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Urata Look Out Cafe / CAUKIN Studio

Andreas Luco — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 09:00:00 +0000

The Urata community and Savusavu Rotary Club identified a unique opportunity to develop a community cafe that would serve both local and international tourists who journey between the two main towns on the island, Labasa and Savusavu.

Bukasakya Maternity Centre / CAUKIN Studio

Andreas Luco — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 17:00:00 +0000

Spotlight on Africa’s brief was to build and operate a Maternity Centre in order to reduce one of the world’s highest Maternal Mortality Rates (“MMR”) in the Bukasakya sub-county of Mbale, Eastern Uganda. Women are 56 times more likely to die in childbirth in the Mbale District of Uganda than in the UK. These extraordinary rates of mortality would be significantly reduced and preventable deaths would be eradicated by the provision of a Maternity Centre, which is now urgently needed.

Bogor Mushola Community Center / CAUKIN Studio

Paula Pintos — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 02:00:00 +0000

The project aims to provide an inspiring space that opens up new opportunities for the Centre for Community Development and Social Entrepreneurship in Bogor. The building will be used for a range of activities, including community events and training days as well as a Mushola (prayer room). The space is aimed at encouraging people to visit, providing the charity a venue to hire out for other functions - subsequently generating an income. A toilet and shower unit service the site and replace the old dysfunctioning toilets in the existing building.

Fandangoe Skip Ice Cream Kiosk / CAUKIN Studio + Fandangoe Kid + SKIP Gallery

Valeria Silva — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Fandangoe Kid and CAUKIN Studio announce their latest public art installation The ‘Fandangoe SKIP’ *on tour* in collaboration with SKIP Gallery and The Loss Project. A candy-colored, ice-cream-kiosk-in-a-dumpster offering Brooklyn’s Blue Marble ice cream, comes to Brookfield Place New York following its Summer 2022 London tour, with a commissioned documentary by BBC World Service.

Fandangoe Skip Ice Cream Kiosk / CAUKIN Studio + Fandangoe Kid + SKIP Gallery

Valeria Silva — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Fandangoe Kid, SKIP Gallery, and CAUKIN Studio launch candy-colored ice-cream kiosk ‘Fandangoe SKIP’ in support of mental health. The candy-colored, ice-cream-kiosk-in-a-skip will appear in London this summer, starting in Greenwich Peninsula and continuing on to Canary Wharf. The installation hosts free mental health workshops alongside delicious scoops of ice cream made by ‘A Portuguese Love Affair’. The project will then make its way over to NYC, following a commission by BBC World Service to document Fandangoe Kid’s work.

Evergreen School / CAUKIN Studio

Paula Pintos — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 15:00:00 +0000

Working in partnership with the charity Mothers Of Africa (MoA), CAUKIN Studio spent 3 months in rural Zambia constructing 4 classrooms and a teacher's office for Evergreen School. The charity MoA was set up in 2004 with the aim of improving maternal health, reducing maternal mortality, and achieving access to reproductive health for all women. MoA quickly realised that by improving the education of the village children they could make a long term contribution to the charity’s overall objective. Children in Zambia are often only educated to the age of 14; with schools often oversubscribed and in poor conditions.

Feelings Library / CAUKIN Studio

Paula Pintos — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Following months of prolonged stress and uncertainty throughout the pandemic and the pressure at Christmas to feel connected and joyous can make this an even lonelier time. FEELINGS LIBRARY is a three-week immersive pop-up, designed to help us check in with our big, and sometimes messy feelings and connect with others within the creative space of a skip.

Naidi Community Hall / CAUKIN Studio

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 02:00:00 +0000

Naidi village, located on Vanua Levu in Fiji, had been without a community hall for 7 years when their previous community hall fell into disrepair and was deemed unsafe for use. In the wake of this, the project came to fruition when a local NGO, the Naqaqa Giving Foundation approached CAUKIN Studio. Serving a village of 400 people and 75 households, the hall’s main function was to provide a space for the community to come together for meetings, celebrations, funerals, and weddings. In Fijian culture, the community hall is the cultural and operational heart of a village.

Ranwas School / CAUKIN Studio

Paula Pintos — Mon, 11 May 2020 06:00:00 +0000

CAUKIN Studio, a young design and build a social enterprise, has worked alongside the Ranwas Village community and international participants from around the world, to build a school classroom, library, and office space after Cyclone Pam caused devastation to the previous school buildings. After 8 weeks of construction, the finished building combines a heavy-duty cyclone-resistant timber frame, woven bamboo cladding, polycarbonate, and metal roofing sheets to create a strong, bright and well-ventilated learning environment. The library space tackles the extreme humidity through carefully considered passive design strategies, enabling the lifespan of the books to be prolonged.