The project consists out of a research part: ‘Critical Alternative Approach to/within Post-disaster Re-Development’ and a design part: ‘Spatial Strategy to Enable Cultural Resilience in Villa Rosa, Port-Au-Prince (Haiti)’. The research outcome presents a critical alternative approach in strategy within (post-disaster re-)development. It describes the relevance of urbanism and urban planning in the practice of development. The approach links educational development projects to overall improvement of infrastructure by structuring resilient and sustainable interventions as principal objectives. The design is a spatial strategy. The design outcome present the materialization of the research findings as well as a critical approach to resilient and sustainable urban planning which reflects the need for urban strategies concerning the contemporary, global issue of rapid urbanization: slumming.

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CRITICAL PROJECT 1:
CITE THEARD VALLEY
CRITICAL PROJECT 2:
GOGOTA HILLSIDE PARK
SPATIAL STRATEGY TO ENABLE CULTURAL RESILIENCE
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Villa Rosa, Port-Au-Prince - Haiti
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‘The Park’ is the only considerable sized public space in Villa Rosa. Currently a tent city, it must evolve towards
a public park connecting two (expanding) school projects. By introducing program to this public space the
park is framed and forms a barrier against possible urbanization via dwellings. An irrigation site for water
filtration and re-use offers the community additional access to water resources, originally initiated via water
interventions on a higher point in the area. When capacity building is achieving its goals, a local CSO/CBO
office will be permanently situated between the schools. For community awareness purposes, an open-doors
theater is added. Also, playgrounds and fragmented public spaces are all concentrated in the park where the
social presence and control is the highest. The rest of the park is reserved as natural landscape.
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‘The Valley’ illustrates the main objective for NGOs to
integrate Haitian identity in the process of production.
Localizing, educating, and monitoring the production
of construction materials is at core of many onsite NGOs’ exit strategies. The permanent
installment of a production hall will facilitate
this co-operative approach and eventually
will become an educational institution which
facilitates small-scale construction projects.
Sustainable energy resources are paramount
in improving the resilience. This is made
possible by solar power roof structures.
The community has access to the
provided surfaces via participation in
the construction processes or via,
the integrated intervention, waste
management. As a infrastructural
node this project will eventually
have to be protected by rentention
walls and is the lowest part of the
road network in Villa Rosa.
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CRITICAL PROJECT 3:
MORNE ROSA VERTICAL PASSAGE
CRITICAL PROJECT 4:
MORNE ROSA BELT
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‘The Vertical Passage’ is illustrative of the
infrastructural improvement needed in Villa Rosa.
The steep hillside and narrow pathways are an
example of how prioritizing individual focus (i.e.
housing) overrides public systems and result in
bad connectivity. Direct passages to primary roads,
accompanied by water initiatives are illustrative of a
infrastructural intervention with sustainable outcomes
through (passive) re-use of water.
The street profile of the primary road is adjusted
to offer efficient flows of pedestrians and cars.
The veranda/porches are spaces to linger
and the car road/street is prioritized for car/
truck use. Therefore, small public spaces
are included in the sidewalk.
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‘The Belt’ is, in a physical sense, a radical intervention of retention walls which also function as passage
ways. Because of the height difference, interventions are easily accessible on two levels which
allows for sanitation projects to be maintained by local civic organizations/GROs. Most basic services
interventions require an heuristic approach. Meaning, they are flexible (trial-and-error), easily accessible
(low-threshold), and easily maintained. Various small (CBO) organizations, or entrepreneurial
inhabitants should be able to maintain these public works and by doing so formalize a local need (e.g.
education/’titling’) through capacity building.
The principal interventions; school and church, are facilities focusing on this highly dense area (Morne
Rosa) and offer an otherwise secluded part more public program and utilities, and above all resilience
and (infrastructural) connectivity.