area 128 – informal community

If images of slums, informal and spontaneous communities, favelas or whatever we want to call urban areas of poverty and hardship dominated the first room of the Corderie dell’Arsenale at…

The expression slum is being used far too indiscriminately today. One speaks of informal settlements in more or less scientific terms, referring to different realities. However, the facility with which…

Today in most cities around the world there exist several forms of urbanism that coexists on the same space. These varied concepts of urbanism (whether Everyday Urbanism, New Urbanism, Post-Urbanism…

“The city is not prepared for the people, and the people are not prepared for the city” – the Perez family; Caracas, Venezuela In the last two years we have…

Women – The Project Worldwide Always faithful to his 28mm lens, which gets close to the model in a way that makes it as expressive as possible, JR takes his…

The building of a public school in the village of Fansirà Corò is part of a public infrastructure program promoted by AFRICABOUGOU, an Italian non-profit organization that furthers education initiatives…

The success of Kéré Architecture’s Primary School in Gando, Burkina Faso, attracted many more children from the surrounding area and an extension had to be built. As part of this…

The Incremental Housing Strategy is the legalization of a natural construction process developed globally by the urban poor. When Urban Nouveau* arrived in India the Lehman brothers had recently collapsed….

Klong Toey is currently the largest and oldest areas of informal dwellings in Bangkok. More than 140.000 people is estimated to live here, and most are living in sub-standard houses…

The problem may at first seem complex and multifaceted, but the solution is disarmingly simple. How do we meet the need for a shelter meeting minimal requirements for the most…

The challenge of our first project was to accommodate a hundred families using a subsidy of $7,500 dollars that in the best of the cases allowed for thirty-six square meters…

The first part of this project involved a new and revolutionary approach to urban planning. Our extensive past experience working in the barrios and with their community leaders has taught…

Torre David, a 45-story office tower in Caracas designed by the distinguished Venezuelan architect Enrique Gómez, was almost complete when it was abandoned following the collapse of the Venezuelan economy…

We understand residence as a synonym of city. And we do understand that housing production on a large scale constitutes a basic part of the city production. Collective architecture projects…

H3O PARK is located along the third fountainhead of the city o Belo Horizonte in the middle of Favela da Serra, an informal settlement with a population of 50,000 inhabitants…

After 3 months spent in fall 2010 by research in Rio de Janeiro‘s biggest slum, so called Favela Rocinha, the concept of regeneration became clear. The way of demolition, isolation…

The project “Living the Community” has focused on the favelas of Babilonia and Chapéu Mangueira, located behind the Bairro do Leme, which have already been involved in the Morar Carioca…

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