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Ammodo Architecture, Polonceaukade 5-7, Amsterdam (2026)

20/05/2026

Plan Update – Ammodo Architecture Award for Local Scale 2025!⁠ Español en el primer comentario.⁠
The Muyuna 2026 stage is already taking shape in Belén. Over the past few days, the team has been working among boats, piles, timber and water, combining local experience in building under these conditions with the design developed for this year’s edition.⁠
This year, for the first time, They also have a woman builder as part of the construction team, an important step in a field that is still largely male-dominated.⁠
In just a few days, the floating screenings will begin. This year’s stage construction is made possible by the support of Ammodo Architecture.⁠
Find out more about the project by .pe and more about the Ammodo Architecture Award 2025 on our website – follow the link in bio.⁠
Thanks to our network and to the advisory committee Joumana El Zein Khoury, Andrés Jaque, Anupama Kundoo, Floris Alkemade, Mariam Issoufou, and Loreta Castro Reguera.⁠
📷 1-7 : Alfonso Silva Santisteban⁠
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08/05/2026

Project: Play–Pause–Ponder⁠
Architecture: WM creative studio
Location: Karachi, Pakistan⁠
Site area: 30 m²⁠
Ammodo Architecture Award for local scale 2025⁠
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Located in Taiser Town, Karachi, Play–Pause–Ponder is an action-based research and design project initiated by WM Re-Lab in 2023. Developed through a participatory process with local residents, it responds to the absence of safe, playful spaces for children in marginalized communities. Originally part of an academic residency titled Critical Futures, the project redirected its exhibition budget to build a real, functional installation on the ground, turning an artistic inquiry into an act of civic engagement.⁠
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The team identified play as a critical need in informal settlements, where open spaces are scarce and public parks are often inaccessible or misused. Working closely with local representatives, craftsmen and students, they developed a modular, plug-and-play structure that could be built quickly and replicated elsewhere. A social worker specializing in women’s studies ensured that gendered spatial concerns – privacy, safety, visibility – were addressed, while children participated through drawing and theatre workshops that informed the design’s form and colour.⁠
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The project is awarded in the Local Scale category for bringing moments of joy and play to flood-affected children in rural Pakistan through a spontaneous, community-driven intervention. Awarded for its sincerity, attention to detail and poetic use of simple materials, the project stands as a hopeful act of resilience and creativity – transforming public space into a place for healing, play and social connection.⁠
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Find out more about the project by and more about the Ammodo Architecture Award 2025 on our website – follow the link in bio.⁠
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Thanks to the advisory committee Joumana El Zein Khoury, Andrés Jaque, Anupama Kundoo, Floris Alkemade, Mariam Issoufou, and Loreta Castro Reguera.⁠
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📷1-8: WM Creative Studio Relab⁠
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23/04/2026

Project: Rural primary school, Mandi
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Location: Mandi, India
Site area: 576 m²
Ammodo Architecture Award for local scale 2025

In Kuklah village, in the Himalayan district of Mandi, the original primary school was destroyed by landslides in 2023, leaving children without a safe place to learn. Designed by Dhammada Collective and implemented by SEEDS, the reconstruction became more than a replacement building. Conceived as a prototype for resilient rural education, it adapts to local conditions, honours community knowledge and offers a replicable model for similar fragile landscapes. The aim was to build minimally yet meaningfully – using what already existed and leaving room for the school to evolve as the community changes.

The process began with dialogue. Dhammada Collective conducted workshops with teachers, community leaders and organized a drawing competition for the children to imagine their ideal school in the village. Their sketches revealed clear desires: sunlight, safe outdoor play, open steps for gathering. These became the design’s foundation. The architects learned that resilience was not only structural but social – a matter of creating spaces that felt open, welcoming and shared.

The project is awarded in the Local Scale category because it transforms post-disaster reconstruction into a thoughtful, community-led opportunity for resilient learning. Built after devastating landslides in Himachal Pradesh, the school shows how architecture can restore, empower and grow with its community. With shared spaces that invite play and learning, this modest structure now serves as a model for how architecture can create belonging and dignity in vulnerable conditions.

Find out more about the project by and more about the Ammodo Architecture Award 2025 on our website – link in bio.

Thanks to our ambassador and the advisory committee Joumana El Zein Khoury, Andrés Jaque, Anupama Kundoo, Floris Alkemade, Mariam Issoufou, and Loreta Castro Reguera.

📷1-5: Nipun Prabhakar, 6: Dhammada Collective

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21/04/2026

Meet our ambassador, Naomi Hoogervorst, architect, Urban Lab lead at UN-HABITAT⁠
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Currently based in Nairobi, Kenya, where she is a programme management officer at UN-Habitat, the programme of the United Nations focusing on social and sustainable urban development. She has managed the Global Future Cities Programme at UN-Habitat’s Urban Lab, supporting cities in developing 30 projects on urban resilience, planning and mobility, including the development on a SDG Tool to integrate SDGs in project design. Before joining UN-Habitat’s headquarters, she has been working on various urban programme and projects for, amongst others, Dok Architects, The International New Town Institute, DASUDA, Placemakers and UN-Habitat Afghanistan.⁠
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You can learn more about her work and read about the Ammodo Architecture Awards on our website – follow the link in bio.⁠
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📷 1 & 3: Studio Tajareb⁠
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16/04/2026

Project: The Slovo Hall Project⁠
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Location: Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa⁠
Site area: 1500 m²⁠
Ammodo Architecture Award for local scale 2025⁠
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Located in Slovo Park, Johannesburg, The Slovo Hall Project is the result of more than 15 years of collaboration between the Slovo Park Community Development Forum (SPCDF) and 1to1 – Agency of Engagement. What began as a modest spatial justice initiative has evolved into a key social and political space for the settlement, which has long been engaged in a 25-year legal struggle for housing and infrastructure rights. The hall stands as both a symbol of that struggle and a practical tool for community self-organization.⁠
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The project repurposes an abandoned 1994 voting structure – an act of adaptive reuse that connects historical memory to new civic purpose. Over time, residents have transformed the hall into a multi-functional public space housing a meeting hall, crèche, clinic, civic square and safe play area. It also serves as a hub for youth programmes, after-school education, public health outreach and skills development. Each addition has emerged from within the community itself, through incremental construction guided by necessity and local expertise rather than external design imposition.⁠
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The project is awarded in the Local Scale category for its deeply community-driven approach to upgrading informal settlements. By reclaiming a neglected space that might otherwise have remained under institutional control, the project redefines civic architecture from the ground up, with residents leading every phase of its transformation. Architecturally, it is highly responsive to the local climate and context, employing strategies of ventilation, shading and material reuse to create a comfortable, adaptable and dignified public environment.⁠
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Find out more about the project by and more about the Ammodo Architecture Award 2025 on our website – follow the link in bio.⁠
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📷1-6: 1to1- Agency of Engagement⁠
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07/04/2026

Project: Magdy El Khouly Street Renovation⁠
Design: AHS CxA
Location: Ezbet Khairallah, Cairo, Egypt⁠
Site area: 350 m²⁠
Ammodo Architecture Award for local scale 2025⁠
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Located in Ezbet Khairallah, an informal settlement home to nearly one million residents, the project addresses urban and social challenges at their most local level. The area has long suffered from the absence of public amenities, unplanned construction and a lack of safe spaces for play or gathering. Building on the success of the Dawar El Ezba Cultural Center – an earlier initiative that introduced a cultural and educational hub to the neighbourhood in 2019 – this project deepens trust between the architects and residents, evolving into a broader process of participatory urban renewal.⁠
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The Magdy El Khouly Street Renovation applies principles of urban acupuncture, using targeted, low-cost design actions to catalyse broader social and spatial change. Rather than pursuing large-scale demolition or relocation, the project focuses on improving what already exists – enhancing liveability through colour, texture, shade and circulation. Residents were directly involved in decision-making through informal meetings, design workshops and collaborative construction. Their aspirations shaped the scope of the work: cleaner, safer streets; better access to public facilities; and spaces where people, especially women and children, could feel secure and represented.⁠
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The project is awarded in the Local Scale category for restoring dignity and public life in one of Cairo’s most underserved neighbourhoods. Through small-scale, strategic interventions, the project transforms a neglected urban space into an inclusive and vibrant environment – particularly for women and children – without displacement or demolition.⁠
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Find out more about the project by .cxa and more about the Ammodo Architecture Award 2025 on our website – follow the link in bio.⁠
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📷1-6: Ahmed Hossam Saafan ⁠
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02/04/2026

Project: Bankatta Community Initiative, Madi Valley⁠
Architecture: Sustainable Mountain Architecture
Location: Chitwan District, Nepal⁠
Site area: 400 m²⁠
Ammodo Architecture Award for local scale 2025⁠
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The remote Madi Valley of southern Nepal is surrounded on three sides by Chitwan National Park – a UNESCO World Heritage Site home to rhinos, elephants, tigers and hundreds of bird species. The village of Bankatta is reachable only by crossing the National Park and a flood-prone riverine landscape. Bankatta is home to the Bot people, with their own language and cuisine, who have long inhabited this region, but migration to Indian cities and the Gulf had begun to fragment their social and cultural life.⁠
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The Bankatta Community Initiative set out to reverse this trend through community-driven eco-tourism and sustainable design. Led by the Bankatta Women Committee in collaboration with Sustainable Mountain Architecture (SMA) and the platform Connecting Spaces, the project created a multipurpose community hall and two eco-cottages as part of a regenerative village model known as Madi Eco-Village. Rather than importing outside expertise, the team built with and for the community, combining vernacular wisdom, local materials and collective labour.⁠
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The project is awarded in the Local Scale category for its inclusive and self-organized approach to socially and ecologically grounded architecture with the Bot community in Nepal. What began as a small, women-led effort has become a living example of how design can build self-reliance and pride of place. Integrating environmental conditions and local resources, the project resists seasonal flooding, revives traditional knowledge and strengthens a community’s ability to shape its own future.⁠
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Find out more about the project by .nepal and more about the Ammodo Architecture Award 2025 on our website – follow the link in bio.⁠
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📷1&4: Mohit Maharjan, 2: Alisha Adhikari, 3&5-8: Sustainable Mountain Architecture⁠
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31/03/2026

Project: Territorio de los saberes – Mencoriari⁠
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Location: Central Peruvian Amazon, Peru⁠
Building area: 91 m²⁠
Ammodo Architecture Award for social engagement 2025⁠
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Territorio de los Saberes is an architectural and pedagogical initiative that transforms education by situating it within the forest. The project combines an open classroom and a medicinal plant laboratory with a teaching model that bridges Indigenous knowledge and the national curriculum.⁠
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Located in the Nomatsigenga community of Mencoriari in Peru's central Amazon, it serves 88 students, seven teachers and over 480 community members. Like many communities in the region, Mencoriari has faced legacies of neglect, conflict and extractive activity. Schools in such contexts often fail to reflect cultural identity or local knowledge systems. This project addresses this imbalance by rooting education in place, reconnecting young people to ancestral practices, and validating their languages, rituals and ecological knowledge.⁠
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The project is awarded in the Social Engagement category because it redefines education as an open, participatory and place-based practice rooted in Indigenous knowledge and local ecologies. It brings the school to the people, opening learning spaces directly into the forest, both physically and culturally. Through a phased process of architecture, pedagogy and mobility, it builds a long-term platform for community-driven education and cultural resilience. The simple, adaptable architecture is made largely from local materials and designed to evolve over time. The award recognizes not only the building, but also the ongoing process around it, a true ‘territory of knowledge’ growing into a forest of shared futures.⁠
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Find out more about the project by and more about the Ammodo Architecture Award 2025 on our website – follow the link in bio.⁠
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📷1-7: Eleazar Cuadros, 8-11: ⁠
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26/03/2026

Project: Adobe Vault⁠
Architecture: .esfahk⁠
Location: South Khorasan province, Iran⁠
Site area: 425 m²⁠
Ammodo Architecture Award for local scale 2025⁠
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In the historical village of Esfahk, in Iran’s South Khorasan province, Adobe Vault reimagines ancient earthen building traditions for the present. The project is part of a long-term initiative by the Esfahk Mud Center, founded in 2015 to study and revive local clay and adobe techniques. Built by volunteers from Iran and abroad, the vault will serve as a concert and gathering space, reviving Do-Tar music – a folk tradition once banned – and reuniting the community through shared rituals of sound and space. When completed, Adobe Vault will be the largest pure-earth structure of its kind in the world.⁠
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The project grew out of years of research and workshops organized by the Esfahk Mud Center, asking how a contemporary design can emerge from traditional knowledge. The construction process brings together local craftspeople skilled in adobe techniques and volunteers with architectural training. This exchange of practical and academic knowledge enriches both sides: villagers refine their inherited skills through scientific insight, while architects rediscover the tactile and communal nature of building with earth.⁠
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The project is awarded in the Local Scale category for the thoughtful way it revives traditional clay and mud construction through local knowledge, while creating a vibrant social and cultural gathering space. The vault reconnects architecture with the material intelligence of place, bridging the landscape and the village. By combining craftsmanship, ecology and community, it becomes both a cultural revival and a spatial statement.⁠
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Find out more about the project by .esfahk and more about the Ammodo Architecture Award 2025 on our website – follow the link in bio.⁠
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Thanks to our network and the advisory committee Joumana El Zein Khoury, Andrés Jaque, Anupama Kundoo, Floris Alkemade, Mariam Issoufou, and Loreta Castro Reguera.⁠
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📷1-6: Esfahk Mud Center⁠
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19/03/2026

Project: Machan_Korail Community Platform⁠
Architecture: Paraa
Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh⁠
Building area: 332 m²⁠
Ammodo Architecture Award for social engagement 2025⁠
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Machan is part of the wider Korail: City of Culture initiative, which promotes art and participation as tools for community building. Developed by the Dhaka-based multidisciplinary design organization Paraa, the project grew from long-term collaboration with residents, youth groups and community leaders. The settlement, home to over 80,000 people, sits beside Dhaka’s affluent neighbourhoods of Banani and Gulshan-Baridhara. Many residents work in waste recycling, street vending or domestic labour for the surrounding city. Korail’s contribution to Dhaka’s cultural life is rarely recognized, but Machan challenges that imbalance by placing creativity, learning and care at the centre of civic life.⁠
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Architecturally, the project reinterprets the traditional Bengali pavilion as a light, permanent structure – robust yet porous, civic yet playful. A simple concrete frame supports two levels designed for openness and flexibility. On the ground floor, two semi-enclosed rooms host workshops, exhibitions and meetings. Large folding doors merge them into one shaded space facing the playground. A wide stair doubles as seating, turning circulation into an amphitheatre for performances and assemblies. The brick-paved ground absorbs heat and is easy to maintain.⁠
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The project is awarded in the Social Engagement category for its powerful simplicity and subtle use of architecture, intervening only where truly needed. Built collaboratively with residents of Korail, Machan transforms a former dumping ground into a vibrant cultural centre. The project shows how young, diverse teams can create spaces that are both socially meaningful and architecturally restrained.⁠
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Find out more about the project by and more about the Ammodo Architecture Award 2025 on our website – follow the link in bio.⁠
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