“Problem: How can trends in architecture and urbanization in the daily lives of people respond to the forced migrations in Central America and everywhere through a recognition that they don’t happen in a vacuum but rather stem from root causes that force them? Why are so many people from Central America looking for a better life somewhere else and what do these conceptions mean to architecture?
Solution: Houses built with money earned by migrants in the U.S who sends dollars back to their native country for the construction of their dream house. In the process (of building in small increments over extended periods of time), it creates new architectural typologies that represent both imported construction techniques and architectural styles of other cultures in the vernacular landscapes of their hometowns…”