Design for the other 90%

25/08/2022

🔴VIDEO
Homelessness is a complex systematic problem. How can architecture help homeless people? What does your country do to end homelessness?

08/08/2022

🔵 PROJECT: Dominikus-Stark-Architekten-Education-Center-Nyanza, Ruanda (2010)

The Central African State of Ruanda, commonly known as the “land of a thousand hills”, is rarely the focus of West European interests. On a private initiative, on the road in Nyanza connecting the country’s most important towns Kigali und Butare, a new IT

08/08/2022

Dominikus Stark Architekten - Education center (2010)

27/07/2022

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"We are living in the imagination of the elites"

One of the most inspiring and explanatory video on this subject

Architect Deanna Van Buren will illustrate her lifelong commitment to ending mass incarceration by building infrastructure that addresses its root causes. Sh...

08/06/2022

🔵 PROJECT: Community Design Agency - Sanjaynagar Slum Redevelopment Project, AHMEDNAGAR (INDIA)

Current thinking on low-income housing tends to prioritize the number of units, resulting in impersonal high-rise structures that degrade rather than supporting the communities they seek to serve. CDA believes that addressing housing inequality is more than building individual units. It is about building communities; creating a balance of safe, healthy private and communal spaces that enhance inherent social bonds and enable human flourishing.

Completed in 2022 in Ahmednagar, India. Images by Rajesh Vora. The Sanjaynagar Slum Redevelopment Project is an in-situ initiative in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, implemented by Community Design Agency (CDA), a...

11/03/2022

F8 architecture + Gérard Violante - Falatow Jigiyaso Orphanage_2012

11/03/2022

🔵 PROJECT: F8 architecture + Gérard Violante - Falatow Jigiyaso Orphanage, Bamako (Mali) _2012

Although the orphanage is located in the subsahelian area, it features no air-conditioning or even fans, thanks to a combination of overhanging ventilated roofs, thermal mass (obtained through the use of Banco, a mixture of mud and grain husks, easily found in Mali) and natural ventilation.

All of this resulted in an indoor-outdoor temperature difference of more than 20°C!!!

Completed in 2012 in Bamako, Mali. Images by Vanja Bjelobaba. The story of Falatow Jigiyaso orphanage begins in Bamako. In 1978, Fatoumata Goundourou found an orphan baby in the street and brought him home. From...

22/02/2022

🔶 ARTICLE
"Youth Centers are facilities designed to provide a safe, informal and supervised environment for young people. They accommodate unstructured social interaction among different age groups and provide the space to offer more structured activities. By giving youth the opportunity to take part in recreational and cultural activities or vocational counseling, these centers help them develop their physical, social, emotional, and cognitive abilities and to experience achievement, enjoyment, friendship, and recognition"

Youth Centers are facilities designed to provide a safe, informal and supervised environment for young people. They accommodate unstructured social...

18/02/2022

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For more visit http://www.aurovilleradio.org/auroville-earth-institute-open-houseIn honor of the 50th anniversary, the Earth Institute was hosting an open ho...

17/02/2022

ETH Zurich + Universidad del Norte de Barranquilla - Fábrica de Cultura School of Arts and Popular Traditions

17/02/2022

🔵 PROJECT: ETH Zurich + Universidad del Norte de Barranquilla - Fábrica de Cultura School of Arts and Popular Traditions, Barranquilla (Colombia)

ETH Zurich did it again. These people are always trying to innovate and push the boundaries of designing in less advantaged communities.

Here in Barranquilla, they took over an abandoned To***co Factory in order to create a "maker space" for 2800 young people to learn creative arts and popular traditions centered around the culture of the UNESCO World Heritage Carnival of Barranquilla.

Completed in 2022 in , Colombia. Images by Copyright Klumpner Chair of Architecture and Urban Design ETHZ / Alejandro Arango and Luis Bernardo Cano. The Fábrica de Cultura: School of Arts and Popular Traditions complex in Barrio Abajo, a working-class neighborhood in Barranquilla, Colombia, is...

31/01/2022

Kengo Kuma & Associates - College of Environmental Design UC Berkeley https://www.archdaily.com/592660/nest-we-grow-college-of-environmental-design-uc-berkeley-kengo-kuma-and-associates