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Community Focus

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Community Focus covers architectural and design work that prioritizes social connection and shared spaces. Projects in this topic address how physical environments can foster belonging, support vulnerable populations, and strengthen neighborhood bonds.

The community explores diverse approaches to community-centered design, from cultural hubs and alternative shelters to hillside community centers and urban frameworks that emphasize care, integration, and social impact.

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dharmik and 4 others

Kushaaneh, a girl who strives

Resilience Centre, Qandahar, Afghanistan

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.

Yean and Ruolin

POCKET OF LIGHT

The scheme takes Tetris game as inspiration for unit layout. Due to the site constrains, our design follows a performance-driven generation workflow to arrange the unit combination and optimize interior microclimate. In respond to the immigrant homeless issue, the co-living space is added in between for social interactions to re-energize the community.

Samantha

SHELTERED: Alternative Shelter and Urban Framework

This thesis considers all homeless shelters and resources in an urban setting as one connected system, then uses architecture to bridge the gaps in this system in order to connect federal resources, municipal responsibilities, and non-profit efforts.

Russell and 5 others

COMMUNIVERSITY

NBRS Architecture submits an evolution to how prisons and incarceration are traditionally thought of. Our concept is called: COMMUNIVERSITY A reformative facility that uses educational principals to advance participants as well as providing social education by maintaining a heavy focus on community and interpersonal engagement.

Mihir and David

Infrastructures of Care in Borderlands

La Línea de la Concepción, at Spain's border with Gibraltar, faces socio-economic imbalances that create urban fragmentation and social exclusion. This thesis addresses these challenges through a trans-scalar strategy and urban design toolkit aimed at fostering inclusive infrastructures of care.

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog6 months ago

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.

Community Center

Opportunity Center

Sakib Khan

publishedDesign Process5 months ago

In Transition: Adaptive Disaster-Relief Shelters for Dense Urban Community Recovery

Humanitarian Architecture, Community Resilience

Urban Resilience

Disaster Resilient

UNI Editorial

publishedStory1 year ago

Community Center Architecture Design: Transforming Spaces for Social Impact

Community centers play a vital role in fostering social cohesion and supporting underserved populations. The Soup of Hope project by Tadu Arquitetura, located in Juazeiro, Bahia, Brazil, is an outstan

Community Architecture

Community Center

maedeh ahmadi

publishedStory2 years ago