MULTIPROGRAM SHIP Sport and Cultural Platforms Carbonell, Catia, Venezuela. // 2007 (on going project)
This Project takes part on a series of interventions of cooperative urban reengineering, focalized on consolidating a network of sport, cultural spaces as new productive and formative urban models for the informal growth areas of Caracas. It’s an alternative on hybrid public spaces in geomorphological complex slums based on microsurgery operations upon the organic and spontaneous tissue of industrial slums.
The building is a Spatial apparatus that explore temporarily conditions and cultural occupation creating tactical regenerations and mobility strategies. This urban device is coupled to the main mobility systems of the favela, building relationships along the dimension of the stair in four operative strata, and providing, in the aerial space, opportunities for the deployment of diverse programs for the physical, and organizational rehabilitation of self-constructed areas of the city. This Project takes part on a series of interventions of cooperative urban reengineering, focalized on consolidating a network of sport, cultural spaces as new productive and formative urban models for the informal growth areas of Caracas. It’s an alternative on hybrid public spaces in geomorphological complex slums based on microsurgery operations upon the organic tissue
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curriculum vitae
MULTIPROGRAM SHIP S p o r t
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Hybrid Microscale Interventions: A multipurpose prefababricated device installed C A R A C A S / V E N E Z U E L A in a complex geomorphological context, plug-in to the favela main stair. 2007_2018 (on going project) (Metal sheets used in the Favela industrially processed with drilling machines).
« Winner of Architectural Design Awards at XX Panamerican Quito Biennial 2016.» « Nominated For The MCHAP Mies Crown Hall Americas Price 2016.»
« 1st Prize for Social Architectural Design at the X « Exhibited at eme3 international Salon Malaussena for Architecture and Urbanism.» architecture festival. Barcelona 2015.» « XV Venice Biennial Of Architecture 2016. « Nominated For The Oscar Niemeyer Reporting From The Front.» Latin American Architecture Award 2016.»
« Honorific Mention For Sport Architecture at The Venezuela Biennial 2016.»
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From the modern model of urban islands created by the massive housing governmentand plans that type of intervention became a symbol of social, cultural Inserted at the meeting point between the populated favela the(50’-70’), massive housing and sport especially, as an alternative for new educational public spacplans (50’-70’). The project became a symbol of social, cultural and infrastructure, sport infrastructure. The building also produce regener-ative urban landscapes in post oil and post industrial countries like Caracas, especially, as an alternative for new educational public spaces reclaimed by community initiatives.
es in anthropic emergency context. The building also represent new field of actions for architecture to produce regenerative urban landscapes in post oil and post industrial Countries._ PHOTO Julio Cesar Mesa 3
MULTIPROGRAM SHIP S y s t e m s
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C A R A C A S / V E N E Z U E L A 2007_2018 (on going project)
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Hybrid Microscale Interventions: A multipurpose prefababricated device installed in a complex geomorphological context, plug-in to the favela main stair.
« Winner of Architectural Design Awards at XX Panamerican Quito Biennial 2016.»
« 1st Prize for Social Architectural Design at the X Salon Malaussena for Architecture and Urbanism.»
« Nominated For The MCHAP Mies Crown Hall Americas Price 2016.»
« Nominated For The Oscar Niemeyer Latin American Architecture Award 2016.»
« Exhibited at eme3 international architecture festival. Barcelona 2015.» « XV Venice Biennial Of Architecture 2016. Reporting From The Front.»
« Honorific Mention For Sport Architecture at The Venezuela Biennial 2016.»
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Photo: Iwan Baan
Located in the Libertador Parish, with approximately 400,000 inhabitants, within the urbanOur approach tried to reconcile and balance the forces of a polarised society and a disenfranisation of Caracas, the Lomas de Urdaneta favela constitutes a belt which has been marginchised community, by developing strategies within the public realm to regenerate degraded Located in the Libertador Parish, with approximately 400,000 inhabitants, within isocial infrastructure. Our approach tried to reconcile and balance alised for over 50 years. This informal developed in the west of the valley is a complex topocommon ground and empower citizens to construct a fresh, independent and alternative type the urbanization of Caracas, the Lomas de Urdaneta favela constitutes a belt the forces of a polarised society and a disenfranchised community, by developing graphical zone in which its inhabitants have managed to achieve important improvements in of culture and sports public space. which has been marginalized for over 50 years. This informal development in the strategies within the public realm to regenerate degraded common ground and terms of accessibility, service infrastructure and social infrastructure. west of the valley is a complex topographical zone in which its inhabitants have empower citizens to construct a fresh, independent and alternative type of culture managed to achieve important improvements in terms of accessibility, service
and sports civic infrastructure and place-making interventions.
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buildingfor plugs into identity the interstitial retained by the community more 30 favela into a unexpected aesthetic, which became the new visual identity of the community. The building plugs into the interstitial space retained by the The community more of the space community transforming the favelafor with an than unexpected aesthetic years, in the hope of building a sports centre there. The existing stair, a main pedestrian conthan 30 years, hoping to build a sports centre. The existing stair was transformed language. The concrete walls allowed to plug in a prefabricated system of metal nection, as well as storm drainassembledtogether and mains serviceswith route, was transformed through compreThe lower level is conceived as a cultural space with grandstands for public events, while conthrough comprehensive territorial reengineering. The main pedestrian connection frames a perforated metal skin-sheets. hensive territorial reengineering. solidating the structural issues onsite and reorganising the services beneath. is also a water drain and mains services route. The lower level is conceived as a cultural space with grandstands for public events, while the upper level becomes 5 the sports complex. The building became the new visual The concrete walls allowed us to plug in a prefabricated system of metal frames, on which we The upper level becomes the sports complex which the locals had dreamed of for 30 years. assembled a skin of perforated metal sheets that transform the same materials used in the
The project investigates the before and the after of the building, operating over the processes that precede construction phases and the consciousness of what could produce. In that sense aiming to build less and achieve more.
The construction process itself is conceived as an territorial incremental occupation, creating a multi-level social landscape. It focuses on reviving latent natures and returning them to their original conditions. The proposal upgrades and repairs existing infrastructures and goes beyond, triggers new relations between humans, materials and natural topographies.
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The strategy was basedthe on second two fronts: connectivity systems of the favela are transformed into a program corridor, where new developed a strategic maneuver by engineering inserting a craneThe at the transactions and forms of public space occur. The exchange of service infrastructures to the construction site deployed a series of pre-framed elements in order to facilitate the The first consisted in the reingeneering of the soil, and the installation of a prefabicated artimain mobility system allows the activation of emerging community relations_ The first consisted of the engineering of the soil, installing structural elements of processes of assembling in situ. The prefabricated frames translate the possibilities fact using the possibilities of the local industry, building a preframed and seriated elements ground stabilization, reinforcing the main stair and taking advantage of natural of the local industry into the community implementing new building components. systems assemble in situ. resources by collecting and treating water and waste. 7 The strategy was based on two fronts:
Permeable skins used the possibilities of the local industry:Permeable
The building therefore proposes its own hybrid fabrication system, which fuses locally availskins used thefactories. possibilities of local industry. in local The building, therefore, proposes its own hybrid fabrication system,
able technology with industrial techniques. A fusion of the re-use of industrial materials with which fuses locally available expertises and technology with industrial modern digital We designed the permeable skin totraditions, use the possibilities of A local industry. Members of the materials The porosity on the enclosure produced a particular translucency allowing to techniques, and heritage. fusion of available industrial with design, analogue machines and physical labour installed fast-assembly galvanised sheets, they drilled with die-cutget the Favelas color pallet. Members of the community community installed these fast- these design protocols, analog machines, andwhich physical labor, transforms the building in an from theopen 1950s.classroom, also implementing learning methods on-site constructions. The assembly galvanized sheets and then a layer of metal mesh.ting Themachines modular sheets 8 were drilled with die-cut-ting machines from the 1950s, still operating today act of building, the art, the craft, and the science alsoused as a tool of engagement, knowledge transfer and urban regeneration.
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Photo: Stefano Di Cristofaro
10 Photo: Iwan Baan
11 Photo: Irina urriola
12 Photo: Irina urriola
13 Photo: Alejandro Haiek
The building represents a new village landscape, the favela becomes a site of knowledge exchange, local empowerment The building represents a new town-scape, the Favela becomes a site of knowledge exchange,and management resources. The history changed, now the local empowerment and management resources that create new possibilities to become autonomous and self-sufficient. The building linked to urban fabrics, activating historical social relations, inviting people who live in the massive housing buildings surrounding the slum to use it as a cooperative civic infrastructure.
people who live in the massive housing buildings surrounding the slum uses the infrastructure diluting the boundaries between the formal and informal
14 Photo: Yuresly Suarez
The building proposes a new aesthetic of the social, distancing itself from precarity, rethinkingfrom the same materiality of the The building proposes a new social aesthetic, distancing itself precarity, rethinking thefavela from semi industrialized processes and other ways of
understanding available resources_ Photo LAB.PRO.FAB / The Public Machinery
same materiality of the favela derived from semi industrialized processes and otherways of understanding available resources.
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The building represents a new village landscape, the favela becomes a site of knowledge exchange, local using empowerment and management resources. The ship floats suspended over the street and the existing surroundings, unregulated
air space, to deploy a new strata. The building is also a form of resistance to top-down The history changed, public policies and an attempt to pro-pose new urban regulations for the favelas.now the people who live in the massive housing buildings surround- ing the slum uses the infrastructure diluting the boundaries between the formal and informal.
The ship floats suspended over the street, using air space, which is unregulated, to deploy a new strata. The building is also a form of resistance to public policies and an attempt to propose new urban regulations for the favelas.
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The favela becomes a site of knowledge exchange, local empowerment and management of resources. The relationship between the surrounding modernist books and the informal setIn this context densified by layers and layers of programmed obsolescence and residual tlement of the favela flipped, textures of the industry, community groups manage a stratified sequence of cultural programs and multi-purpose spaces with the paradoxical environmental and atmospheric dimension of a mango tree. The building creates a micro-environment controlled by forms of collectivity and by the force of the presence of nature in an almost complete artificialized context.
and people started arriving to use its infrastructure, thereby diluting the boundaries between the formal and informal city.
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18 Photo: Iwan Baan
19 Photo: Enrique Berni
20 Photo: Irina urriola
21 Photo: Iwan Baan
The building operates as community empowerment machine, promoting modelshas of microla. This The building operates as a community empowerment machine, promoting of apublic programs, through active citizenship. This strategy now managed to strategy has now managed to overhaul, repair and refurbish more than 400 homes economics, that are later used to activate a second phase of integral regeneration of the faveand promote consistent social sustainability network system. Photo_LAB.PRO.FAB models of microeconomics, that are later used to activate a second phase of the overhaul, repair and refurbish more than 400 homes using local construction worker integral regeneration of the favela. to run a regenerative infrastructure community plan. The program promoted a social sustainability network system between neighbors in a continuous balance of the A programmatic stratification and a constructive logic form, over the territory, forces of this organic and complex grid pattern. 22 that accomplish to find in the aerial space, opportunities for the deployment
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A hybrid alternative stablished to public empowerment, on microsurgery operaThethe intervention benefits 600 hundred families which are 3.000 inhabitants, the regeneration A hybrid alternative was established to public empowerment, based onwas The intervention benefits 600 hundredbased families which are 3.000 inhabitants, tions upon the territorial mesh; through active and collective protocols for the physical and is still microsurgery operations upon the territorial mesh; through active and collective regeneration is still going; reporting more than 4 hundred painted houses producinggoing; reporting more than 4 hundred painted houses producing micro economies that rehabilitation the sector ledconsolidate by the communal organization; consolidate the social structure. protocols for the physical and organizational rehabilitationorganizational of the sector led by micro of economies that the social structure. with cultural and sport associations alongside the local and national governments. the communal organization; with cultural and sports associations. 23
A programmatic stratification and a constructive logic form, over the territory, that accomfind the aerial space, The project that begins with an ephemeral programmatic plish eventtoon aninin-between space opportunities for the deployment of public programs, through now became an urban cooperative reengineering. It took 7 years to finish the project but 7 years to install it, demonstrating how difficult is to build relationships beyond infrastructure.
active and collective protocols.
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25 Photo: Iwan Baan