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On the Future of Torre David
July 23, 2014We at U-TT have been closely following recent news coverage regarding Torre David&s redevelopment. As reported in both local and international press, the Venezuelan government has struck an agreement with Chinese investors to restore the complex of buildings to their original purposes & a commercial center and office tower. With surprising speed, the government initiated the eviction process of residents two days ago and have declared their intention to relocate all 1,200 families to a new social housing project by September.From , our research and design team was heavily engaged in Torre David. We saw it as a misunderstood and important place within the physical and social geography of not just Caracas or Venezuela, but Latin America and perhaps even the urban planet as a whole.When dealing with informal settlements, infusions of money for major public works and other approaches that involve large-scale rapid change & such as the razing of slums and relocation of poor populations & have generally failed in the complex setting of the city. The commercial housing market simply does not supply enough homes. There are too few units of social housing, and the majority of these are far beyond the reach of low-income families. The dire asymmetries of capital in the global sou yet various forms of structural neglect have not always diminished great entrepreneurial vigor. Shunned by governments and the formal private sector, city dwellers, like those in Torre David, have devised and employed tactics to improvise shelter and housing.In Latin American cities, most urban space is already built up, or over built. There is limited room for new buildings, and existing buildings are at times partially occupied or inefficiently used. We believe that the solution lies not in demolishing buildings and building anew, but in making a more efficient, strategic and appropriate use of what already exists to meet ever-changing needs. This can be through reusing and recycling, or providing agency and visibility to inhabitants already engaged in such processes.After months of documentation, analysis, discussions with residents, and design proposals at Torre David, we publicized our work through a variety of means & exhibitions, a book, a short film, and lectures. We strove to focus greater attention on the story and situation of Torre David because we believed that there was something valuable to learn from what the residents created in seven years of extra-legal occupation. What we found was neither a den of criminality nor a romantic utopia. Torre David is a building that has the complexity of a city. It merges formal structure and informal adaptation to provide urgently needed solutions, and shows us how bottom-up resourcefulness has the ability to address prevailing urban scarcities.Now, two months after the government of Nicolas Maduro announced its intention to work with the community of Torre David to improve living conditions, it has begun a process of transformation that begins with eviction. We are holding our breaths, like many of the residents, as they wait to see the precise results of the government&s scheme. Our concerns do not arise from a desire to see Torre David remain as it is, but because the details that have emerged do not necessarily suggest a positive outcome for those affected.What we do know is that of the nearly 100 families that have already been removed from Torre David, all are being sent to government-built housing in a small city over 50 km from Caracas. We hope that the same mistakes of slum eradication made by governments around the world for the past 60 years are being heeded. Not only with regards to residents receiving humane treatment and being provided with appropriate opportunities to raise their families in safe and secure environments, but also in ensuring authorities prevent the dislocation of established social networks and livelihoods linked to employment opportunities in adjacent areas. Past failures have consistently perpetuated or exacerbated systemic poverty.Moreover, we hope that whatever redevelopment plan the government and investors formulate, they strive to turn Torre David into a site for social & not just economic & change within Caracas. We saw the potential of the monumental structure, its geographic location, and creative re-programming, as an opportunity for innovative and inclusive development. Ernesto Viellgas, the Minister of State for the Revolutionary Transformation of Greater Caracas, announced that the government&s actions are not motivated by commercial interest, but rather by humanitarian concerns. For the sake of Caracas, we hope this to be the case.
The Torre David short film will premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) on November 22nd, 2013For full listing of its screenings at IDFA, please visit .Future screenings will be announced here and at U-TT&s .
The new Torre David exhibition at the CoalMine Gallery in Winterthur06.09.2013 to 20.12.2013&More information at CoalMine Gallery website:Press Coverage:
Documentation of the Beyond Torre David ExhibitionPhotos by:Danny Hudson, courtesy of DesignboomDaniel Schwartz/Urban-Think Tank
torre david, the world&s largest informally-settled tower, has many things to teach us about global issues in urban design - within the uncommon context of a vertical community,
BEYOND TORRE DAVID:New Exhibition at Aedes BerlinJuly 12-August 29, 2013
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New Press Release:A Response to the Polemics Concerning &Torre David/Gran Horizonte&
"&En principio la polémica se genera obviamente en la idea de que se premia la invasión, la ilegalidad y la informalidad en la destacadísima y glamorosa muestra bienal… pero, aquí habría que preguntarse: ?en qué consiste el proyecto premiado, que es lo que se está reconociendo? Tiene muchas lecturas. Se trata de un trabajo de investigación, indagatorio, que propone re-pensar el centro financiero como vivienda social y que se documentará con la publicación de un libro que saldrá a la luz en octubre de este a?o&Caracas, al Igual que la ciudad de México y que muchas ciudades Latinoamericanas presenta más de la mitad de su territorio ocupado por tierras invadidas. Aquí lo novedoso –si acaso- habitar verticalmente algo construido no es lo mismo que ocupar un terreno natural (casi siempre con pendientes pronunciadas) y esto ha servido –en perspectiva- para “poner el dedo en la llaga” de la informalidad en la vivienda social. Algo así como partir desde el colmo de la problemática. Si bien la imagen de la torre invadida transformada en favela se ha convertido en postal del chavismo –o de su imagen objetivo de país-, la propuesta elude forzadamente cualquier interpretación política del asunto subrayando reiteradamente el eterno problema de la vivienda social. En este renglón encuentro muchísima resonancia, no en la imagen objetivo, sino en la posición socialmente responsable que el arquitecto debe encontrar más allá de cualquier sistema o ideología política. Lo socialmente responsable se puede traducir a forma (espacio habitable), que es lo que hacemos los arquitectos, pero debe cambiar el paradigma de hacer formas que después se habiten, como ocurrió en la Torre David (especie de crisis o fin de la modernidad). Resulta natural la polémica, pero es de celebrar que se premie a la reflexión que siempre deriva en propuestas para una mejor forma de vida&"Eurogamer.net
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