African Design Magazine October 2016 | Page 58

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Residential Childcare for babies 0-24 months in Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso . In recent years some children have come to the home with disabilities as a result of encephalopathy , which is why it has been difficult to find a host family until now . The orphanage was permanently at the limit of its capacity which forced babies and infants with disabilities to share resting places .

In the summer of 2012 four at the orphanage . Being wi carers and having discussio of the centre led them to pr house for children with spe

The pre-existing building c structure and two other vo eastern third of the plot . Th by architect Albert Faus , ta position on the empty space rema of the main edifice of the orphana defined by the powerful visual ref the high water tank . The resulting buildings becomes the entrance s for receptions and a future playgr mango trees .

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