Estudio Damgo II: A Filipino Design-Build Studio

Estudio Damgo II continues to serve its purpose and beyond to the community. The building is utilized by locales as a venue for meetings that involve community concerns. It also serves as a function hall for small gatherings organized by place's core association.

The venue caters different age group from youngsters to the older ones. For kids, it also serves as a place for Sunday School. Children have their classes with designated teachers for additional academic/religious lessons. Senior Citizen's association also gather together here to conduct activities or sessions for their group.

Local officials make us of the multipurpose hall for guest speakers to conduct lectures or talk for the development of the community.

ED II has been a useful venue to improve the quality of life of people. It serves as a place where growth, development and community involvement takes place.

Setting out to design and build the multipurpose hall for the Bajumpandan village flood survivors three years ago, we discovered that the benefits of Estudio Damgo "dream studio" extend well beyond the built structure.  Estudio Damgo is completing their fourth building, a welcome center located at Dumaguete City's port terminal.  We are delighted to share that Estudio Damgo has received a lot of recognition and support since launching our pilot project in 2012 and it continues to raise the bar in architecture education in the Philippines. 

Our accomplishments include:

• Four community built structures: a daycare for a rural mountain village (2013), a multipurpose hall for flood survivors of two national disasters (2014), a floating guardhouse for the marine sanctuary (2015), and a welcome center at Dumaguete's port ferry terminal (2016).
• 21 architecture graduates empowerd with the skills to become professional leaders
• 3 licensed architects and 13 architecture graduates employed in firms and working towards their license
• 1 TAYO student award
• United Architects of the Philippines Students award and recognition
• 2015 National Winner Eco-Friendly Schools in the Philippines United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development

We couldn't have done it without your support.  The program continues moving forward and we're very close to meeting our funding goal for the mulitpurpose hall.  Today, we've raised $7,494 through GlobalGiving.  Thank you for all your help and sticking with our program over the years.  We only need $2,506 to meet our $10,000 goal.  Please help us reach this goal!