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Gathering Space

59 Projects 48 Journals 12 Publications

About Discussions Projects59 Journals48 Publications12

Gathering spaces are environments intentionally designed to facilitate human connection and shared experience. These projects explore how architecture can foster community, whether through permanent installations, adaptive reuse, or new construction that prioritizes social interaction.

The community examines diverse typologies including cafes, theaters, meditation spaces, and mixed-use developments that serve as urban anchors. Work ranges from converting industrial buildings into cultural venues to creating vertical villages and microtown concepts that integrate living, working, and socializing within walkable proximity.

Top contributors

UNI Editorial12 works

Hani Mansurnejad2 works

Hilda Khozaee2 works

Josiane Roy2 works

Silvia and 2 others

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ZIL-IVE

The ZIL-IVE is the new Hustle Hub of Moscow; the most attractive residence for youths. The building proposes a new concept of co-living and co-working. It hosts many public functions that enhance the hub?s integration with the city. The new intervention will regenerate the former industrial site of ZIL by transforming it into a mixed urban environment.

Revathi and 2 others

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The Urban Anchor

Anchoring the habitat and nature to the vessel

Aimi and 3 others

186

INTROVERSE

Located in a park in the heart of Beijing, the project creates a secluded space that protects users from the busy environment and prompts each individual to find their own expression of faith. Nature was used as a key element to contextualize the project while the spiral shape evokes the idea of a journey one makes towards the central space.

Misak

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Green Vertical Village

Nano nests composing a green and healthy community. The main concept is based on how we can make living interesting and humane again. It is a fact that most metropolitan cities are in a high demand of housing.

Kendra

The Collective

In a world where technology dictates how we receive and interpret information, we chose to revert back to the transfer of knowledge through spoken word and interaction. The Collective, is a centre for knowledge in which information is shared with the public through 'experts in residence' who are chosen to provide different perspectives on a monthly theme.

maria lucilla and 3 others

Eco Chapel - Leaf

The “Leaf” expresses a renewed conception of space, an incursion of nature into a strongly urbanized territory connected in actions and thoughts to nature. The design of a chapel and a forest in an eco perspective. A green avenue around which germinate buildings, evoking the forms of seeds and giving space to contemplation, prayer, leisure and laboratory.