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FROM POINTS TO A LINE<br />
Despite the global need of space for the<br />
always growing human population, today<br />
we witness vast refugee camps that last<br />
for decades, remaining limbos for its<br />
inhabitants and places of avoidance for<br />
people from the other side of the fence.<br />
A limited resource, such as space, should<br />
be carefully and effectively used.<br />
Footprint of the refugee camps spreading , but individually remaining isolated<br />
The footprint of the refugee camp, instead<br />
of being an isolated point, becomes a part<br />
of the line which is Refugium, a link in a<br />
chain, supporting the movement of the<br />
people it previously used to keep in one<br />
place.<br />
A dot becomes a part of a line with the length as its dominant dimension.<br />
For a scale idea, a small refugee camp of<br />
10 square kilometers could produce 200<br />
kilometers of a 50 meters wide line. The<br />
‘‘linear refugee footprint’’ would therefore<br />
be justified.<br />
The adjacent diagrams show the process<br />
of this concept. Following our intense and<br />
analysis and deep understanding of refugee<br />
camps and the people who live there<br />
we are able to abstract this information.<br />
121 LIFE IN MOTION<br />
The current spatial disorganization, the<br />
generator of squalor and unrest is synthesized.<br />
Potentialities identified within the<br />
existing context are extracted and brought<br />
forward. The system of preceding dots are<br />
amalgamated within the form of the line.<br />
Refugium is born.<br />
Amalgamation of concepts<br />
Footprint of Refugium is justified.
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