African project: Mbera
Project: Desert Flower
refugee camp
The challenge in building 60 classrooms at the Mbera Refugee Camp
in Mauritania was to provide an alternative to transitional structures,
usual in arid contexts, by combining materials and techniques. Instead of
common solutions such as concrete slab, metal frame, corrugated iron sheets and
plastic enclosures, FAREstudio combined sandbag masonry for massive walls
and plastic sheets on metal trusses as lightweight roof, with a do-it-yourself
approach inherently loose and apt to combine what is locally available.
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