Acknowledgement prize: Chicoco
Radio, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Chicoco Radio is a floating media platform for
waterfront slum communities, connecting land
and water. The design is part of the “African Water
Cities” project, which investigates the challenges
and opportunities of rapid urbanization and
climate change in African coastal cities.
This participatory venture using locally produced
materials will be the community’s voice and
include recording studios, a computer center,
meeting rooms, cinema, and an amphitheatre.
Acknowledgement prize: Co-op
Capacity Building, Kigali, Rwanda
The master plan focuses on rapid urban growth
and responds to the needs of the predominantly
young population, establishing participatory
processes with local cooperatives and
stakeholders.
Working with the topography, the scheme
includes a collective hill-farming program,
community buildings, and a market. The plan
respects the Rwandan tradition, improved by a
contemporary sense of public space aesthetics.
Acknowledgement prize: Weaving
Publicness, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The Chamber of Commerce headquarters aims
to contribute to the spatial improvement of the
urban environment, and to create an architectural
dialogue engaged in a global context with a strong
local identity.
Public spaces at ground level are integrated into
the building. The façade made of “woven” locallyquarried trachyte stone reminiscent of Ethiopian
stone architecture regulates ventilation and
ancient textile techniques as well as sunlight.
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