架构师提供的文本描述。该项目由736套住房单元组成，共6栋5层楼高的住宅，内部庭院位于一个占地1.6万平方米的原工业用地上。Iztacalco是联邦区的一个贫困地区，距离地铁(BRT)和地铁站都不到四分之一英里。

Text description provided by the architects. The project consists of 736 housing units organized in six 5-story blocks with interior courtyards in a former industrial site of 16,000 sq. meters in Iztacalco, a poor borough in the Federal District, less than a quarter of a mile from both a Metrobus (BRT system) and a subway station.

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尽管在建筑上很谨慎，但该项目代表着“城市突破”，因为它依赖于与墨西哥主要房屋建筑商之一(Consorcio Ara)的合作，后者过去几年的做法是在墨西哥城周边地区建造单身家庭住宅，并说服他们“返回”市中心，建造更可持续的住房。

Though architectural discreet, the project represents an ‘urban breakthrough’, since it relies on a partnership with one of the major home builders in Mexico (Consorcio Ara), who in past years has based their practice on building single-family homes in the peripheries of Mexico City, and convincing them to ‘return’ to the central city, and build more sustainable housing.

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该项目将中高层/高密度(每公顷500个单元)、混合使用(其中一个街区的底层零售)和半公共空间(如每个街区的庭院)和“把车藏在地下室”等方式结合起来，为“城市内部”和靠近公共交通的社会住房提供了一个真正的替代方案。

By incorporating mid-rise/high-density (500 units per hectare), mixed use (retail on the ground floor of one of the blocks) and semi-public spaces like the courtyards in each block as well as ‘hiding’ the cars in a basement, the project offers a real alternative for social housing ‘inside the city’ and close to public transportation.

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更重要的是，与大型开发商的传统观点相反，这项计划对他们来说与外围地区的其他开发项目一样有利可图。

On top of that, and counter to the conventional wisdom of large developers, the scheme has proven to be as profitable for them as their other developments in the peripheries.

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我们希望，像这样的项目有助于改变人们对如何设计和建造墨西哥城每年需要的5万多套住房的看法和做法。

It is our hope that projects like this one help transform perceptions and practices on how to design and build the more than 50,000 units of housing required for Mexico City every year.