Comments on: Women’s Health Centre / FARE

By: mary a.

mary a. — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:42:30 +0000

Beautiful project!
I’m working in Mali to build a schoolhouse that uses many of the same strategies; compressed bricks, raised roofs, and rainwater harvesting. Seeing this similar project is inspiring. We’re on the right track!

By: Erika T.

Erika T. — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:00:39 +0000

Thank you! Actually while dealing with this project we had to re-think all our intellectual and technical habits…everything was different…even logical processes worked differently between us, you can imagine..but the challenge was not to fall into the ‘poor africans’ stereotype and try to learn from each other a different and possibly better way of conceiving architecture there…amazing..

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:44:20 +0000

A beautiful building and incredible that it only took 15 months. My only complaint is regarding the landscaping. Plenty of grass and trees that will require a great deal of an incredibly valuable resource in a country next to the Sahara! One only needs to look at the surrounding area to see how arid Ouagadougou is. I hope they reexamine their landscaping decisions as rainfall alone will not provide enough irrigation and wells quickly run dry in Burkina Faso.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:11:59 +0000

Inspiring

By: MZ

MZ — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:23:16 +0000

It is fascinating to see an architecture that is deep rooted in its place, culturally and technically. It is obvious that when we talk about Africa we have to forget most of our western habbits and standards, but the result doesn´t have to be some pitiful soleless, cheap copy. Africa must explore its own way and walk it. Such project help to emerge what could be a whole new architecture. It will not be a fast process, but stay tooned.

By: aimanr

aimanr — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 01:11:19 +0000

brilliant. simple yet complex in its production.