WOVEN Neighbourhood Centre
Design Objective
This project seeks to create a community center that would provide a safe environment for residents by creating outdoor areas, various programs, and space for ethnic stores that foster community growth. This center focuses on a sense of belonging, identity, and placemaking that promotes diversity, participation, culture in society, and security. The placemaking process takes advantage of a community's assets, inspiration, and potential to build high-quality public places that promote people's health, happiness, and well-being. Many individuals utilize their sense of place and identity to create purpose, develop relationships, and manage change, contributing to their identity.
Thesis
This project aims to see how architecture can create a sense of belonging for people in a new land through social space. This will be accomplished by establishing a community center that will bring people together and improve social contact while forming bonds, resulting in a more connected and stronger community. By revitalizing the space around the existing retail stores, the use of integration and engagement will strengthen the community and support the local businesses.
Concept
I will use weaving as a concept to attain the above objectives. This concept summarizes my thesis. The act of weaving, of being altogether, of creating something beautiful by doing small movements reinforces the relationship between each thread as it progresses. These relationships are not only inescapable, but they also affect one another. Using weaving to reflect community connections is to encourage interaction, form connections, provide care, and foster intimacy and trust.
Symbolism
Weaving is a ritual of repeating motions, such as sliding feet over treadles to open the warp for the weft to be inserted, touching each one along the way; similarly, our role in a community's connection creates a sense of belonging with others along the way. The patterned fabric created by weaving is unique, much like a person's individuality. Weaving requires overlap, the interaction of thread and shapes and colours within the material. Weaving our values in as we see fit results in a randomly beautiful fabric that is just as strong. Which reflects how effectively community members communicate with one another. If each member's interaction is seen as a thread, the "social fabric" is produced by having those members interact with one another.
Site Information
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