São Paulo - Repair and Consolidate: Re-thinking Social Housing through Assemblages
A relational approach of living together
B.M. Kostelijk (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
N.J. Amorim Mota – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Public Building and Housing Design)
H.A.F. Mooij – Mentor (TU Delft - Public Building and Housing Design)
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Abstract
This graduation project explores the circulation of materials, people and knowledge, against the threat of poor and toxic living environments, within the design of Social Housing in the Global South. The project's approach to affordable housing development, which is rooted in the concept of assemblage thinking, revolves around the idea of creating spaces relationally, acknowledging that architecture is always already entangled with histories, stories, desires, places, materials, and lives. It challenges the prevailing trend of segregation and homogeneity by embracing a diverse mix of typologies, fostering inclusivity, and mitigating the rigid binary oppositions that characterize the unsustainable and segregated ways of life in São Paulo. The project is an anti-monoculture manifest that follows the flow of matter and ideas while emphasizing the rejection of homogeneous living environments and encouraging the co-existence of difference, dismantling oppressive dichotomies.