Award Entries
COF Outreach Village Primary Schools
Studio FH Architects - Uganda
COF Outreach Village Primary School comprises of classrooms, kitchen, toilets, teachers accommodation, play areas and a biogas system to fuel the kitchen. Buildings are based on passive design principles; reflective roofs, shaded windows, cross-ventilation and stack effect. The addition of skylights in vent roofs allow for a well-lit learning environment
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People's Choice Total Votes:
267
The Monolith of Kasulo
Federico Fauli - Democratic Republic of Congo
A Monolith; the concretization of a crafted public space, in an area of leftover. An artisenal public architecture that exploit the landscape and try to help an economically affected community, where rituals define space and where education will rise through the act of making, experiencing, imitating and reconnecting to materiality.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
30
Student Container City
Base Architects and Associates - South Africa
South Africa has a very serious shortage of Suitable housing for students.This Project termed "Student Container city" was conceptualized on a "find a need, fill a need scenario", and put out into the public realm to attract a Government or Public institution who share our concerns in this field.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
37
Voi University
University Of Nairobi - 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
Law On Keyes
Kate Otten Architects - South Africa
Law on Keyes is a commentary on the workspaces where most people spend a significant portion of their lives, and how these can be places that uplift the human spirit and respond positively to their social and urban context.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
1720
Jabali Ridge
Nicholas Plewman Architects and Associates - Tanzania
Jabali Ridge is a sophisticated base from which to explore Ruaha National Park, and will welcome its first guests in September 2017.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
15
Arijiju
Nicholas Plewman Architects and Associates - Kenya
The building behaves as though it has always been on that warm Kenyan hillside with living grassed roofs that move with the air and connect it into the earth and forest. It is there but not there.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
23
Maropeng Experience Lab
Office 24/7 Architecture - South Africa
The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site places the African continent as the birthplace of humankind. Experience Lab is a new exhibition and event space for the Maropeng Museum. This abstracted cave allows an experiential artifice, conflating the spaces of the science laboratory with the sites of paleo-science discoveries.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
3
Bisate Lodge
Nicholas Plewman Architects and Associates - Rwanda
Bisate Lodge is located in the natural amphitheatre of an eroded volcanic cone – the word bisate means ‘pieces’ in Kinyarwanda, describing how the cone was once whole but worn away by natural erosion, the lodge focuses on promoting the conservation of Mountain Gorillas.
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People's Choice Total Votes:
69