Rwanda’s new national cricket stadium’s motto is “sports for all.” The stadium has a symbolic significance as a step towards achieving the country’s goal of moving from an agriculture-based economy to development with a local workforce. The stadium located at Kigali welcomes citizens of all ages to play cricket and improve and gain sports and life skills. The project aims to build self-confidence, create new local labour-intensive construction jobs, use local materials, and lower carbon. Thus, most of the materials in the stadium project were sourced locally. Rwanda Cricket Stadium is vital to diversifying the country’s economy, strengthening social cohesion, and promoting the sports for reconciliation after the 1994 Rwandan genocide. 

The project is located in Hormuz Island, Iran, in the Persian Gulf, where most of the population lives off tourism. The Strategic Document for the Spatial Planning of Hormuz in 2019 decided to develop the island as a touristic attraction to both local and foreign tourists from the neighbouring Persian Gulf. The main aim is to build a mutual economic and cultural bond between tourists and the people of Hormuz. Presence in Hormuz consists of a cultural centre called Rong, a Monitoring and Management Centre called Badban, and a cultural residence called Majara. The buildings are spread over an east-west axis in the island’s northern part, where settlement is concentrated. Presence in Hormuz 2 is a project which involves different stakeholders and professionals and was developed with participatory design principles from the beginning to post-occupancy. 

The Chilean government approached ELEMENTAL with the brief of designing affordable social housing on a site historically used for dense informal and illegal housing. The project responds to the Chilean government’s social housing project “Vivienda Social Dinámica sin Deuda (Dynamic Social Housing Without Debt), the goal was to create social housing which increases in value over time, therefore combatting poverty.