DESIGN&MORE - The Other City - Transforming Construction Labor Camps into Creative Campuses in the Gulf.
In the rapidly growing cities of the Gulf, construction workers are the invisible force behind architectural ambition. They raise towers, pave streets, and sustain progress — yet remain at the periphery of the urban story. The Other City is a design proposal rooted in the belief that architecture can serve as a form of social justice: transforming spaces of marginality into places of meaning, memory, and shared humanity.
Labor accommodations are often overcrowded, anonymous, and functionally designed to sustain only the basics of survival. But within these spaces lives a powerful cultural mosaic. Workers from Bangladesh, India, the Philippines, Egypt, Nepal, and beyond bring with them not only labor, but languages, rituals, music, food, and histories. Though physically present in the city, they are culturally and spatially disconnected — seen on the map, but absent from the scene. We propose a series of low-cost, participatory, and adaptive interventions that activate the latent social and cultural life already present within these communities.
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