As of the 10th of August the community of El Dorado, a municipality of Sucre, celebrated the inauguration of their new Vertical Gym
(VG) 1. The building offers over seven thousand square meters over 7 stories: 4 layered levels dedicated to athletic facilities supported atop a concrete base that offers spaces for local businesses, municipal offices, and the renovation of a pre-existing subterranean parking structure – a model previously proven successful with the pilot project in the neighborhood of Santa Cruz, Chacao, in 2003.
The Vertical Gym covets the title of the largest sports complex in the country and the second innovative prototype developed by Urban-Think Tank (U-TT) led by architects Alfredo Brillembourg & Hubert Klumpner. The project has been presented both inside and outside of the country alongside its local Venezuelan representative José Miguel Pérez Gòmez, and responds to the dire lack of public athletic venues in the dense city of Caracas