Article source: PICO COLECTIVO

Cultural units involve a center of urban creation and experimental economies, based on the transformation of a vandalized construction.

The intervention proposes to confront the need for collective spaces, as a result of the evidence of huge gaps and precarious structures, common in the center of the city. Betting to occupy a building violated during street protests, for its rescue as cultural infrastructure, articulating a series of initiatives driven by groups of artists and local communities.

Image Courtesy © José Alberto Bastidas

• Architects: PICO COLECTIVO
• Project: Cultural Production Zone
• Location: Guacara, Carabobo, Venezuela
• Photography: José Alberto Bastidas
• Cultural Promoter: Alfredo Pineda
• Project Team: María Isabel Ramírez, Michelle Isoldi, José Bastidas
• Construction: Juan Ortega, Juan Ortega, José Suarez, Carlos Sánchez, Joel Meléndez, Luis Rojas, Arjenis Durand, Edison Rivas
• Collaborators: Juan Castillo, Williams Adjunta, Kenneth Gomez, Patricia Henríquez, Nickol Bendek, Adriano Pastorino
• Institutional Support: BANDES Economic and Social Development Bank, Microfinance Development Fund FONDEMI
• Cultural Management: Colectivo ZPG
• Surface and Components: 550 m2
• Year: 2016

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