Award Entries: Emerging Voices
Fisheries Science Center
Kenya
Based along the second largest fresh water lake in the world, this center for researchers, tourists and locals is meant to work as a platform for training, innovation, entrepreneurship and recruiting talent in support of the local authority’s goal of conservation and management of the regions living marine resource(s).
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People's Choice Total Votes:
26
The Light House
Cape Verde
The Light House is an architectural proposition that uses a palette of light and dark to suggest form, material, substance, and mood. Located on the southern peninsula of Santiago Island, Cape Verde. It investigates the relationship between performance and form, architect and user.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
46
Theatrical Tactics : Terminal 02
South Africa
How do we spatially begin to imagine a world continuously reinvented by technology and where humans can now inhabit multi-dimensional, digital realities simultaneously? Terminal 2 is a satirical narrative on the chaotic nature of social media representation in the city [Johannesburg] and introduces ‘time’ as medium for architectural practice.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
12
Voi University
Kenya
In Kenyas' Vision 2030 the Social pillar sector identifies education and training as a key development area. This involves building world class universities for social , cultural and economic development. This design incorporates the use of brick , the courtyard and sustainable design principles for a design that belongs.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
329
Minazi Social Housing
Rwanda
Architecture that saves.. Architecture is not only an art to appreciate, but also a science to solve problems. From settlement, house to a domestic furniture. this project aims to be a prototype of design suiting sloped site, in turns it explores the way to use traditional Technics creating modern lifestyle
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People's Choice Total Votes:
1615
Kleinsee Renovation Project
South Africa
Since2007 the world's leading diamond company, De Beers, has drastically cut operations at its mines as the precious gems run out .Statistics says the population in the area dwindled from about10000to just under100 today.Our plan is to convert kleinsee from a ghost town into a sustainable city in 10 years
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People's Choice Total Votes:
13
Tropical Building
Rwanda
Our cities are growing at a rapid rate, and with all the construction of buildings going on, we tend to copy more from western cities that are more developed and we loose our identity that we have been given by our nature, focusing on our climate, terrains,etc
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People's Choice Total Votes:
227
Weaving The Communities of Taita Taveta County- Voi Resource Centre
Kenya
The Building design draws its origins from sisal Farming which has long been a major economic activity among members of the Taita Taveta Community. From the Basket weaving, a centre generates a spiral that represents: -growth,continuity,awareness,Balance,Progress,Connection which are the main principles ordering the design.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
26762
Tradition et Modernisation Dans la Conception d'une école à Ganvié
Bénin
Le développement d'une société passe par léducation des enfants et l'épanouissement des habitants
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People's Choice Total Votes:
33115