RIZAL TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

College of Engineering and Industrial Technology

Department of Architecture

CENTRO ECO-VICO: AN ECO-CIVIC CENTER

“A holistic community hub in Calabarzon”

ABSTRACT

A civic center is a network of spaces or buildings that provide

essential services to a community. It can include everything from government

offices and public meeting spaces to free classes and memorials honoring

important members of the community. Civic centers are tailored to support the

often very specific needs of communities.

This project makes for a case of Civic Centers as venue for improving

quality of life through enriching the locality’s knowledge economy. A well thought-

of Civic Center can host a variety of public services, engage the community in

place making and be utilized as an area for meaningful and productive

exchange. Engendering a knowledge-based economy by creating libraries and

non-formal educational and cultural opportunities, the Civic Center can also be a

focal point in community governance. Through exposing the community to a

culture of learning, exchange and creativity, the Civic Center fulfills its purpose of

influencing how people think, which in the process enhances their individual

lives, and their contribution to the community. It has been said that the green

economy is the next big thing, and the new Civic Center will meet the need for

greener developments by employing a host of sustainable strategies.

This proposal’s components are:

 Administrative Building composing local government civic

agencies satellite offices

 Centers for youth, elderlies, and learning.

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College of Engineering and Industrial Technology

Department of Architecture

 Public areas or spaces for civic and political events and activities

 Sports Center

 Commercial Spaces

 Cultural Facilities

 Recreational parks

The Civic Center seeks to create a typology in which a public building in

a modern urban environment is made to support the community, its welfare, and

liveability. The Civic Center seeks to redefine the sense and quality of city living

by creating a development model that benefits the public in which they are

located.

The proposal is intended to place on the Laguna. The province is found

in the center of calabarzon making it accessible to the whole region. It

could be also transverse to other region due to its proximity to each other.

Its population is the 2nd largest in the calabarzon region in 2015 census

which means the proposed projects will provide them a good facility and

services for the betterment of the community and the project will cater

numerous users. The researcher selected the Calamba, Laguna as his location

for the proposal as it is the Regional Center of the Calabarzon Region. Calamba

City is also a 1st class city in the province of Laguna, Philippines which can

support complex infrastructures like the proposed proposal.

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