Delgersaikhan Davaadorj
Selected Works
Building a community center on a public park raises critical questions about the threshold between public and private spaces. To preserve the public park, the building touches the ground lightly to create a continuous, covered extension of the park, and to provide spaces for people to gather, organize, and create. The structure consists perforated steel beams, steel columns, corrugated metal, and service cores.
Required programs are located and organized around a central skylight, inner and outer circulation of the second floor, including offices, multipurpose rooms, a dining area, coworking spaces, and service rooms. Central opening within inner circulation provides natural light access to the ground floor and engages two different levels.
The outer circulation surrounds the programs and connects users to the neighborhood. Circulation space extends to the perimeter balcony with angled facade system, supported by tension wires, creates a buffer zone. Functioning as a greenhouse, aiding in thermal control while providing space for planting, air circulation and maintenance. This community center offers people spatial opportunity, flexibility and possibility to adapt the building to environmental and to their needs.