Urko Sanchez Architects has designed a concrete compound in Djibouti for the charity SOS Children's Villages International as a home for vulnerable children. The project, completed in 2014, has been nominated for the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. With its open spaces and maze-like network of streets, the SOS Children's Village is designed to foster a sense of community for the orphaned and in-need children who live there. "The compound is a walled quarter, providing intimacy, a sense of community and security, well-adapted to the social and environmental context," said the architecture studio. Homes are arranged to balance the desire for the creation of private space with the need for security and "organic surveillance" by the SOS staff who look after the children.