A Pentagonal Model for Self-Production | Arepa Arch Ecology & Participation

2008 – 2014

Authors:

Ignacio Cardona, Researcher

Collaborators:

Francisco Paúl, Rodrigo Guerra, Alexandra Paty, Manuel Llorens, Noraedén Mora, Adriana Vicentini, Ylsi Vásquez, Jesús Zambrano, Arleth Argote, Simón Modesto, Marco Trejo, Mariana Giménez, Juan José Pocaterra, Juan Andrés Rondón, Elia Gómez, Celia Herrera, Tatiana Noguera, Víctor Rodríguez, María Fernanda Echeverría, Norberto Bausson, Consultants

Institutions:

Simón Bolívar University; Arepa Arquitectura Ecología y Paisaje

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Developed through public-space interventions in Petare, Venezuela, this research examines how urban design can address fragmentation in self-produced environments by strengthening relationships between communities, institutions, resources, infrastructure, and the broader urban fabric.

It proposes a pentagonal model based on five interdependent forms of linkage: social, connecting community needs with academic knowledge; environmental, using services and infrastructure to reduce risks; economic, articulating public and private resources; management, connecting short-term interventions with long-term urban processes; and urban, using spatial projects to weave self-produced settlements into the city.