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An irish traveller's community reimagines the existing travellers site, Tara Park, and the neighbouring car park. The project focusses on enabling the traveller community to continue practicing cultural traditions while emphasizing their resourcefulness and resilience through the process of foraging food and materials.
The project is divided into two overarching sections; a residential area for the caravans and a community centre with an emphasis on gathering via domestic activities/programs. The regreening of the existing Tara Park to make it suitable for foraging/farming and children becomes the undercurrent of the two overarching programs.
The community is to be self-built in order to avoid facing discrimination from settled people. Construction will take place in stages, beginning with the foraging of materials from across the ten streets and ending with travellers, reaching out to regreen surrounding to the surrounding community creating alternative food sources with the intention of shifting the perception of travellers.
Student Biography Myriah Curi is a third year architecture student from Tennessee. In her studies she has gained interest in intelligence of indigenous architectural traditions and the opportunities it presents for sustainability and construction.
Myriah Curi is a third year architecture student from Tennessee. In her studies she has gained interest in intelligence of indigenous architectural traditions and the opportunities it presents for sustainability and construction.
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