Trellis
2023 Adaptive Reuse Academic
A structural mesh opens an existing Mexico City tower to public life, housing, and ecological growth.
- Year
- 2023
- Location
- Mexico City, Mexico
- Typology
- Adaptive Reuse
- Discipline
- Architecture
- Status
- Academic
- Institution
- Yale School of Architecture
- Contribution
- Solo academic design project; confirm individual image credits.
- Advisors
- Critics: Tatiana Bilbao, Iwaan Baan, Andrei Harwell
Trellis reimagines an existing concrete tower in Mexico City as a framework for public activity and non-market housing. The proposal responds to the relationship between street vending, informal markets, and a site whose existing edges limit access. By removing portions of the lower floors, the design extends the sidewalk upward through spaces for markets and gathering.
A structural mesh acts as both support and enclosure as the building changes from public space below to housing above. Community gardens are integrated into this gradient of privacy, giving residents space for cultivation. Calvin Rogers developed Trellis as a solo Yale School of Architecture studio project.