The SOS Children’s Village in
Djibouti, designed by Urko Sanchez
Architects, is a medina for children
designed according to the extreme
weather conditions, providing shades
and ventilation with pedestrian streets
that open themselves creating squares
for children to play.
D
jibouti is located on the Horn of Africa which
suffers from the persistent droughts and
famines associated with the area.
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When the architects were approached by
SOS Children to design and build a small
village compiling 15 houses to run familystrengthening programmes, they decided to
build a medina with the singularity of being
for children. This allowed them to build the
homes in a very local way – narrow streets that would shade
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