Re-Route: An Architectural Response to Homelessness

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Re-Route: An Architectural Response to Homelessness

Submitted to the Department of Architecture in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2021

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title: Re-Route: An Architectural Response to Homelessness

creator: Daniel Bryer

subject: Homelessness; Homeless persons, Housing; Homeless persons, Dwellings, Designs and plans; Architecture, Human factors; Homeless persons, Employment

description: The total number of people experiencing homelessness in the US has been rising in recent years. Architecture, as a discipline, hasnot engaged this crisis in its entirety and the factors that underpin it. Current architectural models aim to consolidate or distributeresources such as housing, health services and vocational training. There is a possibility to innovate a new architectural typology to better address this issue, and to give a sense of identity back to our most at-risk populations. Occupants will arrive on site and be provided a permanent dwelling which they can call their own, as well as access to healthcare services under a consolidated socialinfrastructure. The dwelling they are offered, will have been constructed by previous and/or current occupants, allowing newcomers to easily join and acclimate to the space’s current community. Programmatically, a manufacturing space and greenhouse will perform as a catalyst of community formation and vocational training and will be a form of dignified service for inhabitants. When residents are healthy and stable, they are ableto move back into the surrounding community and bring their mobile housing unit with them. With newfound skills in constructionand gardening, residents create and manage community gardens around the city. By rethinking the idea of ‘home’ throughmaking and growing, occupants can gain skills, relationships, and identities that will function as a safety net once they choose to take their home and ‘re-route’ back into society. A new architecture which will stave rising rates of homelessness by capitalizing on successes of previous models, increasing community investment, minimizing the potential of its possible dismantlement in the future.

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

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date: 2021

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