My travels took me to a place on the coast of France called Calais. It is the place that hundreds of asylum seekers have inhabited in hopes to take refuge in Britain. The immigrants are from the Middle East and seek a better life in Britain. The situation involves three main areas: the Middle East, Coast of France and United Kingdom. All are linked together as the route for immigrants to get to a place of refuge. The problem though is that they cannot get to their final destination: Britain. Most of the asylum seekers do not have documentation and have had to be smuggled from country to country. Calais has become the filter for the immigrants to the United Kingdom; the problem is that they simply just stay in Calais since they cannot get to the United Kingdom. The result is the asylum seekers flooding the natural regularly inhabited areas beyond just the region reserved for immigrants. A forested area in Calais where immigrants would take up shelter was known as the 'jungle.' It was destroyed in September of 2009 and has left many of the immigrants to just live on the streets of Calais. This issue influences design and architecture because it deals with these people using natural environment and minimal materials to create a shelter. It also has to do with the globally people becoming more connected. The idea that people going from place to place in hopes to settle and find a new home; there is an inherent link occurring between those countries.
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