RIBA South Prize Winner
"The judges were impressed with Sam’s idea to support a sustainable circular economy in Mali. Crops such as peanuts would be grown by local smallholders and bought by local factories to make ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF). The food is then delivered back to the communities, thus preventing malnutrition.
Waste products from the manufacturing process are used as animal feed and mixed with a bio-polymer to make a composite building material. Sam developed a building system using this material, along with river reed bundles and compressed earth bricks, for people to construct their own dwellings and community centres.
The judges said: ‘Sam’s project really stood out. He researched the crops, materials, construction methods and the end building design, so that we could see this project actually being built’." (architecture.com)
