Sulukule: a case of study for Social Housing

"Despite the adoption of a usual technological building process, we award this project because has been able to show the flexibility of the system in search of architectural references that evoke the identity of the context of settlement." 1st PRIZE COMPETITION "BOIS LAB CALL. WOODEN TECHNOLOGIES MEET SOCIAL HOUSING" OAT FOUNDATION "In the decaying background of Sulukule, Istanbul, Margherita Alessia Anguzza developed a project which is reflecting a socially, sustainable, culturally, physically and holistic approach. A project that puts the individual to the centre and emphasizes the quality of life in the development of existing historical urban spaces. Cities will return to city-dwellers somehow..." PROF. DR. ÇIGDEM POLATOGLU YILDIZ TECHNIC UNIVERSITY, ISTANBUL FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE "For its "High quality-Low cost" building technologies, the project has given a new opportunity to discuss, in much more wider platforms, the development of a low-cost solution for the people who are not able to own a property with their own resources." PROF. DR. UMBERTO RODONÒ UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA FACULTY OF BUILDING ENGINEERING