Community Hub Project located in Treherbert

In this project, the design aims to offer a hub for Welcome to Our Woods and for Treherbert that meets the needs of the community. To help them develop, draw tourists’ attention, and create work possibilities for locals to help them sustain their economy and to unite the people of Treherbert with the landscape, and provide information to visitors. My intention for this project is to keep the transition between the rural and urban parts ongoing with the hub.

The hub will be a gathering place for the community to assemble for their joy, well-being, productivity, growth, and path to the woodlands. In addition, the center captures moments between the transition of seasons and how people and the environment respond to them. Territories alter as a result of these transitions. Due to my understanding of territory, ‘we cross many spatial boundaries every day, traveling from one zone to the next. We live in transition.

Transition is the foundation of architecture. Thresholds are used to break down spatial boundaries to shift from one zone to another (Till Boettger, 2014, page 10) "The goal of this initiative is for the community to enjoy, create, harvest, and learn during the transition, allowing Treherbert to benefit economically, ecologically, intellectually, physically, socially, and sustainably by enabling the community to generate long-term growth.

The transition hub is designed as circular to capture a panoramic view of Treherbert, there is a huge courtyard creating a microclimate effect as a main source of ventilation, in summer it will cause shadow letting rooms be cooler and in winter will let more sunlight heating the rooms and building is the main transition between urban and rural part there is access to the woodlands from the hub

As mentioned in my concept in this building according to the seasonal change people celebrate, learn, create and harvest and according to these changes, territories alter in the building.