Hidden among hundreds of files in the Lake Texcoco Library, located in the Conagua branch by the Forest of San Juan de Aragón, there is a document dated in 1985, typewritten on once-white paper. This document belongs to a heap of binders, bound notebooks, and books enthusiastically published during the first decade of the instatement of the Lake Texcoco’s Federal Enclosure. It was then still an area open for potentially infinite developments. The acid of the fiber has reacted to thirty years of sunlight and heat, turning the pages yellow and blurring the ink. On the cover, there is a dedication written in blue ink: “With sincere esteem. For Mr. Gerardo Cruikshanck, hoping this book is of his liking and use.” Cruikshanck, heir of engineer Nabor Carrillo’s ideas, fostered the project of ecological recovery of Lake Texcoco’s basin in the 70s. This project included sowing a vegetal layer on the lakebed, which took decades to grow and settle in. The architect writing the dedication imagines the construction of a water resort in the middle of Lake Texcoco: a place with pools, gardens, cafeterias, party halls, parking lots, and an ongoing flux of visitors arriving from the city each weekend to spend the night in cabins by the Nabor Carrillo Reservoir. [...]
Water Resort
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