Transformative city

Transformative cities (Case study: Ecuador, Imbabura, Ibarra) Behdad Bolouhar, César Mauricio Sánchez During the last decade massive immigration of people, regardless of its reason has been a new issue for many countries around the world. People leave their homes in pursuit of safety and protection but in many cases they fail and not only do not find a new home but also unintentionally/intentionally affect the quality of the hosting country and jeopardize its characteristics. On the one hand immediate (short term) effects of immigration need to be considered in order to define the structure of the emerging community and also its interaction with the existing one (hosting country). On the other hand, since there is no clear prediction for life expectancy of these communities, in long term what is left of these transition can be very decisive for the future of the cities. Countries may take different approaches facing this phenomenon but in most of the cases principles are the same. These temporary habitats are either basic refugee camps such as the ones established for Syrian refugees in Turkey, Germany, Jordan etc. or are fixed structures in a form of housing. If not all, in many of these examples either the essence of the community is sacrificed for the mortality of these settlements or the future Identity of this settlements is neglected. In this project firstly immigration and its short/long time effects on several cases were studied. Afterwards considering the life span of these settlements (future Identity) a proposal based on principles of generative design (nonlinear algorithm) and public participation in development of the habitat, a prototype was suggested.