San Agustín

Reconstruction of an informal playground.

Year: 2018

Colective: Collective RE

Place:Valparaiso, Chile.

State: Built.

Budget: 2000 €

Area: 25 m2

Time: 35 Days

People:12

Lessons: Valparaiso has something to teach us: Abandoned properties can create areas of great urban degradation, however if occupied they can make room for activities with high cultural value. San Agustin was and is a social occupation of a private property. It’s a phenomenon that started incrementally in 2012. Thanks to the fund Placemacking latino America 2017, acquired by Agora 21 studio, we were able to construct this metal structure. However, the fund was insufficient and the project was abandoned by the studio. Rapidly the agents of the collective RE engaged with the social capital of informality and scarcity: mutual-aide. Based on offer and scavenging, we collected the resources and gathered the utilities to construct. The project was finished, a bit more bricolage than the expected, capitalizing the waste of other construction sites.

Alréves

We were requested to rebuild a 3-Floor Building, with an area of 600 m2, partially reconstructed with recycled materials.

Year: 2018-2020

Collective: Collective RE

Place:Valparaiso, Chile.

State: Built.

Budget: 15 000 € per House.

Area: 600 m2

Time: 2 years.

People: 200

Lesson: The agents of Collective Re made their own luck and engaged in a project to rehabilitate a 3-floor house. The building dates from 1900 and survived two earthquakes of 9.0. The collective, composed mostly composed of students of architecture and rehabilitation was willing to directly interact with constructing, and more precisely with vernacular techniques. Searching for solutions to the context of our global economy, we created a project based on a local and human scale with details and solutions based on simple materials. This project was a mind opener: There were no limits to the imagination. This was the big challenge, observing waste materials and utilities and rethinking their function.

Parasite Swing

The members of Collective Re proposed themselves to create a simple swing with recycled materials.

Year: 2019

Collective: Collective RE

Place:Valparaiso, Chile.

State: Built.

Budget: 0 €

Time: 2 Days

People: 2

Lesson: The Hills of Valparaiso are on their own. Unfortunately their are the result of the colonial scar. Beside all the losses, there also opportunities to creativity and engagement. The project self-inscribes on a dimension far greater than a swing. The popular efforts are largely observable, they are everywhere, and they lack the assistance to grow healthy. We must understand that these urban formations are in essence the sites where the state’s greatest internal violence ocurres. The persistence of these places constitutes a daily resistance. Architects can help transform this guerrilla projects to integral solutions. For that reason the work of the architect must concentrate on the formal, legal and social durability of places.

GreenHouse

By winning the ‘‘FPA -Fondo de proteccion Ambiental’’ we were able to create a greenhouse for the foundation, Más Tierra.

Year: 2019

Collective: Collective RE

Place:Valparaiso, Chile.

State: Built.

Budget: 500 €

Area: 12m2

Time: 15 Days

People: 10

Lesson: The Collective Re was invited to participate in a competition. Instead of one building we offered half a building. Even if this can sound bizarre, the same amount of resources were dedicated to the construction. By supporting itself in the preexistent wall, we were able to think a stronger structure and acquire strong sections of wood and polycarbonate. Fortunately for us the inertia of the wall helped to maintain the heat inside. The form of the building follows the sun, giving to the inner plants a healthier exposure to sunlight.

FootBridge

By winning the ‘‘Fondo de Vinculacion con el Médio’’ of the ‘‘ Pontificia universidade Católica de Valparaiso’’ we were able to construct a footbridge.

Year: 2018

Collective: Collective RE

Place:Valparaiso, Chile.

State: Built.

Budget: 2200 €

Area: 36m2

Time: 23 Days

People: 12/14

Lesson:This was the first project ever constructed by The Collective RE. It subscribes itself in the same ideology of the project.

Parasite Swing (p.29).

Internship: Recetas Urbanas.

Six Months partnership with Recetas, engaging with four construction sites.

Year: 2019

Colective: Collective Recetas Urbanas

Place: Madrid, Spain.

Time: 6 Months.

People:

Lesson: The studio gave us the opportunity to take responsibilities and to engage, not has interns but has decision makers. Several times we encountered ourselves defining details and tasks, dealing with budgets and companies. Fortunately the projects available at the time depended on reusing material. Our tasks were based not only on construction but fundamentally on the intelligent reuse of materials. The value of something depended of the function it would have and also on the difficulty of the rehabilitation process.

Thesis:

Master tesis in the Faculty of architecture of the University of Porto.’’From the Paradox ofInformalitytotheSocial productionofhabitat.’’

Callification: Excelente-20

Year: 2020

Place:Porto, Portugal.

Abstratc: I started this drawing after returning from Valparaiso, the city where I lived and worked, from October 2016 to October 2018. The drawing, with 148 cm. in width and 168 cm in height, presents Barrio Puerto, the ancient port of the city and is urban phenomena. Thanks to the mixture of the knowledge acquired (in situ, working as an architect), and the study of the macro-territorial dynamics, I was able to build a holistic proposal for action based on legal mechanisms (expropriation, public financing, concession, technical assistance) and popular initiatives (autoconstruction). Since the current models of the city do not allow us to imagine an equitable future, I search independent social practices, which were able to move from alternative models to insurgent solutions.

Awards: 1ºfst Place.

Placemacking Latino América Valparaiso 2017.

Year: 2017

Collective: Collective RE and Agora 21 Studio.

Place:Valparaiso, Chile.

State: Constructed.

Budget: 2000 €

Time: 2 Months

People: 3

Lesson: See project San Agustin (Page 25)

Awards: 2ºnd Place.

Faup Fest Instalation 2019.

Year: 2019

Collective: Collective Ponto Paragrafo.

Place:Porto, Portugal.

State: Unbuilt

Budget: 300 €

Outlay: 0€

Time: 7 Days

People: 2

Lesson: In the context of my faculty (FAUP) the opportunities to built are minimum. The only opportunity happens, once every year, at the music festival called FAUPFest. After my experience in Chile, I decided to participate in competition, side to side with the people that today are my partners in the Collective Ponto Paragrafo. The project was simple. The intervention would cost €0 and the money would be used to buy construction tools. Instead of using the money to make an ephemera intervention, (like every year) we decide to create a game. Every team (groups of 2 students) would acquire a construction tool.

© Pedro. Intervention Proposal. Porto, Portugal 2019

Publication:

Based on the concept ‘‘Oportucrisis’’ The Collective RE Invited numerous activists to share with the public their experience in scarcity projects. I had the opportunity to share the lessons acquired from the Project San Agustin in Valparaiso.

Year: 2020

Collective: Collective Collective RE

© Collective RE. Publication. Valparaiso, Chile, 2020.

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