WOAH (Without A Home) is a student-run initiative, based in Manchester School of Architecture, addressing the homelessness crisis in Manchester from an architectural point of view. The primary focus of WOAH is to raise awareness and provide solutions to people without a home. Currently, there is an exploration of the potential of WikiHouse designs, working on a project that allows the public to experience what it’s like to be homeless. WOAH has also teamed up with an MSA Events group, to tackle further issues and try and coordinate a masterplan for places and service people can go for help.

architecture:unknown believes design and construction should be an inclusive dialogue where everyone takes part, one where architecture becomes more than just the route to a building and create social connections where none previously existed as people construct a shared understanding of place. They use their expertise to enable both the clients and local communities to emotionally invest in design and promote Wiki House as a platform for people to collaborate in construction. Both Charlie and Daniel love helping people benefit from this approach; it is their purpose, their profession and their passion. They are enthusiastic to come share their knowledge, tips and tricks for both BA students and MA students to benefit from.

Website: https://www.architectureunknown.co.uk/

Let’s hope that together we can remove the stigma around homelessness and ensure we do our best to help those without a home!

THE AIM!

A Design Charrette is a collaborative inclusive, hands-on workshop that brings people from different disciplines and backgrounds together with members of the community to explore design options for a particular area. It differs from a traditional community consultation process in that it is design based.

Our workshop will be to design a POD for us to then develop the idea as part of our Events20 module. A publication will be created and will be presented to you. Budget limits us to a theoretical project but in previous years, some have come to fruition after the event is over.

The skills that will be acquired over EVENTS20 will include exposure to 4 main components to a successfully modern day architect. Modelling softwares, Adobe Creative suite, presentation skills and model making.

2D and 3D softwares, CAD is the grandfather of it all and is mainly used for 2D design. Revit is where the commercial architectural world is heading with many consultants embracing it, allows for an easier workflow. Rhino is a complex yet simple 3D modelling software. You aren't subject to planar extruding and is considered the program to use for complex shapes. Sketchup is Google addition to the modelling world. Simple, intuitive and effective.

The Adobe Creative Suite has been instrumental in the graphics world and an architect nowadays needs a graphic eye. Photoshop is how you transform one of Cinderella’s ugly sisters into Cinderella. Illustrator is a vector based and the fairy godmother for your line weights. InDesign is the pumpkin coach that will allow you to compile your presentation. Touch ups, text and all the good stuff that will get you ready for the ball.
Presentation are key to securing clients and selling your idea. A very underrated skill amongst us students, not only should the work do the talking but you should guide them through the narrative. Simple preparation techniques are there and available, we will just guide you.

Model making is now a lost art amongst architects as many practices can easily outsource companies to do it for them. There has been a disconnection between designing through model making within our current technologically driven society. A model should be more than a selling pitch, there should be a story. We want to know how you got here.

The figures for Manchester rough sleeping had increased to 123 in 2018, from 94 in 2017. Of those 123 sleeping rough 95 were male, 23 female and 5 were listed as ‘Gender not known’. The number of females counted in 2017 was 14, so the figure of 23 this year represents a 64% increase in females counted. The number of young people (18-25) counted on the streets also saw a rise to 12 in 2018, from 5 in 2017, which is a 140% rise.
The rough sleepers count is widely regarded by homelessness organisations as inadequate, due to it being perceived as severely under counting the problem. Greater Manchester’s (GM) strategic lead for homelessness Mike Wright criticised the street count last August, when the street count was 278 for GM and the mayoral Bed Every Night scheme had recorded much higher figures:
“We always knew the annual rough sleeper count was a blunt instrument…You may have someone who has been on the streets for 364 nights a year but found a bed that one night and they don’t count on the statistics. Now we know that there are at least 500 people regularly rough sleeping in our region.”
Andy Burnham’s campaign to end street homelessness, is helping homeless people find shelter (see previous Meteor report), but whether he achieves his campaign pledge of ending street homelessness in GM by 2020 remains to be seen. Similarly Manchester City Council’s Big Change scheme is helping people of the street, but their recent billboard campaign seen across the city claiming to be ‘Ending Homelessness’ in Manchester, rings hollow with the release of these latest statistics.

Approximately 5,564 people are homeless across Greater Manchester; 1,804 of these individuals are in Manchester and 1,088 are in Salford. Some of these homeless people are living either on the street or in temporary accommodations.

A variety of evictions and repossessions are also included in homelessness main problems. This problem is highest in Manchester and Salford, with approximately 1 in 62 households are at risk of this problem.

Manchester City Centre is the main pinpoint where all these homeless people can be noticed, sleeping in doorways and under flyovers, making it an ordinary sight for the civilians of Manchester. Homelessness in Manchester City Centre has dramatically increased over the past 5 years. There are more people accessing the support offered by daily services, such as the Booth Centre, Mustard Tree and Cornerstone.

1. manchester is the second city of 510,000 people .
2. it has an area of 115.6 km2.
3. there is around 130,000 houses in the city, 19000 of
them are empty.
4. IT IS at least £3 billion worth of properties are
unoccupied in the region.
5. The average value of a low use home in Manchester
is £135,058, WHICH IS 8% higher than the average
property value of £125,274.
6. campaigners are asking the council to build more
affordable social housing.
7. we are working with cornerstone on an used land
owned by the manchester city council, TO DEVELOP
AFFORDABLE, CHEAP AND RELIABLE HOUSING.

CORNERSTONE
1. CORNERSTONE IS PART OF CARITAS DIOCESE OF SALFORD.
2. IT DEDICATES TO HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES.
3. THEY AIM AT PROVIDE A SERVICE THAT ENHANCES THEIR QUALIT OF LIFE
4. THEY BRING TOGETHER PEOPLE FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS.
5. THEY WELCOMES PEOPLE FROM ALL BACKGROUNDS AND OPERATES A POLICY OF NON-DISCRIMINATION.


SHELTER
1. SHELTER GIVES SUPPORT & LEGAL SERVICES TO HOMELESS.
2. THEY PROVIDE FACE TO FACE SERVICES FOR HELP.
3. THEY ARE PROVIDING EMERGENCY HELPLINE OPENS 365 DAYS A YEAR TO SUPPORT WHO FACE HOUSING CRISIS.
4. THEY PROVIDE ONLINE SUPPORT FOR EXPERT INFORMATION.
5. THEY ALSO PROVIDE FREE LEGAL ADVICES AND ATTEND COURT TO HELP PEOPLE WHO HAVE LOST THEIR HOMES.


CITIZEN’S ADVICE
1. CITIZEN’S PROVIDE CONSULTATION SERVICE FOR HOMLESS.
2. THEY DO NOT MAKE DECISION FOR CLIENT, BUT ENCOURAGE THEM TO MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS.
3. THEY CAN HELP IN HOMELESSNESS.
4. THEY HELPS WHEN THERE IS SERIOUS HOUSING DISREPAIR WITH RISK TO HEALTH
5. THEY ALSO HELPS AGAINST ANTI SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR.


CENTREPOINT
1. UK’S LEADING YOUTH HOMELESSNESS CHARITY.
2. NOW THEY ARE SPECIFICLY TARGETING THE DIFFICULT SITUATION CAUSED BY CORONAVIRUS.
3. THEY AIM AT HELPING VULNERABLE YOUNG PEOPLE.
4. HOMELESS PEOPLE OFTEN FACE RISK OF SAFETY WHEN THEY SLEEP IN THE STREET OR ON A BUS, FACING PHYSICAL AND MENTAL BREAKDOWN. CENTREPOINT PROVIDE HEALTH SUPPORT & ACCOMODATION FOR THEM TO GET A JOB.

People who are on the streets often tell us that they feel ‘invisible’. Most of the people don’t acknowledge the fact that these homeless people were in the same situation as other people who had a home, a family and a shelter to rest at night. While the acknowledge that they don’t pay attention to the people most needed for the rest of the world.

We need a way to communicate with other people with different ways. One way is to give them ‘signs’ by giving other people to consider what these are going through. Another way is to show them by design that these people are suffering daily and they are based on things that make them ‘happy’, like alcohol and stealing, which are inappropriate actions.

These are some solutions that we can make aware ordinary people with ordinary life to look people with extraordinary negative life. It’s a way where people can really pay attention to them and offer them help which they are going to be glad to give.