Tag Senegal

11-11-2022

Dawoffice: Kamanar secondary school in Thionck Essyl, Senegal

In Thionck Essyl, in the south of Senegal, Dawoffice built Kamanar secondary school out of timber and clay. With vernacular reminiscences and a very specific identity arising out of the construction’s relationship with its existing natural surroundings, the school is a passive building based on local know-how.

05-09-2019

IDOM Alioune Diop University Teaching and Research Unit Senegal

In Senegal, the Spanish firm IDOM has designed an extension for Alioune Diop University, drawing inspiration from the natural surroundings and using conventional low-energy construction techniques and bioclimatic strategies. The project was selected among the finalists of the 2019 edition of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and has recently won the 2019 COAVN Award in the category Arquitectura y Urbanismo Extraterritorial.

01-12-2017

Caring Wood named RIBA House of the Year 2017

Macdonald Wright Architects’ Caring Wood has been named RIBA House of the Year 2017. Floornature looks at more of the interesting home projects covered in the year 2017.

07-06-2017

TAMassociati H2OS an eco village for Africa

Architecture can provide a concrete response to problems like desertification, abandonment and emigration and TAMassociati demonstrates it with the H2OS project, an eco village in Africa whose first lot has recently been inaugurated.

15-03-2017

The winners of the World Habitat Awards 2016-17

The two winners of the World Habitat Awards 2016-17, organised by the Building and Social Housing Foundation with the support of UN-Habitat have been announced.

19-12-2016

Toshiko Mori Architects Thread Artist Residency and Cultural Centre Senegal

Traditional construction techniques and materials such as bamboo, brick and straw were combined with innovative design solutions in Toshiko Mori Architects' Thread, an artists' residence commissioned by the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and built in a rural village in Senegal.