The story
Shared meeting and activity space for a vocational village
Within the M2535 Vocational Village, the community center provides the shared civic space that connects water, agriculture, healthcare, training, and enterprise programs. Flexible rooms can host classes, meetings, outreach, and local events, while shaded gathering areas allow activity to extend outdoors in the Dominican climate. The building is positioned to be easy to reach from different parts of the campus and useful even as other phases develop around it.
That adaptability matters in a long-term social-business model, where programs and partners will change but the need for common ground remains. Journeyman International’s design role was to make the center more than leftover multipurpose space: storage, sanitation, circulation, and room proportions are considered so different users can genuinely share it. The center would give participants from across the village a place to meet, learn, and coordinate shared activities.