For the first phase of Project Village 2015, Urban Think-Tank built the Migrant House, a structure that provided the initial point of orientation for a community of travelers. Their proposal for Project Village 2016 seeked to transform the idea of the Migrant House into an idea of Migrant Hous(ing). Their work at Urban-Think Tank focused on practical strategies of housing while remaining embedded within community-driven processes. The Migrant Hous(ing) built on their ideas of modular construction, community capacity building, rapid and incremental upgrading and quick, pre-fabricated assembly and disassembly methods. The structures themselves were migrant in nature. Their ability to be transported and rapidly installed, transformed and dismantled was key and a major performative aspect of the project.
Project by: Urban-Think Tank Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, D-ARCH, ETH Zürich
Team leaders: Danny Wills, Gianmaria Socci
Team members: Nora Behová, Jiaxin Wu, Németh Krisztina, Sung Lim, Iara Pezzuti dos Santos, Dormán Miklós, Cina Mael Bockstahler, Mariia Yastrubchak, Agnieszka Chromiec, Zétényi Zsófia
Photos: Gábor Somoskői, Tamás Bujnovszky