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''A SYSTEM TO USE EMPTY OFFICE-SPACE AS A HOST FOR REFUGEE HOUSING'' | ''A SYSTEM TO USE EMPTY OFFICE-SPACE AS A HOST FOR REFUGEE HOUSING'' | ||
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THEME: SMART-Environments | THEME: SMART-Environments | ||
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| + | == ABSTRACT == | ||
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. | 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. | ||
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| − | - 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. | + | PROBLEMS: |
| − | - Producing and constructing housing in these camps | + | |
| + | - 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. | ||
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| + | - Producing and constructing housing in these camps takes too much time and are low quality in conventional (affordable) production methods | ||
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| + | - In the Netherlands, almost 15% of total office space is unused. Maintaining these spaces costs money and energy. | ||
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| + | GOAL: | ||
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| + | ''Using empty office space as a host for refugee housing units, by making an interior, parasitic system that can be installed in unused offices. The idea is that a mutual benefit of the two symbionts, being the refugees and the empty offices, will result in a symbiosis.'' | ||
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| + | ''SUBGOALS'' | ||
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| + | - Integrating actuators into the components, to embed interactive systems employed for spatial reconfiguration and climate control, CO2 reduction, and distributed and renewable energy production. | ||
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| + | - Using different materials for units with different lifespans. | ||
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| + | - Generate different arrangements, sizes, functions of units for different preferences and needs. | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
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| − | + | Key tasks for now are researching: the exact problems and needs of refugees; the amounts of refugees that arrive in and leave from camps; the composition and origin of families; the way refugees use their units' facilities; the spatial and sustainable possibilities to use office-space as a host. | |
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Revision as of 19:25, 14 September 2016
Nick van Dorp
SYMBIOSIS
A SYSTEM TO USE EMPTY OFFICE-SPACE AS A HOST FOR REFUGEE HOUSING
THEME: SMART-Environments
ABSTRACT
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 takes too much time and are low quality in conventional (affordable) production methods
- In the Netherlands, almost 15% of total office space is unused. Maintaining these spaces costs money and energy.
GOAL:
Using empty office space as a host for refugee housing units, by making an interior, parasitic system that can be installed in unused offices. The idea is that a mutual benefit of the two symbionts, being the refugees and the empty offices, will result in a symbiosis.
SUBGOALS
- Integrating actuators into the components, to embed interactive systems employed for spatial reconfiguration and climate control, CO2 reduction, and distributed and renewable energy production.
- Using different materials for units with different lifespans.
- Generate different arrangements, sizes, functions of units for different preferences and needs.
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.
Key tasks for now are researching: the exact problems and needs of refugees; the amounts of refugees that arrive in and leave from camps; the composition and origin of families; the way refugees use their units' facilities; the spatial and sustainable possibilities to use office-space as a host.
