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Gando Library

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 expansion of the project,...

Incremental Housing Strategy

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. In consequence, the budget...

Klong Toey Community Lantern

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 with few or no...

Hong Kong Rooftop Communities

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 disadvantaged social classes in...

Quinta Monroy Housing

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 of built space in...

Caracas Metro Cable

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 us that far from being...

Torre David

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 in 1994. Today, it...

Parque Novo Santo Amaro V

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 must generate comprehensible and visible...

H3O PARK

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 living in 15,000 dwelling...

Favela Rocinha

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 and also building barriers...

Favela Babilonia and Chapéu Mangueira

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 project, launched by the...

Babilonia and Chapeu Mangueira favelas

Leonardo Finotti is a brazilian architectural photographer of wide renown. His works, either resulting from commissions or as authorial projects, are published in the main specialized journals and magazines around the world. Besides, his...