DongfangXie_Abstract_V2

The Future Campus for Refugees

As is known to all that Europe has a refugee problem for years. Although there are many official refugee camps which provide food, housing, and medicine care, a large number of unauthorized camps still exist in the central cities and usually around the official camps or transport stations. According to the statistic report from DIE ZEIT in October, 2016, nearly 60% of Syrian refugees only have or under primary-school education level and only 10% of refugees can find a job. Education issue is urgent for refugees.

Building a centralized campus complex for them might be an executable solution. The prior mission of the campus is providing the fundamental accommodation for all students. Thus, besides the regular accessory buildings, the main buildings in the campus will be dormitories and dining halls. And considering it might be a long term problem, the campus should also include the kindergarten, primary school, middle school, and high school for the second generation of refugees. A student center and embassy are definitely necessary, which should be located in one building in the very center of the campus. Meanwhile, a train station in the center area is also needed, not only to transport food and necessities for refugees, but also to build up the connection between the campus and city to guarantee that the students can fully engage into the city activities. Skill training is the essential issue, however the career backgrounds of refugees are complex and diverse, it is unlikely to introduce professional devices and equipment for all kinds of subjects and establish labs and workshops with them. Therefore, sending students to the working places and practice their skills in internships would be an effective strategy, which makes it important to place the training building nearby the train station. Online education system allows volunteers and other universities or institutions participate in the teaching section, which requires the classroom with information devices. There will be three sizes of classrooms in the training building. The large ones function as the digital lecture room which can contain 200 to 300 students at once and hold job consultations, language classes, and local culture introduction. The middle size classrooms are the regular ones, 45 seats will be placed around the walls to leave the middle area empty, so that each room could has a holographic projection which shows the online transmissions. Classes with virtual reality equipment taking place in the small size room will pay more attention to the communication and coordination. No furniture will stand in the room and no device here has a cable, any decoration here would be considered unnecessary. Students here work as a group and get in touch with the companies, in which they can know the job content and get familiar with the operation process. To save more spaces and contain more people, each collective dormitory with a private bathroom is no more than 10 square meters, for the campus has already provided a various of basic public spaces. However, student has a family can apply a studio apartment which type would match the number of family members.