TO OFFER REFUGE

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Architects: Atelier RITA

Location: 94200 Ivry-sur-Seine, France

Lead Architects: Valentine Guichardaz-Versini

Collaborator: Emilie Bonnaire

Area: 5000.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: David Boureau

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TO OFFER REFUGEThis project is commissioned by the ONG Emmaüs Solidarité, as part of the attempt to provide a solution to the refugees constant arrivals. The project takes place in Ivry-sur-Seine, a suburban city, on an old water?s factory. This large industrial site (90000m²), no longer used, is waiting for a new urban project to come.

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The Emergency shelter is made for 400 people (350 refugees and 50 Roma community). Families, sometimes with children, and isolated women are hosted for 6 months maximum. This humanitarian program is almost an unprecedented situation in France wich leads to think about the current world?s state and appears to be a really challenging mission for the architects.    
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TO SETTLE
The emergency engage to essential architecture. The first question is: How to offer dignity and functional qualities to a vulnerable population, with different cultures" The project is thought like a little town, a common notion of « habiter » regardless of geographic origin. Between public space and the most intimate space, everyone easily accommodates with a li...