Community Development
Architecture and design projects that strengthen social bonds and improve quality of life in neighborhoods and towns.
ilsangarchitects Builds a Village-Scaled Playground Without Rides in Jeonju
A UNICEF-backed community center in South Korea replaces swings and slides with timber pavilions, sand courts, and water channels.
MINOR lab Stitches Three Leftover Spaces into a Community Art Ecosystem in Langfang
A café, gallery, and artist studio carved from residential surplus in a Hebei housing development prove small-scale renewal works.
Sanjay Puri Architects Cascades a Laterite Community Center Down a Hillside Over the Arabian Sea
In Anjarle, India, parabolic volumes of local stone step across a steep coastal slope to form a 32,000-square-foot recreation hub.
Laboratorio de Acupuntura Urbana Converts a Chiapas Slaughterhouse into a Community Development Center
In San Cristóbal de las Casas, an abandoned municipal slaughterhouse becomes a civic agora built with local clay tile, wood, and pigmented concrete.
CCA Builds a Habitable Sculpture of Orange Concrete Arches for a Tabasco Community Center
Eight monumental pigmented concrete panels form a modern cloister at the heart of Jalpa de Méndez, channeling centuries of Mexican conventual architecture.
Embankment Settlement: An approach towards a Strategic Community Settlement.
Developing The Embankment As a new Housing Infrastructure.
New Density DESIGN DESCRIPTION:
Design based on the Concept of Community Self-management
