Homeless worldCup Legacy center |
Santa Cruz, Brazil
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Problem
Recognizing the role of local sports and traditions as a force that brings people together, and with the Homeless World Cup tournament as a backdrop, how can football be a tool for empowerment and social change for women and youth and provide a positive space for the development of a community? How can communities benefit from international events beyond their scheduled timeframe and impact? |
Solution
A center that implements the Homeless World Cup's influence beyond a week-long tournament and instead as a building that serves as office space for community organizations, like the Youth and Women’s Leadership Organization and the Instituto Bola Pra Frente, and provides specific services to the greater community like meeting and classroom space available for use to other community organizations. |
Description
One thing about life in the city is that there are basic tenements of culture that all people can share despite of their socioeconomic background, or, in this case, regardless if they have a house or not. They include things like sports, food, and the aspects of 'place' inherent in the environment where we live.
Providing the homeless a place to live and instructing them to relevant life-skills and virtues is a more efficient policy approach than the popular banishment, fining, and restriction laws that many cities in the U.S have used to deal with the homeless in downtown areas. This project ties homelessness as a way to address other social issues, like creating community spaces, supporting local organizations, and empowering individuals through sports. In other words, the life of the homeless in the city has become about marginalizing their experience as existing outside the daily urban interactions. The Homeless World Cup Legacy Center is a prototype facility that starts to address homelessness as part of a bigger urban issue by utilizing football as a tool for empowerment and social change for women and youth. Architecture for Humanity, Homeless World Cup, and Nike teamed up with local partners Organização Civil de Ação Social (OCAS), and Instituto Bola Pra Frente (BPF) to establish a Legacy Center that would implement the Homeless World Cup influence beyond the week-long Tournament and Leadership Conference. . |
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$ ☺ ჻ ⌨ ☆ |
1 year
██ ██ ██ ██ low budget construction and materials Community organizations (Bola Pra Frente, Organização Civil de Ação Social, Homeless World Cup), donors (Nike Game Changers), Architects, Architecture for Humanity, community members, the homeless. Environmental: use of recycle materials in construction, use of natural ventilation, shading, and cooling strategies as well as integrated rainwater collection and UV purification system to provide fresh water. Economic: consolidation of community assets. Social: people gather all around the building, bringing active life to the community, social advancement through sports, education, and art, community-centered design, Building works as a ramp with a sloped public square including seats that can work as a stand for cultural activities, shows, films, etc, under the ramp there are locker rooms, restrooms, a classroom and seats, walls and floors in cement, facades in metal mesh and translucent roofing elements, ceiling in OSB. The emphasis of the design uses football as the catalyst for change |
Lessons
Links
http://www.archdaily.com/125791/homeless-world-cup-legacy-center-lompreta-nolte-arquitetos-nanda-eskes-arquitetura-and-architecture-for-humanity/
http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/projects/homelessworldcup
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1661864/brazil-uses-homeless-world-cup-to-build-local-community
http://www.archdaily.com/125791/homeless-world-cup-legacy-center-lompreta-nolte-arquitetos-nanda-eskes-arquitetura-and-architecture-for-humanity/
http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/projects/homelessworldcup
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1661864/brazil-uses-homeless-world-cup-to-build-local-community