New Town Community Center - The heart of a new regenerating area
This project proposes the architectural design for a New Town Community Center, translating a broader urban strategy into a tangible building. Drawing inspiration from the cultural legacy of Riga’s VEF district, the center is conceived as an inclusive cultural hub that anchors regeneration and catalyses social interaction and creative expression. The building integrates a multifunctional program—Black Box Theatre, flexible exhibition galleries, hands-on maker labs, and music rehearsal rooms—layered to reinforce connectivity, legibility, and dialogue with the surrounding neighbourhood.
The design develops through a sequence of visions from Studio A to Studio C: urban-scale analysis (Studio A) established the cultural axis and strategic opportunities; neighbourhood-scale interventions (Studio B) tested circulation, public spaces, and activation tactics; and the architectural exploration at the VEF site (Studio C) refined form, program and materiality. This layered process ensures strategic urban thinking directly informs spatial arrangements, social sequencing and material choices at building scale.
My work sits at the intersection of cultural architecture and urban regeneration. I combine theoretical frameworks such as Placemaking and Space Syntax with pragmatic sustainability and local-material strategies. Collage, drawing and physical modelling remain central to my process for testing atmosphere, programmatic relationships and human-scale circulation. I aim to deliver multifunctional cultural infrastructure that strengthens civic identity, supports diverse programming, and contributes measurable value to ongoing urban revitalisation.
