The competition, organized by Taiwan’s Alliance of Architectural Modernity, Shih Chien University’s Department of Architecture, and other architectural organizations from Germany and Portugal, has begun accepting submissions for designs, the Web site says. The B4H-DC challenges students and professional architects to propose “radical, but applicable design ideas for transitional shelters,” for a site of about 25,000m2 in the southwestern outskirts of Reyhanli, the Web site says. Professional applicants’ designs must include a social and intercultural service center for Turks and Syrians to promote cultural exchanges between the two groups of people. The intercultural service center should engage Syrians in the social, economic and cultural aspects of Reyhanli, and build resilience in the community, the Web site says. “Not even a single building.”Chiu has taken his team to measure and photograph the competition’s design site, which is several kilometers away from the Turkey-Syria border.

Source: Taipei Times June 08, 2019 16:03 UTC