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ORPHAN: Residential Educational Cultural Center for Orphaned Youth

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Valerie Rachel Herrera

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Thesis, Senior

Spring 2012

orphanage, Manhattan, residential educational facility, community

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Architecture

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"This thesis contends that by re-conceptalizing the spatial, programmatic, and sociopolitical forces that for the basis of the orphanage typology, an architectural framework can be constructed that can instigate and facilitate new conditions of programmatic overlap between the 'urban cultural' and the 'private/secure residential'; fundamentally altering the outdated assumptions of the orphanage type in favor of a contemporary response embeds the orphanage in the city and the city in the orphanage."

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Advisors: Randall Korman / Francisco Sanin

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Herrera, Valerie Rachel, "ORPHAN: Residential Educational Cultural Center for Orphaned Youth" (2012). Architecture Senior Theses . 53. https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_theses/53

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Bachelor of Architecture Theses - 5th Year

Hope is scarce: designing an orphanage to create a sense of belonging.

Mehmet Arif Ozelgul Follow

Date of Submission

Spring 5-9-2022

Degree Type

Undergraduate Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Architecture

Architecture

Committee Chair/First Advisor

Zamila Karimi

Secondary Advisor

M. Saleh Uddin

When a child comes to life without the guidance of a mother and a father, they are sentenced to grow up in places where they can’t perceive as “home”. A child being placed in a situation where they live without their parents is not the ideal location for self-development. According to research, there are 2 million children in Mozambique who are living without their biological parents, and they are forced to child labor (22%), early child marriage (48%), violence (33.3%), prostitution (22%), and early childbearing (52%) along with mental health issues. The primary school graduation rate in Mozambique is only 48%. There are thousands of children without an educational background and because of that, there are lots of uneducated orphans who have no purpose in life. Now the question is, “How can we protect some of these innocent children from these very possible threats and give them a purpose, along with an occupation in life?“ My thesis is concerned with how architecture, space, and nature can provide safety, shelter, entertainment, and a sense of belonging to a space to the orphan children in Maputo, Mozambique. The design I have brought to life will allow these children to feel at home and encounter with the environment , which is very important for their well-being and health. I will be creating an environment that encourages bodily engagement, playful sensory exploration, and a flawless connection to the surrounding natural environment. The project site is located in the city of Maputo, by the Indian Ocean. The site is surrounded by both environmental and developing urban settings. The age group I will be targeting in my thesis is orphans from 10-15 years old. The ultimate goal is to create an orphan village that will embrace the children and provide them a space where they call “home”.

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In architecture, the spaces within and outside the building must follow a particular way of arrangement commonly called spatial organization. This describes the building pattern through space. It is the process of arranging different elements in space (Pascal, 2011). The identity of any architectural precedent, is the proper definition of space to suit the users of that given space, that is, the different building typologies: institutional, industrial, housing among others … are designed specifically to suite the demands of it users. Furthermore, facilities like hospitals are meant to give spaces that are conductive for patients and staff, office building for staff of the organization, hotels for customers and staff of the hotel, schools for pupils and teachers , and orphanages to for children and staff of orphanages, this goes on and on. 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