Home of the Innocent

Home of the Innocent: Providing Humane Accommodation to Parentless Refugee Children

Elverding, Owen (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

De Vocht, S. (mentor)
Klooster, M.W. (mentor)
Rosbottom, D.J. (mentor)
Pimlott, M. (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

2021-06-29

The project sets out to investigate what the architectural model could be like that offers shelter to parentless refugee children that now live in camps throughout Europe. To offer the children the prospect of a brighter future, the building sets out to create a safe and protective environment, one that allows them to withdraw and cope with trauma, but also presents means to build new relationships and interaction with the child's new setting.

Therefore the project combines a public nursery and after school care to be used by the refugee children as well as local kids, which acts both as a means of interaction between kids of differing cultures as well as a financial model to fund the private quarters of the building, where refugee children are offered temporary stay until they find a loving foster family.

Parentless Refugee Children
Nursery
After School Care
Hospitality
Refugee Accomodation

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Student theses

master thesis

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