MORELOS COMPLEX
mixed-use, urban scale
A mixed-use urban intervention in the historic center of Guadalajara, adjacent to Morelos Park. The project responds to decades of spatial and social deterioration in the area — designing not just a building, but a catalyst for community reactivation.
The proposal integrates intergenerational living, combining housing for the elderly with spaces for younger residents and the broader community. Shared courtyards, cultural programming, and ground-floor commercial uses dissolve the boundary between private residence and public life — restoring the social fabric that the area had gradually lost.
A study in architecture as urban repair.
Senior unit
The unit is designed around accessibility as a spatial quality, not a constraint — widened thresholds, reduced level transitions, and natural light at seated eye level compose a dignified and calm domestic rhythm, conceived for ageing in place within a socially connected building.
Youth unit
The double height responds to the energy and flexibility of younger occupants — an open ground floor that absorbs daily life and a mezzanine bedroom that preserves intimacy without enclosure, all within the modular steel frame that allows the unit to evolve with its residents.
