“Addresses urban migration in a proactive manner that accepts its specific dynamics” – Holcim Awards Jury

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    Project entry 2011 - Vertical informal settlement and waste recycling center, Jakarta, Indonesia: Facilitating community based waste processing.

The jury acknowledges the project as an innovative approach to turn problems that many cities in the world are facing into opportunities that all parties benefit from. It does not deny migration of the poor but addresses the situation in a proactive manner that accepts its specific dynamics. The semi-organized structures provide a necessary framework that safeguards basic human requirements but leaves that flexibility, which is essential for economic migrants. In addition it offers a resource stream upon which the inhabitants depend.

Last updated: July 28, 2011 Mumbai, India