The co-founder of Urban-Think Tank(U-TT), Brillembourg uses his own skills in projects that tackle a major concern around the world: the lack of adequate housing and the proliferation of informal settlements.
Alfredo Brillembourg: Architecture as a response to social issues from Design Indaba
With his project, Brillembourg hopes to provide a hybrid form of informal and formal housing. The initiative builds interdisciplinary and participatory housing prototypes in the BT-Section of Khayelitsha, Cape Town.
“If we don’t attend the housing crisis now it will be a catastrophe,” says Brillembourg. “Things will get denser, criminality will increase, there will be people banging on the doors of the city centre.”
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