How to deal with the design of an integrated water system for a farm and hostel house on the border of Mexico City metropolitan area? Latitude has just taken the ambition to investigate the possibility of closing the water cycle within the clearing of a pioneer inhabited plot located deep into the dense mountain forest of the first relief range next to Mexico City. The local conditions have been examinated at first: the abundance of rainwater on summer, the existence of a public open storage located on top of the site and the original topography made of an homogenous slope with some depressions at the bottom, they are conditions that push to imagine practical explorations of a self-sufficient, off-grid water system.

The ambition is to design according to the latest criteria of sustainability and ecological balance, setting up renewable energy systems of solar and wind power and food production through biological cultivation. The upcoming fieldwork will let us verify the first ideas and discover unexpected site specific opportunities.