The story
A prefabricated center for rebuilding shared life after conflict.
In Mutatá, PASO Colombia works with people navigating reintegration after armed conflict and displacement. The community-center proposal uses Bay-Build’s prefabricated framing system to create adaptable housing and public facilities that can be assembled efficiently and adjusted as needs change. Modularity is useful here not as an aesthetic but as a way to phase construction, repeat components, and support local agricultural development without waiting for one large finished complex.
Shared rooms provide space for meetings, training, enterprise, and coordination, while residential elements support the stability required for people to rebuild daily routines. Journeyman International’s role was to help the system respond to this specific community rather than drop a universal kit onto the land. Adaptable spaces would let locally led programs change over time and support reintegration through shared work and community activities.