Community Centers Are the focal points in our neighborhoods and serve as places where people can connect, foster relationships, build community and enhance their health and wellbeing by offering programs, activities and events (Martin, 2017)1. The project aims to design a new generation a new generation of Community Centers in Bahrain where people needs, interests, issues are all considered aside to the better welcoming architectural design.
Regarding the need of such a project first, there is a need to provide a linking and gathering point in neighborhoods that encourage the communications between people specially in a country that consist of multi-ethic groups2 where it will result in a tolerated society. Secondly, providing a Community Center with different facilities will provide a place for people to spend their free time specially for housewives and their children, retard people and elderly. Finally, this type of building is needed in order to provide the support and development to people through the different aspects such as educational development, professional development and personal development.
The project aims to enhance the social the social interaction between neighbors, to provide support for people in the different educational, health, professional and other aspects in their life.
The main o objectives of the projects include urban aspects - to design place that is welcoming to the pedestrian and attracting to the people from surrounding areas and to serve as a catalyst for urban live within neighborhoods; architectural aspects - to design visually interconnected spaces that will invite people to interact with each other and to provide a building with welcoming facades that encourage people to visit and use; and economical - to decrease the number of unemployed people by helping them to find suitable jobs for them and helping them to be more productive through the lectures and workshops, to promote a more self-sufficient community through lectures where the community members with their different experts benefits each other and to promote financial security to productive families and small business through the mini market.
According to MSLD statistics, in 2017 (19,127) people used and benefited from community centers activities and events. Also (2086) people benefited from consultation services where the total number is 21,213 people. By dividing this number on the total number of community centers which is 10, each community center is approximately serving 2,121.3 user which is only around 10% from the number of users that each community center intended to serve which is 20,000 according to MSLD.
However, the new community center intends to serve a reasonable number of users which is 25% of the intended users by the MSLD (20,000) which is 5,000 users.
