Volumes of different dimensions are interspersed with patios and platforms set at varying levels to accommodate activities for small groups and large assemblies alike. From an auditorium to a daycare, a cafeteria, toilets, and playgrounds, the buildi
A pro bono facility gathers medical clinics, lounges, and recreational amenities around a curved courtyard conceived as yet another space intended for the benefit of elderly people. The building maintains a domestic scale through a single level that
These premises are permeable to the city, seeking to use physical exercise and social interactions as a means of awakening in people a sense of belonging to the community. A simple sawtooth roof like those of nearby industries and a skin of perforate
As part of a program to improve the capital’s most disadvantaged areas, a small facility provides training and meeting spaces close to what is one of the largest penitenciaries in the country. Without shutting out the street, with which it engages th
The Mumbai-based firm founded in 1992 by Sanjay and Nina Puri has built this spiral-shaped community center, crowned with a green roof, that gives views of the surrounding desert in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Located in Moolwas, it was designed t
Located in the southeastern part of Rennes, capital of the Brittany region of western France, this building has the mission of enriching the community life of its neighborhood, amid 1960s housing estates. Envisioned as a new vector for social cohesio
On the north shoe of Lake Constance – in Markelfingen, a district town of Radolfzell am Bodensee – stands this timber construction that is a hub of community life, providing sport facilities and event spaces. The project’s central defining feature bo
The ‘H.E.Co, Híbrido Ecolóxico Cohabitacional’ scheme drawn up by Javier Alejo Hernández Ayllón, Verónica Paradela Pernas, and Javier de Andrés de Vicente has won the ideas competition for a mixed-use building in the Barreiro neighborhood of the city
At a distance of 33 kilometers from A Coruña and 45 from Santiago, the parish of Bértoa is adjacent to the town of Carballo, the municipality to which it belongs, and is the main area towards which it expands. North of Bértoa is the large industrial
The Murcian firm headed by José María López and Edith Aroca, in collaboration with The Pink Panther Collective, has won the competition to refurbish the civic center of Roldán, a district under the jurisdiction of the municipality of Torre Pacheco. T
Bruce Engel, who founded BE_Design in 2016, was commissioned to raise this shelter for health, education, and mentorship programs catering to women, which doubles as a place for the rural community to gather in. At the heart of the building is a spac
As part of a plan instigated by the regional government, a social center serving citizens of limited means and resources has opened in one of the most conflictive areas of the capital…
With a population of approximately 4,900 people, the majority of whom are women with few chances of finding themselves a niche in the work force, the urban community of Chongón has since 2009 benefited from the support of the Young Living Foundation,
This is a part of the Dublin coastal area beloved of James Joyce and immortalized in Ulysses. Located overlooking Dublin Bay, with Booterstown Marsh at its south-eastern boundary, and a frontage onto the main road connecting the sea port of Dun Laogh
The thorough refurbishment of a group of medieval houses included an underground extension and a terrace that provides a close-packed Tuscan town with a new public space. An interior route threads together the existing constructions and gives visual
The kamwokya informal settlement, located among the hills of Kampala’s central district, is one of the most indigent areas of the capital, with a high dwelling density, scarce infrastructures, and poor health conditions. Surprisingly, it hides the on
A pavilion renovation is the first operation undertaken to recover the fair premises that Niemeyer designed as a symbol of a then thriving country, and which were left to rot after a bloody civil war. Lack of documentation made an exhaustive study of
In several of the camps scattered around the country to take in people fleeing from nearby Myanmar, six communal spaces try to contribute to easing the difficult situation. Raised with the most readily available materials and the techniques of Rohing
Semillas, a Lima-based firm set up in 2014 by Marta Maccaglia, conceived this multipurpose gathering space as a large covered plaza. Intended for the Ashaninka indigenous community of Otica, it is located on the banks of the Tambo River, in Peru’s ce
In West London, close to South Park in Fulham, the English firm Mae has completed a building with timber and bricks where 35% of the construction is composed of recycled materials, prioritizing the use of bolts as structural fixing in order to simpli
In the placid city of Winter Park, near Orlando, Martin Luther King, Jr. Park welcomes this civil and cultural center. As part of an extensive revitalization of the park, the new hub is in harmony with the unique tropical ecology of the site, and is
The preventive detention center of Reus, built in 1929, was turned into a school in 1979. Establishing a dialogue between different layers of time and different strata of hidden constructions, the intervention carried out by Josep Ferrando Architect
The Pan-American Development Foundation of Mexico proposed to refurbish the sports center of Xoxocotla Municipality, which was structurally damaged by the 2017 earthquake, and to build a new community center for the town. The work was carried out thr
The community center called Las Tejedoras (the weavers) in Chongón (Ecuador), a work of Natura Futura Arquitectura and Juan Carlos Bamba, has earned for them the Emerging Practice Award of 2024. Given by the Illinois Institute of Technoogy College of
Para hacer prosperar las áreas con menos recursos de la Ciudad de México, el gobierno regional ha puesto en marcha una red de centros educativos para personas analfabetas o que han abandonado los estudios. En el de la colonia Presidentes, una de las
In the village of Rudrapur, located in the Dinajpur Disrtict of northern Bangladesh, the German architect Anna Heringer – in conjunction with Veronika Lang and the non-profit organization Dipshikha – recently completed a therapy center for people wit
Recientemente terminado, el centro cívico-cultural proyectado por el estudio madrileño Exit Architects, puede concebirse como una especie de palimpsesto en el que conviven lenguajes arquitectónicos distintos. Surgida de la rehabilitación del edificio
De almacén de alcoholes municipal a espacio cívico, la centenaria Alhóndiga ha cambiado de función sin perder carácter público; por el camino han quedado proyectos insólitos.
La localidad de Tortosa cuenta con un nuevo centro cívico firmado por el estudio Arquitecturia —Josep Camps y Olga Felip—. La intervención ha comprendido la rehabilitación del antiguo mercado de Freires, construido en los años sesenta, y su ampliació
