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This topic explores how designers and architects respond to displacement and forced migration through built interventions. Projects range from temporary shelters to transitional housing that provide safety, dignity, and community for people fleeing conflict, persecution, and disaster.

The community examines diverse approaches including purpose-built refuges integrated into natural landscapes, adaptive reuse of existing structures like border infrastructure, and transitional housing designed specifically for refugee populations. Work spans emergency response to longer-term settlement solutions.

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Peaches Shipley1 work

khazina siddiqui1 work

BAZAAR CITY

A city interconnect by a main core, its polarizing force. In our case the Polar Point is the plot Baghe Somal, an area of cities where people can live and spend their time as a community. Both in emergency and no emergency situations.

Peaches

EL HOGAR

TRANSFORM THE SEQUENCE OF IMMIGRATION THROUGH CONNECTING REFUGEES TO COMMUNITIES (AND COMMUNITIES TO REFUGEES). MEANWHILE, PROVIDING OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOUSING NATION WIDE.

Denis

HOME FOR THE ESCAPED - Transitional Housing for the Rohingya refugees

The experience of becoming homeless is coupled with the experience of losing a sense of place and belonging in this world. The transitional shelters goal is to design a more humane environment that restores dignity and identity to the abandoned Refugees.

Tom

Play: Fragments of Their World

During conflicts families flee their country, seeking refuge in temporary camps. A lack of resources and infrastructure leads to many children losing their freedom to learn, develop and play. “Fragments of Their World” tackles these issues, using familiarity and the building of essential skills to provide the children with a brighter future.

Budiyanto

EL PUENTE DE LA ESPERANZA

El Puente De La Esperanza is a new architecture that give asylum seekers hope for a better future. Everything is fragmented and mutated to create a new architectural language that defines each program’s characteristic. We saw the bridge not only as a border, but also as a connective device to make a better future for the people—to bring hope.

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog2 months ago

DRAA Stacks Volcanic Stone into a Fire-Resistant Refuge that Disappears in the Chilean Forest

A 45-square-meter shelter near Pucón draws on pre-Hispanic Andean rock shelters to resist wildfire and merge with the Valdivian rainforest.

Refuge

Refugee Center

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog6 months ago

Estúdio HAA! Threads a Timber Refuge Through the Forest Canopy of São Bento do Sapucaí

A linear pavilion in the Brazilian highlands dissolves its walls into the surrounding Mata Atlântica through glass, timber, and raw concrete.

Refuge

Refugee Center

UNI Editorial

publishedReview1 week ago

Home for the Escaped: Rohingya Transitional Housing Built by the Refugees Who Will Live in It

A UnIATA 2018 winning thesis that turns Rohingya stilt-house vernacular into a self-build housing system for the Kanchan Kunj settlement in New Delhi.

Refugee Camp

Refuge

UNI

publishedReview5 months ago

Temporary Habitat: Reimagining a Border Bridge as a Respite Center for Asylum Seekers

A modular humanitarian architecture proposal transforms the Eagle Pass–Piedras Negras International Bridge into a living, layered community.

Temporary Dwelling

Refugee Center