Agit Prop/Policy/Politics

BARRACA de BOLA

Project Location: Capao Redondo, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Building Type: Youth Center, Water Delivery, Temporary Shelter, Stadium/Sports Facility, Social Service Centers, …
Project Descripton: Submitted by Team: “Muito Pensadores de Goog” This model answers the design parameters by taking a view that the traditional facility has validity but can be made on a smaller scale to key neighborhood development and micro-business....

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Urban Acupuncture : Colombia

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Sidewalk Plazas

Project Location: San Francisco, CA, United States
Building Type: Urban Planning, Public Transportation, Public Space/Gathering Space, Landscapes/Parks/Outdoor Spaces, …
Project Descripton: The need for public open space in urban places like San Francisco's South of Market is not new. SoMa, as a light industrial / warehouse district, has always been home to thousands of workers as well as residents who could have benefited from such....

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Dymaxion Treefort

Project Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Building Type: Treehouse, Recreation Facility
Project Descripton: This is not a serious effort, per se, but it occurred to me that someone might find it useful as a temporary shelter concept or an above-group cold frame for plantings or storage. My young boys asked me in the winter of 2006 to build them a....

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Design for the Other 90%

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Kalamazoo Quaker-Catholic Worker

Project Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
Building Type: Community Center, Residential – Mixed Development, Youth Center
Project Descripton: The Catholic Worker Movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, is grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity of every human person. Today over 185 Catholic Worker communities remain committed to nonviolence, voluntary....

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FireBreak: Architecture + Community Agitation

Project Location: Detroit, Michigan, United States

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Black History 101: A Mobile Museum

Project Location: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Building Type: Museum/Gallery
Project Descripton: With continuing cuts in educational funding, schools have begun to reduce or eliminate field trips to cultural institutions like museums. A local Detroit collector of racist artifacts and artifacts that celebrate African American culture, has....

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Ashland Shelter Project

Project Location: Ashland, OR, United States
Building Type: Residential - Single Family
Project Descripton: Portable, easily assembled, cheap, and beautiful shelter, intended for backyards and other marginal areas in town and country. We have begun with a geodesic dome with a revolutionary hub that makes all this possible and a fabric conic awning (see....

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Community NewsCenter

Project Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Building Type: Marketplace - Outdoor

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Open Architecture Network