This Public Space is meant to accommodate a flexible performance space for theatre, circus and music performances alongside with a cafe, an urban garden, workshops, restrooms and storage space. The site is approximately 300 sqm and will accommodate about 100 people. We are a group of students from “The Scarcity and Creativity Studio” from the master program at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway. The project is a contribution to its urban renewal program and to rebuild the town after the devastation of the earthquake and tsunami on 17th September. The work is being planned together with Sitio Eriazo. Sitio Eriazo, our client, is a youth group with recent graduates from theater, art and architecture schools whose aim is to recover empty, abandoned, urban spaces in the city of Valparaiso, Chile, which are currently used as rubbish dumps and attract vermin and delinquents. The activities of the group rely on self-motivation, mutual support and a non-hierarchical organisation; they work to recover and make available to the community the urban patrimony of the city of Valparaiso which was declared UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003.
