Project by Fion Li @fionn.li, Georgios Koltiris @georgios.koltiris
Mexico’s deep cultural and historical relationship with fabric frames this project’s approach to housing, labor, and community in Colonia Doctores. Here, fabric operates as an active social device: for street vendors it provides shade and visibility, for textile workers it structures labor and production, and for artisans it becomes craft and expression. The project proposes a community-owned housing model activated through fabrication, where homes, workshops, storage, and collective services are organized around shared courtyards. These courtyards act as filters between street and domestic space, creating zones where work, care, and everyday life intersect. Through light structures, shading systems, and incremental construction using reclaimed materials, the project re-densifies housing while strengthening local infrastructure. Like La Laguna’s emphasis on collective life, it operates as a “factory of factories,” supporting emergent economies, sustaining care networks, and weaving the neighborhood together through fabric as both architecture and method.
