Award Entries: Emerging Voices
Wakaliwood Filming Village
Uganda
Wakaliwood, a local filming studio that thrives on improvised material and content. The project sought to celebrate this through use of improvised material and design techniques while responding to the brief. The site is composed of five different blocks for filming and the site as the final scene
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People's Choice Total Votes:
5
The Embassy of Mantenhas - Eclectic Atlases
Cape Verde
Language and territory are mutually interdependent and irrevocably bound to one another. Language is instrumental in the formation of territory (home); identity (literature) and shared understanding (communication). My project is both another way of speaking about architecture and another architecture of speech.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
14
The Global Institute of Genetics
Cape Verde
The Global Institute of Genetics is located at the first point of known human occupation in Cape Verde: Ribeira Grande. This project explores issues of identity, territory and hybridization in an architectural and landscape proposal, using the fields of biology, microbiology, genetics and material studies as its own base DNA.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
5
The Jukskei River Revival
South Africa
An unprecedented project within the city with the potential to heal on a variety of levels. The project will achieve success through the integration of the city, the environment and the communities through the medium of architecture, participatory art and regenerative green technologies.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
10
African Hub (African Bazzar)
Ethiopia
African hub is an architectural thesis project which tries to create network for different African countries through creating a platform for the African community. The hub (bazaar) is located at the headquarters of African union located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
2543
A Magistrates' Law Court In Korsten, Port Elizabeth; A Postcolonial Exploration of Hybridity and Place-Making
South Africa
This treatise investigates how public architecture can be utilized to support the construction of a multi-cultural identity in the democratic landscape of South Africa. The principle argument is that through the hybridity of cultural signifiers, architecture can provide a counter-narrative to the segregation imposed by colonialist regimes such as Apartheid.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
14
The Kibugambata Community Village
Uganda
The Kibugambata Community Village is a proposed slum upgrading project for an informal settlement in Eastern Jinja. The design, which constitutes of housing clusters and an accompanying Community Center facility, envisions the creation of public spaces that strengthen the social ties within the communities and economically empower the residents.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
10
Travail et Vie
Côte d'Ivoire
La végétation, la lagune, et l'horizon. Le lyrisme apaisanr de M'badon est unique, et sa communauté le renouvelle chaque jour. Alors que l'architecture africaine réclame désormais son caractère identitaire, loin du béton et des parpaings, l'atelier-résidence Attieké est une expérimentation, une étude, dans ce sens celui de l'innovation culturelle.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
5
Architecture of Crisis: Windhoek Communal Borehole Wells
Namibia
Architecture of Crisis is an imaginative yet realistic response to the water crisis Windhoek faces. The intervention proposes practical solutions for the worst times of the crisis, and responds to contemporary urban issues around this scarce resource by integrating into the cities social and infrastructural fabric.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
44