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Summer 2014-15 Design-Build Workshops In Ghana: Building With Local Earth
United Kingdom Architecture News - May 31, 2014 - 17:45 5953 views
Nka Foundation, NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS for 2014 through 2015 design-build workshops for learning-by-doing on sustainable architecture at Abetenim in Ghana.
Contact: [email protected] / www.nkafoundation.org for application form.
Nka program promises high-impact learning practice, ideal for motivated college students and recent graduates seeking real-world learning opportunities to explore and generate design solutions in a location outside of Western culture. It provides you with an opportunity to immerse in the local Ashanti culture and collaborate in a design-build process that involves fieldtrip to local sites, discussions, and learning-by-doing on a building project. You will work side-by-side with local artisans and creative colleagues to generate an alternative using sustainable natural materials while furthering your knowledge of the intersections between architecture and rural development. Experience how a design problem, budget and site-specific dynamics such as materials, indigenous technologies and community can provoke resourceful thinking and hybridization. In the process, the student will learn to design what is buildable to make a well rounded graduate. Our design-build workshops runs for about 8 weeks; you can join any time and participate for a minimum of 2 weeks.
DATES: We run Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring Workshops
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE: Everybody is welcome: students and recent graduates of architecture, design and volunteers from around the world. Students can use the opportunity for internship/stage or thesis.
PROJECT SITE: Abetenim Arts Village, which is an mud architecture demonstration site and arts training center, located 40 km Southeast of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region.
ACCOMMODATION: Guest houses at our arts village, or homestay with a local family for cultural immersion
Interested? Then, contact: [email protected] / www.nkafoundation.org
NKA DESIGN-BUILD WORKSHOPS: 2014/15 SCHEDULE
DESIGN-BUILD WORKSHOP: A KINDERGARTEN FOR ABETENIM
DATE: June 1- July 20, 2014.
PROJECT: Learning by designing and building of a kindergarten classroom at the Abetenim D/A Primary School with community labor.
DESIGN TEAM: James Palmer, Michele Ape, Eleanor Dunee, Tarek Mamdouh, Shaimaa Mohamed, Hahn Lee, etc
RAMMED EARTH TRAINING WORKSHOP: BUILDING WITH LOCAL EARTH
DATE: July 26 – September 20, 2014
WORKSHOP INSTRUCTORS: Giulia Fortunato, Architect/Designer and PhD researcher at the University of Rome at Tre and Noemi Cruciani who recently obtained a Masters Degree in Architectural Planning at the University of Rome at Tre in Italy.
PROJECT: Design-build of a demonstration unit at Abetenim Arts Village by rammed earth. See detail: http://
DESIGN-BUILD OPEN WORKSHOP
September 22- Novemeber 15, 2014
DESIGN-BUILD OPEN WORKSHOP: PASSIVE SOLAR DESIGN AND RAMMED EARTH BUILDING
DATE: November 8, 2014 to January 24, 2015
WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR: Niall O'Cleirigh, an architectural designer from Ireland.
PROJECT: Design-build of a demonstration unit at Abetenim by rammed earth and mud brick construction. See detail: http://noctdesignspace.com
MUD HOUSE DESIGN 2014: Reinventing the African Mud Hut Together
Series of 10-week Earth Building Workshops to realize the winning designs in our Mud House Design 2014 competition, November 2014-July 2015
DATE: November 8, 2014 to January 24, 2015
February 6 to April 17, 2015
Workshops for March, April, May, June and July 2015 will be scheduled.
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