VernaCular ConTraCT

Students: Hadi El Kassar, Shiyu tian, Dingsheng Xu

Design: Hadin Charbel and Déborah López Lobato

Technical: Zehao Quin and Vicente Sánchez

Theory: Albert Brenchat - Aguilar

Located in a Ugandan Forest ravaged by ecological threats, a refugee crisis and the remnants of European colonial planning, Vernacular Contract finds the opportunity in creating communal craft settlements that operate on indigenous preservational paradigms. A carbon offsetting scheme is proposed where displaced indigenous participants adopt an “inhabitation as protection” model by relying on a platform that manages the planning and building process of relocation settlements and simplifies contractual elements into game rules. Pragmatic construction systems and vernacular architectures form a language which is individually pleasurable and communally monumental.