Through the PILARES program, Metropolis Magazine examines how Mexican architects, including Fernanda Canales, are contributing to the creation of community infrastructure in underserved areas of Mexico City. The publication highlights Canales’s project in Iztapalapa, where a cultural center shaped through courtyards, gardens, and porous walls seeks to provide safe, luminous, and open spaces that encourage social interaction, learning, and the collective appropriation of public space.