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P O R T F O L I O

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Anabella

Acevedo

Peña

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The Power of Air [ El Poder del Aire ]

The System’s Symphony

[ La Sinfonía de los Sistemas ]

[ academic ]

Centro Cultural Abreu [ Abreu Cultural Center ]

La Grieta [ Fissure ]

Fábrica de Techo [ Housing Factory ]

[ index ]

Mercado La Limonera

450

[ professional ]

[ La Limonera Market ]

CCScity450 [ CCScity450 ]

CCScity450 Comunidades [ CCScity450 Communities ]

Hatillalta [Hatillalta ]

THE POWER OF AIR

[ the power of air ]

The Power of Air which is the creation of a new Air Rights marketplace and design criteria proposal for Capital Activation through Resilient and Equitable development that will ensure the Future of Affordable Housing in New York City for generations to come.

All the data in this project was processed through a combination of ArcGIS and Python, while the financial feasability was tested through the development of a coded Proforma.

PyProForma

is a scalable proforma library for Python built for real estate, urban planning, and capital planning analysis.

REPOSITORY

BOARD

Section 8+9 PACT 412a Tax Exemption

2022 Today

Creation of Marketplace

Build on a NYCHA campus

Creation of NYCHA CARE

Receive interest Sell and buy of Air Rights in the Marketplace rate from Marketplace Change of policy

2024

2025

2026

NYCHA’s new deficit

2027

THE PROBLEM NYCHA is currently going through the worst crisis in its history. NYCHA’s deficit will climb to $45.2 billion over the next 20 years, due to the decaying and illmaintained buildings in the city’s largest affordable housing portfolio.

NYCHA DEFICIT

$45.2 Billion NYCHA Population 164,509 families / +358,000 inhabitants NYCHA Average Family Income $24,336 per year NYCHA Average Rent $509/month

THE EVENT HORIZON By 2027 the system could identify their needs as very high cost or worse (>$250,000), including 8,000 units that are likely to be greater than replacement cost.

New Event Horizon

2023

Pay NYCHA’s deficit

NYCHA has an opportunity to leverage its Air Rights to create a Resilient and Sustainable Marketplace that stabilizes and regenerates the existing building portfolio while creating a Future of Equitable Development.

Developing Emerald Network

Build away from a NYCHA campus

2027 Event Horizon

2022

Get $94 Billion from the sell

Repositioning districts

Build next to a NYCHA campus

BIDs

Selling Air Rights

ABOUT AIR RIGHTS

NYCHA = Pruitt Igoe

Keep the same structure

NYCHA = Pruitt Igoe

Avg Price SQFT Air Rights = $307

2037

SQFT NYCHA AIR RIGHTS

732 Million *($307)

$2.25 Trillion

[ NYCHA Air Rights distribution ]

THE 15-MINUTE CITY Residential Security Map (1938) Home Owner’s Loan Corporation

Popular Demographic Points (2018) Esri Demographics

Everyone living in a city should have access to essential urban services within a 15 minute walk or bike exchange for vibrancy and mechanism for equitable development is critical in re-crafting a new publi Household Medium Income (2021) Esri Demographics

NYCHA Emerald Market Framework

NYCHA Open Space Network

NYCHA Campus Center Point A- First Grade (Best Investment)

White

B- Second Grade

Hispanic

C- Third Grade

African American

D- Forth Grade (Worst Investment)

Asian

0

0.0-0.25 mi/ 0-5 min walking

Public Open Spaces

0.25-0.5 mi/ 5-10 min walking

Proposed Open Space Network

0.5-0.75 mi/ 10-15 min walking 200,001

NYC Open Street Program Proposed Open Streets

American Indian/Alaska Native Multiple Races Tied Pacific Islander Other

FROM THE REDLINING MAP TO CURRENT DEMOGRAPHICS & WEALTH DISTRIBUTION...

...TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE 15-MINUTE CITY

e. Promoting this as a new ic imagination.

Proposed NYCHA BID Nework Existing Manhattan BIDs Existing BID Overlap with NYCHA Proposed New NYCHA BIDs

$$$ NYCHA Development Class 1*

Dev. Centerpoint- 0.25 mi/ 5 min walk Incentives: 0-3% Property tax** $225-270/sqft NYCHA Air Rights

$

$$ NYCHA Development Class 2*

0.25 mi/ 5 min walk- 0.5 mi/ 10 min walk Incentives: 3-5% Property tax** $271-315/sqft NYCHA Air Rights

NYCHA Development Class 3*

0.5 mi/ 10 min walk- 0.75 mi/ 15 min walk Incentives: 5-10% Property tax** $316-338/sqft NYCHA Air Rights

Creating a new Design Criteria is effectively establishing NYCHA specific Zoning Regulations that enable public housing to support equitable growth over time while remaining on pace with the development of the city. The geolocation of the Emerald Market promotes not only the possibility of growth within NYCHA but provides incentives for development of vibrant neighborhoods around NYCHA.

TAXONOMY OF NYCHA BUILDINGS Shape Typology 9,631 sqft Sedgwick

Bar 81 campuses

6,836 sqft Washington

7216 sqft Douglass II

CARVER

28% 6,425 sqft Carver

Cross 58 campuses

8,171 sqft Sheepshead Bay

8,738 sqft Smith

20% 8,427 sqft Baruch

Combined-Bar 40 campuses

7,350 sqft Vladeck II

22,186 sqft Lower East Side

7,173 sqft Amsterdam

10,284 sqft Elliott

The scalable case of study Most common NYCHA building typologies

14% 4,697 sqft Morris I

7,971 sqft Jefferson

3,509 sqft Queensbridge

8,139 sqft Farragut

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2%

Others Rest of campuses

SOLAR ANALYSIS

TOTAL 285 campuses

[ winter analysis ]

[ summer analysis ]

With one of the most common NYCHA building typologies- the “Cross” + “Bar” Carver Houses, located in East Harlem between Madison and Park Ave, present a good average of available Open Space plus the added proximity to Central Park, which can increase the overall campus value, especially building vertically for an increase in park views.

PARK AVENUE AND CARVER VIEW Everything within a 15 minute walk

VIEW TO THE CARVER HOUSES One of the most desirable places to live in New York City Informing the new NYCHA CARE Design Criteria, the new builds with their Tower Sculpting will potentially become an new urban norm led by NYCHA to preserve sun light, open space, and pave the way to Environmental Equity + Justice.

NYCHA DESIGN CRITERIA The height of the new tower is divided into a series of breaks that offer interstitial spaces activated with communal, civic and commercial amenities for the residents of each tower. We believe NYCHA can lead the way in crafting vertical spaces lead with environmental and social justice, by carving into forms with sloped planes and porous edges that give access to more sunlight below.

1

NYCHA Existing Building

CARVER SITE PLAN- EXISTING AMENITIES Rain Garden/Grey Water Recycling NYC Open Restaurants Food Vendor/Pop Up Shop Roof Garden Private Courtyard Garden

R7-2 As Of Right Added Building

2

Introduce Balance Space + Add On Top Ex’g Building (R7-2 As Of Right)

3

4

5

Introduce Balance Space + Additional Building Floors (Zoning Variance)

Solar Carving + Balance Spaces (Commercial, Civic Program)

Program Activation: Urban Farm/ Apiary Performance

6

Add Base with new Tenant Facilities + Retail/Commercial Program

PROPOSED NEW UNIT TAXONOMY:

DIFFERENT FAMILY TYPES

EQUITABLE DEVELOPMENT + INCLUSIVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING

ONE PARENT 30% OF THE DEMAND IN THE REAL SINGLE ESTATE MARKET COUPLES

SENIOR

EXTENDED

NUCLEAR

MULTIPERSONAL

SIMULTANEOUS

To address equitable development, our team is proposing the inclusion of a broader range of user types and in turn creates a diversity of unit typologies and prices depending on the percentage of AMI a family falls within. The proposal generates over 5,000 new units.

COMMUNITARIAN

1 Bedroom + Commercial

Unit Mix 28% Coliving 30% Studio 30% 1 Bedroom 10% 2 Bedroom 3 Bedroom 2%

Existing Units 1,246 Units

Carver Total

4,132 Units

Proposed Subtotal 3,094 Units

Open Space + Commercial

3 Bedroom Affordable

2 Bedroom Market

Open Space

Civic + Cultural Studio + 1 Bedroom

KEY PLAN

The phasing of the project is determined by maximizing the overall fiscal performance of the development in an equitable way while positioning the campus for growth and diversity.

PyProForma PyProForma is a scalable proforma library for Python, built for real estate, urban planning, and capital planning analysis.

PHASE 1 - Build On Top

This proforma assumes a development cost of 450 dollars/sqft, totalling 1.4 billion dollars. 70% PHASE 3 - Improving Base Condition of the necessary budget would come from our Equity generated from the sale of air rights and the speculative value of the Emerald market, while the other 30% comes from capital underwriting.

The ROI is currently at 11%.

PHASE 2 - Renovate Base

NYCHA CURRENT = APPROX 1244 EX’G UNITS RENT BRACKET (2bdrm + 3 bdrm mix) CURRENT PRO FORMA NEW CONSTRUCTION 50-165% AMI

Extra-Affordable 0-30% AMI

Affordable + Senior Affordable 50-80% AMI

Coliving 10 x 32.5 325 sqft

590

1301

S

2302 S

Studio 10.5 x 38 400 sqft

700

1593

S

2782 S

1 Bedroom 15.7 x 38 600 sqft

3 Bedroom 30.9 x 38 1175 sqft

Development Costs Hard Costs Financing Costs Developer Fee Soft Costs

Construction Sources S Equity Mortgage Loan

750

1626

900

1040

1951

2255

S

3578

4133

Permanent Sources Air Rights Revenue Federal Funds City Funds Tenant Rental Revenue Section 8 Subsidy Others

3,721,059 sqft 5,319 units 531 units 1,968 units 2,820 units

Construction Sq Foootage Total Units Extra-Affordable Units Affordable Units Market Rate Units

Underwriting Assumptions Income/Expense Escalation Residential Vacancy Rate Commercial Vacancy Rate Annual Increase in Expenses Annual Public Subsidy Increase Cap Rate @ Sale Sale Expenses

2% 5% 10% 2% 2% 6% 5%

Financial Performance Total Development Costs

2982 S

2 Bedroom 23.7 x 38 900 sqft

Building Assumptions

Market + Senior Market 90-165% AMI

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REPOSITORY

ROTA

Levered IRR

ROI

PHASE 1 Building on Top

68%

13.6%

-15%

11.2%

PHASE 2 Renovations

27%

14%

-25%

11.1%

5%

15.5%

-24%

11.5%

$1.6B

13.5%

-20%

11.1%

PHASE 3 Landscape + Base TOTAL

[ the system’s symphony ]

Understanding the city as a series of self-assembled systems that interact and integrate with one another could potentially unlock anarchy as a collaborative and self-organized process to create a more equal, resilient and connected city.

The use of data and coding as experimental tools for creating the simulation of this new proposal was highly relevant and useful to explore different sceneries. Within the new city, Balance Spaces are proposed as the system that restores and provides equilibrium to the city.

REPOSITORY

The uneven distribution of open and green spaces throughout New York City impacts negatively to underserved communities, mostly comprised by minority groups. Additionally, the existence of physical and nonphysical barriers to access these spaces limits the cultural expression of these groups, translating into inequality and issues of environmental justice

open space 15 m2/inh green space 12 m2/inh

built space

open space

MANHATTAN 9653

QUEENS 4944

built space

[ city metrics ]

green space

BRONX 3011

9700

green space

income

cluster

open space

BROOKLYN 5936

82.5%

over 8 million inh.

300.46 sq. miles

built vs open vs green

THE CITY AS A SYSTEM

1500

STATEN ISLAND 1597

[ events in the city ]

[ open space + communities ]

[ income + communities ]

INTERSTICES

An interstice is a gap between two two physical or non-physical things, separating and uniting them.

These systems are the result of viewing the city as a series of self-assembled systems that interact and integrate with one another. The showcased project here is one part of those systems: Balance Spaces.

Residual spaces between structures that could be leveraged to contribute to the balance of the city.

BALANCE SPACES

Through the transformation of the interstitial spaces, it is intended to convert the existing disused spaces into restructuring areas that provide balance through programmed events, with the opportunity to exert identity in the horizontal and vertical plane. And as a result, the creation of a Balance Network that will provide equilibrium to the community.

are capable of reconnecting urban fragments and reuniting disconnected communities as well as consolidating appropriation and sense of belonging.

Throggs Neck is the perfect place for developing the idea of a system’s symphony due to its potential as an underutilized site and its strategic location close to three boroughs and in connection with the East River. Additionally, it is home to a diverse community, quite socially and physically disconnected within and out their limits.

BRONX

MANHATTAN

QUEENS

BROOKLYN

STATEN ISLAND

The demographic, age and income analysis makes evident the presence not only of physical barriers, but also of non-tangible limits that foster inequality and segregation within the area. Thus, reconnecting fragments is the first step to restore balance to the site.

White Hispanic

[ dominant ethnicity ] +

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[ median age ] +

large small

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target

cluster

margin median household income

large small

link

permeability index

permanent temporary

[temporality]

event attendance

The main idea is the deployment of the concept of the city as a system, thus the selection of Trump Links golf course as the site for a new city.

-

[ median household income ]

barrier between medium- and higher-income fragment and NYCHA developments

after the introduction of temporal urban interventions

THE BALANCE SPACE SYSTEM

BALANCE SPACE VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION

Due to the limit in terms of open space, the Balance Space system would be deployed not only in the open space realm, but also in buildings.

Horizontal Balance Spaces would populate the streetscape and setbacks, while Vertical Balance Spaces would be distributed according to percentages within the buildings, introducing breaks and providing equilibrium.

HORIZONTAL [ streetscape ]

[ 2nd ]

[ rest ]

[ rooftop ]

walk-up

70%

20%

10%

70%

high rise

50% - 60%

20% - 50%

20% - 25%

70%

VERTICAL [ residential ]

Every 5 floors it is needed a balanced space.

open streets + piers + backyards + frontyards + below elevated tracks + above depressed highways + vacant and underused lots + interstitial spaces

[ ground ]

[ services ]

[ commercial ]

Commercial buildings are intended to create balace through commercial levels, activating the productivity of the building and street.

[ health ]

[ educational ]

Educational buildings are intended to activate internal spaces, as well as open space and open streets.

CITY ENGINE

CODING + URBAN DESIGN

REPOSITORY To view the complete reposity, click in the logo

VERTICAL BALANCE SPACES EXPLORATION

[ partial script ]

[ 3D visualization ]

The translation of the conceptual ideas of Balance Spaces to code was explored through the use of CGA code within CITY ENGINE, an ESRI software intended for city design.

HORIZONTAL BALANCE SPACES EXPLORATION

[ partial script ]

Approximations through code outputted both expected and unexpected scenarios, but all within the idea of integrating an urban system. Balance Spaces, horizontal or vertical, come together to provide equilibrium to the city. The code was written to create those interstitial spaces within buildings or in the public space that foster citizen exchange and equity through city events and community activities

[ 3D visualization ]

The Balance Space Network was defined through using ArcGIS and CityEngine CGA rules.

SYSTEM CITY METRICS

126% VERTICAL BALANCE SPACES

12,000 inhabitants 1,937,503 sqft 15 m2/inh

TOTAL AREA 15%

20.77% HORIZONTAL BALANCE SPACES

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The adaptable and flexible elements of balance Spaces would provide the framework and necessary endowment in developing the activities.

548.6% BALANCE SPACES

Vertical Balan

In the Balance Space Network would take place events that foster community encounter and social cohesion, spaces of cultural expression and programs.

85% VERTICAL BALANCE SPACES

[ view of a market, street vendors and commercial activity shaping Balance Spaces ]

[ commercial activity in the ground level shaping Balance Spaces ]

[ commercial activity in the ground level shaping Balance Spaces ]

[ centro cultural abreu | cultural center abreu ]

The Historic Center of Baruta and its surrounding areas are disconnected, specially in the intersection of Bolívar Street and Sucre Street. CENTRO CULTURAL ABREU is a new El Sistema’s Centre prototype in which culture and art are included as catalytic activities for the evolution of identity. This also represents an opportunity to reconnect all sectors

of Baruta, acting as a meeting space and cultural agora between the spontaneous and planned settlements.

CENTRO CULTURAL ABREU has two main buildings: one helds Monseñor Lucas Castillo School activities during the morning, while in the afternoon these spaces will be used as art classroms.

The other building will have the largest spaces in the centre to held musical, dance and plastic arts activities, including an underground auditorium. These buildings will be linked by public space.

Finally, CENTRO CULTURAL ABREU will articulate the different scales of the Baruta’s urban fragments.

Eastern Caracas 10 centres Western Caracas 35 centres

[ El Sistema’s Centres & proposal | metropolitan location ]

Municipality limit El Sistema Centre University

[ urban proposal ]

Unequiped slum Equiped slum

Urban proposal includes two major connection axes: the first seeks and urban east-west connection of Baruta’s Historic Centre with its surrounding sectors, while the second proposes the environmental north-south connection of the mountains that limit and shape the historic centre.

[ Centre & proposal’s location | Miranda State location ]

Current and potential public space

[ concepts | Baruta’s Downtown urban revitalization ]

Urban oportunities

Turning Baruta Historic Centre’s streets into pedestrian areas

Memorial park

Formal and definitive establishment of restaurants and shops in Calle El Hambre

Inverted priority circuit to allow vehicles to in surrounding areas of Baruta

Settle of Centro Cultural Abreu as Metropolitan equipment

Restore of Manzanares and La Guairita Ravine. Turn them into lineal and environmental parks

Recreational and environmental Bosque de la Virgen Park

Urban proposal - Revitalization of Baruta’s Historic Centre

Public space that promotes meeting and social interaction

Continuation of urban corridor

[ motorized mobility ]

A

A’

[ non-motorized mobility ]

Manzanares Ravine recovering with water and planting terraces [ activities ]

Monseñor Lucas Castillo School Musical Classrooms Musical Arts Physical Arts Plastic Arts

Plaza receives people and gives a new face to Baruta-El Placer road

[ uses ]

[ public space ]

[ water terraces ]

[ transition space with connecting bridges to classrooms ]

[ plaza in front of the Cultural Center ]

[ rehearsal hall with observation deck ]

[ la grieta | fissure ] LA GRIETA consists in a Showroom Pavilion that materializes the new techniques and materials used to create postmodern tectonics nowadays.

The project inserts in the campus of Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) by Carlos Raúl Villanueva, who made constant references to Le Corbusier’s work and reinterpreted his style into Venezuela’s tropical context, which resulted in the declaration of UCV as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2000.

LA GRIETA is located in “Tierra de Nadie“ [ No Man’s Land], a non-place in UCV, between its academic and artistic sites. LA GRIETA lowers the terrain a level in order to generate a public space similar to a fissure, from where the Pavilion emerges and shapes a new meeting place.

“Machine to live in“ Le Corbusier

Living in the machine

Public space and building lowered by a level (4 mts.) to prevent them from outstanding.

Continuation of Aula Magna’s geometry by both public space and the Pavilion.

[ circulation ]

[ public space ]

Showroom Pavilion gives Tierra de Nadie a new face with its facades, contributing to turn this space from Aula Magna’s backyard into a reception and meeting place for everybody [ uses ]

Spaces of “Tierra de Nadie“ acquire control and scale, reflecting a new uses and dormant potentials.

[ ground level plan ]

[ Geometry ]

[ Circulation ]

[ Enclosure ]

[ Structure ]

[ interior space in the Fissure ]

[ fábrica de techo | housing factory ] FÁBRICA DE TECHO is located in peripheral areas of Bogotá, in a plot owned by Compensar, a Colombian entity that offers health and economic services to needed families.

FÁBRICA DE TECHO is a project of Social Interest Housing, a program that help families that cannot afford an apartment or a house in real state market. The project includes a public space that integrates urban fragments in the sector and promotes cohesion and social interaction.

FÁBRICA DE

ORAAFLEX | Constructive system

TECHO

Metalic truss system, inexpensive, antisismic and sustainable. Allows the building to grow according to the needs of its habitants, in a way similar to a Lego system.

FABRICA DE TECHO is located in Usme, Bogotá, especifically in Bolonia sector. This area consists in a series of spontaneaous settlements, which are next to Entrenubes Park, an important environmental corridor.

In the last years, government has been seeking to make urban improvement on this area, one of these consists on the future construction of the Páramo Venue, an important road that will connect several sectors of Usme, but will also result in the relocation of a significant amount of families.

FABRICA DE TECHO seeks to give these families a new home, without having to go far away from their original location.

The proposal includes potentials of spontaneous settlements in the design of 9 housing buildings, with all kinds of facilities, as well as a complete improvement of the surrouding public space.

A main structure will accomodate the first housing units and, later on, support the extension modules.

Main structure

[ concepts ] DISLOCATION

Rupture of the unit and displacement of the elements

TRANSFORMABILITY Progressive building evolution CELULAR GROWTH Housing unit growth according to the family

IVE CT

PRODUCTIVE Capable of developing economic activity PRO GR

SELF-MANAGEMENT Family takes all decissions concerning the construction of the housing unit

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[ potentials ]

SELF-CONSTRUCTION Family build their own housing unit PROGRESSIVE Housing unit is capable of evolving and growing to adapt to the family needs.

Modular constructive system, extensible according to the user’s needs. The sum of modules will form different typologies.

Extension modules

MODULE 3m

3m

1st phase

2nd phase

A. Housing unit

B. Designed extension Structure Adapted circulation C. Future extension Structure capable of extending

Free plan

ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY Adaptative constructive system for pronounced topography, with few contact points that ensure the least damage to the terrain.

[ skatepark ] [ urban kitchen ]

[ public space ]

[ children’s playground ]

[ housing units ]

[ Plaza Bolonia ]

[ terraces ]

[ communitarian agriculture]

Topographic amphitheatre harnesses the morphology of the terrain

Use of plant species that help to support steep terrain and prevent landslides

Adaptation to topography through the construction of terraces

Improvement of surrounding areas, such as Páramo Venue

MORPHOLOGY Bolonia’s average block is composed by 16 plots disposed in a rectangular morphology. FÁBRICA DE TECHO takes the original concept of these blocks and verticalizes it.

COHESIVE SOCIAL SPACES Connection of surrounding neighborhoods through FÁBRICA DE TECHO’s public space, urban equipments and activities.

[ Fabrica de Techo Overview ]

[ community laundry room ]

[ typology into the building ]

[ covered courtyards ]

[ activated corridors connecting the housing units ]

SEGÙN SU FUNCIÓN TYPOLOGIES Tipología principal according itssecundaría functionality Tipología

INCOME GENERATION Due to its amount of M2, the family that owns the housing unit has the possibility of renting rooms or part of the house.

Principal typology Secondary typology

HOUSING UNIT DIVISION Due to its amount of M2, in case of family separation, the housing unit can be divided so that each part has its own space and neither of the two parts is left without a home..

[ typology “I” ]

[ typology “S” ]

[ typology “X” ]

71 m2

84 m2

111 m2

68,995,076.53 COP 68.995076,53 COP

84m2 m2 84

81,451,169.33 COP 81.451.169,33 COP

TYPOLOGY “X” TIPOLOGÍA X módulos + +3 3 55 modules

111 m2 m2 111

108,397,201.32 COP 108.397.201,32 COP

TYPOLOGY “7” TIPOLOGÍA Y 66modules módulos ++ 33

127m2 m2 127

1023,169,348.88 COP 123.169.348,88 COP

[ typology “Y” ] 127 m2

2 people 2 PERS ONAS 66 PERS ONAS people

single parent MONOPARENTAL

FRATERNA fraternal

single UNIPERperson SONAL

4 people 4 PERS ONAS 8 PERS ONAS 8 people

NUCLEAR nuclear

SIMULTÁNEA simultaneous

6 people 6 PERS ONAS 10 PERSONAS 10 people

8 people 8 PERS ONAS 12 PERS ONAS 12 people

NUCLEAR nuclear

EXTENDIDA extended

SIMULTÁNEA simultaneous

MULTIPER SONAL multipersonal

COMUNITARIA communitarian

TYPOLOGIES TIPOLOGIAS

71 71 m2m2

TYPOLOGY “S” TIPOLOGÍA S 44modules módulos ++22

PRICES PEOPLE ##PERSONAS PRECIOS

TYPOLOGY “I” TIPOLOGÍA I 3 modules 3 módulos++22

[ TYPOLOGIES according the user ] Original plots measurements were analyzed and adapted to fit a module that could replicate itself and form housing units. There are 4 different typologies designed to fit different types of families, depending on the number and layout of modules, varying in square meters and internal spatiality.

FAMILY DIAGRAM FAMILIOGRAMAS

VERSATILE FURNITURE FLEXIBLE AND VERSATILE HOUSING UNITS Optimization of spaces through the use of Housing units designed to grow and evolve over changing and adaptable furniture according to time and according to the needs of its inhabitants. the needs of each family and user.

Multipurpose rooms and space optimization.

[ community spaces in the complex ]

[ community spaces in the complex ]

[ mercado la limonera | la limonera market ]

SUSTAINABLE AND COMMUNITARIAN CITY is a urban project that seeks to revitalize the Baruta-Sartenejas sector, located in the southeast of Caracas. This project is distributed in 12 sectors, in order to develop further projects in an architectonic scale. In this case, LA LIMONERA MARKET

is part of SUSTAINABLE AND COMMUNITARIAN CITY, especifically located in La Limonera sector. Taking a closer look to LA LIMONERA MARKET reveals that te proposal is based on the idea of the bridge, as an element that gathers and makes place, answering to the needs of the sector in two ways:

removing the fill of La Limonera and reopening the Sartenejas ravine to reactivate the ecological corridor and providing equipment the community lacks and creating public space.

[ sustainable and communitarian city ] The sector Baruta-Sartenejas is located in the southeast of Caracas, which is essentially composed by urban fragments, limits that separate them, and a main road that connect them. project develops urban projects that turn borders into integration places.

[ fragments ] places that only connect through one street to city

“... a space which cannot be defined as relation, or historical, or concerned with identity will be a non-place...”

Marc Augé

“...a city should not only be the sum of its buildings; people should have where to sit, to admire things and enjoy the light...”

Norman Foster

[ interstices ] informal spaces between two fragments that result in a no-place

[ risks ] housing areas in risk of landslides and flooding

“The city is plaza, agora, debate, eloquence... People build their houses to live in them, and found the city to leave home and meet with others who also left theirs“

“The great book of nature is always opened and we have to make an effort to read“

José Ortega y Gasset

Antoni Gaudí

[ public space ] scarce of public space and urban equipments in the area

[ Baruta Boulevard ]

[ Meanders Park ]

[ Agriculture Park]

Baruta Library Shops Baruta Square

Water reservoir Technical Training Centres Ojo de Agua Boulevard Sport Centre

Agriculture Training Centre Vegetables fields Cocoa trees fields Cocoa factory Cocoa Museum and Market

[ El Placer Cultural Centre] Cultural Centre Simón Bolívar School Student Housing Shops

A’ A

[ floor plan ]

[ section A-A’ ]

[ uses ]

[ public space ]

[ connectings spaces ]

[ water control ]

[ market external spaces ]

450 [ CCScity450 ]

Fundación Espacio (ONG) is carrying out the project CCScity450, with actions that promote alliances needed for transformation and improvement through tactical urbanism of the urban context of architectonic and landscape works with heritage value.

It includes an open virtual library with information, floor plans, historiographic material, and photos of more than 130

works made jointly by North-American and Venezuelan architects in Caracas during the “Oil Boom”; 12 city tours; an open call to propose tactical urbanism projects on the public space of the visited sectors; and the execution of ten proposals of urban interventions, along with the winner teams.

Fundación Espacio Team Franco Micucci Aliz Mena María Isabel Peña Junior Architects Team Anabella Acevedo Peña Cristina Dávila Corina Fuenmayor Azarai Hernández Cristina Da Silva

[ works ]

CCScity450’s virtual library of works includes a wide range (133) of buildings, urban complexes, projects and art pieces developed in Caracas since 1925 by architects, landscape architects, artists, designers and other North-American and Venezuelan professionals.

A significant amount of these works stand out because of their conservation conditions, location and remarkable architectural, style and cultural features.

Source: CCScity450 Webpage, https://www.ccscity450.com/recorrido/s07-ciudad-jardin/

[ city tours ]

[ works | Sucre Building, Tourism Ministery Building, Montserrat Hotel] CCScity450 presents 12 emblematic sectors of Caracas in order to acknowledge their urban, architectonic and social values. These sectors are important and included in the project’s research because of their architecture and public spaces, as well as their influences, integration processes, urban transformation and actual condition. CCScity450 organized 7 city tours, 3 environmental tours, and 2 public space activation events.

Source: CCScity450 Webpage, https://www.ccscity450.com/recorrido/s-01-ciudad-historica/

[ city tour | S01 Historic City ]

[ open call ]

CCScity450 made an open call to a Competition of Participatory Projects in the Public Space, which proposes the intervention of 10 of the visited sectors.

10 projects were selected as winners after an interdisciplinary jury evaluated these ideas, as well as a series of institutions, communities and companies.

These projects were executed through tactical urbanism, a methodology that gives the works an ephemeral condition that allows to test its impact to the city prior to permanent investitures. These implementations were a success.

Source: CCScity450 Webpage, https://www.ccscity450.com/recorrido/s07-ciudad-jardin/

[ interventions ]

[ city tour | S07 Garden City | City tour map ]

CCScity450 executed the winner proposals through the methodology of tactical urbanism. These interventions in the public space develop specific tests that aim to reveal dormant potentials. Tactical urbanism interventions are ephemeral and seek to improve the quality of public space. Their objective is to show people how public space can be improved with minimal, but effective changes, and, later on, to exert pressure on authorities to make permanent these changes

Source: CCScity450 Webpage, https://www.ccscity450.com/propuesta/s03_i01/

[ open call | S03 Hospital City | Winner proposal ]

[ S03 Hospital City ]

[ S07 Garden City ]

S03 [ S05 Recreative City ]

[ S08 Industrial City ]

S07 [ S10 Green City ]

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S08 [ S06 River City ]

S10

S06

[ CCScity450 Comunidades CCScity450 Communities ]

CCScity450 has developed and implemented a complete series of programs with activities in the five Municipalities of Caracas, with the support of several groups of allies and a diverse team of work with expertise in people-to-people exchanges, academic programing, international cooperation, and institution-toinstitution partnerships.

CCScity450 Comunidades, departing from the previous areas of study within CCScity450 Project in 2017, ten sites on spontaneous settlements were selected for further research and possible interventions. This proposal seeks to follow up the 2017-2018 initiatives, developing a new project between 2018 and 2019 focusing on these communities along the valley of the city to develop projects in junction

with community programs.

The main purpose of this new exercise is to build a social fabric around community challenges and opportunities, in a project that seeks to strengthen citizenship through building public, meeting spaces, supported by community-based programs and public and private institutions.

[ fundamental themes ]

[ The Barrio is part of the city ] For the purposes of this project, the Barrio is understood as an integral part of the city since, like many other areas, it is the product of a spontaneous social structure derived from a historical need for housing in the context of Venezuelan cities.

Assuming that Barrios are part of city means recognizing their urban conditions and their characteristics from a morphological and human point of view, understanding that their uniqueness of spaces also lie in their values. Spaces in which density favors the approach of their communities, but at the same time the need to protect existing public spaces and create new opportunities for recreation, enjoyment and encounter.

Inevitably, as self-produced settlements in the city, there are conflicts or needs in terms of services or infrastructure which can be improved or taken care of accordingly. This is done with the participation of experts in the field but, above all, representatives of the communities, since they are the ones who know best about its operation.

Classification by SETTING

PHASE 3

PHASE 2

PHASE 1

Conceptualization Research / CCScity450 Participation Approach Formulation / Site Visits / Communitarian Roundtables / Documentation From October 2018 to April 2019

Public Call Masterclasses / Participatory Design Workshops / Site Visits and Events in the areas of study From April to June 2019 Proposal conceptualization between participants and communities From June to September 2019

Classification by EDGE

Presentation and Implementation Call Closure / Presentation of project+program proposals / Implementation of winner proposals in 3 of the 10 areas of study From September to December 2019

C01 Comunidad Catuche Libertador Municipality

C02 Comunidad Los Erasos Libertador Municipality

C04 Comunidad La Charneca

[ perimetral ]

[ intersticial ]

[ road ]

[ planned areas ]

ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING

[ communities ]

Libertador Municipality

C07 Comunidad La Cruz Chacao Municipality

C08 Comunidad La Lucha Sucre Municipality

C09 Comunidad Las Mayas Libertador Municipality

C10 Comunidad Chapellín

[ closed stream ]

Libertador Municipality

[ open stream ]

C11 Comunidad El Güire Baruta Municipality

[ topography ]

[ protected areas ]

C12 Comunidad El Calvario El Hatillo Municipality

[ steep slope ]

[ slight slope ]

C13 Comunidad La Vega Libertador Municipality

[ open call ]

CCScity450 Comunidades made an open call to develop tactical urbanism projects in 10 communities or spontaneous settlements of Caracas, related to the sectors visited in 2017.

Each community had a Seminar and a Workshop in which community members and participants met each other and discussed about their problemas and potentials. Later on, participants visited their communities of interest, along with CCScity450 team, in order to know better its surrounding context and spaces. [ Comunity workshop ]

[ Seminar ]

[ C10 Comunidad Chapellín | General view ]

[ interventions ]

[ C01 Comunidad Catuche | Urban Laboro ]

CCScity450 executed the winner proposals through the methodology of tactical urbanism.

These interventions in the public space develop specific tests that aim to reveal dormant potentials.

Tactical urbanism interventions are ephemeral and seek to improve the quality of public space. Their objective is to show people how public space can be improved with minimal, but effective changes, and, later on, to exert pressure on authorities to make permanent these changes

[ C07 Comunidad La Cruz | El Bus TV ]

C07

[ C04 Comunidad La Charneca | Cabilla ]

C01 [ C10 Comunidad Chapellín ]

C04 [ C11 Comunidad El Güire | EHLab ]

C10

C11

Hatillalta is an architecture project consisting in a two-family house located in El Hatillo, Caracas, at 1176 masl. The house looks for integrating the two families while also preserving their privacy.

[ hatillalta ]

Built in a terrain with percentage of slope over 40%, the development grows inversely, towards the ground, rather

than the sky, adapting to the terrain while also leveraging the topography to favor the views to El Ávila, the huge mountain that rises in the North to shape the valley of Caracas.

Project designed in Minima Design Studio and developed in Revit.

Construction Area Percentage: 60% Footprint Area Percentage: 40%.

Lot Area: 1234.84 m2 Maximum Height: 10 m.

Max Footprint Area: 493.93 m2 Max. Construction Area: 740.90 m2

[ opening to views ]

private area social area

[ concept scheme ]

The house is divided in two volumes. The vertical offset of 3.20 m elevates House A, while House B goes down, in order to place the construction on the steep topography and to favor the views and privacy in both houses.

facade and articulating the floors of the house.

The house rests on a parcel that is 69 meters, with a height difference of 31 meters between the highest and the lowest level. It seeks to respect its natural condition through leaning the The northeast facade incorporates the idea of a structure on a system of terraces and trays that ribbon that unites formally different levels of the prevent making large movements of earth and, building. A continuous line is generated through in turn, avoiding the construction large retaining the use of vertical planes, running through the walls.

[ Southeastern facade of the house ]

[ level 1 | private A ] HOUSE A • Main room, with bathroom and vestier • Secondary rooms • Secondary bathroom • Family room

[ ground floor | access A - access B ]

HOUSE A & B • Parking • Access hall • Living + Dining room • Kitchen • Auxiliary bathroom • Terrace • Laundry and service bathroom • Storage

HOUSE DESCRIPTION The access level is a corridor illuminated by natural light filtered by a pergola, sunbathing internal gardens and the vertical circulation module.

The hall arrives into the living, dining rooms and the kitchens, all enjoying the views to El Ávila.

Private areas are usually located in a different floor, hosting the main room, secondary rooms and the family room, enhancing the privacy of the family. Social levels are the places to receive visits, hold meetings and celebrations, accompanied by platforms used as multipurpose areas for events that require larger spaces.

[ level -1 | social A - private B ]

[ level -2 | garden - social B ]

HOUSE A • Guest room • Guest bathroom • Play area

HOUSE A • Multipurpose area HOUSE B • Play area • Bar

HOUSE B • Main room, with bathroom and vestier • Secondary rooms • Secondary bathroom • Family room • Home office

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[ kitchen, living and dining room of house B ]

ana.ace13@gmail.com Anabella Acevedo Peña +1(551)323-9573

[ Anabella Acevedo Peña ]

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