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Parochial School/Bull Fighting Ring Santa Teresa, Jalisco, Mexico 2003 Quilian Riano Portfolio

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Sketches of Landscape becoming designed Public Space

Santa Teresa Loses Its Wall: Santa Teresa is a city in the Tequila region of

Jalisco, Mexico. The town’s economy is comprised of the growth of blue agave the prime ingredient of Tequila. The town has grown in what once was a Hacienda. The 1910 Mexican Civil War and subsequent constitutional land redistribution turned the Hacienda and the land around it to the people that worked the land.

The inhabitants gained the land, and the Hacienda’s walls came down.

Public Space: Along wit the change of the Hacienda, and the destruction of the

wall, Santa Teresa lost its Public Space. Today the only places that the community has to come together are the church used once weekly, and a bullfighting ring, used once yearly during the Santa Teresa festival. The bullfighting ring was built around the remnants of the wall.

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SKETCH MODEL OF PAROCHIAL SCHOOL

A New Center In order to make a new public space I decided to make a new center for the town away from the historical hacienda house. The new center comprises of the site behind the church and renovating the bullfighting ring. Instead of a solid wall, the new boundary was to relate more to both the landscape and the city. A new democratic center, built on top of an area that is used by the local inhabitants to weekly celebrate the death of a religious figure, and yearly to celebrate the death of an animal for both cultural reasons and subsistence.

The Cultural Landscape I created a Parochial school, that is a

gate between the center of town, and the agave fields, giving a

place for people to have a forum to discuss their religion not just once a week when the priests arrive from the larger town of Tequila. The rebuilding of the bullfighting ring included, seating, and the edge of the seating includes a series of spaces for a meat market and butcher.

The market will give the bullfighting ring a daily program, making it a place for communal interaction. This new Center is a cultural center of understanding, an understanding of death celebrated by the religious functions, and the death of animals first used for cultural events, later eaten

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SITE MODEL

Plan Key: 1. Santa Teresa Church (Existing) 2. Parochial School-Classrooms 3. Parochial School-Atelier 4. Bullfighting Space 5. Seating

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