Desitecture is a collective with the aim of creating something new, innovative and challenging to the norm.
Each project is based around issues and problems identified across the world
Looking at the favelas in Venezuela this design aimed to question what is possible in a vertical city, and should the typical approach be changed.
So often communities are built into poorly made structures that dont empower or engage with their inhabitants. This project aimed to question how communities can inhabit vertical cities, what needs are given to them and how the towers can act as a catalyst for the creation of ownership, negating dependancy and increasing indepenancy from the government.
The aims of the development are to realize embedded land values along the shoreline of Shangotedo, providing sustainable high-density housing as part of a new business and leisure district, initializing development of the region. The area is to become home to a new sustainable community, and resort taking advantage of its position and access to a range of natural resources ranging from Atlantic Ocean views through to fertile mangrove.
The development is seen as providing both a new administrative, healthcare, hub for the region, and commercial development with a blend of private and part ownership social residential accommodation.
