THE RESULTS
arch out loud hosted the first international architecture competition addressing the global epidemic of human trafficking.
arch out loud challenged designers to reimagine the town square of Tenancingo, Mexico in response to the prevalent issues of sex trafficking existing in the area. Designers explored the catalytic potentials of architectural intervention, inciting positive change through the introduction of a transformative mediascape. The proposed conversions aimed to both educate and empower, reforming entrenched behavior. Proposals from the competition raised the question: How might a modified square reshape communal mindset and motivation, reconstituting the image of a town where exploitation has become normalized?
FIRST PLACE
PARALLEL REALITIES
[ POLITECHNIKA ŚLĄSKA ] - PAWEŁ KUCZYŃSKI MIKOŁAJ CIERLAK WOJCIECH LOSA
GLIWICE, SILESIA, POLAND
GLIWICE, SILESIA, POLAND
Human rights are being violated every day all around the world and many of those violations are driven by market’s demand and supply rule. We build interaction and awareness between those two parallel realities. Mutual contact broadens mind of young people giving them knowledge of alternative reality.
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RUNNER-UP
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
[ FAKULTETA ZA ARHITEKTURO LJUBLJANA ] - NIKOLAJ SALAJ TIN TROHA ŽAN ŠABEDER
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA
Why erect a static structure when the building process is far more transformative and engaging in itself ? A continuously changing environment induces an equally constant transformation in its society as well. A minimal addition creates countless new scenarios in a space left mostly untouched, preserving its familiarity. This superposition of ready-mades integrates into its new context by housing and complementing its existing programmes but remains subversive and transformative through its omnipresent mediascape elements. The constant presence is extended to the entire city by the crane itself, functioning as a symbolic marker.
Always present, far and near. Always active.
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Always present, far and near. Always active.
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SEEING VOICES
ROBERTO ROSALES BARBARA GONZÁLEZ MIRANDA
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
Sex trafficking is based in human objectification. We believe that in order to stop this abuse we need to engage both victims and felons and confront them in a way that celebrates the human aspects of the survivors by empowering them and starting a healing process. We created a program that reactivates community life with green and recreational areas. The lampposts that cover the entirety of the plaza serve also as sensors that capture the surrounding noise and regulate messages displaying in the pavilion’s façade. This phrases are delivered by those affected by exploitation giving them back their humanity.
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YOU ARE EVERYWHERE
SOOHYOUN NAM HYEJIN LEE KYUNGJO CHOI
GYEONGGI, SOUTH KOREA
GYEONGGI, SOUTH KOREA
An Apparatus to integrate Place of Trafficking, and that of Community
In a sad region where acceptance and commitment of human trafficking prevails, restoring sense of community in every space is the key. The breaking of everydayness of vice begins with subversion of ‘business’ area where the unfortunate events occur, and the safe space of community and family. By forming a coexisting condition of the two separate places, one will realize the irrationality of respecting family on one hand, and violating others with the other. To undermine the boundary, we propose a media-wall that works in tandem with surveillance cameras.
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In a sad region where acceptance and commitment of human trafficking prevails, restoring sense of community in every space is the key. The breaking of everydayness of vice begins with subversion of ‘business’ area where the unfortunate events occur, and the safe space of community and family. By forming a coexisting condition of the two separate places, one will realize the irrationality of respecting family on one hand, and violating others with the other. To undermine the boundary, we propose a media-wall that works in tandem with surveillance cameras.
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HONORABLE MENTIONS
THE UNSEEN
CHUNG YAN LI CHEUK HIN LAM HONG KONG, CHINA Locating at the highest and the central point of the Tenancigo City, this project explores a way to combat human trafficking through architectural intervention while utilizing the potentials of media to educate the people there. A strong contrast of spatial experience is created through open ground space, which accommodates public program with high accessibility to gather people, and the enclosed underground space. The underground space starts with narrow tunnel which creates a sad atmosphere but people will eventually arrive the media ball in a large and open educational room which creates a joyful and relaxing feeling. This contrast is to remind people the importance of freedom and prevent immature children from being lured to the trafficking industry. At night, the media balls would rise up from the underground to the air, which allows the maximum amount of people to be alerted and educated by utilizing the geographical context of the square. The change of relaxing atmosphere in ground to the serious atmosphere underground resonates with the joy brought by the market place and carnivals to the city at the surface level but the harm caused by human trafficking to the city deep the root.
AN ANALOGOUS THEATER
PAUL MOSLEY JUAN SUAREZ CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, UNITED STATES The architecture of the city square is a medium for the public to interface with its collective conscience. Architecture’s power lies in its capacity to be both monument and effigy; cultural accountability confronts displays of monumentality. The traffickers’ sordid monuments are their mansions, absent from the city square. They are impervious to public awareness. Everyone knows. We propose an architectural masquerade that reenacts the disjointed, bricolaged forms of the traffickers’ mansions as constructed characters, contained within a peristyle. This hubristic commemoration subjects them to public observance, accelerating their exposure to the city’s collective conscience.
TENANCINGO CENTRAL MEDIA HUB
ANDREW LE ZI LOW COPENHAGEN, DENMARK Our project aims to provide a new mediascape and hub that enables awareness to be spread locally and internationally by repurposing the site into an educational tourism hub. The project does this by revealing and disrupting the invisible lines and notions of human trafficking, making them physical and apparent. TCMH is integrated with extensive educational programs, knowledge museum and an underground train network connecting to the major distributing cities of human trafficking from Tenancingo, allowing us to draw in the customers and disrupt the industry from these locations. Beginning a thought process to alter their mindset from both atop and beneath the site.
HACKING THE SEX TRAFFICKING NETWORK
FERNANDO MARÍN JENNIFER LEVY MARTÍN GÓMEZ MAGDALENA LARRAÍN SANTIAGO, CHILE Hacking the sex trafficking network starts from the idea of a digital media as systems of information exchange and the dissemination of knowledge. Starting from the human trafficking network used by the “padrotes” the proposal transforms and uses information to digitally transmit about the topic. Thus, based on digital information, show the problem worldwide and generate a collective consciousness. Hacking the sex trafficking network seeks to regenerate the square so that the information is disseminated to the rest of the world. The strategy proposes to generate global evidence about the crime and enhance the activity of the square.
SHE REFLECTS US
KLAUS BENKEL FLORENCIA SANTUBER PEDRO TORO RODRIGO COLINA SANTIAGO, CHILI Woman, reflection of a society, woman defined by acts, woman who is makeup of carnivals or rain, strong and fragile woman, dual woman, woman curves. The proposal is a tool of social exploration, where the reflections are addressed by the exercise of recognizing. A self-supporting curve cover, where its spatiality conditions different spatial scales and at the same time gives freedom in its use, welcoming the fair, carnival or any citizen act, and at the same time seeks to be a milestone, proposing a red color, a reflective texture and a Large scale that differs from the context.
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THE COCOON
LATIFA ALKHAYAT MICHELLE SIN SOMERSET, UK Human trafficking is a scare to the soul. Where there is a tear, healing is needed. The Cocoon is woven by fragile victims’ hands; through weaving, a therapeutic activity, they find an outlet to express emotions, to find peace in this safe haven. The weavers speak into the threads as they weave, their stories are then shared to the people who shine light upon their creation. As The Cocoon eventually grows, it becomes a testimony of healing souls; and the lights shinning from within will be a declaration of the people’s willingness to counter against utter darkness of human trafficking.
EVERY LITTLE MAKES
ZIYUN GAO SIYUN ZHENG SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA The darkest Inferno is where everyone choose to ignore the darkness.
This mediascape with an ever-changing appearance exposes the wound and shows the communities the possibility of making a change. Every lost girl makes the situation worse. Every positive gesture makes the beacon brighter. The warm light, as a consequence of people’s positive engagement happens during the day, sentinelling Tenancingo and fighting against those nasty affairs happening in the darkness, with a high profile. As such, the mediascape become borderless. The information that Tenancingo is becoming ‘neighbourhood watched’ reaches every corner of this area and continuously rehabilitates and gives hope. 
ITS ABOUT GIVING LIGHT TO THE PROBLEM. PROVIDE VOICE TO THE UNSEEN
RAISSA GATTERA THAIS FREITAS LETÍCIA SITTA MARINA VIOLIN CAMPINAS, BRAZIL Architecture is not only built with stone and steel. Between so many tons of weight, its voids are always anchored in a story. To transform the place and life of those who live there, the project delineates three moments: denunciation, visibility and empowerment, creating a line that responds to the longings of understanding this intervention as a present act. Advertising, educating and empowering demand a process that must occur in a sensible and procedural way. It’s a project about the unsustainable weight of the sounds of silence. It’s the power of trace, capable of reaching the soul and human heart.
ALTO AL TRAFICO HUMANO
BENJAMIN PACHECO ROBLES ROJIN HASHTROODI ALLEN YODER COLUMBUS, OHIO, UNITED STATES Awareness can free the lives of a marginalized population. Our intervention is an experience taking one on a metaphysical journey. From the familiar historical square down to the pits of the disenfranchised to a staircase directing you towards the freedom of the heavens. A journey to celebrate the paradox and the hope to create a shift in perception starting with the individual and transcending through the community.
THE MASK OF THE MASSES
CHEE KIN LOOI SINGAPORE The mediascape is an assemblage of mass wooden pallets. Aided with hoisting equipments, the low-tech installation enables local community to play active roles in the creation process which not only educate but empower them to act. More importantly, it begins to proliferate an impression of collective unity in joining forces against human trafficking.
Conceived to challenge the entrenched normalcy both physically and psychologically. From subverting normalized spatial conditions of Tenancingo Square to projecting an overwhelming scale, strength and unity of masses, the mediascape is intended to usher a new "mask" of hope ,courage and confidence to combat against prevailing condition. |
DIRECTORS'CHOICE
CARNIVAL CONFESSIONAL
MARK BERLINRUT AGATHE CECCALDI JONATHAN VEGA NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES The challenge of media is to break the boundary of the screen, we attempted here to open a new door with a multi-sensory experiment embedded within the local culture. Tenancingo Carnival is the chance to open a dialogue between outsiders and locals for communication and positive change. Our installation of dancing feathers around the local church is inspired by the traditional Carnival huehue dancer costumes. Bowing down and surrounding a person, offering a lush enclosure for a brief moment of privacy, it creates a unique room for capturing and sharing selfies with friend or if any signs of enslavement offers help.
MODULATING MASCARAS
VAMSI KRISHNA VEMURI MADHUMATHI SHANKAR JAYAKAR PRIYADARSHAN SADISH KUMAR FRANKFURT, GERMANY Towards a New Light
The carnival of masks presents the disguised festivity of Tenancingo, while the prevalent illicit realities are deeply embedded within the roots. Modulating mascaras is an amalgamation of masks standing tall in the urban fabric, expositing the beautiful yet faulty scarred realities of their society. The built-space is monumental as the Teotihuacan pyramids, co-existing in two realities of the apparent defaced real and the exquisite paradise of the augmented digital. The mascaras are constantly in the flux, giving people the choice to endure the tarnished present or to heal their disfigurations by modulating the mascaras in the transcending digital reality. |
SONAR
ALAN WAXMAN ALEXIS IERIDES ARMINA PILAV DELFT, NETHERLANDS Sonar re-appropriates the transformation of a woman's body in becoming a sex worker as she goes from individual seduced by language of, ‘amor’, ‘la vita nuova’, and ‘dinero,’ into an international person operating for the global public. Through intimate, theatrical, and cosmological scales the main Tenancingo square features narratives on a massive digital tensegrity platform. Sonar is a grand sanctuary; a place for prayer, connection, sharing, mourning, and international fame. The global landscape of sex is transposed onto the square. At its heart, is the hidden shrine, filled with flowers and stories, and human beings.
BEASTLINESS AND RELIGION
TIANXIN ZHU LIUXI WEI NANJING, CHINA Why the human trafficking occurs? Pimps benefit from it, satifying the desire for money. Whoremasters satify their sexual desires. Those are the so-called beastliness which is a dirty way to surpass the secular world. And we want to guide them to the other way: religion.
The proposed competition site lies adjacent to the church (Parroquia de San Miguel Arcangel). The existence of the church is ironic in the social environment.The religion is ‘an empty suit’. Our design is to present the irony fact, strengthen the power of religion and call for a transformation from beastliness to divinity. |
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