November 2009
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Ruy Othake Workshop
On Monday, November 9th, the SLUM Lab studio hosted Brazilian architect Ruy Othake for an afternoon workshop of presentations and critiques.
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Corrego do Mina
Corrego do Mina – Favela along a creek with flooding risk. Images:
The “formal” city has numerous public facilities and parks. Corrego do Mina could use access to more of these.
Strategy for developing housing along the hillside.
The open hillside developed with new housing.
Drawing connections between housing and the surrounding favela fabric.
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Boulevard La Paz
Boulevard da Paz is a site with extreme changes in topography, located on the outskirts of southern Sao Paulo city. The area lacks nearby employment opportunities and has problems with physical access along steep slopes. Water control is also an important issue as stormwater creates the risk of landslides.
I hope to use Boulevard da Paz’s topography to its advantage – creating an...
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A Paradox of Urbanization
Efforts from the government has been made to develop housing programs to provide improved living conditions and right to hous
ing for the families here in São Francisco for decades. However, the process of replacing people into the new vertical dwellings creates problems like gentrification and residents unable to pay for the development and therefore, stay, in their new homes. Also, the...
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Link City
My site is Vargem Grande which is located on the crater named Colony. It’s 40km from downtown in Sao Paulo.
Centralized City and Decentralized City
Concept diagram
Connection
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Favela do Moinho
Site issues:
1. Access – confined by traintracks on all sides, there is only one point of access. 2. utilies – only one water connection for entire favela, illegal electricity and illegal sewage that ends up in rivers 3. sanitation is very poor – piles of garbage, stagnant water and sewage runoff 4. nearby is an area notirious for all-day drug use, violence, etc.
As you can see in the...
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Cocaia and Nova Grajau within the Billings...
A prototype of ecological housing and land remediation on a local scale in Cocaia + Nova Grajau is an example for other sites on the Billings Reservoir. It restores the water quality of the entire reservoir through 3 local stages of natural remediation, while redirecting floods + storm runoff through street trails, housing tiers + reservoir burm islands. Incorporating new housing,...
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Parque Sao Domingos
Parque Sao Domingos is essentially an island favela surrounded by middle-class housing. There are 669 inhabitants living in a fairly small plot of land. The site has a unique condition of having a large soccer field as well as a sports court that have been religiously not invaded. The two main issues of the site are: a) all the houses bordering the street to the southeast have been built...