Arsenale Part 4 - Venezuela - Torre David, Gran Horizonte
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| Exhibition installation, and visitor immersion Click to enlarge images |
Located within the cavernous exhibition space of the Arsenale, the exhibition/installation presents both the architectural and urban possibilities inherent in the study of squatters inhabiting an abandoned and partially constructed commercial tower in Caracas, Venezuela.
The semi-constructed concrete framed building has been reused, adapted and modified by the squatters to create a home and community to live within. These people believe that living in the tower is much safer than were the government has told them to live, in the periphery "barrios". The study of the method and informal adaption of this abandoned tower, brings to focus discussions on the possibilities and a model of inhabiting and creating architecture and urban communities.
The exhibition is highly immersive.The exhibition space has been created in the style of the modified building, with block work construction, photographs, music and TVs with documentaries, to further create and communicate the nature and vibrancy of this community.
The ideas of the exhibition is furthered expressed through the themed Venezuelan cafe, where common ground is literary presented through inviting and binging people together to share a meal within the exhibition space.
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| Office tower re-inhabited |
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| key thoughts pasted up around the space |
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| Visitor immersion: Photographs and TV footage in a recreated space, communicating the adaption of the office tower and the creation of the communities which live within |
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| Venezuelan cafe. All food and drinks are Venezuelan, further immersing the visitor into the environment and the spirit of the exhibited building. |
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