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Cafe Haven, Karail slum
Spring 2019
SEEDS (Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society)
Architect and Research Associate
Location
Karail slum, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Neighbourhood Scale
Type
Community Innovation project
Team
Collaboration with DCH (Dhaka Community Hospital)
The children's food shop owner Naima Didi caters to the children of Karail slum. Children feel safe in this space and love coming to the shop to eat puchka and jhalmuri. The intervention caters to upgrading the shop and catering to the comfort needs of the children like, proper seating, ventilation, storage and nutritional food production. The design focuses on the comfortable new design of the shop and how it will attract more children, hence increasing Naima didi's income. Children will also have a collection of educational books (donated by the government school) and television shows for their benefit. Also by collaborating with the elders of the slum, we intended to create a symbiotic exchange of knowledge between the children and the elders. Naima Didi will make "healthy food packet" for the children with the help of a nutritionist for healthier children and less absenteeism in school.
Plan of the cafe Haven for children showing seating, television shelf, typres on the wall, kitchen counter, hand washing station and green wall
Elevation of the shop from outside, showing the bamboo exterior holding hand washing, building as learning aid equipments, poster for current movie and green wall
Interior sectional elevation of cafe, with posters for better hygiene, tyres for extra seating, natural water cooler and refrigerator along with the kitchen shelves and bamboo shelf with television
Sectional elevation of the shop looking at the bamboo shelf used to hold the Television for educational programs, books and learning aid games for the children
