Hot Showers for the Homeless?
iterative research process, designing a proto-architectural molecularly in-spired micro-bamboo system, followed by some case-study examples of ac-tualized instantiations of the system at scale.
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Archive for: Design Professions and Informality
The Help-Yourself City
I am reading a really interesting book by Gordon Douglas: “The Help-Yourself City: Legitimacy and Inequality in DIY Urbanism .“ Continue reading
AICA, the workshop
Post by Silvia Soonets Few weeks ago I was invited, along with other professionals with experience in informal settlements, young Continue reading
Revisiting Housing pilots [Haiti], 2 years later
Credits for photograph above: Claude André Nadon With a unique opportunity to hear an outsider’s perspective on the interventions and their impact 2 and Continue reading
Planning Failure, Ecological Failure
The opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics are quickly approaching. The years since Rio was awarded the 2016 Summer Continue reading
Urban Forces – Venezuela in Venice
Post by Silvia Soonets Last week,the Venezuelan pavilion in Venice opened to the public . The exhibition, Urban Forces, displays a Continue reading
ECUADOR: [re]learning from reconstruction/ lecciones de reconstruction
Photograph above: Rebuilding in Port au Prince, source Claude Andre Nadon/UNOPS For this post I want to reference an article Continue reading
Sambinha Architecture, Technological Entrapment, and the Pioneering Spirit
How informal urbanism affects the way we think about formal urbanism is one of the crucial questions we ask here Continue reading
