Roles of Drop-in Centers in Street Children Interventions: Design Guidelines and Humanitarian Emergency Architecture Adaptations

For decades numerous countries have been witnessing the Street Children phenomenon where millions of children worldwide are subjected to risks Despite the crucial role of intermediate nonresidential interventions using dropin centers in protecting and rehabilitating street children there is a paucity of research addressing the quality of design of these centers and how architecture might influence their operational process Those observations invite investigating dropin centers used in practice from a design perspective and question adapting architectural applications for humanitarian emergencies focusing on ChildFriendly Spaces The study aims to provide solutions for better quality design facilitating operational challenges The methodology undertakes the investigation through primary and secondary axes This involves conducting literature and international precedents review and secondarily an Egyptian contextual firsthand documentation and qualitative analysis of selected centers