丨Cuba

THE SHIP WALL OF ANIMAS

Havana, Cuba

Local articulation circuit and social activities scaffold

meeting place

in use

Marcos Coronel, Juan Carlos Castillo, Karina Domínguez, Bárbara Saman and Adolfo Otero (PICO Project of Community Interest)

LOCAL ARTICULATION CIRCUIT AND SOCIAL ACTIVITIES SCAFFOLD

This project is a part of a series of interventions on physical rehabilitation focused on developing community facilities in emerging contexts, neighborhoods and popular settlements. Its implementation responds to an urban policy designed to support popular struggles and demands present in these territories previously unnoticed.

The Wall of Animas is an artefact similar to the cranes of the bay, capable of interlock all functions through a single industrial component: Surfaces, cover, technical facilities and services are articulated in this piece under the same logic transferable to A space of public use. This strategy obeys the condition of establishing an approved rendering with the ecosystem of existing infrastructures in the industrial environment. Under this logic, the construction is made with welders and community builders who manage the technology of the shipyards, based on pattern design, production of parts in series, handling of coupling systems and replicable modules. Materials and basic supplies come from the popular hardware, in addition to other components of steel that have minimal imperfections, separated from the main inventory of the metallurgical industry of the city.

cultural and social context

materials and building techniques

The project manages to activate a residual physical space, annulled by a geographical condition. The main operation is to correct this pathology through heavy engineering, facilitating the formation of soils, stabilization of slopes and reinforcement with concrete buttresses, avoiding the collapse of the walls and generating the supports for the subsequent assembly of the elements. The whole process of self-construction of the project is carried out in 28 continuous days, making available various workforce groups for each of the work tasks. The formwork carpentry crew makes boards from cut-outs of second-hand wood. These boards are installed, removed and reinstalled constantly, using minimal technical resources to empty more than 160 m3 of concrete. In the same way, the handling of the metals is made from a production line that manages to chain the manufacture of up to 14 elements per day.

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