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NUEVO MERCADO MODELO

Montevideo, URUGUAY
2013

This urban intervention is located in the surroundings of the intersection of three important avenues. The area os presented as the new scenario for a newly conceptualized neighborhood, contrasting with old Mercado Modelo.

The project presents a disinfection in housing, the generation of a new concept of “social mix” based on contemporaneity, but regarding and boosting the identity of the place.

The intervention as complex element of public and local actors. The project outlines a series os case-studies in order to illustrate the interventions made by the government and the possibilities left for the real state promotors of the private sector.