Economic Development/Livelihoods

BARRACA de BOLA

Project Location: Capao Redondo, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Building Type: Community Center, Lighting-Outdoor , Marketplace - Outdoor, Public Space/Gathering Space, 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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FLEX Modular Kiosk

Project Location: Capao Redondo, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Building Type: Storage Facility, Retail – Single Occupancy, Restaurant/Café, Marketplace - Outdoor, Lighting-Outdoor , …
Project Descripton: The design concept of FLEX Modular System is to re-inteprete the notion of an affordable yet attractive and functional kiosk system. The Kiosk system is easily transportable, reconfigurable and expandable by the community to fit their needs as the....

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Sportables : 2 goals, 2 boxes, one game

Project Location: Capao Redondo, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Building Type: Youth Center, Water Delivery, Temporary Shelter, Stadium/Sports Facility, Social Service Centers, …
Project Descripton: To maximize efficiency, sustainability, and effectivity. The use of shipping containers (8',40',8.5') as the basic module allows for a strong and secure frame for both transport and destination. By allowing these containers to be both field,....

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Nuevo Amanecer, Phase IV

Project Location: Woodburn, Oregon, United States
Building Type: Residential – Multi-Family Low Rise, Laundry Facility, Landscapes/Parks/Outdoor Spaces, Community Center, …
Project Descripton: This project is in pre-development, going in for tax-credit funding in the Fall of 2008. The proposed design includes 40 new farmworker units and a small community room on a 2.7 acre parcel in Woodburn, Oregon.

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Hope Integrated Academy

Project Location: Kyetume, Uganda
Building Type: Water Delivery, Toilet Block, Sanitation/Public Service, Health Clinic, Energy Production, …
Project Descripton:

During the fall of 2005, John Mary Lugemwa, the founders of Hope Integrated Academy, along with the Uganda Rural Fund envisioned providing quality education to the children of his home village, Kyetume, Uganda (about 40 km South of Masaka). ....

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Myanmar Rebuilding Appeal

Project Location: Unspecified location
Project Descripton: Cyclone Nargis hit the heart of Myanmar (Burma) on Saturday morning. While the media will focus its attention on the loss of life there will be millions displaced in the coming weeks. Large aid agencies like Oxfam and Care will be knee deep in....

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Survivorbuildingregeneration

Project Location: Unspecified location
Project Descripton: Survivorbuildingregeneration makes earthquake and hurricane proof buildings, basically it is the old balloon frame put together with modern metal wood connectors. It is the wood connectors that make these buildings earthquake and hurricane proof. ....

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Las Hormigas Women's Cooperative Kitchen

Project Location: Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico
Building Type: Restaurant/Café
Project Descripton: Light straw clay building wrap system around existing CMU block walls; new pallet truss roof, new metal rain shield, straw insulation; solar water heater; Watson Wick for kitchen waste water

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Sustainable Portable Classroom, Winnsboro High School, Franklin Parish, Louisiana - Team #5 - Drexel University

Project Location: Winnsboro, Louisiana, United States
Building Type: Education Facility - Secondary School
Project Descripton: Flexible Education Environments in the Rural South

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Rebuilding Community Block by Block

Project Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Building Type: Residential - Single Family
Project Descripton: "It was a spiritual experience. I put myself in the shoes of the ladies who had lost their house(s). I went outside and just stared at the house(s). To lose everything then to come back to the same area, where two new houses are going up. That is....

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