AFHCHAPTERNETWORK

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WHERE WE ARE

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WHAT WE DO

LOCAL IMPACT

ADVOCACY

EDUCATION

VISIONING DOCUMENTS

DESIGN BUILD

COMMUNITY LED DESIGN

COMMUNITY LED DESIGNP 07 COMMON GROUND NURSERY // New OrleansP 08 1 BURROWS STREET POCKET PARK // San FranciscoP 09 ART ON SEDGWICK // ChicagoP 10 RED PUNA, ARGENTINA // London/UK

VISIONING DOCUMENTSP 13 C.H. FOVISSTEE // Guadalajara P 14 ELEPHANT & CASTLE // London/UKP 15 DISASTER RESILIENCY STUDIO // Portland

STORIES FROM OUR NETWORKCHAPTER PROJECTS

DESIGN BUILDP 17 MERCADO DE NORTHSIDE POPUP // HoustonP 18 THE OASIS PROJECT // AtlantaP 19 SAN JOSE DE SACO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT // BogotaP 20 SAMO SOLUTIONS, LOW COST HOUSING // TorontoP 21 SOGAKOPE YOUTH CENTER // New HavenP 22 JITEGEMEE EDUCATION CENTER // Washington DC

STORIES FROM OUR NETWORK

COMMUNITY LED DESIGN

Common Ground is a relief organization in the 9th ward of New Orleans, Louisiana, focusedon wetland restoration. They take volunteers out by boats and actively replant areas ofmarshes and wetlands that have been eroded over time, fighting one of the root causes ofincreased hurricane damage to the region, as well as recreating previously destroyed wild-life habitat. To do this, they have created an ctive nursery, located around the corner from their offices, in the middle of a neighborhood left largely vacant after Katrina.

When the New Orleans chapter of Architec-ture for Humanity got involved, volunteers

had already designed and built a massive foundation, cantilevered over the pond, overlooking the garden, and another group had roughly sketched out a screened area on the top. However, AFHNOLA was needed to take this project through completion, refining the design as details were added, and working with an engineer to make sure the elements were sized and crossbraced correctly. There was a special emphasis on cost, simple on-nections, and loose tolerances, as the building would be built by unskilled volunteers.

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1 Burrows Pocket Park is located in the di-verse, workingclass neighborhood of Portola in San Francisco. The project will transform an underutilized culdesac into an attractive, green public plaza. The project is part of an ongoing effort to revitalize and stabilize Portola’s commercial corridor by increasing cleanliness, working with property owners to fill vacancies, provid-ing support to existing merchants, promoting the shopping district, attracting resources for physical improvements and by building community pride and empowerment. The pocket park is a working blueprint of a comprehensive, communityled effort for

revitalization and will set a precedent for future public space improvement projects for underutilized spaces throughout the City of San Francisco. This greening project will offer a lasting and significant legacy and contribu-tion to the people of San Francisco.Architecture for Humanity, San Francisco in collaboration with: Lincoln Motor Company, Architectural Digest, Portola Neighborhood Association, Portola Garden Tour Association, HerreroBoldt, Arup Engineering, City of San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development, San Francisco Department of Public Works, CalTrans

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Art on Sedwick is a non-profit storefront arts center providing sliding scale classes for children and adults in the near north side.

“Our project will give kids and adults identity, reinforce thecommunity across racial and socioeconomic lines by making stuff rather than consumingstuff”

Adult mission statement: Our neighborhood center will foster arts and community. We’ll use our local talent and imagination to create a space that feels safe, inviting and inspiring. Our center will help us build bridges, bringing people together and allowing individuals and the community to connect with the best art of themselves. the project also aims to create aspace for creation not consumption, to foster selfesteem, and create a new identity for thecommunity.The kids mission statement: At the art center we would like to learn pottery, fashion, and glass blowing. Our art center should be a fun place. We want to felle comfortable, brught, and relaxing. The center could also be a place where we make music, rean cooking, and learnphotography.

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“ We are part of the land, the water, the seeds, we are life and culture ”

Red Puna, is a collective of farmers and weav-ers living in rural communities on the highplateau region of North West Argentina.Red Puna’s people have a close connectivity with land through farming and weaving as agroup of over 30 indigenous communities. These South American Indians, the Coyas, have lived and worked on the land for over 10,000 years.

The Red Puna network has been working for over 15 years addressing problems related to health, education and gender issues.Tramando, Argentinean textile and fashion designers, have been working with Red Puna

for over five years. Martin and Florencia have been working with experienced elders to apply methodology to weaving and dying techniques, and record traditional practices.

The team, is teaching fashion and textile design to younger generations, helping to develop creativity and maintain traditions for the future.The building project briefs have been iden-tified by Red Puna community members to create new spaces for working, gathering and developing independent livliehood through traditional farming and weaving practices. These projects provide the basis for collabo-rative academic research led by University of Reading.

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In the northern part of Guadalajare a large area with social housing doesn’t have an ade-quate Public Space. Hence the neighborhood committee began the rehabilitation of the Community Center with the advice of Chapter Guadalajara.The population benefited with the rehabil-itation of the Public Space is around 4,500 people from different colonies around the Community Center.A part of the process included participatory design sessions with the Neighborhood Committee and the Chapter Guadalajara Team.

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Elephant and Castle is an ideas studies to pro-mote community focused interim use through the 15 year regeneration of the Heygate site at the Elephant & Castle, London.

Our work visualises discussions with local growers, upcyclers, runners, artists and busi-nesses, a new form of place making whichilluminates the richness of the community.

The aim of the document is to keep interim use at the forefront of discussions and releaseland for activities which promote health, wellbeing and outdoor activity in a neigh-bourhood which has limited green space.

We see this as a way of stimulating positive discussion and facilitating change as a plat-form for community transition.

Elephant and Castle is collaboration with : Elephant Amenity Network and Heygate Allot-ment Holders, East Walworth Neighbourhood, Forum and The Latin American Community of Elephant Road

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markets, food, cooking, sports, families, celebrations

elephant football league health: running & green gyms urban living rooms festivals: books, food, music teenage table tennis

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markets & swapfests out of school activities drama & dance workshops

participation, education, health performance stage open air film local business connection platform for community in transition

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AFH Portland’s Disaster Resiliency Studio strives to better prepare our community before, during and after a natural disaster by:

1. Creating a network of connections and re-sources between community groups and cityorganizations at both local and regional scales.

2. Promoting awareness by educating and engaging the community through creative designsolutions.

Through the “Made Resilient” event, we hope to test the boundaries of perception regardingwhat makes Portland a truly “Resilient” city by creating a platform for community members to gather and share their ideas, the measures they have taken, and the resources they haveutilized in helping their sector of the commu-nity become disaster ready.Invited participants represented a broad cross section of private and nonprofit organizations in portland. Conversation was led by Daniel homsey.The charrette provided a unique opportunity

to harness in one place the creative energy ofportland’s design, engineering and building professionals, the community insight of socialservice agencies and nonprofits,and the expertise of local government officials. threeseparate design teams worked together to define a process for successful engagement withdisadvantaged communities, and to identify neighborhood scale interventions which would notonly improve the condition of underservedpopulations today, but set them up for a moresuccessful recovery when faced with times of stress..

Made Resilient event

event MISSIonThrough the “Made Resilient” event, we hope to test the boundaries of perception regarding what makes Portland a truly “Resilient” city by creating a platform for community members to gather and share their ideas, the measures they have taken, and the resources they have utilized in helping their sector of the community become

disaster ready.

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project coordinatorsRachel BaileyNicole Holt

project volunteersScott Sutton David DonaldsonCaroline Hather Tom SchmidtKevin Sabeta-Bak Mariah MarshallKatie David Vanessa Cass

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Many Thanks To Our Generous Sponsors:

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The Mercado de Northside Pop Up project is lead by Architecture for Humanity Houston Chapter in collaboration with the Greater Northside Management District and Neigh-borhood Centers Inc.

The project team is designing tents for the Mercado de Northside farmer’s/art market that takes place monthly on Friday evenings at the Leonel Castillo Community Center in Houston, TX. Designs will be developed and displayed at the market opening in June and aprototype tent will be build for the August market.

The design aims to be lowcost, portable,and collapsible while using locallysourcedand reused materials. A Go Youth team ofcommunity youth have been helping with design development.

Community input on the design will be sought at the market opening when design alternatives are presented. Further informa-tion about our project partners is available on their websites: www.greaternorthside.org and www.iamforgood.org .

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The OASIS Project is an annual open call design competition to create designer bus shelters for the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA) bus system.

Each year a selected design(s) will move for-ward in the design process with the winning designer(s) assisting the Atlanta chapter of Architecture for Humanity developing the construction documents.

The design will be installed at one or more bus stops along MARTA where there is high

MARTA traffic and currently no shelter.

Along with the design and construction of the shelter(s), AFHA engages the commu-nity around the location where the shelter is installed in order to get community involvement by way of adopting the shelter and becoming the primary point of contact for maintaining the appearance and cleanliness of the site.

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The town of Juan de Acosta is located in the Northwestern part of Atlantico, Colombia.

Large areas of the city struggles with in-creasing water levels during the rainy season, leaving housing areas vulnerable to flooding.The main objective for the project is the concept of habitability, and includes the architectural design of 100 homes and urban design of 4 hectares of land in areas in lower risk of flooding.During the construction of new housing fami-lies were moved to temporary shelters.

Construcción en Bahareque

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SACO Colegio: Albergue temporal por 3 meses

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Samo Solutions is currently collaborating with Architecture for Humanity Toronto.

Our lowcost housing design is a 10m x 9m, one storey housing unit, for Somali IDPs, located in the city of Kismayo, Somalia.

These will be built using Samo Earth Blocks, which will be simple to construct yet creative in design. The project will consist of 150 units that will be used to form a sustainable and healthy community.

The individuals that will be living in these homes will be from refugee camps; where the living conditions are very dangerous and grim.

We want to create a vibrant community that can foster growth and creativity between So-mali IDPs, which is a crucial step in restoring the social fabric of Somalia.

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The existing site is located in the urban area of Sogakope. Sogakope is in southern Ghana near the Volta River. Currently, there are two buildings already on the site. a guest house, the proceeds of which are intended to support the other programs offered at the site, and a small private residence. Like other local sites that have hospitality based operations, the grounds are expected to be enclosed by a concrete security wall in order to create a protected compound for both the children attending the youth center programs and the guests of the existing guest house.

The southern end of the site was selected as the location for the new Youth Center so as to maximize the potential for courtyard and car parking space. The 1,350 s.f. youth center is expected to be a somewhat flexible space that can accommodate a reception area with room to stow back-packs, a 3,000-book capacity library, a computer lab with room for fifteen users, private office space, classroom space, toilet rooms, and some storage.

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Jitegemee’s mission is to empower Kenyan street children through education.

AFHDC worked with this Washington DC & Kenyan based nonprofit, Jitegemee, to build an Education Center in Machakos Kenya. They had outgrown their school and needed a larger facility to meet their needs.

AFHDC organized a 4 day workshop with stakeholders, in Kenya, to develop a program. The project provided jobs for a local Architect, Contractor, and for the Jitegemee vocational students with their trade. It also increased the capacity for Jitegemee’s feeding program, education program, and includes a community library with a large computer room. The grand opening for the first build was in the summer of 2014!

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