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Erika Loana & Gabriela Sisniega

Materia Prima

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Mexico City, Mexico
Materia Prima is a collaborative research project conceived by Erika Loana and Gabriela Sisniega, Mexican architects who have worked together with different projects since 2011. The project started in three locations: Chihuahua, Morelos and Mexico City. These three cities are the places that are immediate for us to study carefully. This gives us a broader understanding of the environmental, cultural and political dimensions that shape the territory and its landscape in a more subtle way.

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Materia Prima


The aesthetics of exploitation

Materia Prima


The aesthetics of exploitation
Materia Prima is a collaborative atlas of the impact of extractivism in the Mexican landscape.
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Type of project
  • Systemic changes

A critical research project about the lucrative destruction of the territory for the construction of the city. By visualizing the impact of the extractive industry, its geographic location, and the radical transformations caused by its abrasive procedures, it seeks to understand the impact of architecture on the land, the landscape, and the territory. Establishing the necessary limits between the spatial, geographical, economic and political dimensions of the transformation industry and its mechanisms of subtraction, aims to determine possible actions to revalue the traces left in these extractive landscapes

The territory is a projection of the society that transforms it. We know that the human factor is the dominant agent in the transformation of the landscape and the territory, therefore, we are the factor of change and the raw material would be the first field of transformation. After all - architecture is nothing but a place where everything is made of pieces of other places.



Marble mine, Chihuahua

Tezontle bank, Chihuahua

Former foundry, Chihuahua

Former silver mine, Chihuahua

Agnico-Eagle Pinos Altos mine, Chihuahua

Materia Prima


The aesthetics of exploitation

Materia Prima


The aesthetics of exploitation
Materia Prima is a collaborative atlas of the impact of extractivism in the Mexican landscape.
File under
Type of project
  • Systemic changes

A critical research project about the lucrative destruction of the territory for the construction of the city. By visualizing the impact of the extractive industry, its geographic location, and the radical transformations caused by its abrasive procedures, it seeks to understand the impact of architecture on the land, the landscape, and the territory. Establishing the necessary limits between the spatial, geographical, economic and political dimensions of the transformation industry and its mechanisms of subtraction, aims to determine possible actions to revalue the traces left in these extractive landscapes

The territory is a projection of the society that transforms it. We know that the human factor is the dominant agent in the transformation of the landscape and the territory, therefore, we are the factor of change and the raw material would be the first field of transformation. After all - architecture is nothing but a place where everything is made of pieces of other places.



Marble mine, Chihuahua

Tezontle bank, Chihuahua

Former foundry, Chihuahua

Former silver mine, Chihuahua

Agnico-Eagle Pinos Altos mine, Chihuahua


Idea by

Erika Loana & Gabriela Sisniega
Materia Prima
Mexico City
Mexico
Materia Prima is a collaborative research project conceived by Erika Loana and Gabriela Sisniega, Mexican architects who have worked together with different projects since 2011. The project started in three locations: Chihuahua, Morelos and Mexico City. These three cities are the places that are immediate for us to study carefully. This gives us a broader understanding of the environmental, cultural and political dimensions that shape the territory and its landscape in a more subtle way.