For Southwest Houston Redevelopment Authority in partnership with Connect Community, Non-Profit

Southwest Civic Core Kiosk

The Southwest Civic Core Kiosk is part of Phase II for the Southwest Civic Core Campus with the Civic Core Pavilion as part of Phase I.

The Civic Core project site is a circumstantial center where public and non-profit partners provide health and social services to the community, located within the most diverse and dense part of Houston. Each entity’s struggle for space hinders messaging of services within a fabric that struggles with spatial inequities, greenspace deficit, and a stressed natural environment. This project seeks to transform a 'hard core' parking lot into a thermally optimal 'park core' for Southwest Houston where existing organizations can thrive to support the community for a stronger, equitable, and resilient future. Following outreach efforts, the design of the outdoor spaces and architecture come together to create a campus for providing health, wellness, and education for individuals, families, and seniors. The quarter-mile track shapes space for a performance stage, a civic garage, building pavilions with community and health programs, and an informational kiosk / café for a community where over 50 languages are spoken. The park kiosk supports a language access resource enter, local pop-up refreshments, and a cinema facing the park’s structured hill.