Installed within refugee camps, this series of modular, scalable and multifunctional hubs offers communities with a welcoming and inclusive space to gather and access sports equipment, Wi-Fi and TV broadcasts. More than just a social space, it aims to support refugees in rebuilding their lives through the joy of sports. The design was developed by […]
This dynamic public area in Yulin No. 2 Alley is the result of a spatial practice by CACP (Community Art Creative Project) called ‘Designing?’, which reimagined urban informal spaces. RELATED: The FuturArc Interview: Zhang Tang The project transformed a bicycle shed into a multifunctional community space together with residents and various stakeholders, such as professional […]
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Yulin Alley is located at Yulin Sanxiang, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. This area was built in the 1980s and 1990s. Throughout the years, apartments that were built in different periods have been connected by paths, and the integration of old and new buildings gradually formed the present Yulin with its own temperament—with the air of a […]
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“The architecture resembles a bridge or a temple. Watching the people sitting on the porch enjoying their onigiri (rice balls), it feels like this architecture is a reminder of something important that modern Japan has lost.” In light of the above poignant observation by the architects, one begins to see this longhouse project in a […]
REVIVING RURAL ECONOMIES Joanna Nsenga is a young architect who studied on the west coast in the United States before returning back to her home country, Rwanda, to put her architectural skills to use to improve the lives of local communities. Empower Hubs—now called Kinvest Commons—was one of the first projects she worked on after […]
RE-ADAPTING PRIVATE PROPERTIES FOR PUBLIC USE Studio 877 is situated in the old cantonment quarters of the city of Pune in western India. It is home to an architectural practice—Local Ground—and the Loft, a cultural space, both started by architect Khushru Irani. The 100-year-old building, which was in a dilapidated state, was given a new […]
Known as the face of poverty in Bangladesh, Kurigram district in the north is home to 2.4 million people. Over 70 per cent of the population is poor,1 almost three times the national poverty rate of 24.3 per cent. One in two persons in Kurigram is extremely poor. Caught in an intractable cycle of poverty […]
One of China’s most beloved architectural heritages, the Tulou is a type of mud house common in the southern region of Fujian. The most famous ones are circular with soaring walls large enough to shelter an entire clan of people. In 2008, a total of 46 buildings were listed as UNESCO World Heritage sites, which […]
In line with our ongoing design competition FuturArc Prize (FAP) 2023: Cross-Generational Architecture, we are highlighting projects along the theme for your inspiration. Click here to learn more about the brief! Kampala, the capital of Uganda, is notable for being the country’s largest and densest urban area, contributing more than half of its GDP despite […]
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In August 2017, escalations of extreme violence against their community—especially women and girls—forced around 700,000 Rohingya people to seek refuge in Bangladesh almost overnight. This unprecedented scale of displacement caused refuge settlements in the border areas of Ukhiya and Teknaf to explode in growth. It is presently the world’s largest collective refugee camps, with children […]
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Sân Chung is a noun phrase that refers to a common space shared by a residential community of a surrounding area. The premise of the team’s proposal is to bring this idea to life by leveraging post-industrial historical assets to restore and redesign them as community and cultural spaces. This will serve to address the […]
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In line with our ongoing student competition FuturArc Prize (FAP) 2022: Reinterpretation, we are highlighting projects that follow the theme. Click here to learn more about the FAP brief; submit your entries by 25 February 2022! The owner had collected the abandoned building materials from his friends: there were every kind of furniture such as […]
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