SITE: PORT OF ENSENADA, MEXICO: INDUSTRIES AND RESOURCES
The reigonal economy of Baja California is informed deeply by the port of Ensenada, located on the Pacific Ocean, approximately 40km South East of the Valle de Guadalupe. Ensenada is a hub for international tourism, a center for commercial fishing, sea trade, and other marine industries, and maintains and supports activities associated with watercraft. The material cultures of these industries provide a lens through which to view the potentials for material reuse that stem from Ensenada. As the home of Baja California's only deep water port and its largest dry dock, Ensenada is home to a sizeable shipbreaking operation. This industry is the source of a large quantity of reusable steel whose forms can be deduced from the processes that the disassembly of a ship entails. Meanwhile, the fishing industries in the port leave a second major waste product: finish nets and ropes. The material intelligences embedded in these two products -- scrap steel and fishing nets -- can inform a meaningful employment of Ensenada's resources with a view towards material reuse that is specific to the region.
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