COMMUNAL HEALING A Place for Healing

4 acre plot of land at Tohono O’odham Nation Reservation in Sells, Arizona

October 31, 2022 - December 5, 2022

CMU masonry, Wood, Concrete

Create a health clinic, nutritional education, and communal education spaces to promot social and physical wellness within the local indigenous community.

CONCEPT IMAGES

The building is inspired from the circular geometry that reoccurs within the Tohono O’odham cultureal art, wood carvings, and gatherings. This is informs the form of the ramada and the radial organization of the buildings.

There are 3 seperate buildings as the nation’s people prefer to have separate spaces for different uses, such as the ones detailed in the program, but the ramada acts as means to unify the buildings since the are work together to heal the community. Lastly the buildings rise past the ramada to mimic the landscape and tie the architecture back into nature

OVERHEAD RENDERING

Communal Gathering

Traditional Ramada

Radial Organization

Honoring the Landscape

Basket Weaving Open Kitchen

To help revitalize tradtions, this open communal space can double as a classroom for basket weaving. It also has enough space to showcase past creations that portray the culture’s story.

ORIGINAL PERSPECTIVE SECTION (A)

This perspective section shows the passive cross ventilation through out the buildings and couryard. This also shows the morning sunlight coming through the windows. It showcases the clerestories, private rock gardens, and horizontal louvers. On page 8 an improved version of the section where the concept and programming is emphazied.

As a part of the Nutritional Educational Center, the open kitchen allows for people to learn how to cook in culture’s style.