Basket. Hostel & Basketball Arena.

BASKET is a hostel for homeless women and children, where visitors sleep in prefabricated hexagonal-shape units fixed on the exterior facade of the host building. Inside there is a basketball court for all the kids and young adults from around the city to play at. The idea is to connect those who have a home with those who are less fortunate in a game of basketball - because, while in the game, everyone is equal.

HOMED, the modules fixed on facades of the building, is a proposal by Fram Lab architecture studio that capitalised on the vertical land of buildings, whereby the hexagon-shaped housing modules in conjunction with scaffolding create a second layer on top of empty walls. This forms clusters of suspended neighbourhoods of shelters for the city's less fortunate.

NIKE Hypercourts is a great example of business collaborating with community by creating vibrant basketball courts in tough neighbourhoods and giving access to sports to both kids and adults.

By placing a court as cool as the one by NIKE, BASKET becomes a sports arena in Dublin, where basketball Leagues can host their games. This building serves a great social cause and, at the same time, is attractive to the community. This is a place for different society layers to meet and connect.

A large amount of natural light is coming through a metal & glass roof construction.

The building has a commercial kitchen to provide cooked meals for the visitors, 3 class rooms for the educational purposes, a creche, sick-bay, doctor's area, changing rooms, as well as staff area, and a library located in the sleeve, overhanging the facade on the east.

The sleeve, overhanging the east facade, hosts a library, a leisure area, as well as a vertical garden, located on the top level. The entrance to the space is from the recreation space, located on the second floor of the main structure.

The lighting above the court was inspired by The Foo Fighters video "The Pretender".