Matter Better Brief: Rehabilitation of Syria
Participants: Veethika Mishra, Santosh Kocherlakota, Priyal Patil
Participants: Veethika Mishra, Santosh Kocherlakota, Priyal Patil
The people of Syria would return back to their country, but this time it would be a fresh start for them, as well as the architectural landscape of the country. Now a land of ruins, it’s a perfect opportunity to introduce a new system of sustainable and interdependent living for these people. This project aims at creating a habitat attractive enough to lure the refugees back to their motherland. The system would compel an interdependent community lifestyle and would also blur the age old barriers of religion among the people of Syria. The location we have chosen for our proposal is a beautiful port city of Latakia. This port city has a mediterranean tropical weather. We believe that the depiction of the housing society as a tourist destination would convince them with enough reason to move back. The structure proposed is easy to scale up and the materials chosen would help recycle the construction debris from the war destruction. Recycled wood panels(one of the construction materials) is obtained by recycling the waste wooden materials from the destruction debris. Similarly, the other prime material, translucent concrete is a light weight material, which could be made by recycling glass and concrete waste. Can cut down on the light consumption drastically. Rhombic dodecahedron is the most commonly occurring polygon form in nature, such as pod crystals and honeycomb structures. As rhombic dodecahedron is made up of identical panels, it will be very easy to manufacture the houses in large scale. For every set of houses clustered together(4-5) there will be an inter-dependability system regarding the management of waste and generation of energy to increase the solidarity within the community. The local culture, aesthetic, traditions have all been taken into account while laying down the plan for the society.
