Graduation projects
Shelter with dignity
Project description
We are currently witnessing a dyslexic way of using the built environment of Bucharest. In an increasingly dynamic and populated capital, it is becoming more difficult but even more necessary to look closely at the social mechanisms that make everything work. The number of inhabitants increases in direct proportion to the number of the vulnerable population, homeless or without any other destination, and we notice that the integration mechanism of any kind is strongly deficient. The lack of interest in solving this problem leads to the lack of any solution for these people and, finally, to the contrasts that arise between the social strata. The motivation of this work comes from long personal and empirical observations of the way outcasts live on the streets and alleys of the city. If we look more closely at the phenomenon and do not step up while looking elsewhere, it is impossible not to have a sense of helplessness. We want to help and at the same time we are outraged why no one has done anything so far. The present paper therefore appears as a critical reaction on the way in which the subject of homeless people is treated by contemporary society. In our project, we create a place where the shelter and the urban garden are a house for the people of the street.
Author's presentation text
218/5000 graduate of UAUIM, Bucharest. She has studied Architecture Conservation and Restoration in the past, flirted with theater scenography, and is currently interested in social architecture and its implications for the community.
