Award Entries: Speculative
Kasbah of Knowledge - Middle school
Tarik Zoubdi ET Mounir Benchekroun Architects - Morocco
"The kasba of knowledge" is a college with architectural vocabulary inspired by the Moroccan heritage. Protected by a "wall" of ocher concrete and wrapped in a white "moucharabieh", this space aims to create an propitious atmosphere to learning by stimulating curiosity and the appetite for discovery.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
9
The Ulwazi Community Curtain
The Maak - South Africa
By rethinking the architectural process, the Community Curtain hopes to set a new precedent for how communities, architects, and architecture can work together to help deliver more dynamic and socially sustainable public infrastructure in low income areas.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
43
Blurring Lines : Nima and Maamobi
Modula Grup - Ghana
The project questions the clogged watershed systems of the Nima Gutter which runs through the vibrant Nima and Maamobi informal districts, dividing the community with a physical boundary. Can this watershed be restored while incorporating existing socio-cultural activities and dynamic spatial transformation as acceptable ingredients for a design intervention?
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People's Choice Total Votes:
35
Kigali Genocide Memorial - African Center for Peace
Mass Design Group - Rwanda
For the twentieth anniversary of the genocide, Aegis Trust, John McAslan + Partners, and MASS collaborated on a design for the new archives at the Kigali Genocide Memorial. The design features a testimonial space to record accounts of the genocide, but also provides spaces for reflection, education, exhibition, and learning.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
18
Oda House
Edwin Seda - Kenya
Oda House is a house half inside and half out, designed to be spatially dynamic and in a constant state of transparency, a somewhat visual flux. It is always looking out, perhaps in an attempt to embrace the environment into which it has been carved out of.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
7989
Sustainable Learning Communities - One Heart Foundation Eco Village
Traffic - Kenya
The project demonstrate the impact of design in the quality of life for orphaned children or children from difficult backgrounds of poverty and abuse. The proposal embraces the idea of a learning community, exploring the role of architecture in facilitating interaction and reflection through spatial diversity in learning environments.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
84
Akili Tower
Richard Keep Architects - Kenya
Akili Tower is a proposed 30 storey mixed use tower located on he prow of Upper Hill overlooking Nairobi.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
5
Greening Havana Primary School
Kamau Architects and Associates - Namibia
The New Havana Primary School’s proposal was aimed at designing environmentally sustainable buildings, that would benefit the Havana community, Windhoek. By applying all three of Vitruvian principles of Architecture: durability, utility and beauty, a form that contributes positively to the learning environment is achieved and exciting spaces are created.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
67
Malamulele Council Building
Boogertman and Partners Architects - South Africa
Malamulele Council Building strives to bridge formal programme, place-driven informal contextual identity through prominent civic space for the community. Boundaries between rational and organic, internal and external spaces are blurred in the exploration of new typology that celebrates biophilic interstitial spaces while responding to unique narratives of the place.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
36