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Individually, look up the notion of The Right to the City by Henri Lefebvre and also the version of David Harvey. Take about 20 minutes.

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As a group, discuss how the notion relates to our discussion of People Matters and Sustainable Architecture. Take 10 - 15 min. Write a 3 take aways.

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Discuss your plan for the book. What topics are each of you going to further explore? What other material will be included? If you have not thought of your contribution, take a look at the project you chose to present last week. Ideate. What was it about that project that caught your attention? Use the board to write keywords that relate to that project or use the keywords that we wrote down, which ones fit your project?

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http://www.vuokrateltat.com/jukolan-viesti/

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Re-connecting sustainable development to architecture.

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The Financial Society 'Confinanzas' - today The Tower of David - was once the billionaire David Brillembourg's dream, who was considered one of the most successful Venezuelan bankers of the early 90s. He was the person behind the the economical landmarks of that decade: the National Brewery, the negotiating with the Union Bank, Mantex, Atlantica Industry, and also the last but unfinished The Financial Society 'Confinanzas'. This complex was planned with six buildings in total: the Atrium (lobby and meeting rooms), the 190 meters high Tower A with helipad, Tower B, Building K, Building Z and a parking lot with 12 levels, with a total floor space of about 120 thousand square meters. Apart of being the headquarters of 'Confinanzas'; there was the plan to built also a hotel, apartments and varied businesses.

cultural and social context Edit

Before the Evangelical cooperative (Pentecostal church Puerta del Cielo Casa de Dios) arrived, only people camping occupied the towers, there was no use and all was filled with debris; the stairs had excrement, dirt and waste. Only the poor and the homeless occupied the floors. Currently this has become a strong community based on dialogue and unity. Now more than a thousand families have found their shelters in this skyscraper. At the entrance, a large sign from the rooftops proclaims that the structure is controlled by the Housing Cooperative "Casiques of Venezuela", founded, formally registered and certified by the government in 2009. The founders of this cooperative proudly describe this complex self-organizing system that allows the families to live here. Besides the board members, there are also 16 coordinators, several clean-up crews and more than 20 employees responsible for ensuring the good operation of this vertical citadel.

materials and building techniques Edit

Original materials are mostly concrete, steal and bricks.

Squatters use materials from paper, wood, fabrics, plastics among bricks and wood.

earth and climate Add

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comments

Project name: Torre de David
Description: An abandoned skyscraper became home for about 3,000 squatters
Category: housing
Design: Enrique Gomez
Building status: in use
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
Coordinates: 10°30'21.2'' N, 66°53'55.9'' W
Tags: urban, community, informal settlement
Project ID: 141
Published: 25 October 2011
Last updated: 24 October 2014

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Re-connecting sustainable development to architecture. introduction Edit The Financial Society 'Confinanzas' - today The Tower of David - was once the billionaire David Brillembourg's dream, who was considered one of the most successful Venezuelan bankers of the early 90s.

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What do you think about when you think people matters in relationship to sustainable architecture?

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agriculture-based community

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human-scale full-featured settlement

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Right to have the access to the city and use it for everyone's needs

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Right to have the access to the city and use it for everyone's needs

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Temporal Hiedanranta
Community can affect designing process and how people use the area in temporal phase shapes the outcome.

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The current political and developements in Denmark makes this a very topical topic at this moment. Due to the political developements, many perfectly usable and serviceable buildings are demolished to achieve less segregation with the means of "forced gentrification".

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Focused on the spatial developements in Finland, as in a windowless bedrooms in less than 25 sqm apartments happening at the same time as a whole floors on highrises are bought by a single individual.

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Children matter
Women matter
Disabled matter

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provided, top-down

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Shaping the spaces (partly against rules)

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Shaping the spaces (partly against rules)

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bottom up

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introduction to the problem, how it affects people

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attitudes, standards, needs, values

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law, political decisions, economics

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So interesting and challenging topic

Maybe more visual documents could help such as site analysis chart/diagrams, some images for the proposed solutions

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Culture center Nuijamies in Lappeenranta

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Culture center Nuijamies in Lappeenranta

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It all started when Finnkino bought a traditional cinema from Film Luotola in the spring of 2017. The family business Film Luotola had screened films in Lappeenranta from as long as 1929 to 2017.

The cinema business wasnt owned for long by Finnkino when the large movie theatre company decided to close the doors of its old competitor in the summer of 2017.

Closing the theater was not enough for Finnkino, but they also got rid of its historical furniture.

What happened got a lot of media attention and a local crowd  began to fight for the place. A group of Lappeenranta-based artists and cultural influencers founded the Kulttuuritila Nuijamies association in October 2017.

The purpose of the association is primarily to save the cinema built in the 50’s from demolition and declare it a heritage. Their other aim is to expand the cultural offer strengthen the networking of cultural actors and provide a decent performance space in Lappeenranta.

The association started collecting funds by creating events in the space and applying for cultural grants succesfully and is now negotiationg with the property owner about buying the space. Also declaring the building heritage seems to be on Lappeenrantas agenda although nothing is yet decided.

What was different is this group of culturally orientated volunteers opposing a corporation the size of Finnkino and the great thing was the support and the attention they were gettin from people of Lappeenranta and the case became known all over the country.

They not only wanted to save the building from demolition but also had an idea how to reuse it and give benefit to the community who was also fighting for it.

Especially great in a sleepy town the size of lappeenranta. I never would have believed there existed this potential