Located in Xochimilco, Mexico, the project tackles fundamental urban challenges of water filtration by developing multifunctional vessels made up of geometrically irregular waste bricks. These vessels are not just an apparatus of the city’s infrastructure, but rather a facilitator of a space where people can gather, build, observe, and learn.

By algorithmically uniting these defective bricks into prefabricated panels using structural steel, this project generates a new sense of dimensionality for public infrastructure that empowers community and sustainability. Based on the autonomy of each type of cellular brick, the programs organize themselves among their ability to filter, collect, store and serve the Pre-Hispanic Nahua agricultural practices. Additionally, to use non-homogenous, undervalued and broken bricks to create the idea of a ‘plinth,’ the project achieves a renewed sense of permanence that simultaneously blurs the boundaries between landscape and architecture.