STUDY FOR A CITY

PAPER, WOOD, STINLESS STEEL, MAHOGANY WOOD.

D 1.20 X W 3.40 X H 1.80 m. APROX.

Winner of the Premio Alejandrina, from the Consejo de Ciencia y Tecnología (Science and Technology Advisory) and Secretaría de Desarrollo Urbano, Obras Públicas y Ecología (Secretary of Urban Development, Public Works, and Ecology), Querétaro, México 

Exhibited at the Museo de la Ciudad (Querétaro) and World Trade Center Mexico (Ciudad de México)

Again inspired by my architectural training, the auto-construction of the built environment of Mexico, and Mexican vernacular urban forms, this sculpture explores the possibilities and limits of paper as a building material. Set on bases of mahogany wood, the towers of the makeshift city are made structurally sound by an interior structure of stainless steel tubes. They range from 0.6 meters to their strucutral limit of 1.8 meters.