ethiopian satellite preschool // honorable mention

 

This competition chose to work in Ethiopia, the second-most populous country in Africa after Nigeria with a population of 105 million. Despite Ethiopia’s booming economy, the country’s education system remains underdeveloped and plagued by low participation rates and quality problems—a situation partially owed to Ethiopia having been deprived of economic development for decades.

The main challenge in this competition with archstorming was to ensure that the model that is developed can be adapted to the different places where the organization wants to build schools. The organization wants to support the Hiddi and Dillu primary schools with the construction of two preschools in these villages. In the following we present you our competition concept “SENSES”..


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THE DETAILS

 
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As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much a part of the realm of art as it is of technology; the fusion of thinking and feeling.
— Harry Seidler