REFUGEE RESIDENCE, HANOVER Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its

attitude towards refugees.-Elie Wiesel

NUMBER OF RESIDENTS / MODULAR BUILDING ARCHITECT

UNITS MOSAIK Architekten BDA, Hanover with Drewes +
96 residents / 3 two-story residential rows
METHOD
Prefabricated wooden Speth (loadbearing structure planning), Hanover Riedel
RESIDENTS + Partner (TGA), Hanover, trinity consulting, Uetze
room modules
(energy consulting), CRP, Hanover (fi re safety)
Asylum seekers, refugees with recognized
LIVING SPACE PER Recreation space planning: LINNEA Landschaftsarchitektur,
refugee
PERSON Hanover
status
Approx. 17 m/person
DATE OF COMPLETION / LIFESPAN
Date of completion: Beginning of 2016 COMMISSIONED BY
Useful life: minimum of 20 years Building Department,
Possible subsequent use as student State Capital of Hanover
dormitory

DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
Flexibility &
customizati
on:
Three or
five rooms
COURTYARDS can be
FOR FLEXIBILITY combined
COMMUNITY
INTERACTION
into one
unit with
one or two
Entrances bathrooms.
facing For this
courtyard purpose the
also
promote
room next The plan shows the use of courtyard, PLAN OF SITE
to the living grouping of blocks and road network
PASSIVE Apartment
room(which
SURVEILLA module size
is next to
NCE and -2.7m X
MODULAR CONSTRUCTION help 12m
the kitchen)
was Choice of wood-
maintain equipped Comfort
safety of Apartment
with a Less expensive
the area has 3-5
double than steel
rooms
door. Homely appeal

STRIP FOUNDATION Choice of modular

prefab wood blocks-
Built quickly
Factory assured quality
Meet ecological and
INDOOR ROOMS ARE FURNUSHED WITH BASIC NECESSITIES AND ARE LINED WITH urban standards
WOOD
AFFORDABLE LIVING IN WOODEN MODULES , GERMANY
ROLE OF ARCHITECTS
As a result of the Syrian Civil War , refugees entered Germany to seek refugee status. On 4 Hundreds of thousands of apartments are missing in Germany, by 2015
September 2015, Chancellor Werner Faymann of Austria, in conjunction with Chancellor Angela Merkel of nearly a million people have crossed the border. One should think that
Germany, announced that migrants would be allowed to cross the border from Hungary into Austria and onward architects have all hands full. But the upbeat mood is restrained. It is a
to Germany, and early on 5 September 2015, buses with migrants began crossing the Austro-Hungarian border. chance for architects to transcend from service providers to drivers of social
responsibility and change. Communication and conflict management are
SITUATION IN BERLIN more than ever the tasks of architects
Perhaps it is particularly bad in Berlin. For 2015 the city had counted with 50,000 asylum
seekers, a good 70,000 have arrived

APPREHENSIVE, SYMPATHY ATTITUDE OF PEOPLE TOWARDS

REFUGEES
New housing construction, especially for refugees, is an
exhausting process in many municipalities. The emergency-
in-my-backyard attitude has a boom, in all social strata there
is resistance from local residents. The sometimes well-
organized opponents stir up fear, increased by the scandal-
oriented media coverage. Real estate owners who rent
apartments to refugees do not want to be named by name.
Housing associations would prefer not to expand their
FEAR LOSS NEED neighborhoods explicitly with a new building for refugees.
PLANNING OF BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION.
Modular construction is identified by the architects in Berlin as the
SITUATION OF REFUGEES need of the hour .The fuzzy definition of the term, however, obscures the
Anyone who builds refugees must be familiar with the habits of the arrivals. Terrorized and often traumatized advantages and disadvantages of building with prefabricated elements.
people are loo king for peace and privacy in wars. Containers are popular in many municipalities because they suggest that
The former airport Berlin-Tempelhof, the largest emergency shelter in the country, has become a symbol of the not much money has been spent and that everything comes back
crisis. In the 2000 refugees live in the hangars, in tents and berths, six double-bunk beds in a confined space, with when the crisis is over.
blankets for a bit of privacy. Under the enormous hall design of Ernst Sagebiel, the laundry dries on shut-off grids.
Toilet containers are available outdoors, the food comes from a catering company who take care of the doctor's
care.

CONFLICTS OF HABITS AND CULTURE.

There is little help to complain that whoever comes to Germany has to adapt to
the leading culture. This realization is slow. An example: the Hocktoilette. It is
widely used in refugees' countries of origin, water is used for cleaning, paper is
regarded as unhygienic. Nevertheless, in most of the refugee accommodation
WCs are installed, which then quickly break down.