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Architecture for Wellbeing
J. Moraca (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
P.E.L.J.C. Vermeulen – Mentor
J.D. Fokkinga – Graduation committee member
L.G.A.J. Reinders – Coach (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
The project gave me the chance to start from a personal fascination regarding the role of architecture in favoring humans wellbeing. Since the group research, the interviews with homeless people till the imagination, materialization, and perception of spaces of the project the initial question remained always as the stable background of my design thinking. The issue of homelessness has not merely an architectural answer, but the problem resides in a deeper economic, social, political and systemic failure. Therefore, the project does not have the ambition to provide for a solution to it. Yet it is a medium to bring awareness to the different topics , such as the rethinking of the typology of the “shelter”, the importance of the materialization of a building in favoring the wellbeing of its inhabitants and rethinking the relation human-nature in the built urban context.