nouraphilip
Apr 23, 2011
Undergraduate / "An Environmental Architect" - Motivation essay [4]
I am supposed to write 500 & this is about 600 words
I am now interested in studying human rights. It's not common for an architect to study human rights but when you see the relationship between the two you can never separate it. Architecture shapes human behavior, it gives individuals their rights to live and interact with the community along with the right to protect oneself and the surrounding environment. I want to know more about human rights and not only make people aware of it, but provide them with their very basic human rights.
My Graduation project spoke of this concept as its main theme was activating a disability in it, I clarified that a slum area called Ezbet el Hagana is socially disabled and deprived of its right to exist thus no political value and based on The Cantril Ladder Scale they are suffering. According to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, slum area people's very basic human physiological needs are not met be it food to eat, water to drink, shelter to sleep, and space to exercise. The role Architecture plays, provides the slum area people's with their human rights by understanding their problems and searching for solutions that the culture accepts. Put in mind this quote "The only disability in life is a bad attitude" Sco Hamilton an American figure skater with Shwachman-Diamond syndrome through this I decided to create the active wall , This Active wall is an intermediate building between the slum area Ezbet El Hagana and the project. It is called active as when the people who are socially disabled enter they will be able to interact in an active healthy way. The wall is where social disabled people enter the project and find the basic needs such as: clean water (el sabil), employment opportunities, a training centre, counseling centre, a rehabilitation centre, a health clinic, and a community centre. Also, this active wall includes some sports complex that can be used daily to release energy like boxing and judo.
I think by studying Human Rights I could understand the humanity not only the needs, I could see the world changing if we start focusing on the human quality and enriching them. For me Human rights are the principles of life.
I have a vision to shape the community, where all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Freedom to choose and be responsible for their choices, the right to be accepted and fair treatment, a chance to be productive at all ages. As an architect, I have a desire to design a home where people rejected by the community could find a shelter to live and function which in turn creates a new Modern Sustainable Family Prototype. By rejected people I mean outcast by society in general, or those who are not socially acceptable to fit; homeless abused, homeless per-married pregnant women, homeless divorced women, homeless elder people, homeless disabled, orphans, homeless and street children. I want to make a shelter for them; protecting them from society and helping them integrate with it. In this Modern Family, elder people will mentor and help through past experience. The women and children will gain respect and feel productive in a way or another. The abused people will find inner healing through community service for children and elderly people. The Modern Sustainable Family Prototype will help the rejected individuals and implement them into the community through the school, craft centre, training pool, and health clinic open to all.
The desire to live a sustainable life through the use of solar and wind energy, recycling and organic desert plantation makes me feel not only that I am willing to protect human but also the environment and help people be more independent . I do believe we can plant our own food and this should export to support the continuation of the project
At the end, I wish to make this change in the community, fighting the Egyptian saying that "unfairness on all people is fairness". I wish to see Egyptians understand their human value and rights. This is my life goal, or long term project.
I am supposed to write 500 & this is about 600 words
I am now interested in studying human rights. It's not common for an architect to study human rights but when you see the relationship between the two you can never separate it. Architecture shapes human behavior, it gives individuals their rights to live and interact with the community along with the right to protect oneself and the surrounding environment. I want to know more about human rights and not only make people aware of it, but provide them with their very basic human rights.
My Graduation project spoke of this concept as its main theme was activating a disability in it, I clarified that a slum area called Ezbet el Hagana is socially disabled and deprived of its right to exist thus no political value and based on The Cantril Ladder Scale they are suffering. According to Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, slum area people's very basic human physiological needs are not met be it food to eat, water to drink, shelter to sleep, and space to exercise. The role Architecture plays, provides the slum area people's with their human rights by understanding their problems and searching for solutions that the culture accepts. Put in mind this quote "The only disability in life is a bad attitude" Sco Hamilton an American figure skater with Shwachman-Diamond syndrome through this I decided to create the active wall , This Active wall is an intermediate building between the slum area Ezbet El Hagana and the project. It is called active as when the people who are socially disabled enter they will be able to interact in an active healthy way. The wall is where social disabled people enter the project and find the basic needs such as: clean water (el sabil), employment opportunities, a training centre, counseling centre, a rehabilitation centre, a health clinic, and a community centre. Also, this active wall includes some sports complex that can be used daily to release energy like boxing and judo.
I think by studying Human Rights I could understand the humanity not only the needs, I could see the world changing if we start focusing on the human quality and enriching them. For me Human rights are the principles of life.
I have a vision to shape the community, where all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Freedom to choose and be responsible for their choices, the right to be accepted and fair treatment, a chance to be productive at all ages. As an architect, I have a desire to design a home where people rejected by the community could find a shelter to live and function which in turn creates a new Modern Sustainable Family Prototype. By rejected people I mean outcast by society in general, or those who are not socially acceptable to fit; homeless abused, homeless per-married pregnant women, homeless divorced women, homeless elder people, homeless disabled, orphans, homeless and street children. I want to make a shelter for them; protecting them from society and helping them integrate with it. In this Modern Family, elder people will mentor and help through past experience. The women and children will gain respect and feel productive in a way or another. The abused people will find inner healing through community service for children and elderly people. The Modern Sustainable Family Prototype will help the rejected individuals and implement them into the community through the school, craft centre, training pool, and health clinic open to all.
The desire to live a sustainable life through the use of solar and wind energy, recycling and organic desert plantation makes me feel not only that I am willing to protect human but also the environment and help people be more independent . I do believe we can plant our own food and this should export to support the continuation of the project
At the end, I wish to make this change in the community, fighting the Egyptian saying that "unfairness on all people is fairness". I wish to see Egyptians understand their human value and rights. This is my life goal, or long term project.