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- Infrastructural Study [YEAR3]
Archigram was an avant-garde group formed in the 1960s which challenged futuristic typologies, The Living Pod being one. a self-contained unit, designed for space travel. Using this for scale comparison an adapting it to site conditions formulated a proposal for the required 300 refugee minimum. This lead a more in depth infrastructural design, and explored means of construction & transportation capabilities.
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- Alvar Aalto University Shopping Centre [YEAR3]
The European migrant crisis is an ever growing problem. The Syrian Civil War had brought about 13.5 Million Syrians requiring humanitarian assistants. Sweden has become a popular destination for refugees after having 160,000 applications placed between 2015 & 2016. Housing is provided by the government in Sweden is being reduced to a two year period, bringing questions to the capabilities of new builds and there compositions. Static buildings to become capable of