Welcome shelter. Temporary residential collective housing for migrants.
A welcome shelter is fundamental. So as to not get lost, to be able to care for and accompany those who have just arrived. A quality place to spend the necessary amount of time in order to re-compose a life. But the residential configuration of these spaces does not require the residential configuration of our houses or homes, distributed in rooms, which reproduce a custom based on compartmentalization and, on occasion, individualism. Often, the ‘manteros’ community makes us realize the impossibility of a community life in our homes. Adequate dimensions to gather round the elderly and listen to their stories cannot be found; the devices to welcome them are not available; there is not always space. Instead, they defend the open house plan, a large home.
Are the cohabitation possibilities that have interested us architects so much to be found here? Can they help us to imagine community-based residential models? Should we capacitate spaces that are categorically distant from the home to adapt them for the benefit of a welcome shelter? Can we make the Senegalese rural model urban?

Phase 0 and Phase 1 are a compilation of the results obtained during the workshop in Barcelona, specifically the Ceebu Jeen challenge, where all the schools met for five days (30/01/23-03/02/23) to work together.

The following phases correspond to the results obtained by each school back in its seats, adapting the work dynamics to their teaching plans.