PANDA II
COMPETITION
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NATIONAL ACADEMIC
AWARDS OF DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE
FIRST PLACE
This design is based on showing a methodology and a project capable of depicting ecological and economic architecture by using containers. It is possible by taking the principal point as an understanding of human beings. By making a special emphasis on people who are in the condition of physical disability, based on the 7 principles of the universal design, the disposition of habitat with a mixture of activities is being framed and the ecological urbanism towards citizen practices and collective territory construction is approached.
The project is a solution and an alternative of inclusion for people with motor disabilities (principally). The structural and compositive innovation of the building, as well as its immediate context and its social practices, determine the synergies and dynamics of the design.
The project consists of multi-use housing. It starts with shipping containers as the constructive model, without forgetting that humans determine the conditions of the design. The people with physical disabilities have the main focus of the project through a sensible analysis of human anthropology. The project "Transformable architecture for the human being" responds to the desired social inclusion by generating alternatives and solutions for its users. The goal is that people interact with the project with a participative effort on the collective construction of their own territory, making it a sensitive approach towards human ethics as a result that the contribution of working with their own territory offers.