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Nick van Dorp

SYMBIOSIS A SYSTEM TO USE EMPTY OFFICE-SPACE AS A HOST FOR REFUGEE HOUSING THEME: SMART-Environments

Refugees, who fled from their country, have often experienced unimaginable tragic events. After a long and fatiguing journey, and likely to be traumatized and exhausted, they arrive at a place where food, shelter and various services are provided. Amongst them are mostly kids, for whom these events will form a memory which will be with them for the rest of their lives. PROBLEMS: - The environment where these kids are given a new home will be the environment in which they will spend some years during an important period of their maturation. However, right now these environments are set up in short time with little attention for spatial hierarchies, individually varying specific demands, privacy and social safety. For kids, the world suddenly becomes no bigger than the camp they live in, which detrimental for their personal development. - Producing and constructing housing in these camps take too much time and are low quality in conventional (affordable) production methods. Parametric design and D2RP could streamline the design- and production-process to be more fitting to the needs of (traumatized) refugees, by rapidly generating and producing custom made living units and organizing them in a suiting formation in relation to their neighbours. Material should be retrieved locally and transformed into components on-site. This could be done robotically. Integrating actuators into the components, to embed interactive systems employed for spatial reconfiguration and climate control, CO2 reduction, and distributed and renewable energy production. - Different lifespans and therefore materials - Different arrangements, sizes, functions for different preferences and needs - Integrated climate control