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The typologies of refugees camps in Greece

[Autonoma] - Towards a collective city Athens, July 2016

Nikos Belavilas, Polina Prentou

National Technical University of Athens - School of Architecture Urban Environment Lab

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The refugees case

Crossing the Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea (UNHCR, Summer 2015)

Aegean Sea crossings 2015-2016 (UNHCR data)

•  817.175 refugees

•  410 deaths - 138 missing

•  38% children

•  Syria (57%), Afghanistan (30%), Iraq (10%), Iran (3%), Pakistan (3%)

Palestine (1%) Morocco (1%), Somalia (1%) etc.

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Categories of refugees camps

•  small rescue centers (Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Tempi)

•  unorganised outdoors gatherings (Port of Mytilene-Lesvos, Port of Chios, Port of

Samos, Polykastro-Central Macedonia, Victoria Sq. Athens, Pedion Areos-

Athens)

•  open camps (50 units, 45.000 people -Lesvos, Attica, Sterea Ellada, Epirus,

Macedonia, Peloponnese)

•  accommodation in housing units (6.500 people: Lesvos, Athens, Piraeus,

Thessaloniki)

•  Closed camps - Hot Spots (3 units-Lesvos, Chios, Samos)

Evolution of camps’ network

(Coordinating Body for the Refugee Crisis, 2016)

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Camps’ spacemaking - example cases

Big camps (organised or informal) hosting hundreds of refugees

•  12.000-13.000 people at Eidomeni

•  2.000-3.000 people at Kara-Tepe (Lesvos Island), Skaramangas (Attica)

or Cherso (Central Madeconia)

•  5.000 people at Piraeus port (Attica)

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Elements and forms

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Eidomeni

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Eidomeni

NGOs’ Facilities

BORDER LINE

Canteen

NGOs’ Facilities

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Kara-Tepe

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Kara-Tepe

Children playing

Kara-Tepe Square Activities

Administration Canteen

Medical Care

NGOs’ Facilities

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Skaramangas

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Skaramangas

Administration

NGOs’ Medical care Education

Children playing Activities Facilities

The “stroll”

Canteen

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Cherso

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Cherso

Administration

NGOs Medical care Education Canteen

Activities Facilities Activities

Education

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Piraeus port

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Piraeus port

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Piraeus port

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Urban prototypes - key elements

•  economy on space / economy on infrastructure

•  equity and democracy in space

•  bas-relief elements

•  orientation points

•  four basic minimum units (XL tent, L tent, “igloo”, container)

•  need of access and infrastructure

•  “order” as surveillance by the community

•  “order” in space, social community and hierarchy

environment / prototypes / units

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Final remarks

•  places of collective communal living •  development of a full hybrid of urban fabric at organised camps changeable transformative structure

•  primitive organisation of a meteor urban space for and by scared people

at the informal camps

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The typologies of refugees camps in Greece

[Autonoma] - Towards a collective city Athens, July 2016

Nikos Belavilas, Polina Prentou

National Technical University of Athens - School of Architecture Urban Environment Lab