Casa MS / ODA-Oficina de Arquitectura
Architects: ODA – Oficina de Arquitectura
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
Architect In Charge: Juan A. Machado, Eric C. Brewer
Area: 764.0 sqm
Photographs: Tomas Opitz
La Carlota Park Competition Proposal / Glocalstudio (Kunckel Associates + Stefan Gzyl)
The architecture firms of Kunckel Associates and Stefan Gzyl joined forces under the Glocalstudio platform to develop their entry to the recently completed ideas competition for La Carlota park in Caracas, Venezuela. They propose that the new park is an opportunity for a lot more than supplying a quantifiable amount of park space: they understand it as an opportunity for the (re)foundation of the city. The park will become the city’s new vital nucleus, a space from which to (re)conquest and (re)claim a preexisting and often hostile territory. In a city in which nature is in constant decline and hardly available as public space, the 100 hectare military airfield site constitutes a unique chance for a metropolitan-scale park in the very heart of the city. More images and architects’ description after the break.
Venice Biennale 2012: Venezuela Pavilion
Venezuela’s participation at the 13th Venice Biennale is presented through a series of reflections about the urban situation – the city of the 21st century.
La ciudad socializante vs la ciudad alienante is aimed for the general audience, not just the architects, presenting a series of graphic-chromatic notes and sketches by Domenico Silvestro, who was very kind and showed us the pavilion. You can see him on the photos below.
Italian-Venezuelan Centre New Services Building / Roberto Puchetti
Architects: Roberto Puchetti
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
Project Team: Yesenia Di Sabatino, Fernando Blanco, Andrés Cova, Karina Rodriguez
Engineering: Manuel Ramírez, Roberto De Adessis, Ricardo Ortega
Completion: 2011
Built Area: 465 sqm
Client: Centro Italiano Venezolano, A.C.
Construction: Constructora Proyectos La Torre, C.A.
Photographs: Roberto Puchetti
O House / LPG
Architects: LPG oficina de arquitectura – Henry Rueda, Diana Montoya, María Alejandra Moleiro
Location: Valencia, Estado Carabobo, Venezuela
Photographs: Antonio Chagín, María Alejandra Moleiro, Henry Rueda
Caracas Symphony / ADJKM
In the public competition for the preliminary design of the Simon Bolivar International Complex for Social Action through Music and its surrounding urban area, ADJKM shared with us their first prize proposal which is scheduled to be construction this year and finished by 2016 in Caracas, Venezuela. More images and architect’s description after the break.
Vertical City / Desitecture
Desitecture, a British Architecture Collective, have recently been shortlisted by the World Architecture Festival in the future project-experimental category for their Vertical City in Venezuela. More images and architect’s description after the break.
Venezuela Pavillion for Shanghai World Expo 2010
Construction has already began on the Venezuela Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo site. The 3,000-square-meter Venezuela Pavilion will look like a figure 8 – a symbolic number in both China and Venezuela – and depict many traditional aspects of the country’s history and culture with the theme “A Better Life, Better City.”
The Yanomami tribe that has thrived in the rainforests of South America for thousands of years will perform in the pavilion. Another highlight of the pavilion will be a Venezuelan children’s orchestra, which will perform in a 286-seat theater on July 5, Venezuela’s National Day, said Temir Ponceleon, the country’s commissioner general of the Expo.
The pavilion will be in the geometric shape of a “Mobius strip,” or an inverted cylinder. The exhibition area will feature two-way audiovisual transmissions via satellite between Shanghai and Venezuela. More images and a video after the break.
Production Laboratories and Administrative buildings / Roberto Puchetti, Max Rengifo
Architects: Roberto Puchetti, Max Rengifo
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
Cient: Instituto Nacional de Higiene “Rafael Rangel”
Built Area: 13,000 sqm
Year: 1998–2007
Project Manager: TEXNE Consultores de Arquitectura, S.A.
Civils and Structure engineer: Ing. Manuel Ramírez
Electrics and Data engineer: Ing. Roberto De Adessis
Mecahnical engineer: Ing. Víctor Salazar Amana
Fire strategy: Arq. Miguel Sureda
Quantity Surveyour (COVENIN): Ing. Carlos Otamendi
Technical Consultants (Laboratorios): Instituto Butantãn, São Paolo, Brasil
Photograhs: Roberto Puchetti, Max Rengifo
