Erika Loana and Gabriela Sisniega, CDMX-Chihuahua (2020) - Materia Prima is a critical research project, born from the conceptual association between the intensive extraction of materials from the subsoil to transform them into construction materials, the lucrative destruction of the territory for the construction of another more visible one - the city and the urban - and the documentary record of the loss, filtered through the wear and tear in the Mexican landscape. By visualizing the impact of the extractive industry, its geographic location, and the radical transformations caused by its gigantic mechanical procedures, it also seeks to understand the impact of architecture on the land, the landscape, and the territory. By establishing the necessary limits between the spatial, geographical, economic and political dimensions of the transformation industry and its mechanisms of subtraction, it seeks to determine possible actions to revalue the traces left in these extractive landscapes that tell us that architecture is nothing more than a place made of other places.




