Haiti Prosperity

08/12/2022

Yesterday was my dad's bday!!
We celebrated over the weekend with family... and I took some portraits of him ... what do you think ? 📷🇭🇹

04/10/2022

What would a prosperous look like? Is it something we can easily imagine?

📷 by .kittrell

04/10/2022

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29/09/2022

A vision of the future.....


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"THE 5 FARMING BRIDGES" by
Winning Project of the Rifat Chadirji Prize - Competition "Rebuilding Iraq’s Liberated Areas: Mosul’s Housing"

The 5 Mosul bridges connecting the west and east districts across the Tigris were destroyed to encircle ISIS. The concept is to rebuild them as inhabited bridges by building the new city over the old city. It is a matter of recycling the city from its heart, not from rebuilding it to its periphery by encroaching on an obsolescent agricultural land.

These inhabited bridges will be printed in 3D using debris from war ruins and rubble to address the shortage of affordable housing, estimated at more than 53,000 dwelling units.

Inspired by the muqarnas - the famous, ornamental honeycomb pattern, used in Islamic architecture since medieval times - stacking these typical houses in a space creates a corbelled structure consisting of thousands of stalactites, which redescend the structural loads towards the bridge piers.

The typical houses will made up of 2, 5, or 10 modules, respectively forming dwellings of 25, 65, and 120 m². The constructive system will thus respond to different habitable capacity requirements, according to the size of the Iraqi family to be accommodated. Stacked in large groups, the typical houses will form quarters with ocher toned facades, and, over the years, a dense, green, and sustainable village above the Tigris. The facades are reminiscent of the ziggurats with their succession of superimposed terraces, distanced with respect to each other.

26/07/2022

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21/06/2022

How often do you discuss the future of your nation with your elders?

If you're a who grew up outside of , does your family encourage you to stay connected to your roots? To learn about the challenges and opportunities in ?

For a majority of , their parents fled the country during very difficult times, so their view on Haiti is to stay away....

While it's true that the situation in the country is really bad, can we afford to have an entire generation of young Haitians turning their backs on the country?

We cannot. So let's talk about prosperity, and what can be done to steer the ship in the right direction.

Tune in to the where my father and I discuss our perspectives on the challenges as well as the opportunities that we can tap in to to move the nation forward

03/03/2022

Introducing: Haiti Prosperity
Get to know the co-hosts of the Haiti Prosperity Podcast (Shaïna and Daniel Silva), and learn about what you can expect from each episode as we discuss the challenges and opportunities that exist in building a more prosperous future for Haiti

Get to know the co-hosts of the Haiti Prosperity Podcast (Shaïna and Daniel Silva), and learn about what you can expect from each episode as we discuss the challenges and opportunities that exist in building a more prosperous future for Haiti