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African project:
Project: Desert Flower
Library of Muyinga
and facade: a high interior with continuous
cross-ventilation helps to guide the humid and
hot air away. Hence, the façade is perforated
according to the rhythm of the Compressed
Earth Blocks (CEB) masonry, giving the library
its luminous sight in the evening.
The double room height at the street side gave
the possibility to create a special space for the
smallest of the library readers. This children’s
space consist of a wooden sitting corner on
the ground floor, which might facilitate cosy
class readings. It is topped by an enormous
hammock of sisal rope as a mezzanine, in
which the children can dream away with
the books that they are reading.
The future school will continue to swing
intelligently through the landscape of the
site, creating playgrounds and courtyards
to accommodate existing slopes and trees.
In the meanwhile, the library will work as
an autonomous building with a finished
design. AD
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CLIENT: ODEDIM
ARCHITECTS: BC architects
SIZE: 140m2
COOPERATION: ODEDIM Muyinga
NGO, Satimo vzw, Sint-Lucas
Architecture University, Sarolta
Hüttl, Sebastiaan De Beir, Hanne
Eckelmans
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