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
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
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:
2006-2007
Cause:
To ameliorate construction procedures in social housing projects
Categories:
Member:
Technology & material:
Concrete roof-tiles, concrete&clay bricks, adobe, vegetal materials
Partners:
Ricerca&Cooperazione; Rural Housing; Municipality of Maamekrobo
Donor:
Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Two missions were undertaken in order to monitor and test a few social housing and public services projects (mainly schools), constructed by the Italian NGO Ricerca&Cooperazione in the region of Afram Plains and in Sefwi Wiawso, Western Region between 1988 and 2004. The main objective of the missions was to evaluate the quality of construction of the existing buildings and to give R&C a few guide-lines on how to ameliorate the manufacture processes of a new housing project to be built in Donkorkrom, Afram Plains. During the missions, several pathologies were recognized in the existing buildings. Some of the construction issue and recommendations of utmost interest are: use of concrete roof-tiles, to augment the thermal capacity of roofs and to diminish the costs of construction; increase in internal ventilation by changes in the geometry of roofs; amelioration of the construction quality of external walls by introducing mixed concrete & clay bricks; use of drainage surfaces around the buildings’ foundations; use of eaves in conjunction with watercollection basins; experimentation in the use of hen-house nets for the construction of foundations; use of false ceilings in cloths and mats.