Extract

A group of 28 Master’s students from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Bretagne (ENSAB) spent one week in a Roma settlement in the suburbs of Paris. Romas are subject to strong discrimination all over Europe and mostly live in temporary, rudimentary housing. Students designed and built two small buildings: a showerhouse and a common room. The design brief had been discussed with the Romas. The key concerns were energy self-sufficiency and the weight of the buildings, as they had to be mobile and easily reconstructible. The question one has to ask himself in working on such a project is : ” Would my mother be happy to use this building?”

 

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