AWARD YEAR
2017
CATEGORY
Home
GOALS
Refugees and Migrants
KEYWORDS
Street kids, Local production, earthquake proof
COUNTRY
Italy
DESIGNED BY
Lead architect: Bonaventura Visconti di Modrone
Collaborators: Vittorio Capraro, Edoardo Monti
Photography by: Marco Cappelletti
WEBSITE
http://abvm.it
Ti kay là
Ti Kay là is a housing complex for 30 haitian street kids built in Anse-à-Pitres, Haiti.
Between 2014 and 2015, right after graduating, Italian architect Bonaventura Visconti di Modrone was invited to Anse-à-Pitres, a small village in the Sur Este department of Haiti, to build a housing complex for Ayitimoun Yo, an N.G.O. that helps local street children.
A meeting with the N.G.O founders fostered the idea of designing an anti-seismic building for the children, that could also serve as a resource (haven) to help them feel welcome and part of a family again. The N.G.O wanted a space that would be easy to control, in which the children could sleep and carry out their daily activities.
The children, on the other hand, would need different areas; an indoor space to share with their housemates; a veranda to do their homework and spend time with their close friends; a lateral big open space to share with all the others. This subdivision is important considering the fact that there are children of different age and background.
Project Ti kay la from ABVM on Vimeo.