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1 + 3 + 9 (III)

1. Revitalizing an area of urban slums

3...Slum houses tend to overgrow on top of themselves and the areas where they reside. These hand made shelters are inadequately structured and organized causing hazardous conditions. With appropriate methods of intervening these slum houses can be revitalized and turned into a more sanitary neighborhood.


9........Villa 31 a region in the North East sector of Retiro, Buenos Aires that is know for its crude living conditions and has the leading crime rate within the city. After analyzing the area, it is clear that one of the reasons for its negative presence is because of its isolation due to an airport space, ocean port, train station and a highway that surround it. This separation from the rest of the city allows for more crime to consistently occur due to its little exposure and over crowded housing. These home made shelters are hazardous to the inhabitants and continue to grow haphazardly where space presents itself. With thorough investigation I believe that an intelligent revampification would create a permanent and positive impact in the neighborhood as well as the city. I plan to design a system of prefabricated components that could be implemented in the existing housing in order to establish cleaner and more durable living conditions. Not only would this system of modules allow for a more rigid sense of construction but it would also, in my hope, encourage a more structured manor of expansion within the region. In the adjacent ports that surround Villa 31 lie many abandoned shipping containers that could server as the primary income of materials for my project. By dissecting the containers, I can formulate the parts I need for my design.