Dans l’optique de résoudre un grand nombre de problème qui mine l’Afrique, nous avons voulu proposer un équipement qui permettrait de résoudre plusieurs problèmes à la fois. Notre choix c’est alors porté sur une ferme péri-urbaine écotouristique, à haute performance énergétique.

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.

Defying gravity, cantilevered spaces. The core energy of the building is to fashion a point of view where one can stand and see it all. Philosophically, it is the merger of geometries, light and volumes that exudes the genius loci without explicitly showing its inner workings.

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?

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.

The maternity waiting village is a prototype strategy which offers a safe, comfortable, and dignified environment for expectant mothers. Taking its inspiration from Malawian vernacular, clustered units create a replicable “village” that features not only sufficient daylighting, ventilation, and hygienic conditions, but a set of familiar community spaces for women.

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.

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.

L’atelier est composé de trois blocs architecturaux en terres avec un enduit en terre rouge mélange d’huile de karité et de l’eau rendant les murs imperméables lors qu’il pleut.