The San Blas Social Action Center (NAS-SB acronym in Spanish) proposes a co-production process to be developed in four phases: the first, opens and takes over the place, evidencing the need to clean up and resolve a public health situation generated by the accumulation of human waste; the second, gives initial shape to a programmable meeting place linked to the street, consolidating a new public component to the sector; the third, gains functionality by expanding its programmatic and productive capacity and adding an energy efficiency system; Lastly, the fourth phase, it is expanded to its maximum building capacity to integrate into the child care dynamics of the adjoining educational institution. The description above is the process of a territory in constant transformation, where a place in transition is always a Center of Social Action.

San Blas - Social Action Center (SB-SAC) will contribute significantly to the redefinition of San Blas. From an environmental point of view, the SB-SAC initiates a different environmental relationship for this community, due to the action initiated and completed (phase 01) in the sanitation of 50 m2 of a garbage and sewage dump, towards a space for the public and community; In this sense, an act of urban resilience, which has a coherent continuity in the rest of the programmatic components that it has been decided to develop, to value ecosystem services. From a social point of view, the project aims to produce lasting changes in the community as a result of the execution of each of its four stages and actions. Although this project, in quantitative terms, will provide the sector with a 50mts2 Pocket Square (phase 02) due to insufficient public space, it will impact directly to 223 seniors, 37 young artists, 116 single mothers, and 170 pre-school children. In qualitative terms, it will have a much more complete impact in terms of its programmatic diversity through the capacity for social cohesion and exchange that it generates.


Another expected impact in this case, indirect, is its replicability in other sectors of the barrio, adjusted to the particularities of each context, expanding the impact area through a network of Social Action Centers that expand complementarity, comprehensiveness, and multisectoral among different sectors of the barrio.

In the city of Caracas, once a year, an event called Calvario a Puertas Abiertas is held, in which projects like this are presented. At said event, Gabriel Visconti (exhibitor) met Katiuska Camargo (Uniendo Voluntades); She showed interest in the exhibition, and approached Gabriel to tell him about what was taking place in San Blas, she invited him to get to know the sector, and from this Uniendo Voluntades and people close to Gabriel began to make proposals.

Uniendo Voluntades team:

Andreina Díaz.

Delma Camargo.

Eilyn Gutiérrez.

Esteban Ruíz.

Harrison Castro.

Johanna Berrio

Katiuska Camargo

María Perera.

Silvana Aguirre.



Taller Social Nacional team:

Angélica Navarro.

Gabriel Visconti Stopello.

Khian Gómez.

Manuel Morales.

María Ramirez. 

Michelle Isoldi.

Miguel Martinez.

Nelifred Maurera.

Pamela Elizalde.

Ricardo Hernandez Ledda.