Multiprogram Ship, Vertical System of Sports and Cultural Platforms / LAB PRO FAB

The multiprogram ship was built as a logistic chain of events where construction phases were included as a part of them. Eventually, after years of frictions, transactions, and interaction, progressively and incrementally transformed into a complex social, performative, and environmental apparatus. The building is a Spatial apparatus that explores cultural occupation creating tactical regenerations and mobility strategies Iand t’s an alternative condition of temporality to activate hybrid public spaces in these complex geomorphological slums. The Project takes part in a series of interventions of cooperative urban reengineering, focusing on consolidating a network of sport, cultural spaces as new productive and formative urban models for the informal growth areas of Caracas. based on microsurgery operations upon the organic tissue. This urban device is coupled to the main mobility systems of the favela, building relationships along the dimension of the stair in flexible operative strata. The ship deploys diverse programs based on ground reengineering and also suspending aerial spaces using prefab systems by a series of modular metal frames.

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architects: LAB PRO FAB
Location: Calle Carbonel, Caracas 1030, Distrito Capital, Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
Project Year: 2014
Photographs: Julio Cesar Mesa
Photographs: Courtesy of Lab.pro.fab
Photographs: Iwan Baan
Photographs: Courtesy of Alejandro Haiek Coll
Photographs: Irina Urriola
Area: 451.0 m2