Sunday, 7 October 2012

Caracas: Growing Houses

Marjetica Potrc's Caracas: Growing Houses at the group exhibition Architektonika 2 is an architectural case study of two buildings in the informal city of Caracas, which consists of small, self-built neighbourhoods that form village-like communities.  Negotiations between the built structure and the infrastructure are the basis of the design philosophy of the houses.

Potrc at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2012:







Views of the informal city of Caracas: