New Community Center in Lima, Peruvian Architecture Competition, San Juan de Lurigancho Peru Design Contest

Gatogether Architecture Competition

DNADD and Techo Architectural Contest in San Juan de Lurigancho, Peru, South America

15 Aug 2019

DNADD Responsive Architecture, Non-profit Association, Rimini, Italia, announce:

Open Call:

Gatogether Architecture Competition: New Community Center in Lima, Peru

Gatogether Competition: New Community Center in Lima, Peru

BRIEF

We climb an endless number of steps until we meet clusters of enormous rocks. Where the stairs come to an end, paths traced between the rocks start, until they disappear and every way fades and gets invisible. We are climbing the tops of San Juan de Lurigancho.

Gatogether Architecture Competition: New Community Center in Lima

Such a district is Lima’s and Peru’s most populated one, with 1.038.495 million inhabitants and one of the three poorest in the metropolitan area of Lima. At present, more than half the population of San Juan de Lurigancho live in human informal settlements causing the dramatic increase in its population. Such areas have been shaped to become invisible. However, they still are quite clearly seen and not even included in future spatial planning.

The 76% of the informal settlements have at least one form of community organization to face their difficulties. Unfortunately, even though are characterised by a strong community organisation, they lack a place to gather: a communal space where pose the basis for their growth.

Techo is a nonprofit organization that, through the collaborative work of families living in extreme poverty with volunteers, seeks to overcome poverty in informal settlements. DNADD and Techo share the same mission: build a new community development center. Provide San Juan de Lurigancho’s inhabitants with a place to gather, where they can finally be able to work, study, play and, above all, share.

Participants should develop a new community centre, able to constitute the reference point for the inhabitants. It’s around this new centre that people will organise their collective while trying to improve the settlements where they live.

The community centre will be mainly used as a place for gathering and interactions between neighbours. Besides, it will be the theatre of different activities and, hence, it will constitute a changing environment, able to adapt to the needs of its users.

Young volunteers will build the project over 4 days.

REGISTRATION & TIMELINE

EARLY REGISTRATION

50€

from 31/07/2019 to 02/09/2019

STANDARD REGISTRATION

70€

from 03/09/2019 to 08/10/2019

LATE REGISTRATION

90€

from 09/10/2019 to 14/11/2019

SUBMISSION DEADLINE

14/11/2019

RESULTS ANNOUNCEMENTS

05/12/2019

  • Participants can enter the competition either individually or in teams (4 members max, at least one participant in each team has to be under 35 ).
  • The competition is open to students, graduates and freelance professionals.
  • It is not a mandatory requirement to be an expert in architecture or to be on a professional register.
  • The architectural competition is international and open to competitors from any country.

DNADD is a nonprofit association, therefore the competition is based on a fund-raising formula, necessary for the construction of the project in Lima, Peru.

AWARDS

1° PRIZE

1000€

+ Possibility to take part, as a volunteer, in the construction in Lima, Perù

+ Possibility to see the project published in architectural magazines

+ Publication of the project on the website of the association and social networks

+ Free participation to another DNADD competition

2° PRIZE

700€

+ Publication of the project on the website of the association and social networks

+ Free participation to another DNADD competition

3° PRIZE

300€

+ Publication of the project on the website of the association and social networks

+ Free participation to another DNADD competition

+5 HONORIFIC MENTIONS

If you have questions about the competition, please contact info(at)dnadd.org

Website: www.dnadd.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/DNADDarchitecture/

Instagram: www.instagram.com/dnaddarchitecture/

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Gatogether Architecture Competition: New Community Center in Lima, Peru images / information received 150819 from The Association for Social Promotion DNADD Responsive Architecture in collaboration with the ONG Techo Peru

Location: San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima, Peru, South America

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