Current Projects

Project Name Location Designer Partner OAN SIDAREC Technology and Media Center Mukuru kwa Njenga, Nairobi, Kenya The Global Studio, Planning Systems SIDAREC Kutamba AIDS Orphanage Bikongozo, Rukungiri, Uganda Matt Miller, Design Fellow Kutamba TunaHaki Orphanage Moshi, Tanzania Hollmen Reuter Sandman, Finland with Cohen and Armstrong, USA Tunahaki Foundation Pillaichavady kuppam Community Center Pillaichavady, India Purnima McCutcheon LEAD Football for Hope Centres Various (20 sites) Various streetworldfootball and FIFA Nadukuppam Community Center Nadukuppam, India Purnima McCutcheon PBRC Thirukannur Community Center Thirukannur, India Purnima McCutcheon PBRC & Do Something Navajo Elder Strawbale Housing Navajo Nation Nathaniel Corum ICE Indigenous Community Enterprises Guardian's Institute New Orleans, LA Jens Holm, Rockwell Group Biloxi Model Home Program Biloxi, MS Various Youth With A Vision Children's Residence and Multipurpose Center Dennilton, Limpopo Province, South Africa Christopher Harnish NextAid AMU/City Slicker Farms City Slicker Farms, Oakland CA Michael Jones Myanmar Nyaung Wine, Myanmar CA AfH Bangkok The Association of Southeast Asian Nations or ASEAN Open Architecture Challenge '09 Classrooms around the world CA Sandhya Janardhan Orient Global, Rebuilding Tomorrow, Modular Building Institute Skateistan Kabul, Afghanistan CA Convic Nike Social Innovations/Skateistan Mahiga Rainwater Court Mweiga, Kenya Dick Clark Architecture Nike Social Innovations/Nobelity Project [Back to Top] Completed Projects Project Name Location Designer Partner OAN Calhoun Center for the Arts New Orleans, LA John Dwyer, Shelter Architecture Guillen House New Orleans, LA Loci Architecture Lunawa Community Center Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Susi Platt UN Habitat Pitchandikuklam Bio-Resource Center Pitchandikuklam, India Purnima McCutcheon PBRC Silethukukhanya High School Soccer Field South Africa East Coast Architects Mpilonhle Ambedker Nager Community Center Ambedker Nager, India Purnima McCutcheon LEAD Chennai Fisheries Building Chennai, India McCutcheon, Iype, Menon, Little & Brooks PBRC Soudhanikuppam Community Center Soudhanikuppam, India Purnima McCutcheon LEAD Palmyra Women's Center Auroville, India Eby & Farquer Palmyra Periyar and Lenin Nagar Community Center Lenin Nagar, India Purnima McCutcheon LEAD School Pier Project Lenin Nagar, India McCutcheon, Celis & Jochim LEAD Women's Community Bakeries Pottuvil, Sri Lanka Susi Platt Relief International Al Hidaya School Pottuvil, Sri Lanka Susi Platt Relief International Tambiluvil Girl's Home Tambiluvil, Sri Lanka Susi Platt Friends of Europe Tambiluvil Sports Facility Tambiluvil, Sri Lanka Susi Platt Friends of Europe Thirrukovil School Thirrukovil, Sri Lanka Susi Platt ZOA Refugee Care Tissa Livelihoods Center Tissa, Sri Lanka Susi Platt Yala Foundation Yodakandyia Community Complex Yodakandyia, Sri Lanka Susi Platt UN Habitat Ipuli Center of Excellence Ipuli, Tanzania Gilliland & Tolila Neema Mgana Global Village Shelters Grenada Ferrera Design GR3 Sinhapua School Arugam Bay, Sri Lanka Andersen, Shah & Platt Relief International Tsunami Safe(r) House Dondanduwa, Sri Lanka Harvard Univ. & MIT Prajnopaya Foundation Post Tsunami Housing Kirinda, Sri Lanka Shah & Kirinda UDA Relief International One Foundation: Many Homes Kirinda, Sri Lanka Andersen & Andrew Kirinda UDA Team Al Ashraff School Pottuvil, Sri Lanka Samir Shah UN Habitat Al Absan School Pottuvil, Sri Lanka Andersen & Andrew Relief International Arunadaya School Pottuvil, Sri Lanka Susi Platt Relief International Thampaddai GTMS School Pottuvil, Sri Lanka Susi Platt Relief International Kanagaretnam School Tambiluvil, Sri Lanka Andersen, Shah & Platt Relief International Bam Earthquake Bam, Iran Relief International Relief International Post Tsunami Housing for Kirinda Kirinda, Sri Lanka Siyathemba: Youth Sports Facility and HIV/AIDS Outreach Center South Africa Swee Hong Ng Africa Center for Health and Population Studies Habitat Indonesia Banda Aceh, Indonesia Parker Residence Biloxi, MS Brett Zamore Design Mike's Construction Workshop Biloxi, MS Michael Grote Hands On Preservation Workshops Biloxi, MS various Gulf Coast Community Design Studio Biloxi, MS David Perkes & Mississippi State University. EBCRC Volunteer Housing Project Biloxi, MS various Greater Little Zion Baptist Church New Orleans, LA Tracy Nelson Mona Lisa Saloy House New Orleans, LA Maureen Ness Shotgun Housing Project New Orleans, LA Waveland Laundry Room Waveland, MS University of Minnesota New York Says Thank You Emergency Housing Bay St. Louis, MS World Shelters Buckminster Fuller Institute Fly Residence Biloxi, MS Homeless in Minneapolis Minneapolis, MN University of Minnesota [Back to Top] Competitions and Challenges Competition Name Community Partner Submission Deadline Partner OAN 2009 Open Architecture Challenge tbd tbd tbd Sportables Sao Paulo, Brazil June 30, 2008 Google SketchUp Football for Hope Africa Ongoing FIFA AMD Open Architecture Challenge - Africa Nairobi, Kenya 2008 AMD AMD Open Architecture Challenge - Asia Sanfebagar, Nepal 2008 AMD AMD Open Architecture Challenge - South America Baeza, Ecuador 2008 AMD Siyathemba Kwa Zulu Natal, South Africa 2006 Africa Center for Health and Population Studies Post-earthquake Housing Kashmir, Pakistan 2005 Various OUTREACH: mobile health clinic Africa 2004 Various Transitional Housing Competition Kosovo 1999 Warchild USA

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Workshops

Project Name Location Designer Partner OAN Beautiful Change: Power of Football Zambia Various,Fabrica Institute Grassroots Soccer Intermodal Container Studio Various (Haiti, Myanmar) R. Scott Mitchell, Nathaniel Corum and Cameron Sinclair USC School of Architecture Plastiki Habitation Trans-Pacific Expedition Andrew Dovell, Nathaniel Corum Adventure Ecology Sportables Sao Paulo, Brazil Various Nangi Learning Center Nepal Bezos Scholars Program Aspen Institute & Bezos D'Orville ADA Ramp for FEMA Trailer Biloxi,MS University of Minnesota Pangea Day Cinemas Global University of Minnesota Kids with Cameras School Calcutta, India Montana State University Women's Shelter Memphis, TN 11 Tennessee Design Schools Design Charette for Social Justice Cincinatti, OH various Shelter workshop Tempe, AZ Arizona State University

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