Award Entries: Speculative
Africa Union Deputy Chairpersons' Residence
Ethiopia
The massing and space layout draws from dominantly used forms, circle and oval, of most African traditional architecture. In doing so, an elliptical form is employed to lend it a contemporary expression and house major functions. White pigmented textured concrete is used to give it a neutral and monolithic appearance.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
30
Eco-Catalyseur Urbain a Charges Maitrisees : Un espace de détente et de loisirs à Kouvé
Togo
Notre projet vise la valorisation de Kouvé par la création d’un bassin, autour et sur lequel s’organisent les activités ludiques et de détentes. Il s’inscrit dans une approche d’attraction touristique et de développement socio-économique et culturel, un projet respectueux de l’environnement (utilisation des matériaux locaux…) et à charges maitrisées.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
29559
Science City Competition
Egypt
Future can’t be predetermined, thus the building can’t be predetermined it only suggest the general framework for possibilities, flexible adoptable spaces connected by variety of routings in a scenographic settings takes people through a journey to the upcoming. And as Knowledge is the basis for existence, atop of the project plinth rise humanity “the existence” as known in its active daily pattern.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
17
Music Box
Ghana
The Genius-Hive Music Box is designed with modularity and flexibility of design. Using a 5m square module as the base unit of design allows for multiplication and expansion along all axis. The beauty of modularity is in the ability to remove or replace a component without affecting the surrounding system.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
20
The Windybrow Heritage House Restoration and New Art Centre
South Africa
The 120 year old restored Windybrow House is now the home to an Arts Centre which plans to expand to create a new collaborative working and performance space. The new design will provide the people of Hillbrow with a Pan-African cultural space,in which the arts and heritage are equally celebrated
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People's Choice Total Votes:
63
Botswana Embassy and Diplomats' Apartment
Ethiopia
Inspired by vernacular architecture and traditional decorated huts of Teswana people, the design seeks to blend domestic spaces and cultural identities with modern design, materials and aesthetics. Hence, creating a building which showcases the traditional art and crafts of the country with refined contemporary interpretation besides enhancing vernacular space conceptions.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
15
Wallacedene
South Africa
Located in the eastern suburb of Wallacedene, an informal housing settlement in Cape Town, the brief was to design a multi-use community centre for both early childhood development and skills development training.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
133
The Lean Cabin
Nigeria
Designed for the urban poor with a deep consideration for value, choice and quality with materials serving multiple purposes to achieve a lean and efficient design. Also, two leaning shipping containers are positioned to achieve a functional, yet eccentric urban style of housing with a net-zero carbon emission footprint.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
9381
Academy of Excellence
Nigeria
The Academy Of Excellence is an educational institution. The client, a large Nigerian bank, needed a training facility in Lagos where they could bring staff from around the country to a single training point.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
1423