(Ebook) Roles of Drop-in Centers in Street Children Interventions: Design Guidelines and Humanitarian Emergency Architecture Adaptations by M.Sc. Ruba Azzam , Dr. Karim Kesseiba , Dr. Ahmed Abdelghaffar Dr. Mennat-Allah El Husseiny

(Ebook) Roles of Drop-in Centers in Street Children Interventions: Design Guidelines and Humanitarian Emergency Architecture Adaptations by M.Sc. Ruba Azzam , Dr. Karim Kesseiba , Dr. Ahmed Abdelghaffar Dr. Mennat-Allah El Husseiny

For decades, numerous countries have been witnessing the Street Childrenphenomenon where millions of children worldwide are subjected to risks.Despite the crucial role of intermediate non-residential interventions - usingdrop-in centers- in protecting and rehabilitating street children, there is apaucity of research addressing the quality of design of these centers and howarchitecture might influence their operational process. Those observationsinvite investigating drop-in centers used in practice from a design perspectiveand question adapting architectural applications for humanitarianemergencies, focusing on “Child-Friendly Spaces”. The study aims toprovidesolutions for better quality design, facilitating operational challenges. Themethodology undertakes the investigation through primary and secondaryaxes. This involves conducting literature and international precedents reviewand secondarily, an Egyptian contextual first-hand documentation andqualitative analysis of selected centers. JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2021),5(2), 151-168.https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2021.v5n2-1