AU Dormitory / Terrain Architects

The dormitory for students from various countries in Sub-Saharan Africa is located in Uganda. Right on the equator and high above sea level, it offers a comfortable climate, so walls lie in east and west side to keep sunlight out and windows lie in south and north side to bring light and wind into rooms. In order to maximize local builders’ technique and character of local materials, it used lo...

Maisha Film Garden / Tamassociati

The new headquarters of “Maisha Film Lab” want to synthesize life in cinema and architecture. Starting with the name Maisha, which means ‘life’ in Kiswahili, we thought about the project as a film sequence inspired by the evolution of life.The walking path, which develops in the garden, begins in childhood and develops through different stations in the evolution of the human being until the fin...

New British High Commission / Kilburn Nightingale Architects

Designing an embassy or a consulate poses a myriad of challenges. Architects face a task to resist the temptation to design that which is wholly representative of the mother country without necessarily applying contextual measures. Questions ponder. ‘Home’ country or the host? Concepts; materials; labour; technology….and so on. And yet these facilities exist or are projected to exist within exi...

Abilonino Community Polytechnic/ Lexicon + Ion Architects

The Abilonino community polytechnic project proposal by Lexicon is a project that attempts to achieve a subsequent layering approach to space-making through a thoroughfare experience that not only creates spaces but embraces them towards formal and informal poise. The project organized by the Ugandan Ministry officials sort  to build a completely new college including classrooms, workshops, lab...

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