Centro Financiero Confinanzas - vertical slums of Caracas (6 photos) Bashny.Net

Skyscraper Centro Financiero Confinanzas looks like any other unfinished skyscrapers. This is the eighth tallest building in Latin America. The building has 45 floors and it is located in the financial district of Caracas, the Venezuelan capital. Its glass facade shimmers in the sun and on the idea of ​​this was to be a projection of wealth and economic power of the country, because these windows had to sit a large state-owned corporation, banks and leading companies. The reality turned out to be quite the opposite.



unfinished skyscraper now this has become a place of residence for more than 700 homeless families. And this is direct evidence that humanity can adapt to any changes. It would seem that this building is impossible to live, but it just seems ...



Construction of the tower began in 1990, but the death of the owner of the corporation in 1993, and the Venezuelan banking crisis that destroyed all hopes for the end of construction. The tower was unfinished as an ironic symbol of the financial collapse that brought the country to the brink of bankruptcy. To this day, the building is just a skeleton, but in October 2007, a fearless group of squatters and their families, whose economic situation has led them to seek a new roof over the head, was found in an unfinished tower of salvation. By the way, some of them were bankers who were working in the building ... That's the irony ...

For people who were available, only the first 30 floors, which blows through harsh winds, but people came to the house and began to revive ...



People have been using cheap building materials, cinder blocks and a tarp, cardboard and corrugated iron to create a vacant apartment on the floor. Construction of rooms, allocation of personal space, by definition, is illegal because the building belongs to the city, yet the power of turning a blind eye to what is happening in the skyscraper. Gradually, people began to invest their own money, there were concrete stairs in places where they should have been on the project, there were walls and even appeared electricity. The tower has become more than a shell, it is alive ...



The occupation of the tower, however, is more than just a search for living space. A flourishing economy creates only the concrete walls, and people have created in their hairdressers, shops and workshops, all that is necessary for the existence of society. Community leaders even began trying to legalize, official recognition of their existence. But the government is like two desyateletiya still not notice them ...