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Community-Driven Architecture

50 Projects 67 Journals 8 Publications

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Community-driven architecture places residents and local stakeholders at the center of the design process, creating spaces that respond to specific cultural needs and social conditions. This approach treats architecture as a collaborative practice where communities help shape their built environment.

The community explores projects ranging from cultural institutions like music kiosks and learning pavilions to public markets and collaborative workspaces, examining how participatory design methods produce spaces with genuine local relevance and sustained community engagement.

Top contributors

UNI Editorial30 works

UNI23 works

TGGG Architectural Design Studio2 works

Selen and 2 others

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CUBE(ish)

People are in a rush between their home and workplaces. They sometimes miss the opportunity to pause, look around and feel good. At this point in-between spaces (between home and workplace) in cities draw attention. Our concept is an in-between space which creates an escape point from daily rush.

Shaurya

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(pr)OpenCity

‘(pr)OpenCity’ advocates a collaborative design method for future development: one that allows rapid application with its prototypical nature and an inclusive approach with mediation between the ‘user’ and the ‘urban’. Building upon the concepts of ‘open-sourcing’ in design, this experiment establishes a user-centric design approach to built interiors.

dharmik and 4 others

Kushaaneh, a girl who strives

Resilience Centre, Qandahar, Afghanistan

Jillian and Olivia

AFLOAT | Resilient Indonesian Floating City

A modular resilient floating city grounded by a central community hub allowing for interconnectivity between multiplied communities. Branches of residential units allow for separations of families while joining all people to formulate a diverse identity.

Pranjal

AABHAS -a sense of home

They build our cities, yet live without a place in them.This project reimagines housing for migrant workers-not as shelter, but as dignity. Modular, mobile, and co-created, it moves with them, grows with them, and uplifts their families with creche, workshops, and safe spaces.A home that respects culture, empowers women, and builds community.

Delovan

ICH: International Community Hub in Amsterdam

ICH conforms to The Czaar Peterbuurt area, and its environment, and to the needs of the people of Amsterdam’s city center and eastern dockyard too. its form does not imply the conventional understanding of form follows function, but comes with a more enhanced understanding of form follows community and environment.

UNI Editorial

publishedResults4 days ago

ICH: International Community Hub in Amsterdam: A Dark Stone Block That Folds Open to Its Neighbours

Delovan Delawer's Editor's Choice entry trades form follows function for form follows community, carving a canal-side hub from shuttered stone volumes.

Architecture

Interactive Architecture

UNI Editorial

publishedResults0 months ago