Hind Al-Shoubaki

The Coldrerio intergenerational neighborhood transforms Parco San Rocco into an urban common. With a care home, community center, and residences, the central square and shared spaces foster proximity, inclusion, and reciprocity across generations.

Einfaches Wohnen redefines refugee housing as dignified living. Wooden modules, shared and flexible spaces, a central courtyard and external walkways turn the temporary into a home, affirming care, justice and integration as architectural principles.

The House for Almost Everything blends private dwelling and communal life. Its adaptable hall, pivoting roof, and flexible spaces transform the home into a responsive hub, hosting workshops, meals, and events, embodying an architecture of care, reciprocity, and civic belonging.

The Caslano retirement home redefines care architecture, blending domestic scale with civic presence. Spatial continuity, flexible layouts, and visual connections to gardens create a home-like environment where autonomy, social interaction, and dignity coexist seamlessly.

Situated between Novazzano and Balerna, the Federal Asylum Centre by Lopes Brenna acts as a territorial mediator: a linear structure balancing road and railway, order and waiting, institutional rigour and human dignity, transforming a threshold into a place of encounter.

In Cery-Prilly, the new psychiatric hospital redefines care: open to light, gardens, and community, it transcends the institutional model to create a healing environment where patients are welcomed as inhabitants, with dignity and a sense of belonging.

Welcoming refugees means designing dignity and belonging: open spaces, porous thresholds, and participatory infrastructures turn temporary shelter into community, promoting justice, relationships, and care as core architectural and urban principles.