Critical Comment about AFFORDABLE Tottenham
by Anna Maly
In my opinion Affordable Tottenham is an
urban project with a quite good idea and concept. They developed a construction
system, that’s quite simple but has everything really necessary, even an
isolation (but I doubt its sufficient for a country that rainy and cold like
the United Kingdom). You have the possibility to change and develop the space that’s
given to you, in a way you want and you can slowly safe money for whatever you
need it.
It’s a project against gentrification and
for the people. You have to fit in different categories to be allowed to buy or
rent a home in affordable Tottenham, so there cant be a change of social
levels. Only the Designers Willis and Powe, speak about the different
nationalities and spoken languages, but they never mention a precise concept to
get together all the families when they finally live there. They will still
have different origins and nations and speak different languages. So I see this
as a huge social challenge and it can may grow to a real social problem with
even more conflicts than before.
In addition they developed a very simple
price system. For me it seems a little bit to simple. For example they act on
the assumption that the families live there for at least 15 years or more, but
they may not. Every flat has an original space and a development space where
the families after saving money can raise what they want or need.
Furthermore there are still some criteria’s
the people have to fit in when they want to rent or buy a home in affordable Tottenham.
So there will always be selection, and the families have to apply by the
government. There will always be people with higher and with lower income, so
how to decide if they all fit in the categories?
Also it is about teaching a community
construction and IT skills (to develop their homes), but for this you need
workers to show them, teachers to teach them and so on.
The cardboard housing I think is a very
good solution, that works. In the internet you can find many references of
cardboard houses, church’s and more and it can also work in countries with bad
weather conditions. This material is easy to manufacture (laser cut) and can be
used in may different ways. I only can imagine problems with fire, they should
tell how to solve them.
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