CCAASLA 2009 PROFESSIONAL AWARDS Project Fact Sheet
Nuevo Urbano Centro de Morelos
PROJECT NAME: Nuevo Centro Urbano de Morelos (New Urban Center of Morelos)
PROJECT LOCATION: State of Morelos, Mexico
PROJECT SUMMARY:
Nuevo Centro Urbano Morelos (CU) sets the precedent for the development of new cities in Mexico. Generally, most
current Mexican cities have not been planned with integrated systems or to satisfy the long-term needs of their residents.
Rapid urbanization of incoming poor from rural Mexico, chaotic economic expansion and growing automobile
dominance have negatively impacted life in urban Mexico. The vision for this new city is to strengthen the Mexican
middle class, embrace environmental stewardship and to build a diverse community while comprehensively designing a
new seat of government. This type of comprehensive planning is unprecedented in Mexican history.
PURPOSE OF PROJECT:
Mexico is where the United States was fifty years ago as it relates to urban growth and community expansion. In the
1950’s the GI Bill and US federal housing policies encouraged home ownership, education and suburban growth.
Similarly, population growth, the effects of globalization and other national trends are influencing the way Mexicans live,
work and play today. Communities and cities must be planned to work with these modern developments and help
people fulfill their dreams. Nuevo Centro Urbano de Morelos is one of the first attempts in Mexico at providing similar
support mechanisms, to those offered in the US in the 1950’s, that will encourage home ownership, business prosperity
and a cohesive middle class.
This project is aimed at providing financial and social support for the low income population, with the intent to
encourage home ownership, instill pride and confidence, improve individual business and professional performance and
to put the systems in place needed to promote successful middle class growth. The vision for the project was to create a
model city that will be home to 100,000 people (26,000 homes), house the new government center for the State of
Morelos and embrace, as part of its framework, the site’s most important natural, physical and historic attributes, thereby
creating a precedent for the development of new communities in Mexico.
The goal of this effort was to create a new pattern that integrates the developer’s traditional residential products with a
new seat of government for the public administration of the State of Morelos and the cities of Cuernavaca and Temixco
as well as the social and utility systems necessary for community prosperity. To meet these significant objectives, the
developer must provide much more than a collection of houses. Principles of city planning that recognize and reconcile
the necessary city systems such as transportation, utilities, open space, public space and a mix of uses are employed to
guarantee that the team delivers a project with soul and a sense of community. Our team is very proud to contribute to
the development of a sustainable community for Mexico’s future, one that will benefit current and future generations.
ROLE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT & OTHER PARTICIPANTS:
The design team is working with an industry-leading developer (name to remain confidential) that is expanding its
capability from national leader in homebuilding to the building of cities across Mexico. In partnership with state and
federal governments, this developer has used its strategic power and leadership to bring together a consultant team to
create city plans that will set new standards for development in Mexico. The innovative consultant team that was
convened to plan this new city has global experience in water conservation, infrastructure design, environmental
preservation and responsive planning. Design Workshop collaborated with Cal Y Mayor, Casillas, TAAF and Sanchez
Arquitectos. Design Workshop was hired to master plan the new city; design the regional arterial, a City’s urban plaza, a
series of neighborhood plazas (aka barrios) and the pedestrian boardwalk that defines the City Center to a schematic
level; draft design guidelines that ensures the vision is realized; design and analyze the financial feasibility of recreational
amenities on the property; as well as design streets and community gathering places.
SPECIAL FACTORS:
Existing Conditions. The site’s existing, sensitive natural features provide the foundation for the plan and require significant
attention to prevent irresponsible degradation. The thirty meter deep ravines (aka barrancas) are independent
functioning ecosystems rich with wildlife, water and plants and are threatened by careless development due to the
effects of increased stormwater runoff and resident debris. The plan developed strategies that would protect these
environments while embracing their presence, location and significance.
Social Inequity. There is a major disparity between the wealthy and the low income population in the project area.
Differences in income, wealth, education and family structure all contribute to the differences in home ownership; the
lack of home ownership opportunities maintains the differences in wealth, education, access to jobs and overall quality
of life. This project strives to minimize the gap in the home ownership differential in Cuernacaca, Mexico by giving the low
income population access to home ownership opportunities that they would otherwise not have.
Cultural Barriers. The Mexican culture traditionally focuses their living and business presence inward, away from the public
rights-of-way, rather than outward towards the public realm. They place the most value behind the walls that line the
streets. The security concerns and social barriers presented our team with especially motivating urban design challenges.
CCAASLA 2009 PROFESSIONAL AWARDS Project Fact Sheet
Nuevo Urbano Centro de Morelos
Our goal was to find solutions to the walled approach so as to initiate community interaction and to create inviting street
design and safety.
Social Interaction. The interaction among residents was a key component to the formation of a functioning, thriving
community. Conceptually, 300 homes are organized around barrio (neighborhood center) and 5,000 homes organized
around a colonia (community center). These spaces provide safe meeting and gathering places within an acceptable
walking distance for recreation, social gathering and community services.
SIGNIFICANCE:
The planning and design team defined seven parts to the value proposition being delivered in this plan: Livability,
Intelligent Urban Design, City and Connectivity, City and Environment, City and Employment Centers, and City and
Dwellings. The following descriptions outline the design team’s commitment to cutting edge implementation at CU:
City & Environment. The planning of CU deeply respects the historic function of the site’s delicately vital environment. The
deep-cut ravines and underlying aquifer make it functionally significant, beautiful and sensitive to the impact of
development. During planning, every precaution was taken to ensure preservation of the canyons’ integrity. These
features are deserving of National Park status and will require ongoing maintenance and management. Most important
is the idea that the neighborhoods of CU can be sustainably built and exist within this precious environment.
City & Community. The developer has created residential products that appeal to the Mexican market. The easiest
opportunity for success within CU was to incorporate the developer’s traditional residential products. However,
adjustments to the typical layout of the residential products have been made to allow the urban design and social
objectives to be achieved. While 60% of the project achieves affordable status the real cutting-edge objective is to mix
classes to achieve social progress. In the barrios and colonias, select units will be available that allow for commercial uses
on the ground floor and residential uses on the second floor.
CU is more than a collection of houses; it is based on the idea that communities and cities are the key to developing
families and human resources. Several ideas are key to making CU more than just a collection of homes. First, individuals
must recognize the value of the whole place in order to create city pride. Historically, Mexican people have focused on
the value of their own residence, not necessarily on the greater values of the community. This awareness will mix people
by income levels within each neighborhood by varying the product types that are placed next to one another. Powerful
benefits are achieved in the mixing of people who help each other to grow and who build a humanistic outlook. The two
key ideas are achieving the awareness and respect for the community and getting the demographic range of residents
to mix in public spaces and institutions.
City & Employment Centers. The employment base of CU is anchored by the government employees at the state and
municipal palaces. Not only are there government employees, but additional employees and business owners will
benefit from proximity to the palaces. Corporations and other businesses will soon expand into the new city. The supply of
housing in a range of price points for workers offers businesses the employment base for success. Mixed use development
is promoted in the central business district to reinforce the commercial viability of the city. Office accommodations, in
addition to those related to government activity will strengthen the opportunity for this to be the region’s new business
destination.
City & Connectivity. Without movement, the processes of business and the development of culture cannot be
accomplished. The economic engine of this development is built on the connection between the old and new roads
from Mexico City to Acapulco. Substantial sums are being spent on bridges and the “backbone” road that links the
geography of CU across the canyons that create development plateaus. Movement of people and goods are essential
to the business integrity of CU and Cuernavaca. The beautiful streets, system of open space and plazas, and preserved
ravines increase the emphasis on pedestrian modes of circulation. For residents of CU, mass transit is provided by buses.
Bus stops, holding areas and other operational elements of the transit program are incorporated in to the city plan.
Intelligent Urban Design. Urban design offers methods for delivering social cohesion and livability, for making CU a
national model for building the middle class in Mexico. In the simplest terms urban design organizes systems to satisfy
community needs. Systems include hierarchy of streets, mass transit, schools, parks and open space and other features
that make the city livable and encourage positive interactions between people. The most significant organizers of space
on this site are existing ravines which define plateaus and establish reasonably flat development sites. The urban systems
are overlain on the plateaus to make barrios (neighborhood centers), colonias (community centers) and, collectively, the
city. Intelligent urban design is what builds the community from a mass of houses and roads into a city. Urban design aims
to make the public spaces the pride of the community and the opportunity for people to meet and mix.
CCAASLA 2009 PROFESSIONAL AWARDS Photo Description Sheet
Nuevo Urbano Centro de Morelos
01 Context.
This diagram illustrates the site’s regional context, specifically its proximity to neighboring cities, mountain ranges and
volcanoes. The Acapulco Road is a regional roadway that carries a significant amount of traffic from Mexico City to the port
city of Acapulco. Although the Acapulco toll road is relatively new, historically this has been an important traveled route for
commerce and trade. It has brought people, knowledge, goods and cultural influences to Cuernavaca and Temixco.
02 History & Culture.
This diagram shows the location of the proposed urban center (shown in white) of Cuernavaca and its proximity to the
existing geographic center of the city. It will be situated on 1,800 hectares in an area of Mexico known as “The Land of
Eternal Spring” in a tropical climate. The primary access roads through and around the project site, as well as opportunity
sites available for land purchase near the existing airport, are also illustrated.
03 Environment.
This existing site photograph illustrates the delicacy of the natural site environment and the importance of preserving and
embracing the ravines that traverse the site. Our role as the landscape architect was to integrate these natural ravines into
the design of the new city.
04 Threat.
This site photograph illustrates the piece meal, unplanned development patterns that are present throughout Temixco and
Cuernavaca. Squatter residential development encroaches upon the ravines and degrades their ecologic function and
value. No intervention in this culture will result in expanded, hap hazard growth with a lack of integrated systems.
05 Products.
The clients’ typical built products are 3 meters wide, attached and primarily single story units averaging 75 square meters
(~800 SF). The clustered type of development is inwardly focused with privacy gates located at the entrance of
approximately 50 homes. The security concerns are a substantial concern for the Mexican culture and a particular
challenge for the designers because of the unattractive, uninviting street experience created by such a development
pattern.
06 Assets & Influences
The site’s existing physical features were incorporated into the plan including: a utility power line that runs north/south
through the parcel, a cemetery, a mine, a shrine, a federally protected tree grove and road rights-of-way. The site’s
delicate environment and natural topography were preserved and respected. The ravines (up to 100m deep) are important
systems that provide environmental services, such as recharge of groundwater, water supply source for farming and at the
same time serve as channels for the water that nurtures the hydro services downstream.
07 Analysis
The site’s circulation, land use and social networks provide the framework for community form. The land use framework
placed employment centers, regional commercial destinations, high to low density residential, open spaces and civic uses.
The slope and elevation diagrams clearly demonstrate the site’s naturally sloped terrain, the ravines (barrancas) and the
elevation fluctuations across the site.
08 Urban Design. The overall master plan utilizes notable urban design principles for organization and interfacing land uses.
09 Community. This is a professional rendering of the new city within the community.
10 Integration.
The neighborhood centers (barrios) and community centers (colonias) serve approximately 300 people and 5,000 people
respectively. These amenities are a key to social interaction in the Mexican culture. The illustrative graphic illustrates how this
concept is integrated into the master plan design throughout the project.
11 Barrio Concept.
This plan view demonstrates one option for a neighborhood center. The systems that inform this center are roads, homes,
urban trees and permeable areas. As part of our analysis, we studied multiple options for these centers including retail,
recreation, hardscape plazas, cultural buildings and softscape components. Each center helps create identify for each
neighborhood.
12 Colonia Concept. This is a professional three dimensional rendering of a conceptual community center (colonia).
13 Employment.
This professional three dimensional rendering illustrates the commerce and employment that will energize and populate the
new city center. The city center is positioned around one of the ravines (barrancas), creating a pedestrian walkway along
its length and a unique experience unlike anything in the world.
NUEVO CENTRO URBANO DE MORELOS| State of Morelos, Mexico
PROJECT NAME: Nuevo Centro Urbano de Morelos
(New Urban Center of Morelos)
PROJECT LOCATION: State of Morelos, Mexico
PROJECT SUMMARY
Nuevo Centro Urbano Morelos (CU) sets the precedent for the
development of new cities in Mexico. Generally, most current
Mexican cities have not been planned with integrated systems
or to satisfy the long-term needs of their residents. Rapid urban-ization
of incoming poor from rural Mexico, chaotic economic
expansion and growing automobile dominance have negatively
impacted life in urban Mexico. The vision for this new city is to
strengthen the Mexican middle class, embrace environmental
stewardship and to build a diverse community while comprehen-sively
designing a new seat of government. This type of compre-hensive
planning is unprecedented in Mexican history.
PURPOSE OF PROJECT
Mexico is where the United States was fi fty years ago as it relates
to urban growth and community expansion. In the 1950’s the
GI Bill and US federal housing policies encouraged home own-ership,
education and suburban growth. Similarly, population
growth, the effects of globalization and other national trends are
infl uencing the way Mexicans live, work and play today. Com-munities
and cities must be planned to work with these modern
developments and help people fulfi ll their dreams. Nuevo Centro
Urbano de Morelos is one of the fi rst attempts in Mexico at pro-viding
similar support mechanisms, to those offered in the US in
the 1950’s, that will encourage home ownership, business pros-perity
and a cohesive middle class.
This project is aimed at providing fi nancial and social support
for the low income population, with the intent to encourage
home ownership, instill pride and confi dence, improve individual
business and professional performance and to put the systems
in place needed to promote successful middle class growth.
The vision for the project was to create a model city that will be
home to 100,000 people (26,000 homes), house the new gov-ernment
center for the State of Morelos and embrace, as part
of its framework, the site’s most important natural, physical and
historic attributes, thereby creating a precedent for the develop-ment
of new communities in Mexico.
The goal of this effort was to create a new pattern that inte-grates
the developer’s traditional residential products with a new
seat of government for the public administration of the State of
Morelos and the cities of Cuernavaca and Temixco as well as
the social and utility systems necessary for community prosperity.
To meet these signifi cant objectives, the developer must provide
much more than a collection of houses. Principles of city plan-ning
that recognize and reconcile the necessary city systems
such as transportation, utilities, open space, public space and
a mix of uses are employed to guarantee that the team deliv-ers
a project with soul and a sense of community. Our team is
very proud to contribute to the development of a sustainable
community for Mexico’s future, one that will benefi t current and
future generations.
ROLE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT &
OTHER PARTICIPANTS
The design team is working with an industry-leading developer
(name to remain confi dential) that is expanding its capability
from national leader in homebuilding to the building of cities
across Mexico. In partnership with state and federal govern-ments,
this developer has used its strategic power and leader-ship
to bring together a consultant team to create city plans
that will set new standards for development in Mexico. The
innovative consultant team that was convened to plan this new
city has global experience in water conservation, infrastructure
design, environmental preservation and responsive planning. De-sign
Workshop collaborated with Cal Y Mayor, Casillas, TAAF and
Sanchez Arquitectos. Design Workshop was hired to master plan
the new city; design the regional arterial, a City’s urban plaza, a
series of neighborhood plazas (aka barrios) and the pedestrian
boardwalk that defi nes the City Center to a schematic level;
draft design guidelines that ensures the vision is realized; design
and analyze the fi nancial feasibility of recreational amenities on
the property; as well as design streets and community gathering
places.
SPECIAL FACTORS
Existing Conditions. The site’s existing, sensitive natural features
provide the foundation for the plan and require signifi cant atten-tion
to prevent irresponsible degradation. The thirty meter deep
ravines (aka barrancas) are independent functioning ecosys-tems
rich with wildlife, water and plants and are threatened by
careless development due to the effects of increased stormwa-ter
runoff and resident debris. The plan developed strategies that
would protect these environments while embracing their pres-ence,
location and signifi cance.
Social Inequity. There is a major disparity between the wealthy
and the low income population in the project area. Differences
in income, wealth, education and family structure all contribute
to the differences in home ownership; the lack of home owner-ship
opportunities maintains the differences in wealth, educa-tion,
access to jobs and overall quality of life. This project strives
to minimize the gap in the home ownership differential in Cuer-nacaca,
Mexico by giving the low income population access
to home ownership opportunities that they would otherwise not
have.
Cultural Barriers. The Mexican culture traditionally focuses their
living and business presence inward, away from the public rights-of-
way, rather than outward towards the public realm. They
place the most value behind the walls that line the streets. The
security concerns and social barriers presented our team with
especially motivating urban design challenges. Our goal was to
fi nd solutions to the walled approach so as to initiate community
interaction and to create inviting street design and safety.
Social Interaction. The interaction among residents was a key
component to the formation of a functioning, thriving com-munity.
Conceptually, 300 homes are organized around barrio
(neighborhood center) and 5,000 homes organized around a
colonia (community center). These spaces provide safe meeting
and gathering places within an acceptable walking distance for
recreation, social gathering and community services.
Project Fact Sheet
NUEVO CENTRO URBANO DE MORELOS| State of Morelos, Mexico
SIGNIFICANCE
The planning and design team defi ned seven parts to the value
proposition being delivered in this plan: Livability, Intelligent
Urban Design, City and Connectivity, City and Environment, City
and Employment Centers, and City and Dwellings. The following
descriptions outline the design team’s commitment to cutting
edge implementation at CU:
City & Environment. The planning of CU deeply respects the
historic function of the site’s delicately vital environment. The
deep-cut ravines and underlying aquifer make it functionally
signifi cant, beautiful and sensitive to the impact of development.
During planning, every precaution was taken to ensure preser-vation
of the canyons’ integrity. These features are deserving of
National Park status and will require ongoing maintenance and
management. Most important is the idea that the neighbor-hoods
of CU can be sustainably built and exist within this pre-cious
environment.
City & Community. The developer has created residential prod-ucts
that appeal to the Mexican market. The easiest opportunity
for success within CU was to incorporate the developer’s tradi-tional
residential products. However, adjustments to the typical
layout of the residential products have been made to allow the
urban design and social objectives to be achieved. While 60%
of the project achieves affordable status the real cutting-edge
objective is to mix classes to achieve social progress. In the
barrios and colonias, select units will be available that allow for
commercial uses on the ground fl oor and residential uses on the
second fl oor.
CU is more than a collection of houses; it is based on the idea
that communities and cities are the key to developing families
and human resources. Several ideas are key to making CU more
than just a collection of homes. First, individuals must recognize
the value of the whole place in order to create city pride. Histor-ically,
Mexican people have focused on the value of their own
residence, not necessarily on the greater values of the commu-nity.
This awareness will mix people by income levels within each
neighborhood by varying the product types that are placed
next to one another. Powerful benefi ts are achieved in the mix-ing
of people who help each other to grow and who build a hu-manistic
outlook. The two key ideas are achieving the awareness
and respect for the community and getting the demographic
range of residents to mix in public spaces and institutions.
City & Employment Centers. The employment base of CU
is anchored by the government employees at the state and
municipal palaces. Not only are there government employees,
but additional employees and business owners will benefi t from
proximity to the palaces. Corporations and other businesses will
soon expand into the new city. The supply of housing in a range
of price points for workers offers businesses the employment base
for success. Mixed use development is promoted in the central
business district to reinforce the commercial viability of the city.
Offi ce accommodations, in addition to those related to govern-ment
activity will strengthen the opportunity for this to be the
region’s new business destination. Accommodation of a mall
and big-box retail completes the range of retail and commercial
offerings that establish this as the Urban Center.
City & Connectivity. Without movement, the processes of busi-ness
and the development of culture cannot be accomplished.
The economic engine of this development is built on the con-nection
between the old and new roads from Mexico City to
Acapulco. Substantial sums are being spent on bridges and the
“backbone” road that links the geography of CU across the can-yons
that create development plateaus. Movement of people
and goods are essential to the business integrity of CU and Cuer-navaca.
The beautiful streets, system of open space and plazas,
and preserved ravines increase the emphasis on pedestrian
modes of circulation. For residents of CU, mass transit is provided
by buses. Bus stops, holding areas and other operational ele-ments
of the transit program are incorporated in to the city plan.
Intelligent Urban Design. Urban design offers methods for
delivering social cohesion and livability, for making CU a national
model for building the middle class in Mexico. In the simplest
terms urban design organizes systems to satisfy community
needs. Systems include hierarchy of streets, mass transit, schools,
parks and open space and other features that make the city
livable and encourage positive interactions between people.
The most signifi cant organizers of space on this site are existing
ravines which defi ne plateaus and establish reasonably fl at de-velopment
sites. The urban systems are overlain on the plateaus
to make barrios (community centers), colonias (neighborhood
centers) and, collectively, the city. Intelligent urban design is
what builds the community from a mass of houses and roads into
a city. Urban design aims to make the public spaces the pride of
the community and the opportunity for people to meet and mix.
Project Fact Sheet
NUEVO CENTRO URBANO DE MORELOS| State of Morelos, Mexico Photo Description Sheet
01 Context.
02 History & Culture.
03 Environment. This existing site photograph illustrates the delicacy of the natural
site environment and the importance of preserving and embracing the
ravines that traverse the site. Our role as the landscape architect was to
integrate these natural ravines into the design of the new city.
04 Threat. These site photographs illustrate the piece meal, unplanned development
patterns that are present throughout Temixco and Cuernavaca. Squatter
residential development encroaches upon the ravines and degrades their
ecologic function and value. No intervention in this culture will result in
expanded, hap hazard growth with a lack of integrated systems.
05 Baseline. Photographs of Geo built products
06 Assets & Infl uences
Existing conditions + surrounding urbanized areas
07 Analysis
Drainage/Environment
Connectivity
Social Interaction
Urbanization (employment centers, regional destinations)
08 Urban Design. Master Plan
09 Community. Dalio Rendering
10 Integration.
Barrio Master Plan Illustrative
Barrio Analysis- Layers
Barrio Cluster Concept
11 Barrio Concept. ChonRendering
12 Colonia Concept. ChonRendering
13 Employment. ChonRendering
NUEVO CENTRO URBANO DE MORELOS| State of Morelos, Mexico
01 Context
Estado de Morelos (State of Morelos)
Centros Metropolitanos (Metropolitan Centers)
Autopista del Sol (Sun Highway)
Futuro Distribuidor Vial (Future Bypass)
Zona Natural y Montañosa
(Mountainous & Natual Areas)
Cumbre de Montaña (Mountain Peak)
SIMBOLOGÍA (LEGEND)
400 M
400 M
1200 M
1200 M
POTENTIAL
LAND PURCHASE
EXISTING
CUERNAVACA
CENTER
TEMIXCO
G. LAS IGUANAS
C. LA CORONA
EXISTING
AIRPORT
Proposed Urban
Center
TO ACAPULCO
Proposed
West Beltway
Proposed City Center/
Government Center
NUEVO CENTRO URBANO DE MORELOS| State of Morelos, Mexico
NEGRO
C. 02 History & Culture
Centros y Sub-Centros Urbanos
(Urban Centers & Sub-Centers)
Ubicación del Proyecto
(Project Location)
Autopista del Sol
(Sun Highway)
Vialidad Regional Propuesta
(Proposed Regional Road)
Futuro Distribuidor Vial
(Future Bypass)
Cumbre de Montaña
(Mountain Peak)
Conexión al Desarollo Existente
(Connection to Existing Developments)
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03 Environment
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04 Threat
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05 Baseline
NUEVO CENTRO URBANO DE MORELOS| State of Morelos, Mexico
06 Assets & Infl uences
Utility Easement
Quarry
Cemetary
Federally
Protected Trees
Existing Roads
Barrancas (Ravines)
Federally Protected Tree
Volcanic Views
Pueblo Viejo (Temixco) Cemetary
Temixco
Urbanization
Inlfuence
Temixco
Urbanization
Cuernavaca
Urbanization
Infl uence
Acapulco Road
NUEVO CENTRO URBANO DE MORELOS| State of Morelos, Mexico
07 Analysis
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08 Urban Design
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09 Community
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10 Integration
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12 Colonia Concept
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13 Employment
