Kompian hospital
Cultural Centre
Anganwadi
Disability day center
Vulnerability and risk: rebuilding communities after disaster
Buiding Communities IV
Educational centre
Restoring and upgrading the old town of Hebron
Dental clinic and blood bank
Hosting city Porto: Call for Ideas
Avieira’s culture legacy
Masterplan of St Francis Javier Hospital Complex
Hosting and social inclusion of migrants in Europe (Youth Programme)
School and housing
Building the Guambian Community
Rehabilitation of the historical and cultural heritage of an oasis
Solidarity Project
Cultural Centre
Educational support centre
Public School
Projet Gabions méditerranée
Earthquake-resistant Housing
Solar Energy for Rural Development
Prison alternatives initiative
Download
Children and staff accomodation
Earth construction and community project
The key RHS Chelsea flower show garden
Veterinary school in saharawi refugee camp
Building with people
Sustainable development
Vulnerability and risk workshop
Building communities III
Center for children and juveniles
Rural housing
Day care center for drugs addicts
Primary school
Nursery school
Re-cover(y)
Design primer competition for an aids orphanage
Health Care Center
Reconstruction and enlargement of a new day-hospital psychiatric clinic
Education Center for fine arts and handcrafts Desiré Somé
Building houses in recovered land
Underground carpark upgrade into arts-space
Building communities I
New hosting model for migrants and refugees center
Construction of a new surgical ward in St Francis Javier Hospital
Shelter and formation centre for Paysans Sans Frontières
Trebilhadouro
Primary school in Naipa
Period:
2007-2008 (phase 1) 01/2009 – 2009 (phase 2)
Cause:
International cooperation
Categories:
Member:
Technology & material:
Lateritic stone, adobe bricks
Partners:
[Petit à Petit Association->www.petitapetit.org]
Donor:
[Generalitat de Catalunya->www.gencat.cat], [Fundación Caja Arquitectos->www.arquia.es/fundacion/]
A series of works have been carried out in four hamlets in Karangasso-Vigué rural zone, in the South part of Burkina Faso (one of the world’s poorest countries) to create or complement 4 primary public schools. This project was realized together with a local association, Petit à Petit, and with school directors of this Burkina Faso zone, who have been developing in the last few years a reflection about the “ideal school”. This participative work contributed to enrich the architectonic proposal, improving teaching conditions and allowing the creation of new collective spaces for the village.
Each school is made of 3 classrooms, a library, teacher’s dwellings, school kitchen gardens, and outdoor spaces with outdoor blackboards and paillotes (lightweight construction made of timber and straw resting on metallic pillars that serves as a meeting place for the people of the township, as well as a space for a temporary dining room and shelter for the children).
All of them have been executed with low environmental impact techniques. Local resources were used in a broad process of community participation, accomplished with the support of a network of local craftsmen who contributed to train people from the villages. Around 200 persons, women and men, have participated in the work. A mixed construction was chosen for the classrooms, with metallic structures and laterite stone walls; stones were extracted from local quarries reducing transportation costs and encouraging local economy. For the teacher’s dwellings adobe bricks were employed with the earth vaults roof technique (Voûte Nubienne), using basic, readily available local materials and simple, easily appropriable procedures.