The New York practice of Sharon Davis worked with the NGO Possible Health and the Nepalese government in raising new medical facilities in Achham, one of Nepal’s poorest and most remote regions. Surrounded by mountains in the Seti River Valley, the c
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This urban intervention is the result of an in-depth dialogue with the local community, thanks to which over a decade of failed polemics and proposals has come to an end.
With a population of 3000 inhabitants, Gando is a small village in the southern plains of burkina faso. It is located 200 kilometers from Ouagadougou, the country´s capital. In 1998, Francis Kéré launched a project to build a school in his native vil
The building’s interior and exterior facades are completed with brick and oakwood frames holding a total of 2,264 fingerprints of Deventer citizens, reproduced with aluminum in collaboration with the local artist Loes ten Anscher... [+]
This house for children in need and volunteers helping them is part of a larger project: the masterplan that, under the name Village of Hope and on the initiative of the NGO Thembalistha, a group of students from the University of Stuttgart has been
Designed by the team Archintorno in collaboration with the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the Polytechnic University of Turin, this innovation center is situated in the town called Pensamiento Liberal Mexicano, in the state of Oaxaca, a
La participación de la comunidad ha permitido el desarrollo de estas viviendas, que cumplen los requisitos básicos de habitabilidad sin contradecir las tradiciones.
The orphanage was built with a technique, never before used, that involves baking the building’s mud structure, to later use it as an oven for making ceramic elements and materials.
The challenge of this small library in the old marketplace of a Bangkok slum was not so much to deal with a scant budget as to involve an unmotivated community in building it.
Carried out on a very tight budget and with the help of the participation of the local population, the project takes the structure of traditional Hindu temples as reference.
The redevelopment of the main square of the Norwegian city of Hamar was conceived more as a process of civic participation than as an architectural project.
El conjunto de veinte cabañas elementales, apiladas en una torre de diecisiete metros de altura, ha sido diseñado y construido con estrategias de participación social.
Underscoring the social role that the church should play, two Latin American projects set themselves apart from the most common typologies and materials in religious architecture to respond both to the demands of worship as well as other functions wh
Depending on how one looks at it, the suggestion that this African house by the Finnish partners Heikkinen and Komonen could have been built with any other palette of materials – corrugated metal and glass, for instance, like Glen Murcutt’s projects
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
It is said that nothing is as practical as good theory. But it’s also true that nothing is as intellectually formative as good practical experience, so university programs that lead to actual constructions are always memorable for students and teache
Diébédo Francis Kéré está construyendo una biblioteca pública en la aldea burkinesa de Gando, en la que el arquitecto afincado en Berlín nació hace 47 años: un nuevo edificio que se añade a los dos —aulario y residencia de profesores— que componen la
El uso democrático de las herramientas digitales permite generar un concepto flexible de espacio público basado en la participación espontánea de los ciudadanos.
