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Relatively, as the world stood still, time seems to be minding its business and flow swiftly through the river of space. Many has expressed their wish to obliterate the departing Gregorian year from the calendars. We however, wish you a happy new year! Chin-up! Ketema is here as customary featuring first of its kind piece of architecture by the prolific young practice, BTCAE - Bereket Tesfaye Architects that has been practicing in the country for the past 11 years. Our contributor and writer, Medhanit Tadesse has captured the essence of the mesmerizing details of the building through her narration. It has been three months since Architects ወርሃዊ is back to the Urban Center marking its 25 th successful event. The discussion has continued with an interesting topic on the challenges of architectural design competitions which has been summarized for you by our contributor Abel Assefa. ConDigital, an Online startup providing a cloud management platform designed for the construction industry towards an efficient management and processing of data has been introduced to us by the Co-founder of the startup, Abel Gebreananya. Ye Zembil Melse, a collaborative campaign calling for a full ban on single-use plastics in Ethiopia aims to battle the urban culture of dispose-ability which promotes immediate use and immediate waste by using creative campaigns, alternative business models and public engagement to advocate for policy change and revival of the traditional alternatives to plastic; Zembils. As always, leaving you to enjoy the content, we look forward to your contributions on our upcoming issues.
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December 10, 2020 marked the 25th successful session of the popular architects ወርሃዊ event where we discussed Architectural design challenges in the Ethiopian context. We would like to thank Zeleke Belay for a presentation that eloquently captured the essence of design competitions. Zeleke started the discussion by recognizing the fundamental purpose of organizing a design competition is to get a good product. Then he discussed the three reasons why we are not getting good products from competitions despite conducting countless competitions in the past 10 years. The first reason is that there is no recognition of the architect. The requirement to enter a competition favors companies and not architects. He criticized the current trend of competitions where invitation to participate is based on category of offices, and compliance to TOR’s with restrictive formats that require entrants to submit detailed drawings and expensive models. This ultimately makes competitions accessible only to consulting firms with resources. A design competition is more about the creative ideas by a designer, not about the company capacity. ‘‘In reality, winning a design competition is more prestigious for an architect than securing the project. And unless we reward and praise the designer, excellence will go down’’
Design Competition Challenges
Additionally, Zeleke stressed the need to make competitions open and conceptual; and argues, in a design competition, the creative idea shall take precedence. He also mentioned that competitions should be open to young architects and students who are keen to coming up with fresh ideas.
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In an interesting example, He illustrated this idea by presenting Lucio Costa’s winning competition entry for Brasilia’s urban plan.
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The entry consisted of a single page concept sketch and 17 pages explanation. The jury recognized the winning idea out of 5,550 entries worldwide. Design competitions should encourage entrants to submit creative ideas rather than finished products. The second reason discussed was the misunderstanding of competitions with bids. There is a trend whereby design entries are evaluated based on cost. Additionally the promoter negotiates design fees with the winner and if an agreement is not reached, they go to the second or third entry. It should be understood that design competitions, unlike bids, are about excellence and not about the cost of the service.
#AEA The Association of Ethiopian Architects through it’s task force against COVID 19 has issued a context based Guidelines on Spatial and Ventilation Requirements for the Reopening of Schools in Ethiopia amid the global pandemic based on different researched design data and obvious information related to the foreign pathogen. Source: https://drive.google.com/ file/d/13v1bHNhhvHxoQcQVPcqaDkG7Vuu7WtmC/view 12
The third reason why we are not getting good products is the Jury; the composition of the jury should target those active in the industry and the identity of the jury should be announced before the competition is launched. He further noted that juries have to be involved in the development of the TOR and observed that TOR’s are normally prepared by people who did not go through the design of the project themselves. The competitors are likely to be in a better position to do more explorations. The jury should recognize this fact and be open. Quite often, these types of TOR’s are pre-occupied with construction and are looking for a working drawing instead of a concept. In order to get good ideas from competitions, this thinking that comes from equating competitions with the mainstream making of projects has to change. He further challenged the tendency of jury appraisals giving separate points for qualities such as function, aesthetics, cost etc. By recognizing that an entry should be evaluated in its totality, not in its individual parts. This approach has resulted in the selection of many unfitting projects.
Furthermore, Zeleke argues that competitions should be protected and the fate of the entries should not be left to the promoter. Important aspects such as the design fees should be established before launching the competition and further negotiations should not be allowed. In the conventional way projects are handled, design fee is negotiated before the project is designed. In design competitions it’s the reverse; the project is designed before any negotiation. This vulnerable position discourages and sets the architect to be abused. The presentation was concluded by strongly pointing, without correct rules of engagement, no good architecture can manifest. There should only be one rule of engagement and AEA should take the lead. Discussion points raised include, the role of AEA and its members in protecting competitions, establishing a high ethical standard for the industry and specific design competition cases were discussed. It was noted in the discussions that the current agreed rules of engagement is the AEA design competitions bylaw and members should strengthen the association by participating only in competitions endorsed by AEA. Competition experiences where the promoters abandoned the winning entries after conducting an international design competition were discussed. The design competition for the head quarter of CBE is one of the discussed cases. Additionally, the idea of establishing a COMPETITION WATCH was discussed, a platform to inform members and AEA’s competitions chair about current competitions and competitions not endorsed by AEA. updates
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2020! Tibeb Be Adebabay . Tibeb Be Internet .
Tibeb Be Adebabay was born for the streets, the squares, and the public spaces where people gather to experience the sense of the city - on the ‘normal’ days. But as the ‘normal’ days seem to be temporarily gone due to the Corona Virus Pandemic, where do people interact with each other and sense the feeling of a crowd? This is a question the Tibeb Be Adebabay team has faced since the pandemic has forced the festival’s re-direction to a digital space. Tibeb Be Adebabay has been going for the last three years on the streets of Addis Ababa, where people have got the chance to interact with diverse artistic works presented. However, this year, the world is way different than the days where the previous festivals have taken place; people gather not in the public spaces rather on the digital space – the internet. 14
The project management team and the steering committee came together to plan the festival in early January 2020, before the Corona Virus pandemic. The team was planning to host the festival on the shaded pedestrian walkway of Meskel Square. By then, the team hadn’t expected the upcoming pandemic, the Meskel Square project, or the instabilities caused due to our country’s political condition. Planning for such festivals becomes even more challenging when the changes are no way closer to anticipate. Therefore, the organizing team was forced to quickly adapt and manage risks to bring the festival to life, albeit the challenges. Thus, the digital space was chosen as a ‘public space’ where we all meet from the comfort of our couch. Tibeb Be Adebabay 2020 was an art experience in a different dimension whe r e b o th the ar tis ts and the audience were active participants. The festival’s theme was ‘Who am I?’ with the subtitle of ‘Telling migrating stories.’ The festival aimed to explore the concept of migration from various perspectives. As the negative outlook dominates the narration of migration, the festival was aimed to spark questions on the way we view migration. Ten artists were selected to curate interactive challenges, in line with the theme, which would invite people to
engage and exercise their own artistic potentials. The artists were of different niches as Gaming, Painting, Cuisine, Architecture/Urbanism, music, and Virtual Reality, making the festival a dynamic space for creativity to flourish. People shared their city tour experiences, poems, cuisines, and many more through the challenges the festival put forth. For instance, people from 50 different cities have shared their mobility experiences on the Echoing Cities mobility challenge. In addition to the challenges, the audience was presented with a special opportunity to showcase their own artwork on Tibeb Be Adebabay Web page. Such opportunities allowed the audience to engage in the festival actively, in which they became the co-producers of the artworks by the end of the festival – Hurray! By the end of the festival, Tibeb Be Adebabay 2020 had reached thousands of people, engaging hundreds a c t i v e l y. F r o m a s i n g l e p o s t t o live-streamed music and poetic events, audiences could relax and reflect on their perspectives of migration. Against all odds, the pandemic has resulted in the use of public spaces; Tibeb Be Adebabay 2020 successfully re-directed its ‘Adebabay’ to the ‘internet’ and reached many with creative and vibrant energy. Summary: Medhanit Ayele updates
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#ethio-djibuti Ethio-Djibuti railway suffers from theft and vandalism. Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC) stated that the 753km electrified railway linking Addis Ababa to Djibuti was not performing to its potential due to mainly theft and vandalism and has lost more than 114 million Birr in the fist three months of the current fiscal year only. According to Tilahun Terefe (Eng.) head of the corporation’s rail safety and transport department, the speed limit of the trains has been reduced from 80KMH to 50KMH due to damages to the railway infrastructure, lagging by 6 hours from its previous arrival time of 12 hours. Source: addisstandard.com 16
Ethiopia’s Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy, Seleshi Bekele (PHD), said the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) will start its first round of power generation in June 2021. The Minister made the remark during lecture he gave yesterday at the University College London (UCL) on Accelerating Renewable Energy Development to meet Universal Energy Access. The discussion was attended by the UN Secretary General Representative on Energy alongside other distinguished academics, according to the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy. The discussion included how Ethiopia within East Africa is using holistic approaches for energy generation and sustainable development. In his lecture Dr. Seleshi touched upon the major strides Ethiopia is making in the field of renewable energy generation for universal energy access which can be taken as important learning’s for other countries. Source: fanabc.com Image: GERD project office
#road #iconicHQ,OiC Oromia Insurance Company has secured a contractor for the construction of first of its kind iconic headquarters to be built on a prominent location near Mexico square. The iconic tower was designed by an established local architectural firm, Zeleke Belay Architect Plc after winning the preliminary design competition announced on December 2018. A Chinese state-owned firm, Jiangxi Corporation for International Economic & Technical Cooperation will construct the 35-storey skyscraper for 1.1 Billion Birr. Tegistu Shiferaw, acting CEO of Oromia Insurance, signed the contract agreement on the 17th of November 2020 with Pan Weigas, on behalf of Jiangxi. The project was awarded to Jiangxi Corporation for International Economic & Technical Cooperation after winning a bid that was floated at the end of 2019. Image: zeleke belay architect plc news
The Ethiopian Construction Works Corporation (ECWR) was awarded a 4.5 billion birr road project to be built here in Addis Ababa on November 18, 2020. It is the first mega project floated by the Addis Ababa Road Construction Authority (AACRA) that ECWR won in recent years. On Wednesday November 18, 2020, the authority and the corporation signed their first agreement to build 118km of roads in the capital city. Five of these projects that make up a total of 50 kms will be asphalt concrete, while the remaining three projects that cover 68.4 kms are going to be coble stone roads. The stated asphalt road, which is 15 to 50 meters in width, will be built in Yeka Tafo, Bole Arabsa, Jemmo, Koye Feche and Chefe Condominium areas. Source: thereporterethiopia.com 17
#aCDC Ethiopian Minister of Health Dr. Lia Tadesse, Deputy Mayor of Addis Ababa Adanech Abiebie, Ambassador of China to African Union, and AU Commissioner of Social Affairs have attended the ground breaking and unveiling ceremony for the headquarters of the Africa Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (ACDC) in Addis Ababa. Once the construction of the headquarters is completed in 25 months it will help Africa move a step closer to the AU’s Agenda 2063 to build a healthier, strong, and more prosperous Africa. The center will have a total built up area of 40,000sqm and the Addis Ababa City administration has allotted a 90,000sqm of land around Haile Garment, Nifas Silk Laphto Sub City. The cost of the construction is fully covered by the government of China. Source: waltainfo.com 18
#border post The One Stop Border Post (OSBP) in Moyale designed and supervised by a local firm, BIGAR has been inaugurated on the 9th of December 2020 with the presence of HE Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia together with HE Uhuru Kenyatta, President of Kenya. The launching of the border post and the 500 kilometers Hawassa -- Hagere Mariam -- Moyale Road is a key segment of the Mombasa-Nairobi-Addis Ababa road corridor and the Trans-African Highway. During the inaugural ceremony, Prime Minister Abiy mentioned the new infrastructure will bring Ethiopia and Kenya to come together towards enhancing socio-economic ties. President Uhuru Kenyatta said on his part that the completion of the border post demonstrates the political goodwill to address the challenges facing the business communities of both countries.
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#product intro Rifeng, the Integrated Plastic Piping Systems provider held a product introduction of its Pex-Al-Pex multi-layer piping system on a half day Covid friendly event on 10th of December 2020 with the presence of various stakeholders from Addis Ababa Construction office, Housing and Urban Development, Federal Construction Office and other professionals.
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The product offers functionality of both metal and plastic materials and comes with a 50 & 100m roll avoiding significant amount of wastage during application. Because of its highly flexible nature, the Pex-Al-Pex could be laid out with out employing any connection elbows nor power tools, securing cosistent water pressure throughout the system.
A local steel manufacturing company has made the first export of a telecomunication tower to tanzania earlier this month.
The event was concluded with an interactive demonstration of the product assembly and a visit to MCH hospital construction site. To seek more information, you can visit their showroom on Bole road Bitwoded Bahiru Building 1st floor.
Gatepro Steel Plc shipped the tower after securing the deal on May. The tower was manufactured at the company’s plant located in the Akaki Kality district on a 10,000sqm of land.
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Local steel plant marks first telecom tower export.
The 45m tower was bought by Helios Towers, a UK based telecommunications company.
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#ስለ፡ ከተማና ኤሌክትሪክ መብራት በዚህ ሰሞን ከማዘጋጃ ቤት ጀምሮ እስከ ራስ መኮንን ድልድይና ወደ አራዳ የሚወስደው ዋና መንገድ በኤሌክትሪክ መብራት ስለተበራ ማታ ማታ አላፊ አግዳሚውን ሁሉ ደስ አሰኝቶታል፤ እንደዚሁ ሆኖ የኤሌክትሪክ መብራት በከተማው ሁሉ ቢዘረጋ ከተማው እንዴት ባማረ ፤ ሌሊት ለሚጠብቁ ዘበኞችም በተመቸ ነበር፡፡ ይኸውም በቶሎ ይፈጸማል ብለን ተስፋ እናደርጋለን፡፡ ነሐሴ 7፣ 1920 ዓ.ም ብርሀንና ሰላም ጋዜጣ ላይ የታተመ #ስለ፡ ቤተ መንግስት ግብር አዳራሽ ምኒልክ በዚሁ 1889 ዓ.ም. በስማቸውና በመልካቸው ብር አሳተሙ፤ በዚሁ ዓመት ከአውሮፓ መሐንዲሶች አስመጥተው ውስጡ አንድ፤ ውቅሩ ሦስት የሆነውን ታላቁን የግብር አዳራሽ በአዲስ አበባ ከተማ አስጀመሩ፡፡ አዲስ አበባ ትናገር ታጀበ በየነ #ስለ ፡ ከተማ ማንኛዋም ከተማ የሰው ልጅ የስራ ውጤት ናት (እንስት ብትሆን)። እግዚር እንደ ተራራ ፣ እንደ ወንዝ ፣ እንደ ሎሚና እንደ ሰላጣ ፣ እንደ እግሮቻችንና እንደ ኪንታሮት አልስራትም ። የሰው ልጅ ያበጀት የክሱት ግብሩ ውጤት ብቻ ሳትሆን የድብቅ ነፍሱ ንቅናቄም ምልክት ናት። የሕልሙ ማህተም እንደ ማለት :: የስንብት ቀለማት አዳም ረታ
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#ስለ ፡ ከተማና ትምህርት ቤት ከተማዋ የመጀመሪያውን ት/ቤት ያየችው በ1889 ነበር። ዳግማዊ ምኒሊክ ትምህርት ቤት። ሁለተኛ ት/ቤቷን ለማየት ሀያ ስምንት አመት ፈጀቶባታል :: በ1917 የተፈሪ መኮንን ትምህርት ቤት ተከፈተ። ሶስተኛው ት/ቤት ከጣሊያን
መባረር በኋላ በ1934 የተቋቋመው የእቴጌ መነን የሴቶች ትምህርት ቤት ነው፡፡ ትውልድ አይደናገር፥ እኛም እንናገር አንዳርጋቸው ፅጌ #ስለ : ከተማ ንድፍ “አስፋልት ማልበሱ ቢያቅተንም እንዴት ጠጠሮች የለበሱ በዘመናዊ መንገድ የተቀየሱ የከተማ መንገዶች እንዲኖረን ማድረግ ያቅተናል? እንዴት ከድንጋይና ከሲሚንቶ ለሚሰራ የማንም መንግስት በየሃገሩ በቀላሉ የሚቆልለውን የህንጻ ና የቤት ግንባታ ያቅተናል? እንዴት በዚህ ዘመን ሰዉ በየመንደሩ የሽንት ቤት ና የቆሻሻ ውሃ በቤቱ መሃል እየፈሰሰ ተኝቶ የሚያድርበት ሁኔታ ዝም ተብሎ ይታያል? “ ትውልድ አይደናገር፥ እኛም እንናገር አንዳርጋቸው ፅጌ #ስለ፡ ከተማና ድንቁርና የምትወልድን ሴት ይሁን፣ የታመመን ሰዉ ለህክምና ሃኪም ቤት ማስተኛት የማይችል ማህበረሰብ ነው፡፡ እናት ልጇን አምጣ ከወለደች በኋላ ምጧ የማያቆምበት ከተማ፣ አዲስ አበባ ነበረች። እንዲህ አይነት ከተማ መሆኗን ሳያውቁ ተወልደው አድገው ሰዎች የሚሞቱባትም ከተማ፣ አዲስ አበባ ነበረች። ትውልድ አይደናገር፥ እኛም እንናገር አንዳርጋቸው ፅጌ #ስለ፡ከተማ እንዴት ይች የኔ ከተማ ትልቅ ማድቤት ሆና ቀረች? ትውልድ አይደናገር፥ እኛም እንናገር አንዳርጋቸው ፅጌ # ስለ፡ አዲስ አበባ እና አራዳ ወይ አዲስ አበባ፤ ወይ አራዳ ሆይ፤ አገርም እንደ ሰው ይናፍቃል ወይ! spotlight
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‘ከታሪክ ይሉኝታ ባሻገር’ የባዕድ ስርዓተ ትምህርት ተፅዕኖ አስተያየቶቻችንን ከከፊል ባለፈ ወደ ምዕራባውያን ሊቆች እንድናዞር እና ስለተለያዩ ርዕሰ ጉዳዮች ስናነሳ የምንጠቅሳቸው ሰዎች ወደዚያውም በኃይል እንዲያደላ፣ ወዲያውም ሂደቱ ሳይነቀፍ እንዳይታለፍ ሆኗል፡፡ በዚህም አካሄድ የሀገራችን ስነ ቃል ስሜትን በግጥም፣ በወግ፣ በቅኔ ፣ በእንካ ሰላንቲያ ፣ በእንቆቅልሽ ፣ በተረት፣ ወዘተ ከመዝለል ባለፈ ሳይንሳዊ ጥበብን የመግለፅ አቅሙ ደካማ እንዲመስለን ሆነ፡ ፡ ይህም በይበልጥ የሚያሰጋው የተለያዩ አገር በቀል ሳይንሳዊ ዕውቀቶች በየዘርፉ ሲኖሩ ነገር ግን ተመልሰን ለማጣቀስ በትምህርት ዘርፉም ሆነ በስራው ዘርፍ የተበረታታ አለመሆኑ ነው፡፡ መነፅር ከታሪካችን ሻገር ብሎ ያለይሉኝታ ሀሳብ፣ ጥበብ፣ ስሜትና ተሞክሮ ባገር ቋንቋ ባገር ልጆች እንዴት ይታያሉ? እንዴትስ ይቃኛሉ? ከተፃፉት ደግሞ አይለው፣ ገንነው እንዲሁ በአፍ የምናውቃቸው ስነ-ቃሎቻችንን ምን ይሉ ይሆን እያለ ለየርዕሰ ጉዳዩ ስለ፡____ በሚል ቅንጭብታ ከብዙ ጥቂቱን ይጠቅሳል፡፡ በዚህ ዕትም ስለ፡ “ከተማ “ ጊዜ ሰጥቶ ከተማ በኢትዮጵያውያን ምሁራን እንዴት ተተነተነ? ከተማ ምንድን ነው? ከተሜነትስ ምን ይሆን ?በምንስ ይገለፃል? የከተማ እድገት ምን ይመስላል ? ደራስያን በልቦለዶቻቸው የሳሉአቸው ከተማዎች ምን መልክ አላቸው ? የሚለውን ተመልክቶ ስለ ከተማ ምንነት ከራሳችን መነፅር ይዞ ቀርቧል፡፡ ተጋበዙልን! 21
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Passing by the street, it comes naturally to give an attentive glance to the building due to its unconventional form and surface elements. The directional widows, scattered punched openings, asymmetrically placed monkey-heads and floating cubes are peculiar façade elements that capture visitor’s attention evoking curiosity to experience the spaces within.
connecting the first three floors and then the architectural studio offices which are accessed and interconnected through an isolated vertical circulation systems.
Looking at the building, a striking contrast is felt right away; a contrast generated by the mere combination of a dark corrugated sheet metal and a gray concrete wall. According to the architect, the material choice was inspired by the existing industrial settlement around the site. The left side of the building displays rigidity, a hardly porous structure with right-angled connections while the view of the building from the right side reveals unusual connections created out of steel structure. Artistically speaking, the EGA sheet Cladding seems like finding its way to wrap the rigid concrete structure. Thus, the use of metal for the façade design integrated with concrete and wood is one of the core design approaches. The planning and design of this building is to host the main architectural studio of Bereket Tefaye CAE; the top three floors, rentable offices; middle three floors, and a cafeteria on the ground floor. The design concept for this project revolves around multi-layered human experiences of space, form, material, and tectonic. The composition and organization of this building’s spaces and form are focused around the main vertical circulation system which gradually evolve from a ramp at the main entrance to a stair 24
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For the architectural firm, the building boasts as a signature product with plenty of experimental details executed to perfection. The building itself, being of an experimental journey, reinforces the idea of daring to play with material and form using seemingly ordinary elements. The experiment with materials like wood, concrete, steel, and sheet metal shows how far an architect can exercise in the current construction industry of the city, which will serve as another layer for looking at the contemporary architectural practice in the city.
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“The formal composition of the building also shows a dialogue between materials, form , surface and movement ...”
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The ground floor, a few steps elevated from the street level, can be accessed by the stairs provided or a gentle ramp paved with polished granite slabs. Upon your choice, the steps lead to the restaurant corridor while the gentle ramp leads to the main elevator and staircase lobby to access the floors above. The restaurant, furnished with wooden seats and vegetation strip, harmoniously rhymes with the entrance which is accentuated with a wooden finish and beautiful greenery. The greenery along with the wooden finish of the entrance sets the mood for the natural feel of the building which grows even bolder while accessing the floors above.
Escalating through the staircase, one can find the first, second, and third floors stacked together, each with a restroom and a store. Even though the floor area is kept more or less similar on these floors, the space quality of each floor is complemented by the ever changing openings which led to create a variety of indoor spaces. This character comes in handy when the floors are set for rental services, in which case, flexible use of space to suit the client’s need is necessary. 26
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Heading along the gentle slope entrance, the folds of the steel structure could be felt with sharp edges, varying ceiling height, and unusual openings. Accessing the stairs above, the visual experience grows as much. Large glass openings allow for both indoor and outdoor views creating transparency. The lamps, handrails, and vegetation pots unanimously replicate the sharp geometric expression of the steel cladding, leading to a customized feel of space.
Starting from the fourth floor, Bereket Tesfaye CAE occupies the building where the variety of mesmerizing spaces come to life. Entrance to the office is recorded using a fingerprint scanner while cameras along with digital connectivity of users’ desktops within the office prove adept use of technology in the building. Just
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behind the frameless entrance glass, an overwhelming two-storey amphitheater setting captures your attention. These wooden steps serve both as a circulation to upper stories as well as a lecture theatre space which gives the space a dual experience. Standing on the wooden steps, the large glass façade along with the double room height creates the feeling of lightness and freedom. Even more so, the bright color of the wood gives the feeling of a natural space during the daytime. As the building is facing southwest, it is prone to harsh sunlight in the afternoons. However, the interior is well protected during the day time since the hot air is featured
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trapped inside the gap between the EGA sheet and the wooden finish which serves as an insulator to the interior spaces. The trapped heat is later released at night where it is expected to get cold creating an ideal weather comfort throughout the year. Long cotton curtains are also elements of the space used to diffuse the direct harsh sunlight entering the space. The rough sketches on these plain curtains offer an interesting view heading up to the upper floors.
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Moving across the fourth floor, the building naturally unfolds as an exhibition space for the accomplishments of the firm. Models of buildings, magazines, and artifacts are placed on the amphitheater stairs and interior walls set as shelves. The placement of these elements, effortlessly, guides a guest through multiple projects the firm was engaged in. More so, these shelves add to the light and transparent feel of the space marked on the entrance of the fourth floor. 28
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The interior space, behind the amphitheater steps, is saved for working space where workstation cubicles are lined up in a minimalist arrangement. Controlled light and sound reaches this inner space, where employees perform their tasks with negligible interruption from the street outside. Greeneries are placed by the side facing the residential area, where even on the fourth-floor one can enjoy the look of nature. Even more so, for those accustomed to Ethiopian garden aroma, they could easily identify the smell of ‘Tena Adam’, ‘Koseret’ and many other aromas filling the indoors. The fifth floor is dedicated to the administrative staff where you can find meeting rooms, finance offices, human resource, and department head offices. The controlled setting of the workspace on the fourth floor is also kept here, leading to a limited light and sound penetration from the outside. The last floor, but surely not the least, hosts the office of the Principal Architect. Here, one comes to experience the epic view of the city in all 360 degrees. Models of buildings, covered with glass boxes are carefully placed as one part of the space as the furniture customary to the office of Bereket Tesfaye. The wooden finish, the greenery, the skyline of the city, all together, lead to a fantastic indoor experience. On this floor, one can enjoy both magical happenings of any day; the sunrise and the sunset. featured
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The construction Industry in Africa is the second largest industry while being the fastest growing as the continent is building the infrastructure it desperately lacks. According to Deloitte report published on June 2019, 452 projects broke ground that are worth $497bn while the total value of projects increased by 5.6% year-on-year. The East Africa region has the largest number of recorded projects across the continent with 40.3% of projects (182 projects), as well as the largest share of projects in terms of value at 29.5% (US $146bn). We can say the industry is the backbone of most countries’ economies as thousands of companies generate billions in revenue and is responsible for millions of jobs. So, everything is great right? Actually No! The industry is also of the most inefficient and corrupt if not the most. Delays and over budget ravage private and government funded projects. Billions is lost each year to these problems. If We just take the Ethiopia, In March 2019 The Ministry of Finance of the country announced that country has lost some 43 billion Birr (US$1.2bn) in the last ten to 15 years due to delays in development projects and cost overrun (Source:- EPA).
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Even though multiple factors can be stated as a cause of the delays and budget overrun, the backward (Paper Based) management dominating this sector takes the lion share. The industry is known to be very slow in adapting modern and technological solution for management of the projects. Even gigantic hydroelectric projects are managed through disintegrated and manual methods putting the huge investments poured into these projects at great risk. So what role digital management plays in solving these problems? According to Deloitte 2019 report digital integration
can reduce engineering hours by 10-30% in the design, financing and management stage of projects. If we take Africa as a target, digital integration will capture of up to US$1.7Bn annually based on productivity improvements if its implemented. Therefore with a careful study of the problem, observing the opportunity with the willing help of various professionals to understand the core issues and tasks undertaken we were able to come up with the solution, ConDigital. ConDigital is cloud management platform for construction companies and their project that provides Calculation & Processing, Report Generation, Planning and Evaluation, Progress Tracking, Resource Management, Statistics & Analytics, Schedule Management, Cloud File Storage, and Communication Tools. These features put ConDigital in place to provide the benefits of Efficient management and boost profitability for the users. Moreover, ConDigital being specifically designed and built for the construction Industry and providing local support puts it in a place. Started on January 2019 by September of that year, ConDigital was accepted into one of Africa leading technological accelerator program the baobab network receiving financial and technical support. So now, a project that started between college friends is now a full-fledged service providing company; ConDigital Inc to construction companies across the continent. The company put out announcement for those interested to register free demonstration of the platform using our website and received more than 20 requests in 3 weeks. Starting from October the product team of the company has been providing live demonstration to construction companies in Ethiopia and virtual demonstration to those outside Ethiopia. However, we spotlight
intent to assign teams in other key countries in the continent in the coming months. Moreover, the aim of ConDigital is not to solely serve the private sector in the industry. We understand that in Africa the biggest client in the construction industry is the government budgeting billions of dollars annually for its projects. ConDigital plans to collaborate with the governments in the continent in implementing a nationwide cloud infrastructure to digitally manage projects serving every actor in the projects. The aim is to put a stop in amount of money economies are forced to loose due to delays and corruption. The partnership will not require any payment to come out of these governments in integrating the system instead ConDigital providing the service with cost of operation coming from the private sector that receives contracts for these projects. Projects done efficiently with construction companies profiting more and the people accessing the infrastructure sooner than later is the future. I believe we can all agree it’s time for the construction industry to say good bye to paper and pen management that is causing huge problems therefore embrace digital integration and we at ConDigital want to be at the forefront of that change. 35
The streets of urban Ethiopia shine with new colours. Sky blue, mustard yellow, bright red, hot pink. Plastic has made its indelible mark as an uninvited companion of city life. Despite its ephemeral quality, lasting seconds, maybe minutes, in our hands, it is a substance that escapes death, making a permanent mark on our cities and urban communities. Plastic began as a rather benign invention, creating convenience for everyday modern life. Now, in the words of National Geographic, “we are drowning in it.” Plastic waste pollutes our planet in such quantities that it is now considered a crisis. Since its launch in the 1950s, the earth is now filled with 6.9 billion tonnes of plastic waste, 91% of which has never been recycled. UN Environment has tracked that every single year 5 trillion single-use plastic bags are used worldwide. Around half of all plastic is used only once and then thrown away. But this waste does not merely disappear. It is estimated that plastic could take 450 years to degrade, if at all.
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This trend is setting up human and planetary life for disaster, and Ethiopia’s case is no different. Traditional baskets such as zembils, and re-usable cloth bags such as abujedis, have been replaced by the throw-away culture of the plastic bag. This is to the detriment of our country’s people and ecosystems, polluting our land, food, water, soil and bodies. We are not only facing the damage of our own plastic waste, richer nations are eyeing poorer countries as plastic dumping grounds due to looser environmental regulations, and an investigative report puts Ethiopia as one of the newest hotspots. As tighter climate legislation puts a clamp on fossil fuel expansion, many companies are looking to
plastics, created by petroleum byproducts, as their lifeline. Our collaborative campaign, Ye Zembil Melse, calls for a full ban on single-use plastics in Ethiopia, and a mainstream revival of our traditional alternatives to plastics. Systems of repair and re-use are common practice across Ethiopia, yet urban life is becoming swallowed by a culture of dispose-ability. While cities globally aim to halt this linear system of immediate use and immediate waste, across urban Ethiopia circular systems are being abandoned for a foreign model of waste.
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Yet our neighbors are following a different path. We are surrounded by leaders in the plastic-free movement, as East African countries step up their pledges to ban plastics. Kenya, Rwanda,
Eritrea, Uganda and Tanzania have all banned plastic bags, while Ethiopia has yet to follow suit. In 2007, Ethiopia’s Proclamation No. 513 on Solid Waste Management banned the manufacturing, use and import of thin plastic bags in the country, but this was never implemented or enforced. In January 2020, the Environment, Forest and Climate Change Commission (EFCCC) proposed a complete ban on plastic bags in Ethiopia, but legislation has been delayed following the pandemic. In the meantime, the plastics industry is proliferating, and Ethiopia’s common exchange systems for glass bottles are shifting to the wasteful use of plastic bottles. These shifts are not negligible as key beverage companies such as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and NestlÊ have been named the top plastic polluters in the world for the third year in a row. Ye Zembil Melse aims to interrupt this cycle of waste. We use creative campaigns, alternative business models and public engagement to advocate for policy change (such as the proposal of the EFCCC) and demand a plastic-free Ethiopia. Entrepreneurs, builders, creatives and visionaries already make up massive elements of this sustainable future, from the original zembil producers, to Noble Cup making re-usable menstrual cups, to Alternative Addis up-cycling so-called waste to create new products, to Hopeful River Project working to rehabilitate our waterways. Making Ethiopia plastic-free means promoting policies for ecological sustainability and urban resilience, reviving our circular economies and abandoning cultures of single-use, disposability and waste to build healthier communities and cities.
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Parasite House El Sindicato Arquitectura Category: Small Scale Architecture Image: AndrĂŠs Villota competitions
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“Poor is not who owns little, but who needs a lot” Mujica. Design and construction of a 12 sq.m dwelling, located on the rooftop of an existent building at the popular neighborhood San Juan in Quito-Ecuador Casa parásito (Parasitic house) is a minimal design object, focused on solving the basic habitation necessities for a person or young couple: It includes: bathroom, kitchen, bed, storage space and To-be space ( eating, working and socializing), which secure all the facilities of a dwelling in a reduced area. The project is developed from an A-frame façade. Its concept comes from the seek of the optimum space for living according to the activity we perform. We proposed a rectangular core, where all the standing activities are performed and where one can access all the utilitarian spaces, such as kitchen table-top, bathroom, bed, storage, desk, etc. The utilitarian spaces, adjacent to the rectangular core, are within triangles and rhomboids. These geometries, apart from containing its own activity, they offer stability to the whole structure. The Project is composed of 3 modules created by 4 structural frames that combine spaces free of utilitarian objects, in order to maximize the use of the volume and diminish the built area. This allows the flexible space of the rectangular core to be used to the convenience of the activity performed in the dwelling. With a large transparent window, the project lets natural light in through the North Façade. It opens views towards the city and the Cotacachi, Imbabura, Mojanda, and Cayambe volcanoes. 42
On the other hand, frosted glass on the south façade ensures good illumination, ventilation, and privacy towards the neighbors. On the east and west façade, which in Ecuador they get direct sunlight during the whole year, are completely closed to avoid the access of direct sunlight. For interior walls and flooring, OSB panels are used as a finish. For exteriors walls and roof, steel panels. Given the timber structure and substructure for fixing the metallic panels, we create a 12cm insulation void which is filled with coconut fiber as insulating material.
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Buildings where one can connect to the existing water, waste and electrical grids. In this way, we can contribute to the densification of the city from a very small scale, with a minimum of economic investment and use of resources, as well as contributing to the conservation of the architectural heritage.
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Steel foundations are employed to attach the project to the slab of the existing structure. Although, it is possible to build the project in urban or rural plots without existing constructions, ideally its construction should occur on underused rooftops of urban edifications that are structurally sound.
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