Melina Katsimpiri, Kalliopi Tseroni, "The Refugee settlements of Patras_ Resilience and Peculiarities", Diploma Thesis Project, School of Architecture, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2022
https://doi.org/10.26233/heallink.tuc.92593
One hundred years after the Asia Minor catastrophe and the massive influx of refugees in 1922 in Greece, the initial structure and evolution of the housing complexes, constructed for the rehabilitation of the refugee population, is an interesting field of research. The present research focuses on four sites in the city of Patras, which were used to serve this purpose and have remained in the memory of the residents as the "Refugee settlement", as they were constructed in a common area, creating a more unified whole. The original structure of the refugee settlements and their evolution is studied, followed by an analysis of their contemporary appearance, with parallel references to intermediate phases of the given study period. The aim of the paper is to explore the resilience of the settlements and the variations it may present, while interpreting its effects both at an architectural and social level.