CONNECTING CITY: PETARE NORTE. LANDSCAPING. USB
año: 2017
Maintaining the sustained work that has been done by the Universidad Simón Bolívar and the private company since 2009, in the transformation of the urban landscape in the informal areas of the city of Caracas, especially in the Sucre Municipality, their communities and the different parishes that comprise it, in addition to the interventions that […]
RE-drawing equity. ASLA Students Award 2010
año: 2016
The most tangible condition of a city like Caracas is the vast difference lived and perceived between formal and informal city. Thinking about integrating both seem almost intractable problem, so we propose to achieve conditions that approximate both realities through the public space, including parks as the place of representation of equity, covering the integration of […]
ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTIONS. Vertical design workshop. USB
año: 2016
This course presents what the architect Ignasi de Solá-Morales affirms when he says that: “… any problem of intervention is always a problem of interpretation of an existing architectural work (…). An intervention is as much as trying to get the building to say something again and say it in a certain direction. Depending on […]
RIO GUAIRE LABORATORY. VERTICAL DESIGN WORKSHOP. USB
año: 2015
The objectives to be reached in the workshop consisted mainly in the analysis and study of the axis of the Guaire River in the City of Caracas, identifying its limitations and urban potentials; the formulation of a relevant and coherent argument that will support structural changes in the road and pedestrian fabric of the Francisco […]
RESILIENT AND INCLUSIVE CARACAS. DESIGN WORKSHOP. USB
año: 2014
According to figures from the World Bank, more than 90% of population growth in developing countries occurs in cities. For the year 2012, the urban population in Latin America and the Caribbean was 76% of the total population of the region, while in the case of Venezuela, 94% of the population lives in cities. In […]
SWITCH ON POWERING TRANSFORMATION AWARD
año: 2014
The team made up of students and professors from the Architecture career of the USB obtained the second prize in the International Competition Switch On Powering Transformation University Competition World 2014, Barcelona, with the Waternet project La Yaguara Resilience Park. The competition involved 48 teams from 14 countries, made up of 313 students and 128 […]
ANALYZING THE INFORMAL CITY. VERTICAL DESIGN WORKSHOP. USB
año: 2013
We were in the second quarter in a joint work between the community of Las Minitas (Baruta) and the Architecture Career of the Simón Bolívar University. In the January-March 2012 quarter the place was worked with the professors Josefina Baldo and Carmenofelia Machado, a careful survey of the area was made and a rigorous […]
INTERVENTIONS OF PUBLIC SPACES IN NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE SUCRE MUNICIPALITY.
año: 2013
The theme of this publication are the public spaces recently built in the Sucre Municipality, by the “Espacios Sucre” program. The majority of the parks built are located in informal settlements such as Petare, Caucagüita, Filas de Mariches and La Dolorita, and represent symbols of urban improvement in these communities. The publication is composed of […]
THRESHOLDS OF CHANGE AWARD. IV BIENNIAL OF ARCHITECTURE OF MARACAIBO 2013
año: 2013
This national meeting was held in order to stimulate research, participation and development in the area of Venezuelan architecture as a cultural manifestation. He tried to recognize, disseminate and decorate the works of national architects in the different registered categories. “Interventions of Public Spaces in neighborhoods of the Sucre Municipality” is a compilation of the […]
