Sheltering Humanity

Landi, Davide

Abstract

Humanitarian corridors as rightful places. Conventionally, refugees camps are constellations of tends or temporary structures which present poor conditions, and have a strong impact on the natural environment. Additionally, they lack of social quality. The Refugee Camp Vision attempts to dignify refugees’ transnational experiences while embodying the citizens of future hosting countries’s needs. The project, therefore, starts from a typological analysis of existing refugee camps. From this, the Refugee Camp Vision translates the notion of humanitarian corridors as rightful place into a work of architecture. It is a shelter, a spatial frame that refugees can inhabit. Consequently, the Refugee Camp Vision is a linear sequence of small, enclosed, private spaces beside big, public spaces (e.g. medical and digital facilities, kindergarten, workshops, and a market). This is the outcome of a meticulous relational study of each of the parts. The sense of distance, thereby, becomes a tool to establish relationships. This gives a human scale to the spaces in which the possibilities of social encounters and exchanges between refugees and citizens of hosting countries are maximised. The Refugee Camp Vision is an architectural stage that aims to tear down bias, and physical as well as psychological boundaries.

• Exhibition Performance Type: Exhibition
• Start Date: Oct 21, 2016
• End Date: Dec 15, 2015
• Deposit Date: Oct 1, 2021
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7391497