In-between Economy

IN-BETWEEN ECONOMY

Reducing Potential Conflicts for a Diverse Neighborhood

Urban Design Studio, ETH Zurich
Fall, 2017
Collaborated with: Gregory Tsantilas, María José Orozco Aguirre
Instructors: Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Something Fantastic

“Edges and the in-beween are active presences for one another [...], take away the edges and the domain in-between is undermined by being rendered wholly amorphous.”
Edward S. Casey

Aiming to create an affordable, dynamic and qualitative environment between two differenect socio-economic classes and spaces, the strategy is to bring in heterogeneities to the neighborhood. Fully aware that conflicts may occur through the implementation of an inclusive model of living, but those that are inherent to the production of social activities, the strategy makes the most out of these to generate positive political and social consciousness and inclusiveness.

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Background

In recent years Tangier, Morocco has been subjected to strong migratory movements from both foreign and rural regions, intensely pressuring its built capacity. Non-regulated houses were built with expanding of the city.
The project is situated in the north west Tangier suburban area, between an unregulated area and an upper class neighborhood, called “California”.
There is an ongoing project on site that consists of apartment buildings and villas. The proposal puts brutally aside possible relations with its surroundings and turns its back to the low income community.

Strategy

To merge the current project with its context we organize a complex that responds to both villas and affordable housing with places where social activities can be produced. Our goal is a community co-administrated by its stakeholders.
At first the CLT finds investors to provide a long-term loan to acquire the plot and a co-operative between people of low and middle class is created. The community land trust separates the plot from the real estate market to remain affordable in perpetuity, and licences construction to the co-op to build the community center. Then the co-op hires people from the unregulated area to start building the houses for the middle class.Thus, profit is generated for the low income community. Concerning the house buying process the new residents buy the house outright by leasing the land underneath from the CLT. Also people with low income can use their earns from the building process to buy a house in the community. Co-op members pay an annual income related fee to the CLT for management, maintenance and cleaning. Their deposit and contributions finance their equipty shares in the co-op. For cleaning and maintenance unemployed or people with low income are hired.

Solutions

Stage of Development

Masterplan

Section

Typologies

Construction Details

Jin Li

IN-BETWEEN ECONOMY