HUMANITARIAN
ARCHITECTURE
• “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are
you doing for others?’” Martin Luther King Jr
• Humanitarian architecture typically means
“architecture for humanity” and has its fundamental
role to find solutions to basic community needs.
INTRODUCTION TO
THE RESEARCH
TOPIC
• In a community where poverty crime addictions and conflicts
are brought up on daily basis an urge of hope and change is
born inside each and every one of us. politics economist
sociologist have been long working on ending the crisis and
fighting the imbalance in the world some efforts were
successful yet other failed to restore equity .however the
society concern weren't only addressed by those fields .from
early times civilization and its problems were a man focus in
the domain of art .In particular architecture has shown a huge
interest in this matter throughout time architects have always
had a duty towards the public in finding effective solution like
sheltering people providing the equipment that serves there
daily activities and treating their most pressing matters
TITLE
Aims and objectives
KEY FINDINGS
solutions
Center for
community
development
(Thesis for
Bachelor’s in
Architecture)
Nikita bargava
2016-2017
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the aim of the
community
development aims to
assume the role of
social agency by means
of architectural
intervention.
it aims to bring about
change in social
community
The community faces social
economic problems such as youth
delinquency high unemployment
rates often unsanitary living
condition and lack of education
.Through mixed used development
which seeks to insertion of
appropriate program and creation
of meaningful spaces uplift the
served community and improve the
quality of life .it is meant to be a
space that they can call there own
over which they can feel a
complete sense of ownership
architectural intervention
will act as a social agency
and a means of upliftment of
the community .A civic hub
of this nature will serve as a
catalyst for social change
.the program born out of
researched needs of the
community renders the
proposal relevant while
acknowledging the need for
it to be the sustainable in
every sense of world
Chiedza solar
village
•
To empower locals to
overcome poverty.
To uplift the farming
for locals.
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THESIS
•
(Thesis for
Bachelor’s in
Architecture)
Hannah oitzman
2019-2020
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Strengths of Zimbabwe –
farming.
What is humanitarianism and
humanitarian design?
•
To design spaces with
farms.
To design a space to
teach locals
CASE STUDY
• ARCHITECTURAL FIRM :Heritage Foudation of Pakistan
• Architect name: Yasmeen Lari
• When an earthquake hit Pakistan in 2005, architect Yasmeen
Lari decided to help, so she worked with the affected
communities to rebuild homes using the materials at hand,
such as bamboo and mud. Since then, she has helped build
more than 36,000 homes for flood and earthquake
victims in her home country, structures that withstood
subsequent natural disasters.
• In 2007, Lari also built community kitchens in refugee camps
• Heritage foundation also trains people from rural areas in
making building components and products which they can
later monetize, helping those communities rise above
poverty. Yasmeen Lari was recently awarded the 2020 Jane
Drew prize for her extensive humanitarian work over the
last two decades.
Research Orientation
• Community center
• Improving urban scape
• Slums
• Public spaces
Research
question
WHAT IS HUMANITARIAN
ARCHITECTURE
HOW HUMANITARIAN
ARCHITECTURE CAN
IMPROVE HUMAN LIFE
HOW HUMANITARIAN
ARCHITECTURE BRING
PEOPLE CLOSER
HOW HUMANITARIAN
ARCHITECTURE CAN PLAY A
ROLE IN EMPOWERMENT
OF LOCAL COMMUNITY
CAN HUMANITARIAN
ARCHITECTURE WILL END
UP THE INJUSTICE IN THE
SOCIETY