The Urban Beach: An energy producing public infrastructure

The living standard of the people in Alamar<br/>is missing quality. Although many issues,<br/>like drinking water, have been solved locally,<br/>but a stable electricity infrastructure cannot<br/>be provided by the people themselves. The<br/>instability of the electricity is traceable to<br/>the construction period. Alamar was built<br/>on the...

FORUM-Creating Centrality for Alamar by Promoting Self-Employment

The research area-Alamar, a satellite city to the east of Havana, Cuba, is investigated in social, economic and social scopes, as well as spatial character. <br/>A large-scale interventions is proposed—“FORUM”, operating at the scale of community infrastructure, providing a pilot building and a new spatial order for urban center where learning...

Addicts rehabilitation in Alamar

Subasta Alamar: Cooperative Auction for Urban Agricultural Products

With the fall of the Socialist block in 1989, the Cuban national economy collapsed, followed by a severe scarcity in gasoline, materials and especially food. Of Alamar, a socialist housingproject in construction in East Havana only the areas dedicated to dwelling were finished, leaving the neighbourhood without a defined public space or economic...