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Mercado Salado

University/SchoolUniversity of Puerto Rico School of Architecture
Lead ArchitectClaudia Crespo

"Mercado Salado" inserts traditional Puerto Rican fishing villages in direct confrontation with public policies that exclude locals from access to Puerto Rican coasts, while granting access to the tourism industry. In this way, it challenges issues of community displacement, legislation, and the rights locals have to their land. The imminent rise of sea level is used as the framework to destabilize existing zoning regulations to safeguard the existence of a local fishing community while recognizing that part of "Mercado Salado" and its site will be lost to the Caribbean waters.