Arrival City

PROJECTS SUMMARY

Arrival City explores the potential of Mannheim to transform forgotten spaces into socially and economically engaging places as a tool for the integration of its diverse, transient communities. The project uses entrepreneurship and micro industry as an engine of integration by providing a platform for skill, language and economic advancement. Aiming to tackle social barriers to integration through participation by providing places for different types of people to meet which encourage communication and cultural exchanges.

This is a place for refugees, migrants and non-migrants, for the 60 minute, the 6 month and the 6 year engager.

Key themes of permeability, diversity and a spectrum of spaces, derived from research into a guidance framework for the transformation of vacant spaces into places which would aid the integration of migrant communities, informed key programmatic and architectural approaches.

Emma Koch MArch: Architecture and Landscape University of Sheffield RIBA Part 2 LI Part 3

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