Forthcoming doco about an abandoned Venezualen office building appropriated by over 700 families.
"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 death of its developer, David Brillembourg, in 1993 and the collapse of the Venezuelan economy in 1994. Today, it is the improvised home of a community of more than 750 families, living in an extra-legal and tenuous occupation that some have called a vertical slum.
Urban-Think Tank, spent a year studying the physical and social organization of this ruin-turned-home. Where some only see a failed development project, U-TT has conceived it as a laboratory for the study of the informal. In their “Torre David / Grand Horizonte” exhibit and in their forthcoming book, Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities, the architects lay out their vision for practical, sustainable interventions in Torre David and similar informal settlements around the world. They argue that the future of urban development lies in collaboration among architects, private enterprise, and the global population of slum-dwellers. This film is a call to arms to architects and everyone--to see in the informal settlements of the world a potential for innovation and experimentation, with the goal of putting design in the service of a more equitable and sustainable future."
More here:
http://www.pulsamerica.co.uk/2012/10/25/torre-david-vertical-slum/
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chingalerasays...A possible near future Norte America, enjoy the documentary and perhaps star in your own.
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deathcowsays...What is the scene in the exact beginning?? That must be the most surreal place if its real.
00Scud00says...Looks like the more conventional type of slum you see in that and other parts of the world. Huge shanty towns build out of and sometimes on top of garbage, I wonder if that view was meant to give some sense of how many families lived in that tower, only spread out.
What is the scene in the exact beginning?? That must be the most surreal place if its real.
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