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CLIMATE MIGRANTS ADVOCACY CENTER
Jian Vern Ng SAPL M2 Senior Research Studio | Winter 2022 The Devil’s Crop: Exploring Social Justice, Human Rights, Design, + Dignity
Instructor | Dr. Brian R. Sinclair
01 Drought Risk 03 Groundwater Scarcity 02 Flood
04 Forest Fires
Risk
Propublica, NYT, Pulitzer Center
Propublica, NYT, Pulitzer Center
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.
(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.
(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. (2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.
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SITE SELECTION
SITE ANALYSIS - ZONING
SITE ANALYSIS - BUILDING
TYPOLOGY
SITE ANALYSIS - TRANSPORTATION
SITE ANALYSIS - GEOSPATIAL
MITIGATION
PREPAREDNESS RESPONSE RECOVERY
Students/Public Policymakers
Researchers
Migrants
Student Education Exhibitions
Film Viewing Areas Public Access to Resources
Conference and Government Advocacy Meetings and Resource Management Global Partnership Forums
EDUCATION CONFERENCE ADMINISTRATION
Research Offices Resource Distribution Future Migration Pattern Analysis Immigration Policies
RESIDENCE
Migration Support Counselling, Therapy Workforce Adaptation
PROGRAM
Room Private/PublicSectorSize (m2)Total#Comments
Large Conference PrivateConference 500 ‐ Circular/square forum style, high ceilings, glazing
Small Conference PrivateConference 200 ‐ Flexible meeting area
Meeting Room(s) PrivateConference 1008002 ‐ 4‐ Partitionable/flexible areas
Small Library Public Education 100 ‐ Resource area
AdjacenciesQualities
Natural, light‐filled, high ceilings, airy. Few columns, open area. Use cardboard columns?
Natural light, simple furnishings
Private, flexible. Some natural light.
Maximum natural light for reading, carpeted flooring
Classrooms Public Education 150 2 ‐ 4‐ Partitionable/flexible areas Quiet Exhibition Public Education 700 ‐ Linked to lobby area? Located on ground floor, public access/free
Viewing Area Public Education 801030‐ Video display area, seating (stair seating?), AV area
Offices (Open and Rooms)
PrivateAdministration200
Within LobbyFree‐flowing area, high ceilings, natural light
Within Lobby No glare on projector screen
Quiet workspaces
Break Room/Kitchenette PrivateAdministration30 Offices Lobby Public Administration80 ‐ Seating Exhibition Double height? Lots of natural light, floor to ceiling windows
Vestibule Public Administration10 Reception Admin PrivateAdministration30 Meeting Room PrivateAdministration1004502 ‐ 4
Washrooms Public/PrivateService 50
Mechanical Room PrivateService 130 Basement? Electrical Room PrivateService 30 Basement? Elevator ‐ Public Public Service 15 Elevator ‐ Housing PrivateService 15 Elevator Room PrivateService 15 Basement?
Janitor Room PrivateService 5 Waste/Disposal PrivateService 20 IT Data Room PrivateService 15 Storage PrivateService 50345
Circulation, Stairs, Walls Private/PublicService 12001200
Migrant Support Services
PrivateResidence 150 ‐ Career and housing assistance/counselling
Units PrivateResidence 1200 Housing Lobby + Reception PrivateResidence 501400
Underground Parking 2 Levels? ‐ Visitor and Handicap Parking
Exterior/Roof Garden ‐ Terraced area?
Total Area 5225
FUNCTIONAL PROGRAM
Private, enclosed, natural light, modest, no views in
Private entry, screened/fritted/frosted glazing
PROGRAM DIAGRAM
JINTAI VILLAGE RECONSTRUCTION Architects: Rural Urban Framework Area: 4000 m2 Year: 2014 Typology: Disaster Relief Housing
NATIONAL PARK VISITOR CENTER Architects: LOOP Architects Area: 700 m2 Year: 2021 Typology: Visitor Center/Cultural
THY
LITTLE ISLAND PARK Architects: Heatherwick Studio + MNLA Area: 11000 m2 Year: 2021 Typology: Park
“no rest” PARTI MODEL
PARTI DIAGRAM
“give rest”
MASSING DIAGRAM
PERSPECTIVE
SITE PLAN
URBAN SECTION E - W
URBAN SECTION N - S
GROUND PLAN
SECOND FLOOR
THIRD FLOOR
FOURTH FLOOR
TERRACE LEVEL
RESIDENTIAL 1
RESIDENTIAL 2
06 Amenity 08 Laundry 09
Child-minding
PARKING LEVEL
ELEVATION
SOUTH
SOUTH SECTION
EAST ELEVATION
EAST SECTION
ELEVATION
NORTH
WEST ELEVATION
STRUCTURAL AXONOMETRIC
Environmental, Economic Stackable Housing
Social Amenity Spaces
Social, Environmental Green Wall
Social Atrium Space
Environmental, Social Rooftop Terrace
Environmental, Social, Thermal, Lighting Lightwells
Social, Educational Flexible Classrooms
Social Residential Balconies Environmental, Water Solar Aquaponics
Environmental, Material Mass Timber Social Climate Migrant Conference
Economic, Social, Educational Flexible Exhibition
SUSTAINABILITY
Cross Laminated Timber Rubber Underlay Glue Laminated Timber Carpet Flooring Curtain Wall Glazing Flooring Tile Wood Veneer Chair Concrete Greenhouse Poly SPF, J-Grade Visual 220 kg/m3 CO2 Sequestration 3/8” Rubber, Commercial Application HIIC Rating - 63 Impact Absorption Acoustic and Vibration Reduction Douglas Fir, Architectural Broadloam Carpet Green Label Plus Certified 2 1/2” Profile, 7 1/2” Depth High Thermal Performance Blast Mitigation Seismic Performance Pre-assembled Screw Spline Installation PVC-Free Red List Free Plant-Based Materials 50-54% Light Reflectance 100% Wood No Chemicals Tilt Tension Control Waterfall Seat Edge 2% Bleach Cleanable Ergonomic Design Exposed Aggregate Finish Fly Ash, Limestone Admixtures 7 Layer Film Technology High Light Transmission Tear/Puncture Resistance Notes: Notes: Notes: Notes: Notes: Notes: Notes: Notes: Notes: Notes: Crosslam CLT Structurlam Penticton, B.C. TruSilient Rubber Underlayment Perfect Surfaces Airdrie, Alberta Douglas Fir Glulam Western Archrib Edmonton,
Exquisite Attraction - Celestial Mohawk Group Virginia, Georgia 100 Series Curtain Wall System Ferguson Calgary, Alberta Hastings Downs - Barrel Wood Light Mohawk Group Virginia, Georgia Architectural Veneer Bacon Veneer Architectural Calgary, Alberta Zody Haworth Holland, MI Cast In Place LaFarge Concrete Calgary, Alberta THERMAX Greenhouse Poly Midland Industrial Covers Burnaby, B.C. MATERIAL BOARD
Alberta.
ARBORETUM
REFERENCES
Adaman, Yoda. Drought in Burkina Faso. Photgraph. Unsplash.
Cazeau, Jean Wesley. 2019. Rep. Review of the Integration of Disaster Risk Reduction in the Work of the United Nations System in the Context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Geneva: Joint Inspection Unit, United Nations.
Esri’s StoryMaps Team. “Climate Migrants.” ArcGIS StoryMaps. Esri, November 9, 2021. https://arcg.is/0SqWz1.
Kohut, Meridith. 2020. Carlos Tiul, an Indigenous farmer whose maize crop has failed, with his children. Photograph. Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.
Kohut, Meridith. 2020. Coto (right) hopping a train with other migrants. Photograph. Chiapas, Mexico.
Kohut, Meridith. 2020. Residents near the trickle that remains of the river that once flowed through the Nuevo Paraíso Indigenous community. Photograph. Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.
Manou, Dimitra, Andrew Baldwin, Dug Cubie, Anja Mihr, and Teresa M. Thorp. 2018. Climate Change, Migration and Human Rights Law and Policy Perspectives. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
McGrath, Chris. 2015. A 7.8-Magnitude Earthquake That Hit Nepal on April 30, 2015, Has Been Linked by Some to Groundwater Pumping. Photograph. Nepal.
Ng, Meiying. City Smog. Photograph. Unsplash.
Lustgarten, Abrahm. 2020. “The Great Climate Migration.” New York Times, ProPublica. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/23/magazine/climate-migration.html.
Ober, Kayly. 2020. “Climate, Migration, and Displacement – What Are the Implications for Human Rights Law?” Refugees International. Refugees International, May 18, 2020. https://www.refugeesinternational.org/reports/2020/5/7/climate-migration-and-displacement-what-are-the-implications-for-human-rights-law.
Rigaud, Kumari et al. 2018. “Groundswell: Preparing for Internal Climate Migration.” Washington, DC: The World Bank.
Rural Urban Framework. 2017. Jintai Village Reconstruction. Photograph. Archdaily.
United Nations. 2015. “Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” OCHCR.
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