invisible architecture contemporary housing and the role of participation
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HOMEmade - family houses in Bangladesh
Anna Heringer Architecture
Collective design using local skills and materials
Looking to - existing facilities
- community systems
community development
social structures
empowerment
Beyond Entropy Angola
Stefano Rabolli Pansera & Paula Nascimento
Planting expanses of Bamboo and Arundo Donax
Beyond Entropy Angola. (2012). "Beyond Entropy Angola"
Quinta Monroy - Iquique Chile
Elemental
Low cost development encouraging expansion
Preserve existing built character and morphology
Plant = infrastructure
Filter water Filter air Provide biomass = electricity
“ Change everything without
changing anything”
Participation:
- Allows knowledge and skills to be carried to
other regions of Bangladesh.
- Maintaining the current high level of sustainabil-
ity with regard to home construction.
- Learn about taking care of buildings afterwards.
- Learn about building techniques and available
materials
Designed by young local architects
Built by local craftsmen
Double storey - more land for crops
Participation:
Identi!es communities needs.
Identi!es problem areas.
Maintains existing sense of community and social systems.
Ability to add on to and personalize
own home.
Can provide larger initial ‘shell’ on
better land.
Participation:
- own time + hard work = True ownership
- Can decide function of spaces according to
needs.
- Give oppurtunity to express needs and dreams.
- Re#ect identity of inhabitants.
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Beyond Entropy Angola. (2012). "Beyond Entropy Angola" Full Documentary. Available: http://vimeo.com/51669672. Last accessed 03/10/2013. Anna Heringer . (2013). HOMEmade - family houses in Bangladesh. Available: http://www.anna-heringer.com/. Last accessed 03/10/2013.
Jeannè Scholtz