Enlace Arquitectura has been invited to participate in the 1st Congress “Views toward the Transformation of Maracaibo City,” organized by the Municipality of Maracaibo. Sergio Dos Santos presents the experience of the project Sabana Grande Boulevard Pavement built between 2009 and 2011 and commissioned by PDVSA La Estancia. The presentation is part of an ensemble of reflections on strategies to improve the livelihood of citizens through significant urban interventions.
The exhibition titled “Lets Meet Each Other,” presented by Espacio Anna Frank at the Sala TAC at the Trasnocho Cultural in Caracas Venezuela during the months of October and November 2019, and curated by artist and photographer Carlos Ancheta, created several discussion spaces in parallel, one of which was titled “Actions: the barrio is city.” Enlace Arquitectura was among the invited guests with a presentation by María Virginia Millan, together with María Isabel Peña from CCScity450 and Cheo Carvajal from Ciudad Laboratorio. It was an opportunity to disseminated the work led by civil society in terms of integrating the barrio and the city.
The last event of the program "Integration Process Caracas" was held Saturday, October 12 at the Casa de Todos in Baruta, titled "Nothing out of the ordinary: Meeting and discovery in La Palomera". Nothing out of the ordinary is what a meeting place and cultural space should be. The focus of the event was to recover an abandoned, dilapidated and half made house, where the only thing that occupied it was garbage, rubble, and a recently planted corn plot, tended to by a member of the community. The house was cleared and curated to host an event, where both the community of La Palomera and all Caracas, could find each other and discover themselves in this particular place. The house is located precisely at the hinge between the town of Baruta and the barrio. The event turned out to be an unforgettable night, of people dancing, eating, reflecting, imagining, discovering and recognizing themselves in space. The house was filled with the energy of close dreams, and the harmony generated by children, adults and grandparents enjoying a shared time together, both neighbors and non-neighbors.
Program:
4:00 pm. Comparsa, chimbangueles and drum gaita.
4:45 pm. Traditional dance / everyone's house
5:30 pm. Performance “Inhabiting the House”
6:30 pm. Workshop The House does with the body
7:00 pm. Manifesto Meeting and Discovery in La Palomera
4:00 - 8:00 pm. Hot dishes and cold drinks, projections and live music.
The XI Iberoamerican Architecture and Urban Design Biennial was celebrated in Asunción Paraguay, October 5-11, 2019. Twenty-two countries participated from Mexico to Chile within the American continent, as well as Portugal and Spain. In the category of built work 997 works were presented from Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, España, México, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Perú, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and Venezuela.
210 projects were pre-selected, including 4 projects in Veenezuela: Casa Guaparo, NMC Nómadas; Casa Núcleo, AGA estudio; Experimento Tropical, Casa LP- Sánchez Taffur Arquitectos; Iglesia San Juan María Vianny Media Legua, Elisa Silva, Enlace Arquitectura.
The biennial´s jury was presided by Gloria Cabral and Solano Benítez (Asunción), and included Gabriela Carrillo and Mauricio Rocha (Mexico City), Sandra Barclay and Jean Pierre Crousse (Lima), Josep Ferrando (Barcelona), Carlos Quintáns (La Coruña), Nicolás Campodónico (Rosario), Carla Juaçaba (Rio de Janeiro), Javier Corvalán (Asunción), and the XI BIAU biennial´s organizers Ana Román and Arturo Franco.
They selected 32 works including the San Juan María Vianney Church and the final jury deliberation centered on 17 winning projects, where the church was definitively selected as one of the XI BIAU winning projects.
Today, October 3, 2019, Fospuca began a door-to-door waste collection program in La Palomera, Baruta, employing people from the community with the institutional support of the City of Baruta and the social accompaniment of Enlace Foundation. The initiative provides barrio inhabitants with a better-quality service and will eliminate the presence of containers in the entrances of the informal settlement. It represents a pilot project that will be replicated in other sectors of the municipality such as El Placer de María, Ojo de Agua, Las Minas, Santa Cruz and Hoyo de la Puerta.
The initiative is part of the program "Integration Process Caracas", which creates opportunities for citizens to question the prejudices and discrimination that persists with respect to the barrio and its inhabitants. Through cultural events, social media dissemination and workshops, IPC has sought to advance the notion of a Complete City and a society that recognizes that the barrio is part of the city.
Elisa Silva is selected among the 33 Lucas Artists Fellows for her work on projects focused on raising awareness about spatial inequality in the urban environment through interventions in the public space, informal settlement integration and the strengthening of rural landscapes.
Montalvo Arts Center's Sally and Don Lucas Artists Program announced its most recent Lucas Artists Fellowship awards, on September 18, 2019. 33 artists from the US and the world were selected for the 2019-2022 cohort. The announcement commented that: “This distinguished group includes individuals from 16 countries working in the fields of visual arts, architecture, urbanism, and design. This includes visual arts media such as drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, film, design, and printmaking, as well as artists working in the fields of performance, social practice, and sound art. These Fellows were born or reside in the following countries: the United States, Japan, the Netherlands, Mexico, India, South Africa, Argentina, South Korea, Spain, Bangladesh, Guatemala, Taiwan, the Philippines, ltaly, Venezuela, and England.”
Enlace Arquitectura presented the project of public spaces and sidewalks of Beethoven Avenue in Bello Monte, a project elaborated for Banesco Bank in 2017-2018. Slides of images were projected on the walls of buildings, on the very same Beethoven Avenue July 26, 2019, as part of the celebration of the 452 years of Caracas organized by CCScity450 and Fundación Espacio.
"Integration in Caracas Process" sixth event was held on Saturday July 20 in La Palomera. People from all parts of the city were invited to the "Green Meeting La Palomera: connecting gardens, orchards, nurseries and other experiences in urban vegetation" to consider vegetation as an integration strategy and as a fundamental part of urban life. The event was structured first with a tour of several neighborhood gardens in the community, followed by a conversation on urban garden experiences in different parts of the city with people invited to share their knowledge on issues of landscape and harvest.
Program:
Part I: Tour of floral and vegetable gardens
Thais Noriega, Elizabeth Hernández, Marina Matos, Alfonso Carrasco y William Díaz
Part II: Discussion regarding vegetation, planting, fertilizer and crops at the La Cruz Esplanade with invited guests:
Yrama Capote / Grupo Ecológico San Pedro
Argelia Silva / Ex Directora del Jardín Botánico
Yoandy Medina / Huertos Urbanos
Enrique Blanco / Paisajista
José Luis Morales / Experto en huertos urbanos y patios productivos
On Saturday, July 13, the Founder’s Celebration was held in the Santo Domingo sector of La Palomera, Baruta Municipality. The purpose of the event was to make the unknown urban history of a part of the city visible. Founders of La Palomera and their descendants shared the stories and anecdotes of how the settlement process began. Many remember their dependence of the Church and the rent they paid them as landlords. The guests who attended had the opportunity to dance joropo central with neighbors, to the beat of music played by musicians of the Bigott Foundation and dancers Sara Medina, Marialejandra Orozco and Harold Palacios of Ensayo Colectivo.
Program:
-Walk from Hacienda la Trinidad to La Palomera.
-Welcome to visitors in the Plaza Bolívar de Baruta
-Colloquium with members of the founding families of La Palomera.
-Live music and joropo central dancing with the Bigott Foundation.
Culminating with a sancocho that was shared between the community and the attendees!
The San Juan María Vianney Church in Media Legua Vargas State is selected as one of 32 finalists of the XI Ibero-American Architecture and Urban Design Biennial from a pool of 997 projects representing 22 countries. It will be exhibited at the Biennial in Asunción Paraguay between October 5 and 11, 2019.