Rebuilding Iraq’s liberated areas: Mosul’s Housing Competition
The Rifat Chadirji Prize 2017 - TOP 50
concept and project: Agnieszka Chromiec, Magdalena Koźluk, Karolina Tatar /2017
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Two most important components of the city of Mosul have been sabotaged – its social and physical structure. 20,000 people have fled the city under ISIS occupation since October 2016, their houses have been tuned to a pile of debris. The war crisis added up to preexisting problem of housing shortage in the city.
The aim of the competition was to answer a question: how to provide permanent, long-lasting housing with minimal resources and as quickly as possible?
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Strategies of sustainable investment
1 / Investing in people
2 / Help of government
3 / Investing and training local engineers
4 / Quality of flats
5 / Sense of place, climate relevance
6 / Unified system of construction that allows individuality inside it
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existing housing
destroyed housing
construction centers
impact area
A part of Al-Rabee district, proposed location Start-home-ups construction centres
1/ Start-home-up construction centre
The most damaged sites of the district – large lots that allow industrial character – should be chosen for construction centres to ignite rebuilding process.
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Program during rebuilding stage:
1 - public sanitation facilities
2 - basic health care
3 - basic day care
4 - workshop
5 - building materials storage
The facility provides specialized courses on building techniques, and is the connection with the local government that provides loans, education and post trauma psychological support.
Flexible plan of the building and variety of its spaces allows for it to can be converted into any function that fulfills the needs of the neighborhood after the rebuilding process will stop.
construction centre ground floor
construction centre first floor
2/ Housing system
Three modules have been created as the base of housing system. Typology of housing is an outcome of profound study of Iraqi courtyard house and local climate. Their flexibility allows connecting small flats into bigger ones.
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Construction of housing is based on a grid of 4,5m span. Prefabricated solutions for basic structure - reinforced concrete grid, infill dependable on the inhabitants, local materials.
section, ventilation scheme
3/ Long lasting solutions
community centre ground floor
community centre first floor
The future of the center depends fully on the people who will use it. The space was designed to be maximally adaptable. Ideally, the future uses would fulfill the needs of local community and the center would still remain an activator – this time of different actions, following development of the community, supporting local economy.
housing quarter ground floor example