1ASASE YAA VILLAGE - Earth Made Housing Competition Together, my group (Giovanni Montrel & Jaisha Victorian) and I chose 3 core values to drive our design. We wanted to bring back the usage of the vernacular architecture of the region while also expanding the capabilities of earth brick design and creating spaces for cultural traditions.
15WinnerGardens Above AccraGardens above Accra offers a retreat for the inhabitants of the city in green parks above.
0Multi-robotic construction system for unfired soil masonryHere we present a construction method that makes use of ground mobile robots to fabricate earth structures from in-situ available granular material through the deposition of soil viscous paste, a medium that, with the employment of specific digital tools, provides flexibility, ease of manipulation and sustainable applications.
5Meta(bio)lismMeta(bio)lism proposes an energy & resource re-use strategy which people can adapt under the effects of extreme weather. The landscape will both redirect flood water, preventing flood disaster and allow mining of the Kaolin soil to be more efficient and sustainable. Human beings will rediscover their relationship with nature over time.