Re-ainbow

The district is prone to natural disasters and lacks space for community life. Beside a stadium closed for a decade, the Vietnamese design team built a multipurpose community structure in two categories: fixed elements, a health station, public toilets and service areas, and flexible ones around a central garden.

The flexible part holds a classroom, a performance space, a meeting place, a fitness area and a refreshment tent, changed with movable partitions and enclosing walls, with outdoor areas for volleyball, badminton and other sports.

Old and broken materials, scaffolding pipes, sheet metal, bricks, stone, sanitary ware, tables and chairs, were collected and reused with local people building by hand, making a structure strong enough for heavy storms. Solar energy powers lights and hot water, and rain and grey water are reused. The colours of a rainbow speak of equal value for each.