Community

The Assessment and Support Centre helps prepare many people for their future. This is why it is essential to formulate an inspiring, motivating architectural environment for these people while they undergo diagnosis, support, practical experience, and job application training. This requirement needs to be met in both the external appearance and the quality of the ambiance inside.

Morag Myerscough’s first project at Sheffield Children’s Hospital – which saw four designs across forty-six en-suite bedrooms, secured her close connection and commitment to the hospital, its patients, and its staff and in-turn provided the initial inspiration for her most personal project to date, the Joy Garden.

The community house, shooting club De Schutters and football club EMM in Randwijk all had plans for new accommodation and decided to join forces to build a new, joint building. In the Randwijk area, there are a number of brick factories that let the bricks dry in elongated sheds with saddle roofs and gentle slopes.

The project is located within a neighborhood with an advanced consolidation process. An intermediate sector of the City of Córdoba, Argentina, a place where low-density residential activity is currently available, and some uses of the productive and logistics type.

Ishigaki City Hall, which was in a tsunami inundation zone, was relocated to a higher ground. The aim was to revive the Ishigaki landscape: layers of traditional red-tile stucco roofs surrounded by lush greenery. The planning was inspired by the settlement pattern of Ishigaki, where villages formed at the crossroads where rows of houses intersected.

The Lampa Community Center project is part of the National Program for the Recovery of Neighborhoods “I Want My Neighborhood” of the Ministry of Housing and Urbanism, born in 2006, which seeks to promote physical and social initiatives in vulnerable sectors, which are developed through an active process of citizen participation, in which the community defines its wishes regarding the infrastructure of the neighborhood to which it belongs, which become the foundations and guidelines of the project. Our studio intervenes in this process at the design and development stage of the detailed engineering of the project proposed by the community.

The commission consisted in developing the building for one of the first Art Creation Centers in the country for the commune of La Ligua. It’s conceived as a factory, a venue where children and adolescents can develop their creativity, emotions, and skills related to sensations, color, music, sculpture, etc. They are spaces specially designed to generate experiences and creative learning processes for boys, girls, and young people through creative laboratories and interdisciplinary projects that converge the arts, sciences, technologies, and sustainability.

“Let’s make a roof where we can see the sunset and the Grand Canal”, a simple and slightly exciting sentence when the site was first surveyed in the spring of 2020, sent a beautiful vision of the community center at the beginning of the design. Located on the old street of Bache in Wujiang, Suzhou, just a ten-minute walk from the canal, the community center is actually the first in a series of micro-renewals of the old street. The main motivation for the micro-renewal of the street was the upcoming completion of the future campus of Soochow University across the canal, and the leader proposed to turn Bache Street into an Academy Town, expecting the future students to become a new force in the street, bringing new opportunities for the renewal of the street. With such expectations, the small community center, as a public activity space, becomes a key vehicle for the integration of the old and the new, and it is no exaggeration to say that a small building takes on a big mission. We often joked later that this was a house with ambition.