5th Earth Architecture Competition, Senegal Rural Arts Centre Design Contest News

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Contest Designing a Rural Arts Centre for Senegal, West Africa – Nka Foundation Architectural Contest

15 + 13 Nov 2017

Earth Architecture Competition 2017

5th Earth Architecture Competition, Designing a Rural Arts Centre for Senegal

WINNERS OF 5th EARTH ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Designing a Rural Arts Center for Senegal

Nka Foundation Announces the Winners of the 5th Earth Architecture Competition for Senegal.

WINNERS

5th Earth Architecture Competition 1st prize

The 1st prize winning entry is COMMUNITY LIBRARY by Vitor Breder, Nayanne Guerra, Mário Soares and Yuka Perdigão Ogawa in Brazil.

5th Earth Architecture Competition 2nd prize

The 2nd prize goes to HYGIENE SPACE by Jérôme Gruwé in France.

5th Earth Architecture Competition 3rd prize

The 3rd prize is awarded to COLLAGE by Britt Hill and Caitlin McDonnell in Australia.

Honorable Mention is awarded to the following entries:

5th Earth Architecture Competition 4th prize

4th place NKA FORUM by Alberto Cumerlato and Tiago Sa in Portugal;

5th place A CLASSROOM by Aida Zaremohazzabieh in Iran; 6th place TERANGA KITCHEN by Greg DiRienzo, Jordan Frazin, and Justin Pingin in USA, and 7th place CHAOS THEORY by Priyanka Ravi and Priyanka Ulaganathan in India.

JURY

The selection jury consists of Adrià Clapés i NICOLAU, director of IsArch in Spain; Adrian WELCH, architect and founder of e-architect in the UK; Juliet SAKYI-ANSAH, architect at a UK firm and director at The Architects’ Project; Jurriaan van STIGT, architect at LEVS Architecten, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Podjamas CHAISURAPHAWAT, urban planner at Progress Consultant Co. Ltd and self-employed architect in Thailand; Sarah LAISNEY, architecture and planning adviser at Cuso International in Honduras; and Stephan Jörchel, a civil engineer with Dachverband Lehm e.V., the German Association on Building with Earth at Weimar in Germany.

AWARDS

The jurors used judging criteria involving form, function and technical issues to evaluate all entries in the contest. The jurors awarded prizes for first, second and third place consisting of a commemorative certificate and the following options: 1st prize – $1,000 or construction of design in Senegal plus a trip to Senegal for a workshop to build the winning design; 2nd prize- Construction or $700 and 3rd prize- Construction or $400. Every design team that made the Top 40 Entries shortlist is offered the opportunity to build their design in Senegal in collaboration with the project organizers.

CHALLENGE

Through the 5th Earth Architecture Competition, Nka Foundation issued a challenge to professionals and students of architecture, design, urban planning and others from around the world. The challenge was to design a modern mud type to be built as a unit of an artisanal village, a residential vocational training center for unemployed rural youths of ages 16 to 25 years to undergo a 2-year skills development training in the vocational arts and design in the Diakounda village in Sédhiou Region of the Casamance in Senegal.

The contestant was to design one of the following school types: a classroom, cafeteria, office building, dormitory, group toilet, dwelling type for the local teachers, and guest house type for our international visiting staff. The competition organizer wanted the designs to emphasize cost efficient construction and sustainable architecture by fully integrate earth architecture and passive solar design. In light of these, the competing teams were to design their school types for construction by maximum use of earth and local labor. Total cost of constructing the design entry was not to exceed $10,000 (USD) for materials and labor.

The competition promotes open source design, which implies that the submitted designs will be available for all to appreciate, use, or improve them to generate more practical and contemporary design solutions for the region. Our long-term goal is to enable the rural population and lots of other places, to overcome the stigma that mud architecture is architecture for the very poor.

WHAT IS NEXT?

As the construction of the best design entries is our priority, every design team that made the Top 40 Entries shortlist is offered the opportunity to build their design in Senegal in collaboration with Nka Foundation. The construction site will be the Diakounda Arts Village in the Casamance in Senegal. The building workshops to realize the Top 40 Design Entries will run from February 2018 to July 2020. Each workshop will run for about 12 weeks.

For example, the construction workshop to build the 2nd prize winning design, HYGIENE SPACE by Jérôme Gruwé in France, will be held from June 20th to September 20th 2018. To do these, we have begun to compile strategies and gather a community of supporters around the rural vocational arts school project. We approach the vocational school construction as a development-aid with a direct impact on the rural communities in Bounkiling in the Sédhiou Region of the Casamance. It is a community development project. By this, the design proposals will be built on a land donated to Nka Foundation by the community.

Through an open call for volunteers, each workshop will bring together professionals and students of architecture, landscape architecture, design, engineering, urban planning, the arts and others from around the world to join the workshop and play a part in line with their expertise. Join us to create change where it is most needed. The arts village will be a residential skills learning center of a self-sustaining type for replication in other parts of Africa.

The arts village is conceived as an informal school, an artisanal vocational development center that brings together international workshop participants, local artisans and less privileged youths from the region for skills transfer.

The training will be provided by resident teachers and by hosting guest projects by both international and local practitioners in a self-growing school complex. That means, in the beginning there are just a few buildings. After the students have learnt some construction techniques, they will test their acquired knowledge and skills by building the next part of the school or some functional buildings for the community. Thus, the students are challenged to solve real problems, work together, to learn and build and create.

HOW DO YOU LEARN TO DESIGN WHAT IS BUILDABLE?

The building workshops will be posted on http://goo.gl/EXRN63 Join us! We are inviting international volunteers to the workshops to help realize the above winning designs. The building site also welcomes guest projects from schools and organizations who find substance in what we are doing. Since 2010, Nka Foundation have been collaborating with architecture and design practitioners, and schools from around the world to enable their projects emanate from idea to reality based on site in rural Ghana, Tanzania and Gambia.

To Nka Foundation, designing is not the whole thing. The design education question rather is: How do you learn to design what is buildable? It is by designing and building a project! Nka Foundation has come to know that by immersing the young designers in the full circle of designing and building their design, at the completion of the design-build process, the emerging professionals will learn to design what is buildable to make a well-rounded graduate. For the young professional, you will find the hands-on construction experience a pause from your office work to rediscover the rudiments of design and nuances that can refresh your practice.

The building workshop aims to foster collaborations for cross-fertilization of skills and knowledge among the international participants. Most evenings will be used for reviewing workshop progress along with informal discussions and digital presentations of portfolios by workshop leaders and participants. The workshop will end with a Community Day, a public celebration of the completed project by way of open house exhibition of the products of the workshop, public performances, and foods.

To participate, contact us at [email protected] / www.nkafoundation.org

23 Jun 2017

2017 Earth Architecture Competition

5th Earth Architecture Competition, Designing a Rural Arts Centre for Senegal

Register at http://goo.gl/hSuuQO from July 13- October 13, 2017

Nka Foundation announces a call for entries for its 5th Earth Architecture Competition: Designing a Rural Arts Center for Senegal, an international architecture competition open to professionals and students of architecture, design, urban planning and others from around the world. Your challenge is to design a unit of a rural arts school for construction in a village in the Casamance region of Senegal.

5th Earth Architecture Competition

Total costs of constructing the design entry must not exceed $10,000 (USD) for materials and local labor. The entry fee is $40 for individual entry and $60 for team entry. Jurors will award prizes for 1st: $1,000; 2nd: $700; and 3rd: $400. Honorable Mention Certificates will be awarded.

In order to enter the competition, you must register at Senegal Rural Arts Centre Design Contest

Submit your design entry: 5th Earth Architecture Competition Submission on October 16.

IMPORTANT DATES

Registration: July 13, 2017 – October 13, 2017
Submission of Entries: October 16-19, 2017
Selection of Projects by Jury: October 24-November 2, 2017
Press Release on the Winning Projects: November 13, 2017
Building Workshops to Realize the Top 40 Design Entries: February 2018 to July 2020

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Project Web Site: 5th Earth Architecture Competition / [email protected]

20 May 2017

Design-Build Challenge in Gambia 2018

2018 Design-Build Challenge in Gambia

Take the CHALLENGE! Own the Knowledge!

Nka Foundation is issuing a challenge to designers, architects and builders to use their creativity to come up with modern mud types for rural Gambia.

2018 Design-Build Challenge in Gambia

7 Apr 2017

Mud House Design Competition 2017

Nka Foundation Announces the 5th Earth Architecture Competition, Designing a Rural Arts Centre for Senegal

Nka Foundation, a nonprofit organization that exists to serve underserved communities in Africa through arts and design.

The time has come for the 5th Earth Architecture Competition: Designing a Rural Arts Centre for Senegal.

OBJECTIVE
The objective is to design a modern mud type that will be built as a unit of an artisanal village, a residential vocational training center for unemployed rural youths of ages 16 to 25 years to undergo a 2-year skills development training in the vocational arts and earth architecture.

We want the school plan to emphasize sustainable architecture and cost efficient construction. Thus, we want the buildings to fully integrate earth architecture and passive solar design.

Announcement posters for the construction of the winning designs in the 4th Earth Architecture Competition: Designing a School for Ghana:
Earth Architecture Competition Ghana 2017

Ghana Rammed Earth Architecture Competition 2017

The challenge for the contestants is to design one of the following types for the school: a classroom type, cafeteria type, office building type, dormitory type, group toilet type, cafeteria type, theatre type, dwelling type for the local teachers, and guest house type for our international visiting staff. Contestants are to design the school type for construction by maximum use of earth and local labor.

Total costs of constructing the design entry is not to exceed $10,000 (USD) for materials and labor. The construction site will be Diakounda village in Sediou Region of the Casamance in Senegal.

Here is the full list of the workshops: http://nkaprojects.boards.net/thread/61/workshops-building-design-entries?page=1&scrollTo=606

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Project Web Site: www.nkafoundation.org / [email protected]

22 Jul 2016

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Nka Foundation Announces the Winners of the 4th Earth Architecture Competition, Designing a School for Ghana

The 1st prize winning design is Framed Escape by the design team of Maude Cannat and Rachel Méau in France; the 2nd prize winner is Inside Out by Francesca Vittorini and Andrea Tabocchini in Italy; and the 3rd prize is awarded to Classroom by the design team of Archisan involving Mehnaz Chowdhury and Sumaiya Mehjabeen in Bangladesh.

Winners of 4th Earth Architecture Competition
The 1st prize winning design is Framed Escape by the design team of Maude Cannat and Rachel Méau in France

Winners of 4th Earth Architecture Competition
2nd prize winner is Inside Out by Francesca Vittorini and Andrea Tabocchini in Italy

Winners of 4th Earth Architecture Competition
3rd prize is awarded to Classroom by the design team of Archisan (Mehnaz Chowdhury and Sumaiya Mehjabe in Bangladesh

Through the 4th Earth Architecture Competition, Nka Foundation issued a challenge to recent graduates and students of architecture, design and others from around the world who think earth architecture can be beautiful. The design entry was to emphasize sustainable architecture and cost-efficient construction by fully integrating local materials and passive solar design. The challenge was to design an earth architecture type that will be built as a unit of a community secondary school for students of ages 12 to 18 years in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.

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