STUDY OF AN INTERNATIONAL DESIGN-BUILD PROJECT: Case of the Centro Cultural Project in Chamanga, Ecuador

The study reports and analyzes Centro Cultural Project, an international design-build project in which universities from U.S., Germany and Japan collaborated with local architects and NGO to build a culture center in Chamanga, Ecuador for a community damaged from the 2016 earthquake. The project is divided into two phases led by two different universities and through comparative analysis focusing on their process, education, construction methods and participation, difficulties to balance architectural education and community engagement were revealed. However, it was also found that introducing a construction method with simplicity and locality may break thought such dilemma of design-build project.