Architects Miranda MacLaren, Polina Pencheva and Heather Macey have created a film titled We Are Not Bad Kids to highlight the need to introduce design guidelines and regulations for homeless accommodation.
Backed by a Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) research grant, the film was created by MacLaren and Pencheva, who work at London studio Morris and Company, and Macey, who is an associate director at John McAslan and Partners in collaboration with independent film company Odelay.
"We created this video to raise awareness of the urgent need to improve emergency accommodation standards and enable more purpose-built specialist emergency homes to be built," the trio of architects told Dezeen.
The film aims to highlight the lack of regulation for homeless accommodation In We Are Not Bad Kids guests of the emergency accommodation talk through their experiences with homeless housing.
It forms part of the group's wider campaign to introduce design standards to improve the quality of homeless shelters and emergency accommodation in the UK in the face of a rapid increase in homelessness due to the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the group, the legislation used for homeless shelters is largely unchanged since 1935, while there are no guidelines for the design of emergency accommodation for young homeless people.
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