What is the biggest problem of the world population in the 21st century? Housing. This was the conclusion that Francisco Brown, Luis David Torresqui and I reached for our proposal for the 2017 Sumbrella: Future of Shade contest, in which participants were required to use the company's material - in this case, Tela-, will create an object in the categories of welfare, skins and humanitarian construction.

Refugee camps are always located on the outskirts of cities. They become invisible. Emergency housing always ends up being makeshift camps. And what happens if we make housing an urban element? And if we visualize a humanitarian situation? How humanitarian are you if you have a refugee camp in the middle of Bryant Park in New York? As were the hydrants in the nineteenth century (a basic service such as water that can be activated in emergencies), we decided to create a tent that was hidden beneath the surface and activated in cases such as forced migration, natural disasters or protests .

Our communicational move was to get away completely from the traditional architecture posters and present this proposal as if it were a real emergency: news. The three posters were diagrammed and written in a pleasant language for all audiences (completely separate from pretentious languages) to make the project digestible not only for architects, but for a more general audience.

Torresqui, Luis. Brown, Francisco.

[Design]

Emergency housing for competition. Sinaloa, Mexico- New York, United States - Bogota, Colombia.