MIDDLE
BREAKING
ROOTING
GROUNDS
Appropriating the need for Gender Equality, warrants the need for a place that not only empowers women but also grounds them as a major cog in the growth of the society at large.
The project approaches the women’s house as a quintessential built for the people of Baghere and around, socially and economically, and the individual growth of a woman at its core. This opportunity is addressed by creating an agricultural facility that is run by women, where intensive research and training programs can be carried out to tackle the unfavorable agricultural conditions, eventually rooting its people and economy back.
The commons i.e. places created for conversations amidst the women, with the other and for all promises to form the heart of not only the campus but Baghere at large. Conversations of growth, progress, celebrations, and leisure!
the line of Undivide,
the vision of progress
contained,
yet growing
layered Induction
'for all'
the commons
'for women'
'for most'
'for all'
collecting all we can
from the roof, through the surface
tackling the Harmattan
Independent and Empowering
9. The Commons II (for most)
10. Exhibition Space
11. Market Space
12. The Commons III (for All)
13. Drinking water
14. a) Her Toilet b) His Toilet
15. Water Recycle Unit
16. Farming
17. Medicinal Plants
18.Playground
1. Entrance Ramp
2. Central courtyard
suurounded by Exhibition Area
3. Meeting room
4. Administration
5. Dispensary
6. Pantry
7. Workshops
7a. Workshops spillout
8. The Commons I (for the Women)
For:
Kaira Looro Architectural Competition
Location:
Baghere, Senegal, Africa
Design Team:
Huzefah Haroon