Final+Project

media type="youtube" key="qQzJ2BkeDL8?version=3" height="390" width="640" align="center" [] Caracas is a city to be rescue. The fast development of the city in the 50´s came to collapse increasing the traffic, the garbage and the violence in the street which can be seen nowadays. Many consequences came after, the public spaces where invaded by cars, buildings and concrete, leaving the pedestrian with no place to walk. The squares are almost the only places that left in the city for the people to relate, talk, play and see each other in an open space, however, there are few of them that are pretty old and forgotten. Therefore we picked some of these squares in my design class to make a project that can rescue these places, to bring the life that they used to have and activate them with an architecture strategy: a pavillion with whatever concept or theme we wanted it to have. I was choose to work in Madariaga´s Square, in the Paraisos Parish, one of the oldest towns in the Capital, and therefore one of the most forgotten. Even at the square is near to one of the biggest Barrios of Caracas, La vega, it didnt looked so dangerous or insecure, in fact there were many people who used this place to see each other and play because of the colleges and the university that are in the surrounding area. BEcause of the quietness and passive enviroment of the square,i decided to make an exhibition pavillion with a tour make of my own that reclamates the best zones or views. I took for example the trees and the shadows they project, the sun and light spaces, and the Statue located in the center of the square as one of the points of view for the people who cross into the pavillion. The building grows between the green areas, the trunks of the trees and beside "los Samanes" using A WALL that protects the pavillion from the street and that also builds the tour and the spaces for the program of the building to be in. It floats on a platform to separate it from the ground and to differ it from the square. The structure of the platform is made of wood. there are girders above the platform that supports it so the platform never touch the ground. I left the roof as a natural one made of the trees in the area. The concept of the building was to mix it to the nature, using an organic form that cross into the green aerea and the trees, making a very pleasent tour that finished on the exhibition room. With only two principals architecture elements, The wall and the platform i create a space that hopefully can help the Madariagas Square to be as important as it used to be in the past, and also that can be visit from people of other places from caracas and from the whole country.