Streetlight Tagpuro: Post Disaster Reconstruction

Eriksson Furunes, Low Density, Project, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Architecture, Collaborative work, Community, Community Facilities, Cooperation, Craftmanship, Design process, Emergency architecture, Empowering society, Local materials, Local techniques, Mapping, Participation, Philippines, Project, Reconstruction, Territorial Approach, Timber, Timber frame, Urban Paradigms

With the increase of natural and man-made disasters around the globe, it becomes increasingly important to understand how architects, and architecture, can contribute to post disaster reconstruction efforts. While there is an argument that architects are the last people needed in this scenario, a collaborative process of planning, designing and building can enable those affected by the disaster to have a say in the processes that eventually affect them. Streetlight Tagpuro is a collaborative design and build process that began 3 years before the strongest typhoon to ever hit land devastated Tacloban city in the Philippines, and the 3 years of reconstruction that followed.