Gated Communities Protocols
Gated Communities in Buenos Aires
Cornell University
Ithaca, United States, 2007
Professor: Ciro Najle
Collaborator: Leyre Asensio Villoria
Students: Sarosh Anklesaria, Kaizen Chen, Victor Chea, María Jiménez, Chulhan Jung, Kayzad Shroff, Carol Slawson, Gang Song, Stephen Wong
The massive spread of gated communities in peripheral Buenos Aires has been one of the most dramatic urban changes in the 1990s and continues to be the major means of transformation after the crisis of 2001, physical manifestation of the large dramatic social and cultural changes that Argentina has experienced in the process of globalization of its economy. The former Metropolis and capital city of the XX century escalates its development outwards, especially towards the north, following the vectors of communication of the city with the interior of the country along natural/infrastructural corridors.
Gated Communities Protocols engages the relational protocols inscribed in the normative systems of contemporary gate communities in Argentina to expand their spectrum of variants and constitute a robust commercial rationale for the typology. The research follows informal organizational mechanisms and increases their creativity through the systematization of excess.
