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CENTRAL DE-CENTRAL​:

Rethinking Mexico City’s Urban Logistics

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This project begins with a central question: how can we reimagine the hidden infrastructures that shape our cities, those that feed, connect, and sustain them? CENTRAL DE-CENTRAL explores the possibility of transforming logistical systems into urban strategies for cohesion, equity, and sustainability.

Today, Mexico City breathes through five main arteries: Pachuca, Toluca, Puebla, Querétaro, and Cuernavaca. Yet at its heart lies a rupture: the Central de Abasto, a vast wholesale market that functions as an island, disconnecting rather than weaving together its surroundings. It embodies an urban void—spatially dominant, but socially and ecologically fragmented.

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The project proposes a paradigm shift: to dismantle the Central de Abasto as a centralized monolith and redistribute its functions into five decentralized hubs located at the city's main entry points. This new constellation reorganizes the flow of goods toward the periphery, relieving inner-city congestion, improving food distribution networks, and reclaiming urban space for public life.

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Beyond logistics, the proposal envisions a new urban landscape—one that restores continuity across fractured neighborhoods, fosters local economies, and reclaims forgotten peripheries. It is a project about infrastructure as architecture, about networks as narratives, and about imagining a more balanced and integrated future for Mexico City.

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