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SIDAREC Technology and Media Lab

Project Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Building Type: Youth Center, Technology Facility, Recreation Facility, Public Space/Gathering Space, Office Space, …
Project Descripton: Resources:
Competition Site
AMD's 50x15 program
AMD's digital ecosystem

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ARK

Project Location: Glebe, NSW, Australia
Building Type: Residential – 4+ BR
Project Descripton: Pre-fab 400+ sq m house that floats, resists earthquake, bushfire, tempest and is assembled by two men in a couple of days - no tools required, cheaper than comparable sized conventional housing

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NOLA Chicken + Goose Coop Prototypes

Project Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Building Type: Animal Shelters
Project Descripton: Led by Architect and Instructor Derek Hoeferlin in Spring 2008, a senior undergraduate architecture design studio at Washington University in St. Louis as part of the CITYbuild Consortium of Schools, designed and built a chicken coop and a goose....

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Open-Source Bamboo Shelter

Project Location: Unspecified location
Building Type: Homeless Shelter, Emergency Shelter
Project Descripton: A process for community-built bamboo relief housing

“Bamboo DNA's strength comes from its collaborative network of talented people... artists, builders, performance artists, and pretty much anyone who has an interest in seeing bamboo....

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Sustainable Portable Classroom, Winnsboro High School, Franklin Parish, Louisiana - Team #5 - Drexel University

Project Location: Winnsboro, Louisiana, United States
Building Type: Education Facility - Secondary School
Project Descripton: Flexible Education Environments in the Rural South

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Sustainable Portable Classroom, Winnsboro High School - The Learning Kit, Team 6 - Drexel University Design Charrette

Project Location: Wiinsboro, Franklin Parish, Louisiana, United States
Building Type: Education Facility - Secondary School
Project Descripton: The project investigates the idea that portable classrooms can not only function in today's school environment but facilitate healthy, sustainable life styles for students. The use of a modular system allows the project to be quickly constructed....

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Sustainable Portable Classroom for Winnsboro High School

Project Location: Winnsboro, Louisiana, United States
Building Type: Education Facility - Secondary School
Project Descripton: Education, community and innovation.

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Inexpensive, expandible, community-built School for parched, mudslide-prone hills.

Project Location: Khasauli, Palpa, Nepal
Building Type: Water treatment, Emergency Shelter, Education Facility - Training Center, Education Facility - Secondary School, Education Facility - College/University , …
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In 1995 community members and local teachers from four villages (Khasauli, Kusum, Bhairabstan, and Deurali) came together and formed the Bhawaani Bhairab Aadarsha Higher Secondary School Management Committee. Its main goal was to open a Higher....

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stand together

Project Location: Africa & Arab States
Building Type: Temporary Shelter, Residential – Public Housing, Residential – Multi-Family Low Rise, Homeless Shelter, Emergency Shelter, …
Project Descripton: Designing a shelter is quite complex. Conditions can differ from hot to cold, from mountainous to flat and from dry to wet. Disasters don't discriminate, it could happen anywhere, in remote areas, as well as in cities, to anyone, families as....

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1871 : SIDAREC

Project Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Building Type: Technology Facility
Project Descripton: The aim of this project is to provide SIDAREC with new facilities that will offer a wide range of new services for the community of Mukuru Kwa Njenga. The challenge is to do so on a site which is already an important space for the....

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