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Mexico
Caretaking
Amend walls with recycled wine bottles and homemade bio-cement, cultivate community garden and terraces, clean and decorate domestic spaces… This project is rooted in an anonymous building in Mexico City, and seeks an alternative to redefine the beginning and the end of architectural design. It is an attempt to learn from people, from the quotidian, and to provide an alternative literacy for architectural authorship that lives in the acts of otherwise unnoticed, 'everyday' care. This design agency is then captured and transcribed with a series of tools such as photogrammetry, data processing, 3d printing and plotting, etc.
USA
Benchmark School Innovation Lab
The Benchmark School is a private elementary school in Media, Pennsylvania noted for tailoring its curriculum to the learning styles of its students. SHoP was asked to create an innovation laboratory as a small, freestanding addition to an existing campus building. Recognizing that the new structure itself could operate as a teaching tool, SHoP designed it to embody and exhibit many of the processes and techniques that the students themselves discover in their own experimentation with various 3D modeling and printing tools and platforms.
USA
Making Spaces Polling Places
The world watched as Milwaukee residents struggled to express their right to vote when only 5 polling stations of 180 remained open to serve a population of over 600,000 in this COVID-19 pandemic. The locations that remained open were not accessible to all neighborhoods. This is what voter suppression looks like. Communities, especially those without reliable transportation, need polling stations to participate in our democracy. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Milwaukee identified a need and took action. Three club locations have already been approved to serve as polling stations and seek more prior to the November election. The clubs are trusted places for kids, parents, and the community. This civic gesture can be deployed in cities across the nation, and only takes the foresight to look at the current built environment and recognize the spaces already serving communities. Communities can use existing space to remove barriers and make it possible for everyone to vote.