Kompian hospital
Cultural Centre
Anganwadi
Disability day center
Vulnerability and risk: rebuilding communities after disaster
Buiding Communities IV
Educational centre
Restoring and upgrading the old town of Hebron
Dental clinic and blood bank
Hosting city Porto: Call for Ideas
Avieira’s culture legacy
Masterplan of St Francis Javier Hospital Complex
Hosting and social inclusion of migrants in Europe (Youth Programme)
School and housing
Building the Guambian Community
Rehabilitation of the historical and cultural heritage of an oasis
Solidarity Project
Cultural Centre
Educational support centre
Public School
Projet Gabions méditerranée
Earthquake-resistant Housing
Solar Energy for Rural Development
Prison alternatives initiative
Download
Children and staff accomodation
Earth construction and community project
Primary schools
The key RHS Chelsea flower show garden
Veterinary school in saharawi refugee camp
Building with people
Sustainable development
Vulnerability and risk workshop
Center for children and juveniles
Rural housing
Day care center for drugs addicts
Primary school
Nursery school
Re-cover(y)
Design primer competition for an aids orphanage
Health Care Center
Reconstruction and enlargement of a new day-hospital psychiatric clinic
Education Center for fine arts and handcrafts Desiré Somé
Building houses in recovered land
Underground carpark upgrade into arts-space
Building communities I
New hosting model for migrants and refugees center
Construction of a new surgical ward in St Francis Javier Hospital
Shelter and formation centre for Paysans Sans Frontières
Trebilhadouro
Primary school in Naipa
Period:
April 2008
Cause:
Social minority communities, social status & living conditions
Categories:
Member:
Technology & material:
PRA, found materials
Partners:
CASE Japan (Community Architects for Shelter and Environment)
Donor:
GB Sasakawa Foundation, Daiwa Anglo Japanese Foundation, self funding
In Easter 2008 the ‘Building Communities’ workshop series continued in the KitaShiba area of Osaka, Japan with local partner CASE Japan. Participants experienced a city where public housing has been formalized, and were given opportunities to understand the after-effects of slum eradication and an effective community upgrading programme. Working within one of Japan’s social minority communities (the Buraku), participants explored the housing solutions provided by the Minoh government and those solutions the community developed in order to cope with their change in social status and living conditions. This was achieved through a series of lectures and interactive exercises, which focused on four main issues affecting the social realm including public housing, public spaces, and homelessness in the land of housing and issues of social interactions. The participants developed an understanding of the Barakumin discrimination issue in Japan and an insight into the complexities of working as a professional with communities in long term development projects. Through the partnership with CASE they explored the methods and techniques a local architecture practice employs when working with communities, and prototyped a tool for community engagement that was shared and enhanced by the local community on the Community Spring Festival day (which coincided with the final day of the workshop).
The group had started the two weeks with expectations of engaging with the local community and exploring an unknown side of Japan. At the same time they were keen to find out what an architect can specifically do in this kind of project with his/her skills. The workshop enabled students to learn about the current social housing strategy in Japan and broaden their skills as architects to engage with a community and some of the complex issues it faces.