Streetlight Tagpuro in Tacloban City
Streetlight Tagpuro, The Philippines Building Project, Architecture Images
Streetlight Tagpuro in Tacloban City
Institutional Sustainable Building Development ? design by Alexander Eriksson Furunes
20 Jan 2018
Streetlight Tagpuro
Architects: Alexander Eriksson Furunes
Location: Cebu, Philippines
Streetlight Tagpuro
A collaborative community effort to design and build a study center, office and orphanage after super typhoon Haiyan.
With the increase of natural and man-made disasters around the globe, it becomes increasingly important to understand how architects, and architecture, can contribute to post-disaster reconstruction efforts. While there is an argument that architects are the least people needed in this scenario, a collaborative process of planning, designing and building can enable those affected by the disaster to have a say in the processes that eventually affect them. Streetlight Tagpuro is a collaborative design and build process that began 3 years before the strongest typhoon to ever hit land devastated Tacloban city in the Philippines, and the 3 years of reconstruction that followed.
In November 2013, super-typhoon Haiyan devastated the city of Tacloban, Leyte in the southern region of the Philippines. It was one of the strongest typhoons ever recorded. A locally based NGO called Streetlight, which supports street children and neighbouring communities by providing social services, had their orphanage and rehabilitation center at the seafront destroyed...
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