ONE HOME FOR ALL THE HOMELESS
status: competition, coauthor: vladislav sudzum
d3 housing tomorrow 2013 special mention-dystopian vision
 
This project proposes one massive porous wall-like structure to house all the homeless people on our planet. It spreads continuously through the cities, fields and waters, only facilitating bare living necessities, and significantly increasing life quality in general, and therefore the overall rate of productivity.   
Over 2.6 billion people around the world do not have access to adequate sanitation, while around 100 million have no housing whatsoever. These are all just assumptions, while the real numbers are much worse,  and impossible to track. An unimaginable percentage of our society struggles to survive and doesn't even have a remote possibility to experience more of their life, and yet we remain indifferent, presumably secured and untouchable. 

A skyscraper is a symbol of a nation's power, wealth and technological progress. It is designed and built  for the wealthy leaders. This project proposes an opposite situation. The same progress and wealth is promoted by resolving one of the major problems it has caused to our society. To give part of the sky to the poor. By diminishing its own flaws, the city becomes even stronger. Instead of trying to reach the highest point on the sky /one single point!/ the cities will compete in areas of their sky they are willing to give up in order to improve their society. This wall would become a new indicator of a city's power. Every city gets a certain length of the wall. The longer the wall, the greater the city. 

The structure occupies minimum amount of the expensive land, only one line two meters thick, but a significant percentage of our sky. It is a wall of infrastructure, a vertical field of voids, offering numerous places to sleep, maintain hygiene, cook and store food, store belongings, and to get one's own permanent location on the world map. Plus endless empty space around it, the priceless sky, which paradoxically  turns it into one of the most luxurious living spaces in the world.  The design follows 3 basic rules: 1 the whole structure is dimensioned according to a diagram of its future usage that would predetermine it roughly, 2 the accessibility of the points of the structure depends only on their users, and the way they adapt it for themselves, 3 the boundary between the wall and the sky is undefined and in the end irrelevant. In the beginning it is entirely empty and incomplete. Only raw concrete mass and the infrastructure inside it. Than as it is being occupied it starts to form its unique identity, that solely depends on its user. 

With no beginning nor the end, people all around the world are gathered into one single structure. Unlike Superstudio's Continuous Monument of 1969, which it was inspired with, it is not about globalization and loss of identity, it is about nourishing millions of identities that have yet to develop. If it is human nature to ignore what is difficult to process, this is a way to put the problem of homelessness out in the open. Even if these people are invisible to our eyes, the structure would still remain, and with its monumentality, pose as a daily reminder to the ignorant society of the problem it actually resolves.