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So I am going to make an announcement.
Kojatice Municipality
People in Need Slovak Republic
and Faculty of Architecture of Slovak University of Technology
presents
Workshop of participatory architecture in Roma settlement in Kojatice
Dear fellow citizens, I wish you a pleasent midday
please pay attention to the following announcement:
The housing program is based on a principle,
that people are capable
to provide housing by themselves.
It is based on what was common in traditional society,
let´s say in traditional rural areas,
is currently disappearing.
And in fact, it seems like we have forgotten
that housing is something that is possible to get by ourselves.
In this house lives Lucia!
From the client, from someone who wants to improve his housing
is required a involvement and interest.
An interest to enter the Program,
an interest to make a better housing,
and at the same time a labour and financial involvement in required.
And the house in the Housing Program is created by the meeting of
client´s dedication and client´s money
with architects,
and with an organisation that helps him
to put all the elements together.
In order to have
knowledge
material
and permits
to be able to make his own housing.
In this house lives Marek!
We are here to help Marek to reconstruct his house.
to somehow plan it all, as architects.
In such a way that he could manage it only by himself.
It won´t be large reconstruction works
because Marek built his house quite well.
He need to build a top-belt,
we drafted how it should look like.
The roof is quite well done,
we can use the wood that is there already.
Maybe to put there some more posts and boards.
Than to fix if there is something leaking
and to make the concrete belt around the walls.
And then Marek can add one small room
where he will have a bedroom.
And the living area will remain in this old part.
They let the straw dry and than it doesn´t rain and it burns...
... and what we make with this
is that we put straw in clay and make adobe bricks
and we build houses with that.
So I will make my house.
And if somebody will come to help me build, it will be fun.
If the summer will be nice and if it won´t rain too much.
16 shanties are here.
There are more children then adults.
The mayor said as well
that we should make more effords
to have better housing and to have better living.
The elder don´t have to, but we, the youngs, we should try hard.
The architects are just another step in what we are preparing here
with Michal Sládek from the organisation People in Need.
Here we have decided that we need to find a way to help these people.
The important startpoint was that we can do it without great intervention of municipality
nor of the state,
but with their involvement. And with participation of those who want help themselves in this style.
So the meeting today is a turning point in preparations of this particular way
how we could help these citizens with housing.
So we were dealing with an extention to this house,
becase they wanted an additional room.
And we came up with an interesting concept.
Lot of things in the design refered to the basic needs.
And also the basis of this workshop and of this all activity
is to improve the environement and the situation in which they are now.
And that can simply mean that they have a house that holds.
That is stable and safe,
and that is warm,
house that is hygienic and so on.
So we facused on the minimum, on the basics
that they need.
And then we try to give them a vision,
that once they are somewhere further,
it is possible to extend the house and so on.
But first of all to give them the basics that they need.
So we decided to provide one part
that will be motivating to add another part.
To not provide everything for free, we will say:
If you make this part,
we make a common roof.
and then
you can add just two walls to have another room.
What surprised us that some of the Roma made their own drawings.
We have documented some sketches they made
about how would they like to live.
Because it is divides roughly in two parts:
on part are existing structers that need to be reconstructed.
Where also in future new extentions are possible.
The other part is preparing the design of completely new structures,
preparing concepts of new housing.
... some of the houses have the northen rear wall,
and behind the wall the water flows.
And walls get moisture and they are melting.
... this is my question now:
how we could connect it?
I am searching for it.
As I completely changed the concept, so ...
If you change the geometry, you will end up in a trouble
where these two surfaces have to meet.
But they are not meeting, these surfaces,
because here is the roof is basically over this,
if you image,
here the roof is going like this.
Our willage will host a meeting of architects
and the people,
that are dealing with the housing situation in the Roma settlement.
The whole program of the workshop you can read
on every information board.
The final part of the workshop is public presentation
that will take place today
The 17th of November 2012 at 5pm
in culture hall in Kojatice.
You are all invited.
So I want to say a few words about one house,
it is a house that is located
at the upper part of the settlement,
and it is a house
that is in the best condition
in terms of the construction.
And the next stage is
to improve it´s current state
and make ti legalised.
It is a nice house
with a kind of a window
and my concept was a house like a an eye
that looks over all the settlement.
They are close to the water
about 40 meters.
And they have a western sun, that is convenient.
and I tried to use that in orienting the windows on south side.
What did you like from this presentation?
Did you take somthing from the other projetcs?
The straw-bale house.
I liked the most the biggest house with straw.
The last one?
Yes. Iliked how they were building it.
.. that´s what we have mostly developed,
the proposal that we have worked on mostly.
And
the gable roof was a kind of variation,
so you could see an equivalent,
how it could look like.
So OK, well done, we like it also like this.
Ehm
this is ... bedroom.
The children will sleep here
me with my wife here.
And here´s the cooking.stove,
here´s the shower.
It will be probably perfect.
*We would really really like to start building in april - may 2013*
Workshop was organised with finantial support of Enel fund in Pontis fundation.
*Thank you for your attention*
Subtitles made by self-help by Michal Sládek
Produced by Paula Durinová and Vladimíra Hradecká
from Living Documentary