Football

La Doce is a colla­bo­ra­tive project, based on a network and a proposal for change that arises from the need to develop quality public spaces in margi­na­lized areas in various cities around the world.

Foot­ball as a sport is one of the most loved, most played and probably the one with the most follo­wers world­wide. It allows us to connect with ourselves and with others and at the same time, and from time to time discon­nect us from our envi­ron­ment.

love.fútbol

This mani­festo is the basis of a proposal for a colla­bo­ra­tive project: La Doce, starting from the mission and vision of love.fútbol, a non-profit that mobi­lizes and engages commu­ni­ties to plan, build, manage, acti­vate and rede­fine their own foot­ball pitches as sustainable plat­forms for social change. Through the manage­ment and spon­sor­ship of various enti­ties, love.fútbol promotes and realizes the resto­ra­tion and reco­very of disused sports fields in margi­na­lized urban areas world­wide, buil­ding quality public spaces.

Location

The project is located in the muni­ci­pa­lity of Valle de Chalco, refur­bis­hing a living space located in one of the areas expan­ding drama­ti­cally in popu­la­tion and suffe­ring from one of the highest rates of violence at the outskirts of Mexico City. Valle de Chalco is the desti­na­tion of many indi­ge­nous groups from all regions of the country, a dormi­tory city that reveals one of the most complex problems of contem­po­rary cities. An inter­woven mesh of roots that repres­ents a chall­enge towards the cons­truc­tion of social iden­tity and the rela­ti­onship with the space of the commu­nity itself.

La Doce is a colla­bo­ra­tion, a coor­di­nated effort and an alli­ance of desi­gners, archi­tects, artists, civil orga­niza­tions, and neigh­bors, who in a congre­ga­tion of propo­sals and social work are trans­lated into a project that summa­rizes and tries to achieve the inte­gra­tion of a frac­tured coll­ec­tive.

A large public square

An open pavi­lion ends in an edge of the playing field. Under a large roof several func­tions are inte­grated: the admi­nis­tra­tive area, a warehouse, rest­rooms, box area. Another adja­cent area allows multi­func­tional uses inclu­ding work­shops, classes and exhi­bi­tions that may be carried out at any time and any weather condi­tion. The pavi­lion invites the adjoi­ning proper­ties: an aban­doned library and an unin­ha­bited land, with the inten­tion for a future phase to relate and inte­grate both proper­ties to the project. A concrete plat­form, a vestige of the original field, is used as a large public square where the perspec­tive and expe­ri­ences of the many ethnic origins of which Valle de Chalco is struc­tured can be offered through artistic presen­ta­tions.