2016 - WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL 2016 !!!!
Finalist - Best of Experimental Projects
BERLIN WALLS - Berlin
-The Project in Berlin will be presented in Arena Berlin , 16-17th Nov, 2016
Finalist - Best of Experimental Projects
BERLIN WALLS - Berlin
-The Project in Berlin will be presented in Arena Berlin , 16-17th Nov, 2016
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Year 2016
Location Berlin,German Context Experimental Project Area - - sqm Program Temporary housing for UNHCR Team Le Quang Status final list in WAF2016 Official shortlist announcement in WAF website |
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BERLIN – THE LIVING WALLS
1.IMMIGRATION & IDENTITY
The European migrant crisis or European refugee crisis began in 2015, when a rising number of refugees and migrants made the journey to the European Union (EU) to seek asylum, traveling across the Mediterranean Sea or through Southeast Europe. They came from areas such as Western and South Asia, Africa, and the Western Balkans. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the top three nationalities of the over one million Mediterranean Sea arrivals in 2015 were Syrian (49%), Afghan (21%) and Iraqi (8%). Of the refugees and migrants arriving in Europe by sea in 2015, 58% were men, 17% women and 25% children. The number of deaths at sea rose to record levels in April 2015, when five boats carrying almost 2,000 migrants to Europe sank in the Mediterranean Sea, with a combined death toll estimated at more than 1,200 people. The shipwrecks took place in a context of ongoing conflicts and refugee crises in several Asian and African countries, which increased the total number of forcibly displaced people worldwide at the end of 2014 to almost 60 million, the highest level since World War II.
Actually according to this situation, there will be so many slum camp for migrant will be provided. anyway, we have to find the architecture reaction for those issues with a duration concern and human being.
2. PROPOSAL : (IM)PERMANENT STRUCTURE
As everyone know about Berlin nowadays is the city which is the destination for the most of Refuges in Europe. They can be Syria, Libia, Afghanistan ..so many country. So it means that they all cone to Berlin with different languages, different education background, different cultural background..
And those different things will make the conflict between them and the new place where they arrive. Let’s imagine we have to go to the new area, lonely and we just had lost everything before. It will be very terrible when you have been splitted from your community and no one know who you are… This fact will make you lost your human being also – which is the last thing that you can keep.
That why we have to face to the Migrant Crisis and in the end of the day, you recognized that saving 1 people is good , saving 10 peoples is wonderful but saving 1 million peoples is something really different.
So with 1 million peoples, what should we do, what design can do? Personally I don’t think that providing the Refugee’s Shelters is enough, we should provide them something more than that, It can be the “Potential” , the “HOME” for them, even it will be the temporary home but it can be the good chance for them to improve by themselves and to overcome this intense period.
Our proposal is BERLIN WALLS
The Idea is borrowing the scaffolding from some construction sites around the city to build the (im)permanent structure . The selected site is Holzmarkt which is located along to the Seine River. This is the boundary between East Berlin and West Berlin in the past, nowadays this site is mainly abandoned and become the artist district where people can feel free to come, working, sharing …. In fact, this site is really nice for the social experiments.
The (im)permanent structure will be based on some typical Unit plan which is made by scaffolding. There will be basic need in each Unit for Refugees. The structure as the scaffolding can be extend easily to fix with the needed. The key point is asking refugees to participate the construction processes. They can work here with local people, they can distribute and manage their shelter together and it will be the good way for them to make the first relation inside their community and with local people also.
Looking to Haiti – post earthquake in 2011, I believe that the best way to survive is working and sharing together.
That why we call the structure is the WALLS, because it will be narrow spaces with just simple basic function and every one should go out to work , to meet the others and like that they can keep their human being, helping someone and making the improvement by themselves.
The (im)permanent structure can be remove one day when they all have new job, new life, new destination but the permanent structure of the relation, human being and communication will be forever.
1.IMMIGRATION & IDENTITY
The European migrant crisis or European refugee crisis began in 2015, when a rising number of refugees and migrants made the journey to the European Union (EU) to seek asylum, traveling across the Mediterranean Sea or through Southeast Europe. They came from areas such as Western and South Asia, Africa, and the Western Balkans. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the top three nationalities of the over one million Mediterranean Sea arrivals in 2015 were Syrian (49%), Afghan (21%) and Iraqi (8%). Of the refugees and migrants arriving in Europe by sea in 2015, 58% were men, 17% women and 25% children. The number of deaths at sea rose to record levels in April 2015, when five boats carrying almost 2,000 migrants to Europe sank in the Mediterranean Sea, with a combined death toll estimated at more than 1,200 people. The shipwrecks took place in a context of ongoing conflicts and refugee crises in several Asian and African countries, which increased the total number of forcibly displaced people worldwide at the end of 2014 to almost 60 million, the highest level since World War II.
Actually according to this situation, there will be so many slum camp for migrant will be provided. anyway, we have to find the architecture reaction for those issues with a duration concern and human being.
2. PROPOSAL : (IM)PERMANENT STRUCTURE
As everyone know about Berlin nowadays is the city which is the destination for the most of Refuges in Europe. They can be Syria, Libia, Afghanistan ..so many country. So it means that they all cone to Berlin with different languages, different education background, different cultural background..
And those different things will make the conflict between them and the new place where they arrive. Let’s imagine we have to go to the new area, lonely and we just had lost everything before. It will be very terrible when you have been splitted from your community and no one know who you are… This fact will make you lost your human being also – which is the last thing that you can keep.
That why we have to face to the Migrant Crisis and in the end of the day, you recognized that saving 1 people is good , saving 10 peoples is wonderful but saving 1 million peoples is something really different.
So with 1 million peoples, what should we do, what design can do? Personally I don’t think that providing the Refugee’s Shelters is enough, we should provide them something more than that, It can be the “Potential” , the “HOME” for them, even it will be the temporary home but it can be the good chance for them to improve by themselves and to overcome this intense period.
Our proposal is BERLIN WALLS
The Idea is borrowing the scaffolding from some construction sites around the city to build the (im)permanent structure . The selected site is Holzmarkt which is located along to the Seine River. This is the boundary between East Berlin and West Berlin in the past, nowadays this site is mainly abandoned and become the artist district where people can feel free to come, working, sharing …. In fact, this site is really nice for the social experiments.
The (im)permanent structure will be based on some typical Unit plan which is made by scaffolding. There will be basic need in each Unit for Refugees. The structure as the scaffolding can be extend easily to fix with the needed. The key point is asking refugees to participate the construction processes. They can work here with local people, they can distribute and manage their shelter together and it will be the good way for them to make the first relation inside their community and with local people also.
Looking to Haiti – post earthquake in 2011, I believe that the best way to survive is working and sharing together.
That why we call the structure is the WALLS, because it will be narrow spaces with just simple basic function and every one should go out to work , to meet the others and like that they can keep their human being, helping someone and making the improvement by themselves.
The (im)permanent structure can be remove one day when they all have new job, new life, new destination but the permanent structure of the relation, human being and communication will be forever.
