Manda island in Kenya belongs to the Lamu Archipelago – cradle of the Swahili culture. The island was abandoned in the 19th century for lack of freshwater, and recovered in the late 20th as an eco-tourism destination. The brief for Falcon House aske
On the shores of one of the African Great Lakes, a center devoted to new technologies offers training and job opportunities, endeavoring to put a halt to the exodus of young entrepreneurs. Finding inspiration in the region’s abundance of mounds built
The construction of two preschool classrooms completes an educational complex that has managed to thrive in a Kenyan village thanks to successive charity efforts and local initiative. For the raising of the two rectangular volumes, the project involv
Located in the Kenyan village of Kogelo, where Barack Obama’s father was born, the Mama Sarah Obama Legacy Campus will be an educational enclave for a thousand students and preschool-age children in danger of being marginalized. The project presents
One problem with cooperation projects in underdeveloped areas is that design strategies – and also the social and ideological premises that determine them – tend to seem strange to the communities which the buildings are ultimately supposed to serve.
The process of designing and constructing this orphanage in itself served as an instrument for local development, through the passing on of building skills.
