Cohabitat for the Refugees and Tourists
Award of Excellence
2024 Asian Design Award
Site: Marsala, Sicily, Italy
Team: Felix Fang
Instructor: Luca Ponsi
May, 2023
Award of Excellence
2024 Asian Design Award
Site: Marsala, Sicily, Italy
Team: Felix Fang
Instructor: Luca Ponsi
May, 2023
Co-habitat for Refugees and the Volun-Tourist is a provocative response to a current day crisis - the increase of refugees and the neglectance to the refugees. We decide to Operate on a pre-existing infrastructural typology: Hotspots, which is the first arrival facility in which refugees are detained for weeks to months waiting to be censored and obtain a legal status. The poor condition of ‘hotspots’ lack of privacy, hygiene, cultural activity and public space.
Given the strong duality of Tourist / Refugees, this project serves as an attraction for both, a space for short-term stay for both the two groups, maintaining the original function of a hotspot but also allowing cultural exchange between the two groups. It is conceptualized as a self-sufficient machine, culturally and economically. As a cultural center and a hotel to tourist, they will voluntarily pay for the lodging for a short period of time, which generates revenue to support the hotspot’s operational cost. The tourist and refugees will spend a short amount of time, ranging from days to one or two weeks and enjoy a decent and enriching quality of life in this transitional time.
Given the strong duality of Tourist / Refugees, this project serves as an attraction for both, a space for short-term stay for both the two groups, maintaining the original function of a hotspot but also allowing cultural exchange between the two groups. It is conceptualized as a self-sufficient machine, culturally and economically. As a cultural center and a hotel to tourist, they will voluntarily pay for the lodging for a short period of time, which generates revenue to support the hotspot’s operational cost. The tourist and refugees will spend a short amount of time, ranging from days to one or two weeks and enjoy a decent and enriching quality of life in this transitional time.
