FLORENCE BASSA
Architect
BSc MArch ARB
CO-KOMI
A hypothetical, community-lead rural development plan for a Greek village. The 10-year proposal uses real available funding and local skills to suggest how European villages can become global and competitive places to live and work. The architecture is made from plastic waste, a new local resource.
REFUGEE WOMEN'S CENTRE
A building for social enterprise ‘Bread & Roses’, who empower refugee women with floristry classes, language lessons and employment. The building emulates the roles of floristry: tactile and interactive, filled with flowers, water and natural beauty- in order to build self-worth, and create communities and job opportunities.
THE FLOATING FOREST
One of the oldest living organisms on earth - a forest in Utah where each tree is connected via an extensive underground root systyem - is dying. The project consolodates the wider significance of the loss of this natural phenomenon. It goes on to propose how the dying trees can be repurposed over time to become a research and educational centre.
FLOOD COMMUNITY CENTRE
On the outskirts of Hanoi, Vietnam, informal housing and farmland between the city and river gets flooded every year during the rainy season. The Flood Community Centre provides local ameneties during the dry season, such as a nursery, and farmland and recreational space during the floods.
