MULTI PROGRAM SHIP
Caracas | 2007 – 2014
The multiprogram ship was built as a logistic chain of events where construction phases were included as a part of them. Eventually, after years of frictions, transactions, and interaction, progressively and incrementally transformed into a complex social, performative, and environmental apparatus. The building is a Spatial apparatus that explores cultural occupation creating tactical regenerations and mobility strategies Iand t’s an alternative condition of temporality to activate hybrid public spaces in these complex geomorphological slums.
- Nominated for the MCHAP Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize 2016
- Winner of the Architectural Design Awards at XX Panamerican Quito Bienal 2016.
- 1st Prize for Social Architectural Design at the X Salon Malaussena for Architecture and Urbanism
- Nominated for the Oscar Niemeyer LAtin American Architecture Award 2016
- Exhibited at the eme3 International Architecture Festival / Barcelona 2015
- Honorific Mention for Sport Architecture at the Venezuela Bienal 2016
- XV Venice Biennale of Architecture 2016. Reporting From The Front
Iwan Baan
Julio Mesa
Iwan Baan
Hybrid Sport and Cultural Infrastructure
This Project takes part on a series of interventions of participatory urban reengineering, focalized on consolidating a net of sport, cultural and healthcare spaces as new urban models of collective nature for the organic growth areas of Caracas.
based on microsurgery operations upon the organic tissue. This urban device is coupled to the main mobility systems of the favela, building relationships along the dimension of the stair in flexible operative strata. The ship deploys diverse programs based on ground reengineering and also suspending aerial spaces using prefab systems by a series of modular metal frames.
It sets a programmatic stratification and a constructive logic form over the territory and constructive logic that accomplish to find in the aerial space opportunities for the deployment of public programs, through active and collective protocols for the physical and organizational rehabilitation of self-constructed areas of the city. The intervention happened due to a change of the territorial laws that establish the community 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. These 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.
Iwan Baan
Iwan Baan
The intervention has fulfilled to dilute the boundaries between an urban 70´s housing plan and a self growing mesh as it articulates collective activities that benefit the citizens of both urban conditions. It also has accomplished to conduct the territory´s political strength in the slum area, organizing the sporting a cultural groups to manage politics in other ambits. The project has been an opportunity to understand urban
bottom-up processes cooperatively, and to take distance from the recurring populism in Latin America at the same time that it takes us closer to approximate technologies for the knowledge transfer of citizen practices and local intelligences in these self built context. In that sense, a project that could have been finished in 7 months, took 7 years to conclude, because it is easier to build infrastructures than social relationships. Nowadays, the intervention benefits 600 hundred families which are 3.000 inhabitants, the regeneration is still going.
Irina Urriola
It’s an alternative on public and cultural spaces in geomorphological complex slums stablishing a hybrid alternative to public empowerment, based on microsurgery operations upon the territorial mesh. The urban device its coupled to the main mobility systems of the slum, building the relations of the public space along with 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.
