NEW SUPPORTS TO LIVE THE COASTLINE
Year 2014
Place: Perì Perì, (Salvador de Bahia, Brazil),
Latitude: -12.860223994713328, Longitude: -38.47897052764893
This project compares with the special territorial implications that informality has produced along the coast of the Brazilian city of Salvador de Bahia, focusing on a small urban segment occupied by the invasion known as Cidade de Plastico.
This is a case in point, able to represent the condition of these difficult places: poor settlements, dug in scarce interstitial spaces, carved out by a coastline and a railway. The objective is to provide, through strategies and space assets, a new support, able to create forms of more docile living in these territories, providing a radical alternative to their removal. There are, in this respect, some virtuous stories. In our exploration we wanted to try to start from these stories, imagining that work for specific interventions, with a strong exemplarity, can influence broad scopes of the City. In this regard we studied a project which may encourages some changes along the coastal edge, replicating itself where the situation is critical and supporting its better functioning as possible.
KEYWORDS: informal cities, fragile settlements, micro-story, alternative to speculation, no removal, social housing, basic infrastructure, possibility to grow, valorization, auto-construction, low-rice density, coastline and sea, safety of land