Within the Historical Center of
Mexico City, a new reinvented tianguis system has emerged to serve visitors
with 3D technologically processed everyday diet meals like tortillas, tlacoyos,
tamales and flautas from the urban rooftop maize-field. The tianguis poised as
a medium between past and present, between unknown and familiarity with
objective to bring maize back as to its once actualized importance of the
cultural embedded meaning for Mexicans as the "Children of the
Maize." Through the location's vital palimpsest of significant events
translated as Aztec Empire's Templo Mayor, Spanish Conqueror's Metropolitan
Cathedral to the Modern internationalization of Mexico; the site is a challenge
to superimpose the layers of the context together, drawn with one essential
value: stability and permanence. In my perspective, the Mexican's gratitude for
their everyday diet through traditions of corn production and quality of
kernels to its purity will be diminished if the United States' massive quantity
of GMO corns and ethanol soon conquered the original. The only prevention is
for a symbiosis value of maize to be enforced towards the everyday life of the
"Children of the Maize."
The urban tianguis of maize follows
through a system of processes starting from the rooftop cornfields
surrounding the Templo Mayor ruins, or where the Aztec Empire's prophecy
happened. Through this cultural ties, the beginning of life for human beings
are led towards prosperity through agricultural system. The rooftop cornfields
are adapted to the city with a pyramidal space-frame superstructure
design that connects all elements together for coherency. The space-frame not
only be adapted for the weight for the cornfield and their activities, but also
to be adapted to the envelopment of processing plants on the rooftops
while turning the potential of corn to corn starch, and corn starch to polylactic
acid (PLA) filaments. This requires area for walkway for workers interaction
with each phases of the production, but also walkway towards rooftop visitors'
interaction areas as well. After the completion of PLA filaments from the
processing plants, the 3D printing machines, also held by the
superstructure on the rooftop will vertical led down to the ground level to
print ornamented motif blocks and foods for the new market
surrounding the ruins. Thus, the integration of 3D technology through PLA
filaments based from processed corn is a fundamental role in the connectivity
between the past cultural references of maize towards the present and the future. The project will also involve the formation
of the market space through using the ornamented motif blocks fitted to the
superstructure; this will produce the details of the market space that will in
return shape the actions of the users. The Urban Tianguis of Maize, hence, revitalizes maize's importance through a direct interaction and shapes the visitors ways of consuming.
There it was, gleaming itself for
the world to see. Its presence in Zocalo was filled with bright lights of
varietal motifs, emulating the sun. Wind blew against my collar and washed me
against the sounds drumming my ears. Little by little, slowly, it enclosed me
with every forwarded step ahead; I was consumed by the level of details that
enveloped me by 360 degree. Before I knew it, in front of me was an explosive
contrast of people chattering, footsteps clanking against the stone floor, 3d
technology printers emitting aromatic smell from printing masa tortilla, swift
motions from pots and pans, and a fainting music in the background. So this is
the tianguis and the cornfields that arrayed until the end of perspective line.
This is where the story begins.
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Pyramidal Space Frame Module for the Cornfield
Connection of the Pyramid Module
Constructed 3D Model of Buildings Surrounding the Templo Mayor
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