my self again
design for homelessness communities
The house is the place that shelters the Human Being, the proper space to a worthy dwelling. Not only does it mirror a personal identity, but also reflects it to the world, in form of object that integrates itself into society. A safe place, of memories, which safeguards the physiological needs to the well-being of each identity.
However, there are those to whom this place is deprived and limited, and the feeling and belonging to the world that lives in human celebration is strange, therefore a phenomenom awakens. Nowadays, experiencing the street as there home, the roof, amongst the stars and neighboring gifts as livelihood, essential needs are not answered and human bonds are broken. In the world they inhabit (in)visible and in solitude, they remain homeless.
The present proposal approaches an experimental nature in response to the phenomenom. Promoting a circular economy linked to an adaptable and ephemeral architecture, capable of living in different unoccupied scenarios and providing the homeless communities with a refuge and reconstruction of a sense of belonging. The project is thus born with a fundamental premise, recovering an absent identity by being, as well as presenting a new identity to the place. A new place, a new life, a new home, emerges to the identity
...my self again.
