Kompian hospital
Cultural Centre
Anganwadi
Disability day center
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Buiding Communities IV
Educational centre
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Dental clinic and blood bank
Hosting city Porto: Call for Ideas
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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
Earthquake-resistant Housing
Solar Energy for Rural Development
Prison alternatives initiative
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Children and staff accomodation
Earth construction and community project
Primary schools
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:
2009-...
Cause:
Seismically vulnerable regions
Categories:
Member:
Technology & material:
Wire mesh gabions
Partners:
[Zousfana->www.zousfana.com], Morocco; [INSA Rennes->www.insa-rennes.fr], [Pompiers Sans Frontières->www.pompiers-sans-frontieres.org] (PACA France), [Africa 70 (Italy)->www.africa70.org]
Donor:
[ PACA Region->www.regionpaca.fr]; IBMed
The Project Mediterranean Gabions is a project of applied research that relies on the experience accumulated by A& D in more than ten years on sustainable development and habitat issues and on the work of the NGO Africa 70 and its 30 years of cooperation projects and development in Africa.
The origins of this project are in Pakistan in 2005, in the scope of the post-emergency and reconstruction project implemented by A&D in partnership with the French Red Cross. A&D has decided at that time to experiment with the technology “gabions” (confined elements walling systems) aiming at creating earthquake-resistant structures. These experiments have led to the design of a prototype using a mixed structure.
Our hypothesis is that the usage of gabions or traditional structures (or mixed systems) in designing disaster-resistant structures could substitute reinforced concrete masonry currently used in the Mediterranean countries and very often poorly implemented. It would allow more people to have access to disaster-resistant construction, using low-cost and available construction materials (stone and steel wire mesh). The application of this technology would contribute in improving habitat conditions for the poor communities.
The project will be developed in the following phases:
Phase 1: modeling, study and scientific validation construction process in the INSA Rennes
Phase 2: architectural design of two prototypes by our experts, in collaboration with local
partners
Phase 3: experimentation in situ, achievements of the prototypes in the two sites in Morocco
Phase 4: Restitution workshop with partners French, Italian and Moroccan to validate the
methodology and assessing its potential for replication
The first prototype is the basis of this project and was developed in Pakistan during the
earthquake reconstruction programmes.
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Images: Olivier Boucheron.
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