Amandla Edufootball is an international NPO tackling social inequality in South Africa’s townships through education and football development, drawing young people off the streets into a safe environment. The innovative Safe-Hub mode provides a football field and clubhouse that create a safe place for youth to gather, socialise, and learn.

The book approaches everyday issues that every student of architecture has to deal with, in an innovative, interactive and friendly way, guiding them throughout the course, finding out why are they doing Architecture, teaching not just architecture lessons but also life lessons and figuring out what is Architecture all about.

Aldeia Solar creates a settlement for 500 low-income families, ensuring a self-sufficient farming community with public spaces and respecting a landscape with multiple baobabs, sacred trees in Africa. Generated by the landscape, it is energetically autonomous with flexible houses attached to small farms, delivering a better life to many people.

Marked as one of the most densely populated areas of Accra, Jamestown carries a certain feeling of transitoriness. The short film by photographer Julien Lanoo refers back to the traces of our basic daily dimension – a necessity for understanding its notions, vastness and autonomous forms.

A concept for a new affordable housing type that acknowledges both, the past and its traditions and embraces the future needs of a growing, sophisticated middle-class. The design follows the three main concepts learnt from traditional buildings: small, simple and local. Innovation through the use of local technology and materials.

The slum is an embodiment of segregation, of exclusion. It almost turns out to be an adjective for what is wrong in terms of society in Angola. It’s bad to live there. Everything that is wrong is or has been in the there.

Situated in a remote Senegalese village, THREAD offers multiple programs for the community and also fulfills substantial domestic and agricultural water needs. The building’s traditional design relies on local materials and construction techniques with climatic considerations also figure prominently into the building’s form and orientation of the different spaces.

The Mijikenda Cultural Centre was designed to display the culture of the Mijikenda community whilst ensuring harmonious physical and social integration of the outdoor facility and immediate context. As the Mijikenda Kayas are a UNESCO Heritage site, there was need to establish a link between the Mijikenda people and tourists.

The Restoration of the Campanile Building, Port Elizabeth, South Africa.