AHomes for homeless students
The Safe House - Result Story
Education plays a vital role in shaping the future of the young. The children of today are gearing up to become the adult citizens of tomorrow. Citizens, who are going to be responsible for the future of their countries, parallel to the growth through education. School life takes up a huge chunk of a child’s life.
But what if the school wasn't the only thing students needed to be worried about? What if shelter and food were no longer the responsibility of the parent?
Some lost stable homes when the parent was overcome by opioid addiction, some homes were washed away by hurricanes. Others are just crumbling under the economic crisis. More than a million U.S students meet the federal definition of homeless (NCHE). Nearly, 1.5 million public school students stated that they were homeless at some point during the academic year of 2017-18. The highest number recorded in a dozen years, reflecting a negative effect on children’s academic performance and health.
As a result, children end up being in transitional homes or shelters. A common issue with homeless youth is the choice of living on the street or in dangerous situations over homeless shelters. It not only creates an unstable environment but also an unsafe one.
It is time to rethink how we address homelessness. The current scheme of shelters is dysfunctional for children and overcrowded. The SafeHouse proposes to design a living facility for children who face homelessness due to various reasons. The designed teen hostel should run on three principles:
➢ Shelter: giving a stable place to anchor on.
➢ Rehabilitate: Dealing with the trauma of being homeless.
➢ Integrate: creating part-time job opportunities within the complex.
The aim was not just to provide temporary shelter, but to provide a sense of community such that individuals maintain their self-identity.
The jury for the competition consisted of esteemed designers, professionals, and academicians from around the world. The Lead Jurors for the competitions were as follows:
David Thompson, Principal and Founder, Assembledge+, United States
Jasmit Rangr, Founder, Rangr Studio, Berkeley, United States
Kevin Daly, Founder + Design Principal, Kevin Daly Architects, Los Angeles, United States
Some of the Best of competition projects are:
Winning Project: Hamlet
By: Atousa Esmaeili & Amirhossien Haydarpour
Description: Most of the orphanage build as an institution with the strong burden with society this institutionalize isolate the orphans make their life harder than it used to be we believe everything can change in the sack of hamlet .hamlet is a place where the orphans can learn from each other and build a community, hamlet is a village for orphans
Runner - Up: Between Alleys
By: Su Zeyong, Zhou lun & Yang Ou
Description: Every street child is like a small floating individual. They are separated from their original families and scattered in the corners of the city. We hope to bring these individuals together and unite them. Several individuals can form a small and warm family. These small families gradually expand and evolve into a bigger safe society.
Honorable Mention: The Safe House
By: Natalia Andrzejak & Sandra Namyślak
Description: The project is a concept of a functional solution for a social building as part of the fight against homelessness among young people.
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Honorable Mention: The SafeHouse
By: Katarzyna Lech
Description: The SafeHouse is a project of living space for homeless youth. Presented solutions are intended to create a building that will give the opportunity for personal growth, teach responsibility and independence, inspire imaginative thinking, and have a positive influence on users’ mental and physical health.
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Honorable Mention: USB-C
By: Tiborzoltán Dányi, Péter Paári & János Szigony
Description: Urban Shelter Bond-Campus.
Honorable Mention: Haven
By: Aleksandra Smith & Jean-Pierre Smith
Description: Social connections, both constant and transient, are essential to human health and in overcoming trauma. Haven has been designed to build and strengthen these connections on different levels: connecting with a roommate, sharing a flat, being a neighbor, or engaging with society through commercial ventures.
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Honorable Mention: HOME OF TREE HOUSES
By: Nash Huo
Description: Like a collection of treehouses, this building stands high and upward, far from the noise and restlessness of the ground, closer to the serenity and tranquility of the sky. It provides shelter for children and nurtures their wounded feelings.
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Honorable Mention: home.
By: Benjamin Ma
Description: Reimagining youth shelters as exciting, and responsive spaces.
People’s Choice: The Safe House
By: Amirmahdi Sh & Parsa Taghva
Description: A dream house full of love and peace for those who are not fortunate enough to live as many of us.
Editor’s Choice: The Safe House for homeless children in Jackson
By: Paulina Wojnarowicz
Description: The Safe House for homeless children in Jackson, Mississippi, is a project whose main ideas is based on climate issues and the problem of child homelessness itself. The idea is to create a safe space that corresponds to the proper development of young people aged 13-18 years.
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Editor’s Choice: To Be-TAT
By: Sina Esmaeili Osalou, Armin Memari & Sarah Mirzaei
Description: They need to be in their own homes connected with nature, friends, and the local community; alongside privacy and their personal spaces.
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Editor’s Choice: THE SAFE HOUSE
By: Nikola Dubowska & Krzysztof Afeltowicz
Description: This is a place where everyone will feel at home...
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Editor’s Choice: Hopscotch Housing
By: Hongfeng Zhong & Heng si Ma
Description: The design is inspired by children’s hopscotch game, employing squares as basic elements, which are meant to be able to create a Utopian ideal residence out of the normal reality. The mixture and random connection of multiple squares of different dimensions created an intimate, secure, and ambiguous space.
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Editor’s Choice: Cloud Vally House
By: C L, 涛 张, 石 蕊 & Song Xiang Yang
Description: We propose a new model of “Safe House”, which raises the height of the bottom of the house, liberates the bottom space and makes it an interface with social resources. Diverse social activities and people become energy sources to treat the children in the “Safe House”. It also can adapt to Various underlying situations.
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Editor’s Choice: safe house
By: Dominika Meres
Description: "Safehouse" is the shelter for homeless students in Jackson, Mississipi. The building provides space to live, grow and interact. Students can overcome their traumas about being homeless there and maintain mental well-being. The main design idea was to blend the interior with the exterior. The project is based on natural material - wood and is full of greenery.
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Editor’s Choice: HE[x]AL
By: Christopher Chua Yan Jun, Abhilash Mohan, Nabila Fatharani Azka & Yifan Goh
Description: HE[x]AL’s vision is to provide a safe, secure, and transitionary home for homeless teenagers in Jackson, Mississippi. Our design aims to build Trust, Dignity, and Ability: to address deep-seated issues in these teenagers, restore identity and sense of empowerment and provide them the capacity to upskill themselves and be independent in facing challenges.
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Editor’s Choice: Cardo
By: Magdalena Jablonska
Description: The project consists of modular container housing units and a common building connected together with a two-level pathway. In the main building, there are open- space areas for studying and various activities. Habitable units are divided into four groups, each with a semi-private area.
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Editor’s Choice: Encompass
By: Jelani Lowe
Description: 2.5 million children find themselves homeless in America each year. This is a terrible societal moral failing. Homelessness at such a young age produces trauma and hinders personal growth and development. Keeping this staggering statistic and its consequences in mind, Encompass is based on circles. A circle has no beginning or end.
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Editor’s Choice: SafeHouse - Urban Gardens
By: Adrian Ungureanu
Description: Creating a community to empower future generations.
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