Student: Jonas Wirth

The handbook of the UNHCR on planing refugee camps does not contain the quality of life in terms of recreation and leisure.The human life is reduced to physical processes like having enough water and calories to survive or having sufficient sanitary facilities to avoid epidemics. Even though there are some spaces and activities which go beyond just keeping people alive.The fact that the basic need for life is secured, allows the refugees to build up basics in recreation and leisure. The refugees have a strong family structure and they share a common ground in terms of the idea to go back to the homeland. Only a few spaces are planned especially for recreation, most of them are unplanned and used in multiple ways or for different purposes. At first view, some of the following themes may not correspond to recreation from our point of view. But in the Saharan desert, where the temperature goes up to 50°C in Summer - where the dust of sand is everywere - also small things reach an effect and increase the quality of life.