7th semester architecture project. (2017)

Group with Ricardo Mello and Manuel Esculpi.

Project description:La Candelaria is a peculiar or atypical parish within the set of central parishes of Caracas.In a different way from the City inherited from Colonial Caracas, an urban structure more influenced by the contemporary European city of that time was generated here: A greater population density, a mixture of uses, a greater intensity of urban life. Becoming a recreation and gastronomy sector that attracted public from the rest of the city.In the 1970s, as a result of pressures from the real estate market, both the urban and social fabric began to decompose, and this ended up being enshrined on a physical level by clumsy and insensitive zoning laws.With these interventions, a great opportunity to properly connect with the San Bernardino Sector was lost.The project proposes to reconnect the areas through the use of patios that control accesses and an increase in the height of the building to respond to the scale of the adjacent buildings. The complex was designed making the most of the available space to meet the program requirements, resulting in 75% of the land area as public space and the remaining 25% as a built area, separated into homes and shops, the patios are separated into terraces , some private for residents and other public surrounded by businesses that encourage movement through the building.