newitalianblood

Deheishe is a refugee camp in West Bank. It is a multipolar force field, which is not only the result of a master-planning process, but of a set of conflicts, that generate a continuous making and remaking of space. The research questions about the ethic role of architects in such a context, governed by a permanent state of exception. The aim of the project is combining the public spaces with infrastructures functional to upset the water cycle of the camp. The strategy is based on small, dispersed interventions and two soft processes defined by capillary diffusion. Thus the project acts on two different layers: the first, acting on a spatial scale, which mostly involves the public spaces and the public life of the camp; the second which is connected to the private sphere of the inhabitants and can be considered a community based process.