Unidad Habitacional Presidente Alemán

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Unidad Habitacional Presidente Alemán is a pioneering mid-20th-century modernist housing complex in Mexico City, recognized as one of the earliest large-scale social housing projects in Latin America.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf housing complex
modernist housing project
residential neighborhood
social housing project
architecturalStyle International Style
Modernism
category Housing in Mexico City
Modernist architecture in Mexico
Social housing in Mexico
continent North America
country Mexico
hasBuildingType multifamily apartment blocks
hasCirculationType separation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic
hasConstructionPeriod 20th century
hasContext post-World War II housing policies in Mexico
hasCulturalContext Mexican modern architecture movement
hasDesignGoal provide affordable housing for middle and working classes
hasFeature apartment buildings
collective services
green areas
internal circulation paths
hasFunction model for subsequent Mexican housing units (unidades habitacionales)
hasInfrastructure internal streets
parking areas
hasOpenSpaceType gardens
shared courtyards
hasPlanningConcept large-scale, planned residential superblock
hasResidentialUnits apartment units
hasUrbanRole prototype of state-promoted multifamily housing in Mexico City
hasUse commercial at ground level
residential
heritageDesignation pioneering large-scale social housing project in Latin America
inception mid-20th century
languageOfToponym Spanish
locatedIn Mexico City
urban area
locatedInAdministrativeTerritory Benito Juárez borough NERFINISHED
locatedInTimeZone America/Mexico_City
namedAfter Miguel Alemán Valdés NERFINISHED
partOf Mexico City modernist urban development
significance one of the earliest large-scale social housing complexes in Latin America
reference project for later Mexican multifamily housing complexes

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Mario Pani designed Unidad Habitacional Presidente Alemán