Hybrid infrastructure. Sport and cultural platforms.
This Project takes part on a series of interventions on urban reengineering, focalized into consolidate a network of cultural, sport and assistance spaces as new urban models of collective nature for the popular areas of Caracas. The Project establishes a hybrid alternative to public management, based on microsurgery operations upon the territorial mesh; through active and collective protocols for the physical and organizational rehabilitation of self-constructed and organic growth areas of the city.
Site Plan Diagram
The Project was led by the communal organization; with cultural and sport associations alongside the local and national governments. The community operates as geopolitical cells called community councils: this structure of territorial power management allows them to map, discuss, evaluate, diagnose and prioritize their problems, needs and demands with a high level of participation, thanks to its flexible and horizontal itinerary. This cells are constitutionally validated, establishing new ways of governability and assemble a legal scaffolding able to canalize the public resources through collective discussion and voting.
Design process
Under construction
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The urban device its coupled to the main mobility systems of the slum, building the relations of the public space along the dimension of the stair in three operative strata: the first, in contact with the Street; its conceived to provide medical and assistive services with a construction of 85m2, the second; a 140m2 platform its design for multipurpose programs, neighborhood congregation activities, workshops and spaces of cultural expression and exhibition; the third platform of 200m2 its conceived for sport activities. The intervention benefits 600 hundred families which are 3.000 inhabitants, the regeneration is still going; reporting more than 4 hundred painted houses producing micro economies that consolidate the social structure.
