With S.O.S Children’s Village, Jamshoro, it was our intention to generate architecture with a reinterpretation of traditional architectural organizational principles and techniques, in order to foster a feeling of family and community and create ties between residents.

We used the idea of a street as an informal public space, creating with in the complex a series of pedestrian routes of different scales that flow into each other. This is achieved by incorporating several four family unit mohallas that feed into tertiary routes that act as communal spaces for children of each mohalla. These routes then turn into secondary streets and ultimately a primary ‘green’ route that acts as the main Kutchary (communal space) for the larger complex.

The living units are designed for the hot Sindh summers. It was our intention to reintroduce into the area, the fast disappearing but once proud vernacular tradition of using wind catchers in each family unit for cooling and ventilation purposes, called Hawadan or Manghu.