El Oasis Urbano de La Habana

In this past decade, Cuba has been going through a substantially challenging time due to US reinstating the commerce embargo.

Facing this situation, the local government is continuously making an effort to improve its economy through the tourism industry. However, this economic policy, in cities like Havana, is only favouring tourist experience of the city and not to locals’ reality, generating a growing gap between the two communities.

This projects proposes a new building typology which condenses the existing urban programs of Havana to encourage new scenarios of interaction between diverging communities.

The juxtaposition of the different programs contained within the building will allow the generation of moments of friction between the users and spark new scenarios of social interaction.