3. FLOATING CITY APPS Year: 2014 - 2015 Firm: Waterstudio.NL, The Netherlands Type of project: Slum upgrading, Social entrepreneurship Floating City Apps are shipping containers on floating platforms that are retrofitted with basic facilities like sanitation, health and education to upgrade wetslums in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Being small and floating, they can easily be placed on water. If it is no longer required, it can be “plugged” out and moved elsewhere making them a flexible solution for uncertain entities like slums. Developing countries with high densities always exhibit a lack of space when it comes to slum upgrading. This problem is all the more profound when it comes to wetslums i.e waterfront slums.
How Floating City Apps can be part of wetslums.
Through our research, we confirmed that the nature of slums is dependent on its location. A slum close to water will exhibit characteristics that are very different from a slum that is not. The study surmised that while upgrading a slum, it is important to take into consideration it’s location. This study was published as in the journal ‘Habitat International’. Render of Communication App in Korail slum in Dhaka, Bangladesh
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