Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Teams from 13 countries compete to build sustainable homes

Beckmann Foundation and the Jesuit University of Guadalajara announced the winners of the 1st International Sustainable Social Housing Competition, in which 295 registered teams, 698 participants, 13 Latin American countries, and 103 cities from Mexico participated.

The purpose of the project was to take advantage of reused and recycled elements from the agave plant and local materials to design sustainable social housing for vulnerable families in Tequila, Jalisco.

Beckmann Foundation together with the Department of Habitat and Urban Development of the Technological Institute and Higher Studies of the West (ITESO), invited students of architecture, civil engineering, and design from different . . .

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