Delirious Petare – Urbanism | Universidad Simón Bolívar

2013 – 2014

Institution:

* Universidad Simón Bolívar

Course:

* Studio 7 equivalent.

Case Study:

* Petare (self-produced city)

Teaching Staff:

* Ignacio Cardona / Instructor

* Rodrigo Guerra / Visiting Professor

Group of 28 students of architecture.

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This course focused on designing urban design and planning proposals to create URBAN LINKS performed as cross-scale vertical connections between self-produced neighborhoods and other city fragments.

Due to the scale of the interventions, the course focuses on two Urban Landscapes: The Physical Landscape, which consists of designing a diverse range of architectural connectors, and the Social Landscape considering the 250-years richness of a place home to migrants from different parts of Venezuela and neighboring countries.

After completing the projects, the students and the community’s inhabitants met to discuss those initiatives developed at the University and their possible use to improve the living conditions of the settlement. This activity aimed to expand the limits of the academy beyond the classroom, thus promoting a multi-directional learning process.