Alfredo Brillembourg

Hosted in Geneva at the Haute école d’art et de design, Alfredo Brillembourg will present the Tower of David and the idea of the integrated infrastructure Urban–Tool Box.

During the Talking Heads conference at the Haute école d’art et de design, in Genève, Alfredo Brillembourg will present the Tower of David – a half-built 52-floor skyscraper in downtown Caracas – which has been home to thousands of squatters who transformed the abandoned block into a vertical favela complete with grocery shops, tattoo parlours, internet cafes and a hair salon.

The evening will present the idea of integrated infrastructure, called Urban–Tool Box, a method and system of thinking designed to empower citizens and city building, as well as the research on innovative Metro-Cable San Agustin in Caracas, an urban cable car system featuring music, sports, and educational programs. The project was recently featured in the MoMA exhibition, “Small Scale–Big Change.”

<b>Top</b>: Urban-Think Thank, Grotao Community Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil. <b>Above</b>: Urban-Think Thank, St Marys Anglican Church, Caracas, Venezuela
Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpne, Metro Cable, Caracas, Venezuela
Urban-Think Thank, Vertical Gymnasium, Chacao, Caracas, Venezuela


20 May 2015, 7.00 pm
Talking Heads
Alfredo Brillembourg
In conversation with Jan Geipel, head of the  Interior Architecture departmen
Auditoire
boulevard James-Fazy 15, Geneva