La fusión de gasolina y espuma de poliestireno (poliespuma) se ha usado en Cuba por muchos años. La gasolina consume cada molécula de oxigeno derritiendo el plástico hasta convertirlo en una masa grisácea que toma diversas contexturas en relación a la proporción.
A partir de la construcción de un banco, este podrá ser transformado en una silla doble (de posiciones opuestas con un solo espaldar), que se convierte en un asiento multiposición reclinable con solo cambiar la orientación del respaldo. A su vez, este puede transfigurarse en una cama-catre.
Con materiales de desecho puede hacerse esta herramienta que garantiza la verticalidad en la construcción de paredes y muros
Architecture of Necessity. Moral Modulor 1997-2012
http://cubannordicartcurrent.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/editing-havana-stories-of-popular-housing/
Echo-system by Baptiste Menu http://www.echo-system.fr
The CASALATA (Tin House) project started with a short film which was produced during a post-graduation course in Cinema at M_EIA (International Institute of Arte, Technology and Culture) in Mindelo, Cape Verde. The film focuses on the issue of the shortage of housing and on the problems the tin house neighbourhoods suffer from.The CASALATA film then evolved ...
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During the autumn of 2009, Virserum Art Museum launched the international manifesto on the Architecture of Necessity. 143 entries from 28 countries were submitted for the 2010 exhibition, 42 of which went on display. Now the Architecture of Necessity is set to become an international triennial for sustainable community building.
YERBA BUENA CENTER OF ARTS Scaffolds are only rarely independent structures: conversation on the temporal landscape (Screening) William Cordova’s program at Yerba Buena Center: smoke signals: viviendo pa’ la ciudad Nov 3, 2012 2:00pm – 5:00pm FREE with gallery admission A double feature of Drylongso (1998), a film by Cauleen Smith, with the director in ...
CA2M 23 JUNIO 2010 – XVII Jornadas de Estudio de la Imagen. El susurro de las imágenes. ERNESTO OROZA from CA2M on Vimeo. Ernesto Oroza. CA2M 23 JUNIO 2010 – XVII Jornadas de Estudio de la Imagen.
http://www.revistasignos.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf-files/SIGNOS_59.pdf
Universidad para todos: Con tus propias manos. Cómo construir y mejorar tu vivienda. / 1ra Parte Con tus propias manos. Cómo construir y mejorar tu vivienda. / 2da Parte
Lawton, Ciudad de la Habana left: San Francisco #156, 2006 right: San Francisco #156, 2012
left: Salud #833, Centro Habana, 1999
right: Salud #833, Centro Habana, 2012
Célula habitable construida con “Euphorbia trigona” y una puerta de aluminio
Hoy en “Habalndo de Espacio” y para hablar, entre otros temas de: “arquitectura de la necesidad” estará como invitado Ernesto Oroza. A partir de las 10:00am hasta la 1:00pm en “Habana Radio”. March 23
Interior infinito: holguin, gibara, habana
How bottles bring light to world’s poorest A simple initiative in the Philippines is bringing a bit of brightness into the lives of the country’s poorest people. < http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/world-asia-pacific-14967535 > from BBC
Architecture of Necessity (old website)
http://www.studio-basel.com/projects/havana/student-work/squatted-city.html
Editing Havana- Stories of Popular Housing Maja Asaa, Mira Kongstein and Ernesto Oroza with photographs by Frederikke Friderichsen ISBN: 9788791984174 Published by Aristo Bogforlag 2011 17×24 cm, 224p
For two decades the Cubans have intervened, with their own resources, the houses and public and private spaces around, to adapt them to the new necessities and individual and family requirements. The group of these transformations includes, from the creations of new plans or added volumes, to the simple placement of fences to define and protect property limits.