ANALYSIS
STRATEGY
LIBIS
MANILA
intervention 1
OPEN SPACES
N E W S TA G E S F O R L I B I S intervention 2
CLUSTERS
The intervention aims to challenge what have been identified as threats for the Libis community, taking them as a starting point for a fruitful transformation. Nowadays the community is suffering its vast location below a power line that is crossing throughout all the site and the settlement. Indeed, the authority is pushing the community to be organized and ready to clear the way under the electrical infrastructure in order to have a road expanded enough to fulfill the “formal� requirements. Taking this issue as a trigger for the community itself, the project proposes a strategy to relocate the inhabitants of this contested space while upgrading the entire settlement improving the public spaces and maintaining the nature of the community, its current social dynamics and culture. The intervention will be developed through a span of 5 different stages, allowing the inhabitants to be ready and organized to sustain the project. Basically the strategy acts on the upgrading of the buildings, thanks the re-blocking of the fabric through an incremental housing scheme, giving more freedom to each household and to the community in designing their own place. The project also includes interventions in the central strip that will be expanded after the relocation of the present houses. According to maintain this strip as the core of the community, where the main businesses and social interactions are performed, two different structure will be constructed to create flexible spaces. On the west side a series of covers are suggested, expanding the potentiality of the basketball court, creating public open spaces. Instead, on the east side a more vertical diaphragm will be implemented to create a buffer zone that can be the transition from the public space (main street) into the more private buildings (housing). This structure is also a flexible one, that can host local businesses, common services or activities. The program will be possibly carried on thanks different actors involved, starting from the capabilities already present among community’s members and the already present saving scheme. The timeline over the five stages is actually a way to support the sustainability of the project, that will became economically and physically affordable.
sharonambrosio deborahnavarra _ 19. 03. 2015 critical urbanism studio II bu9