Community Defrag

It is imperative that we rethink the way we create community and, consequently, community spaces. Community should become pervasive, rather than becoming just another fragment of life. This means that community should become an integral part of all the existing fragments within society, and ideally, become an adhesive that holds them together. An architectural response can provide the opportunity for the development of this concept of community through rethinking the arrangement of programs and the design of spaces. Architecture can provide the framework for new social interactions to occur by allowing people to engage new groups of people (bringing disassociated fragments together) and allowing already familiar individuals to engage each other in new ways (creating stronger ties between fragments.)