METHODOLOGY FOR THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN OF A SOCIAL ASSISTANCE CENTER

Abstract

Urban facilities are the set of buildings and installations that house services aimed at meeting the basic needs of a population. They are architectural complexes designed and built in the fields of health, education, commerce, administrative and financial activities, security, recreational activities, social assistance, among others. The architectural projection of urban facilities requires the integration of a methodology that considers the social context, emerging issues, environmental conditions, and other elements, which results in a good architectural project and the evolution of the traditional way of integrating spatial design. In the academic training context, seventh-semester students (class of 2024A) of the Design Engineering program at the Technological University of the Mixteca, through the course Architectural Project II and guided by the course’s main instructor and first author of this article, developed a Methodology for the Design of a Social Assistance Center. This center was planned for a medium-sized city (Huajuapan de León, Oaxaca – 75,000 inhabitants), integrating nine architectural design proposals for Social Assistance Centers, considering the basic and emerging needs of the various social groups to be served, and incorporating design aspects such as the natural and built environment, architectural style, and design concept, linking and reinforcing it with the creative diversity of each working team.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56238/sevened2025.036-109