GATOGETHER – a new community center , Lima / Peru

GATOGETHER – a new community center

Organizers
DNADD Responsive Architecture
dnadd.org/en

Techo, nonprofit organization
www.techo.org

The Competition
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.

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.

Competition Type
Open Competition

Admission Area
International

Participants
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.

Schedule
Early registration - 50 €: 31 July – 02 September 2019
Standard registration - 70 €: 03 September – 08 October 2019
Late registration - 90 €: 09 October – 14 November 2019
End of registrations and material submission: 14 November 2019
Results Announcement: 05 December 2019
Construction: April 2020

Jury
Patrick Dillon, ENSITU, Panama
Annalisa Trentin, University of Bologna, Italy
Julio Salcedo, Scalar Architecture, United States
Fernando Duarte Callizo, TECHO International, Paraguay
Filippo Magni, Iuav, Italy

Prizes
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 Honorable Mentions

More information and documents at
dnadd.org/en/competitions/new-competition