micro bridge arch apts
via fb post [https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=824243073647209&set=a.560105350060984]:
In France, where old stone bridges once echoed only with footsteps, a quiet housing revolution is now taking shape beneath them. The unused arches of these historic bridges — often overlooked and shadowed — are being converted into micro-apartments for unhoused individuals. Tucked away beneath centuries-old spans, these spaces offer something rare in urban living: discretion, dignity, and rent-free shelter.
Each arch is fitted with insulated modular walls, a compact bed, fold-out desk, and soft lighting powered by solar strips laid along the bridge’s upper railings. Small ventilation slits and rainproof facades ensure comfort without compromising the original structure’s form. From outside, the arches appear unchanged — but within, they offer clean, minimalist living quarters that feel more like small studios than temporary shelters.
Entry is controlled by secure digital locks, and communal washrooms or kitchens are installed in nearby converted kiosks or containers. Residents can stay without pressure or time limits, and many use the stability as a stepping stone to reenter education, work, or social circles.
What makes the concept stand out is its invisibility — not in hiding people, but in removing the divide between public beauty and private struggle. France has turned forgotten stonework into a framework for quiet care, housing people not as a gesture of charity, but as part of the city’s natural rhythm.
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living spaces et al
unauthorized home less ness et al
nothing to date has gotten to the _______
legit freedom will only happen if it’s all of us.. and in order to be all of us.. has to be sans any form of measuring, accounting, people telling other people what to do
how we gather in a space is huge.. need to try spaces of permission where people have nothing to prove to facil curiosity over decision making.. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..
ie: imagine if we listen to the itch-in-8b-souls 1st thing everyday & use that data to connect us (tech as it could be.. ai as augmenting interconnectedness)
the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. for (blank)’s sake..
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
otherwise we’ll keep perpetuating the same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness.. of part\ial ness.. [again].. for (blank)’s sake..
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be you. 