Lemba Cultural Village
Competition Enty
The project begins with the blurred boundary between productive and non-productive time — a condition that defines contemporary creative life. Artistic practice and the digital realm both dissolve the separation between work and rest, body and network. The proposal responds by creating a living and learning environment where dwelling, study, and creation coexist and overlap. Distinct programmatic spaces expand into intermediate zones, gradually forming a single, adaptable field of everyday use.
Spatially, the design encourages organic transformation: spaces adjust to emerging needs rather than impose fixed hierarchies. The architecture’s human scale and evolving form aim to embed the proposal naturally within its surroundings, extending existing networks of relation.
Informed by Actor–Network Theory, the project treats human and non-human entities as equal participants in a shared system. A circular geometry — both conceptual and physical — defines the plan, replicated and diffused across zones to create continuity. Orthogonal order provides clarity and efficiency, while loosened edges and in-between pockets introduce informality and exchange.
The result is a synergistic field — structured yet porous — that invites encounter, dialogue, and emotional resonance. It is less a building than a framework for connection: a space where thought, experience, and art are collectively produced.

