Architecture Thesis: Resilient reception of migrants in Lampedusa, Italy

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UniversitĂ degli Studi di Firenze - Scuola di Architettura Corso di Laurea in Architettura Magistrale a ciclo unico Tesi di Laurea in Tecnologia dell'architettura

Thesis Title:

XL,L,M,S and backwards. Transforming invisible resources into architecture of migration. A walkthrough from the globalization of human waste to the design of a new first aid and reception centre (CSPA) in Lampedusa through the planning of resilient strategies for reception.

Student: Professor:

Guido Mitidieri Roberto Bologna

Objectives: My thesis project aims to write a technical legal instrument for projecting and building new centers for first reception of migrants in Europe using a “resilient approach�.

Project: Standardized management of people proves to be too rigid and is ultimately ineffective because of the mutability in the short period of migrations. The most appropriate strategy is one that accommodates in the project this variability. In this sense, the project proposes the RE-USE of boats with which immigrants arrive on Italian shores as temporary residences in Lampedusa. It is a decision that uses a widely available resource in the area, cheap and that would otherwise be destroyed. Resilience requires to make the most of what you have available and to transform what is potentially a loss, in a positive growth situation. Due to the unpredictable future evolution of migrational phenomenon my project for Lampedusa is able to adapt itself and respond in time to the mutability of the needs of the territory, the economy and political society. It is a solid iron framework that could host different functional spaces: in time of migration, boats and services, when migrations would end the framework could host public services for the Lampedusa community.


PUTTING WASTE TO WORK

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) * N° of landing = Migrants are rescued and housed in Lampedusa for a limited period of time (on average 25 days) in CSPA Center for First Aid and Acceptance and then are transferred to centers on Italian territory

judicial requisition of boat

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DEMOLITION

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in 2011 italy spent about 700.000€ to transfert

REUSE OF BOAT

as temporary houses RECLAIMING AND CONVERT THE MEANING OF THINGS TRANSFORM IN RESOURCE SOMETHING THAT HAS NO VALUE


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Migrants始 boats coming from Lybia 2

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landing aid and transfer to the reception center

medical screen

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PROCEDURES TO PERFORM IN THE EARLY HOURS AFTER LANDING

WOMEN

transfer

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hygiene

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medical examination

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male reception center

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in depth

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transfer

7c

hygiene

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medical examination

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female reception center

before entering

transfer

Mediterranen Center for child

before entering

in depth

VULNERABLE CASES

CHILD ALONE

hygiene

before entering

medical examination in depth

necessaries distribution on the basis of the terms of contract and access in the residential area

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transfer

to the hospital

PLANNED DISPERSION STRATEGY

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migrants classification Division of the different legal categories of migrants on the landing sites to allow the sorting towards the structures of first hospitality

The program checks general health status and identifyimmediately the serious health cases that require transfer to hospital

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Transfer to Lampedusa

30 nautical miles: RANGE OF ACTION Progetto Triton

150 nautical miles: RANGE OF ACTION Progetto Mare Nostrum

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interception by the coast guard


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IDENTIFICATION AND LEGAL AID CORE OF COMMON SERVICES BETWEEN THE FEMALE AND MALE AREA inside these spaces are conducted the operations to identiy migrants, asylum seekers and political migrants. There are also those areas that host people and activities that allow the performance of the functions of the reception center

police headquarter

police offices

international organisation

international court

IDENTIFICATION AND LEGAL AID

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For unaccompanied foreign minors the first reception is more delicate and requires a very familiar and comfortable space, which allows on the one hand the performance of the correct legal procedures of identification and on the other the protection of the child and the respecting of their diversity. The center for the reception of minors is thought to allow their permanence for a longer time than the adults始one. Is preferable to keep children in a safe and welcoming place rather than transporting them from center to center in Italy.

volunteers offices residential

toilet

SPAZI FLESSIBILI DESTINATI ALLA RESIDENZA E ALLA VITA TEMPORANEA NEL CENTRO

medical care

canteen

toilet

laundry services medical care

canteen

free circulation area for workes, volunteers and migrants

residential

interview room and psichological aid

game space

school

meditation and pray space

interview room

common spaces

meditation and pray space 11a

TRANSFER TO ANOTHER CENTER ON THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT


Dismantlement Port,Chittacong Bangladesh

Lindisfarne Traditional Boat Alejandro D始acosta, Shed, England Claudia Turrent Recycled Boat into wine facility, Portugal

Henry Yevele and Hugh Tongkonan traditional house Torajan South Sulawesi, Herland, Westminster Hall 1097, England Indonesia

ATTENTION MONSIEUR CORBUSIER! The design of Le Corbusier and the Modern Movement between 1920 and 1950 was a design that saw the clear opposition between healthy and sick, recognizing as healthy model the modern architecture, in opposition to the sick model represented by the european medieval architecture of the European city, dark and dirty. This opposition was based on the idea of removing the crises, waste and disease through architecture. This is a strategy that is still alive today and that uses the architecture to build limits or barriers to separate humans from their own waste.


METABOLIC ARCHITECTURE linear metabolism - high level of consmue and pollutiion in the city Buldings Energy

In/Organic Waste Human

Inputs

habitat

Outputs

Money

Pollution Congestion

linear metabolism - minimize of new intervenctions and maximize of recycle Organic waste

Reuse Renewable Inputs

Human

Inputs

habitat

Pollution and production Outputs

of waste reduction, life quality improvement

(architecture)

Reuse

Inorganic waste

Illustration based on: Cities for a small Planet (Richard Rogers, 1996)

Architecture as a dish, a city始s ingredient

How to combine in a comfortable way all the ingredients of a good recipe? The taste of the individual parts of a dish can be even sublime, but if you do not work together for the success of the taste the result is a dish in half, where everyone wants to be as good, and you trample the flavors in the mouth. So in the architecture, as well in the city.

The product, in this case the architecture, must be designed so that it can become part of a continuous process of recovery and reuse. The architecture is not designed here as a product of a linear economic system, which is based on the logic of construction, use and abandonment, but as a nutritive food of the city, namely in a perspective of circular metabolic economy. Architecture must not be cooked, eaten quickly, digested and then excreted as waste; It must also be a light dish, easy to digest, tastes and different flavors that once finished its cycle is easily absorbed and converted into another


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