Community Sharing for Community Growth

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title: Community Sharing for Community Growth

creator: Kyle Kinz

subject: City planning; Public spaces; Mixed--use developments; Planned communities

description: Considering the physical resource issues that face informal residents everyday, the creation of shared spaces builds upon and strengthens existing social relationships to weave a physical environment that improves quality of life for future generations. Given the widespread growth of informal living conditions in the21st century, it increasingly falls to local communities to address their own needs. Governments have long proven incapable of providing the infrastructures and services needed to support the rapidly urbanizing populations in West Africa. Rather than waiting for aid that may never come, neighborhood residents can work to self improve the community by removing temporary housing that iscomprised of .sharp private boundaries characteristic of the informal settlements formed by pioneers laying contested claim to a small plot of land. In place of these structures, a high density, multi story prototype is proposed. This increase in density creates open spaceon the ground plane, and more permanence in living conditions. Terraces create shared semi-private spaces for residences to wash clothes, cook meals, or gather as a family unit. A transformation of the ground plane changes its meaning from simply a place for circulation and selling, to a place of informal social gatherings,cultivation and growth. The effects of this transformation can be felt at multiple scales, beginning on the ground plan, and ascending to more private spaces above. Anew found equity of amenities can be felt, All designedroof planes work to funnel all incoming storm water intovarious elements designed to take in water, either forstorage or for agriculture. Through these shared spacesand “sponge” elements, informal urban areas can gainmore resources for each person and each family, throughthe sharing of spaces. Over time, future generations ofinformal urban residences can achieve a higher standardof living.

publisher: The Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

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date: 2020

type: Thesis

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language: eng

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