 9:00 11:30 12:00 15:00

Repentina Análisis de Sitio

S2 Agosto

Lunes 11

Martes 12

Intro Investigación Análisis de Sitio Lunes 18

9:00 11:30 12:00

Fase 01 Lecturas

Martes 23

Studio Programmatic and volumetric experimentation

15:00

Taller (Autodirigido)

S8 Octubre

Lunes 29

Martes 30

Taller (Autodirigido)

Studio Conceptual Design

P4: Programmatic and volumetric experimentation

Taller (Autodirigido)

Lunes 6 Taller (Autodirigido)

Martes 7 Studio Arch Design

Design Sprint Analysis

9:00

Taller (Autodirigido)

11:30

Jueves 21

Viernes 22

Studio Research Design

Taller (Autodirigido)

15:00 S3 Agosto

Lunes 25

Martes 26

Taller (Autodirigido)

Mi 20

Fase 01 Escenarios

15:00

Mi 27

9:00 11:30

9:00 11:30 12:00 15:00

Fase 01 Manifesto / Agenda

Viernes 29

15:00

Studio Futures

P1: First Results Research Design

Taller (Autodirigido)

S9 Octubre 9:00

Lunes 1

Martes 2

Mi 3

Jueves 4

Viernes 5

15:00

P5: Conceptual Design

Taller (Autodirigido)

Studio Agenda

S10 Octubre

P2: Future Scenarios

Taller (Autodirigido)

G O M A

Taller (Autodirigido)

11:30

Lunes 8

Martes 9

Mi 10

Jueves 11

Viernes 12

9:00 11:30 12:00 15:00 S6

Fase 01 Agenda / programas, proyectos

Taller en Chicago

Charette in Chicago

Studio Programmatic and volumetric experimentation

Taller (Autodirigido)

Jueves 2

Viernes 3

Studio Studio Conceptual Design Conceptual Design

Mi 8

Taller (Autodirigido)

Jueves 9 Studio Arch Design

Viernes 10

Taller (Autodirigido)

Lunes 13

Martes 14

Mi 15

Jueves 16

Viernes 17

Studio Agenda

15:00

Taller (Autodirigido)

S11 Octubre

Lunes 20

Martes 21

Jueves 23

Viernes 24

CRITDAY Retro Interna (Exatecs)

Pinup Chicago

Fase 03

9:00 Fase 03

9:00

15:00 S12

Mi 1

Viernes 26

Taller (Autodirigido)

12:00

Pinup Chicago

G O M A

Jueves 25

Taller (Autodirigido)

11:30

Semana Tec (15-19 Septiembre)

Mi 24

G O M A

11:30

12:00

S5 Septiembre

Fase 02

Jueves 28

12:00

S4 Septiembre

Fase 02

12:00

9:00 12:00

Lunes 22

Viernes 15

P0: Design Sprint Analysis

11:30

S7 Septiembre

Jueves 14

Martes 19

Mi 13

Fase 03

Studio Agenda Taller (Autodirigido)

CRITDAY

Mi 22

Semana Tec (27 - 31 Octubre)

Pinup Chicago

CALENDAR S13 Noviembre 9:00 11:30 12:00

Fase 03

15:00

Lunes 3

Martes 4

Studio Arch Design Taller (Autodirigido)

Mi 5

Jueves 6

Viernes 7

Studio Arch Design

Pinup Chicago

Taller (Autodirigido)

Revisión con Andrea Parga por cita S14 Noviembre 9:00 11:30 12:00

Fase 03

15:00

Lunes 10

Martes 11

Mi 12

Jueves 13

Viernes 14

Studio Arch Design

Taller (Autodirigido)

G O M A

Taller (Autodirigido)

Revisión con Andrea Parga por cita S15 Noviembre

Lunes 17

Martes 18

ASUETO

Studio / Representation, drawings and models

Lunes 24

Martes 25

Studio / Representation, drawings and models

Lunes

Martes

Miércoles

9:00 11:30 12:00

Fase 04

15:00 S16 Noviembre 9:00 11:30 12:00

Fase 04

15:00 S17 Diciembre 9:00 11:30 12:00 15:00 S18

Fase 04

Entrega física Entrega física láminas, modelos y láminas, modelos y presentación presentación

Mi 19

Mi 26

Jueves 20

Viernes 21

Studio / Representation, drawings and models

Entrega booklet digital

Jueves 27

Viernes 28

Studio / Representation, drawings and models

CRITDAY Retro Interna EXPO EAAD

Semana Tec (8-12 Diciembre)

COMPETENCES Tec21

Participatory Architecture of Medium Complexity. A. SAR0200. DESIGN. 1. SAR0201C. Inventive representation of architectural projects. Inventively represents concepts and architectural projects of various scales, showing mastery in the selection and mix of digital techniques and manual representation.

2. SAR0202C. Preparation of Architectural Programs. Develops architectural programs taking into account the requirements of a community, its relationship with the city and with multidisciplinary groups that allow it to cover and understand the complexity of the context of a region, uses and customs.

3. SAR0203C. Design Premises. Establishes the design premises and guiding ideas, integrating criteria of program functionality, climate, shape, volume, structure, materiality, composition, spatial organization, habitability, constructability, economy, sustainability, and spatial phenomenology.

4. SAR0204C. Projection of Spaces. Projects architectural spaces that coherently integrate components of a complex architectural program, such as environmental, social, economic, cultural aspects, construction processes, structural and cognitive aspects of multiple types of user or a heterogeneous social group.

B. SAR0400. INVESTIGATION. 1. SAR0401B. Diagnoses Problems. Diagnose problems related to architecture within a line of research or context for a real project.

2. SAR0402B. Proposal of alternative solutions. Proposes alternative solutions to architectural problems in real contexts. 36

COMPETENCES Tec21

Participatory Architecture of Medium Complexity. C. SAR0600. CONSTRUCTION. 1. SAR0601C. Construction materials. Defines the materials and construction procedures in the medium complexity project under the criteria of life cycle of materials, UN sustainability principles and the regulatory framework of the region where the project will be built.

2. SAR0602C. Construction systems. It uses construction systems, identifying the technical requirements of the vertical or mixed-use building project and the context where it is applied.

3. SAR0603C. Construction project. Develops the construction project for vertical or mixed-use buildings, based on current regulations.

4. SAR0604C. Facilities. Designs the plumbing, electrical, special and heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) installations according to the needs of the vertical or mixed-use building project and under sustainability criteria.

5. SAR0605C. Structural Criteria. Applies structural criteria in the solution of architectural projects with flat frames, based on analysis and calculation methods for simple structures. Calculates the loads that act on structural elements subjected to biaxial forces.

6. SAR0606C. Costs and Budgets. Prepares the detailed cost and time budget of the civil works, or a part of it, based on the catalog of concepts and unit prices, including direct and indirect costs.

D. SEG0300. SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE. 1. SEG0303. Collaboration. Builds agreements, interactions and social relationships through collaboration that takes into account differences, as well as their own abilities and those of others, in the immediate context.

TEACHING TEAM Rodrigo Pantoja

Andrea Parga

Studio coordinator. Design & Landscape.

Narrative

Diana García

Viviana Barquero

Studio coordinator. Design & Urbanism.

Energy expert. Design.

Pedro Mendoza

Daniela Cruz

Design. Construction Materials. Design Budget.

Representation & Visualization.

Yetzi Tafoya

Carlos González

Urban strategies. Design.

ArchItectural Design.

Santiago Luján ArchItectural Design.

Udo Muchow ArchItectural Design. 40

STUDENTS Alfonsina Espinosa Azuara.

Ana Catalina Maltos Robles.

Andrea González Zúñiga.

Baruc Guerrero Escobedo. Image generated by AI. Diego Enrique Vergara Lope Barroso.

Enrique Getzemaní García Campos.

Laura Sofía Rivera López.

Luis Enrique Quezada Torres.

Luna Contreras Sánchez.

María José Alvarado Yáñez.

María José Montoya Medina.

Nadia Sofía Torruco Flores.

Samantha Ortiz Cabrera. 42

BIBLIOGRAPHY Designing for the Climate Emergency

Sustainable [R]evolution

Sofia Pelsmokers, et. al.

Juliana Birnbaum, Louis Fox.

Climate Change and the People’s Health

Enviromedics Jay Lemery, Paul Auerbach.

Sharon Friel.

GLOSSARY Anthropocene. The proposed name for a new geological epoch is demarcated as the time when human activities began to have a substantial global effect on the Earth’s systems. The Anthropocene has yet to be formally recognised as a new geological epoch, and several dates have been put forward to mark its beginning. Ecosystem. A dynamic complex of plant, animal, and microorganism communities and the non-living environment acting as a functional unit. Ecosystem services. The benefits provided by ecosystems contribute to making human life both possible and worth living. Examples of ecosystem services include products such as food and clean water, regulation of floods, soil erosion, and disease outbreaks, and non-material benefits such as recreational and spiritual benefits in natural areas. The term services is usually used to encompass the tangible and intangible benefits that human beings obtain from ecosystems, which are sometimes separated into goods and services.

Resilience. “The capacity of any entity—an individual, a community, an organization, or a natural system—to prepare for disruptions, to recover from shocks and stresses, and to adapt and grow from a disruptive experience.” Planetary health. lanetary health proposes, at least in principle, to go beyond an anthropocentric focus, so as to incorporate the social, economic and ecological conditions necessary for the maintenance of health in to its very definition. Advocates long term thinking and planning about the health of humans, the Earth and other species. Health policy. Is defined by the World Health Organization as the decisions, plans, and actions that are undertaken to achieve specific healthcare goals within a society.

Biodiversity. An abbreviation of biological diversity; biodiversity means the variability among living organisms from all sources, including inter alia, terrestrial, marine, and other aquatic ecosystems and the ecological complexes of which they are part. This variability includes diversity within species, between species, and among ecosystems. Externalities. A benefit or cost that affects an individual or group of people who did not choose to incur that benefit or cost. State shift. Large, lasting changes in the structure and function of social–ecological systems, with substantial impacts on the ecosystem services provided by these systems. (Extract from “Whitmee S, Haines A, Beyrer C et al. (2015) Safeguarding human health in the Anthropocene epoch: report of The Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on planetary health. Lancet 386 (10007): p1973-2028.) 46

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Issuu Projects for the Future City.