Tequio y Tierra: Regenerative Architecture in Oaxaca

This thesis explores regenerative materials and earth construction in marginalized Oaxaca, Mexico. The Mezcal industry – which has exploded in recent years due to celebrity-fueled popularity – is causing serious ecological damage due to industrial-scale monoculture and improper disposal of its plant-base by-products bagasso and viñaza. Combined, these alternative materials can create circular construction and economies, giving agency to vulnerable sectors of the population while responding to the global ecological crisis. To destigmatize earth construction, this thesis proposes a centre for research, education, and innovation, for Earth and Mezcal’s by-products. The proposition is a network strategy for the handling, processing, and redistribution of Mezcal by-products into the local communities as new building materials. This thesis addresses pressing and current environmental, economic, and societal concerns through the lens of a specific place and its controversial by-product, striving to reveal how cities can become sustainable material mines for the future.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Architecture (M.Arch.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Master's

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Architecture

Grantor dc:publisher

Carleton University

Year dc:date.issued

2024

Author dc:creator

• Leon de Gante, Alejandra

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright © 2024 the author(s). Theses may be used for non-commercial research, educational, or related academic purposes only. Such uses include personal study, distribution to students, research and scholarship. Theses may only be shared by linking to the Carleton University Institutional Repository and no part may be copied without proper attribution to the author; no part may be used for commercial purposes directly or indirectly via a for-profit platform; no adaptation or derivative works are permitted without consent from the copyright owner.

Language dc:language.iso

en

DOI

10.22215/etd/2024-15998

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:carleton.scholaris.ca:20.500.14718/41414