A low cost sustainable housing prototype for Tijuana, Mexico was designed and is under construction by faculty and students of Architecture and Regenerative Studies, in the grounds of the Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies at Cal Poly Pomona in Southern California. This prototype emphasizes local materials and technology appropriate for the cultural and economic conditions of the community in Tijuana.

These technologies include very inexpensive home-made solar heating systems that minimize the use of energy, water and materials to achieve human comfort with little energy consumption. In the development of this project we implemented strategies and systems based on proven traditional principles of sustainability, combining them with more advanced technologies that could be built at very low cost with local materials, providing adequate thermal comfort while being sustainable.