Objective
In 2020, the OECD estimated that circa 38 million buildings in Europe were empty, exposing underlying governance weaknesses for adapting and reusing empty buildings. This needs to be put into perspective with circa 700,000 homeless youth living rough or in emergency lodging each night in Europe. An obvious societal paradox, therefore, exists between the high availability of empty buildings and youth homelessness, calling for a more inclusive and cohesive social dwelling model.
These challenges are not new, and architecture has long attempted to solve them through, for example, segregated clustering of architectural types-buildings such as Montagu Burgoyne youth pastoral colony (1829, Potton, UK). My research project, however, aims to critically compare successful contemporary architectural types-buildings of So Stay Hotel (2016, Gdańsk, Poland), Intersectional City House (2016, Wien, Austria), Rukkila (2008, Helsinki, Finland) and Pieter de Raadtstraat 35 & 37 (2014, Rotterdam, Netherlands), their morphologies, programmes of activities, design processes, experiences, ownership structures, governances offering novel socially inclusive collective dwelling-work-trainings models for homeless youth through the use of empty buildings.
Through a 2-year fellowship at Polimi - under the supervision of Prof Carolina Pacchi, a leading expert in European cities’ development, a 3-month secondment at TU Delft and a 4-month non-academic placement with ‘Avanzi’ - involving on-site archival research, post-occupancy, semi-structured qualitative interview and co-design methods, I intend to conceive a theoretical framework on ‘ReYouth Types’ and to implement ‘ReYouth Types toolkit’, a new set of design principles. Thus, I will provide European educators, urban and architectural designers, local authorities and civil society with a research and design instrument to reduce the social exclusion of homeless youth while increasing awareness through the adaptive reuse of empty buildings.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinator
20133 Milano
Italy